Zaretta Ngiri
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Zaretta Ngiri is an Ordo Xenos Inquisitor.[1]
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Biography
Verbaden City
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The following paragraphs contain spoilers for: | The Path Unclear (Short Story) |
At one time she was contacted by the archaeologist Harral Jonas, after he uncovered the Blade of Saint Aruba in a dig site on an Imperial world. Once she arrived at the dig site in Verbaden City, Jonas informed Ngiri that unearthing the Blade had immediately caused unrest to wreak the city. A series of murders had also began to occur, though he was unsure if they were connected. After hearing this, the Inquisitor and her retinue returned to her gun-cutter to continue their investigation when they were given a package by one of Verbaden's citizens. They had been paid to do so by a tall, thin man and within the package was the dog tags of the slain Guardsman Katzeed. Katzeed had been a member of the Eighty-First Tarradis, the same regiment that Ngiri's Acolyte, Aberfell Duscaris, belonged to. Duscaris explained that they both had been part of a Kill Team sent to kill an Ork Warboss called the Manchewer, while their regiment battled the Ork horde. While they had succeeded only Duscaris had survived. Also included in the package was a slip of paper containing the signature of Phinius Speltmann, a wealthy recluse and member of the city's Merchant's Guild. Ngiri ordered Duscaris to investigate the matter, with the majority of her retinue, while she further studied the Blade of Saint Aruba and spoke to Verbaden City's Governor, Steban.[1]
With the aid of Ngiri's Tech-Priest Sef Lentzen, Duscaris soon discovered that Speltmann had secretly funded Harral Jonas' archaeological dig team. Duscaris then led the retinue in storming Speltmann's estate, but they discovered the recluse been murdered within his own bedchamber, which was locked from the inside. Unsure of how the killer had escaped, the retinue began searching the room and found evidence Speltmann had been a Nurgle cultist. Believing that whoever sent them the package wanted the retinue to find Speltmann's heresy, they continued to search his estate and found a secret tunnel that led to his Cult's stronghold in the sewers beneath Verbaden. However, only a few Cultists were there and after the retinue killed most of them, Duscaris captured and interrogated one that still lived, learning that the cult had mobilised and was attacking the city. Duscaris felt that was only a diversion, though, and the heretic finally revealed that the cult was really attempting to seize the Blade of Saint Aruba. The retinue attempted to contact the Inquisitor to warn her, but their Vox was blocked due to being so far underground. They then raced back to the surface, but the psyker Alyssana Nero mused that they still did not know the identity of the third-party that had manipulated them into going to Speltmann's estate. When Duscaris angrily informed her, that as acolytes someone was always manipulating them, Nero's powers allowed her to know that Duscaris knew who the third-party was. When confronted by this, Duscaris was forced to admit that he had lied about killing the Manchewer. His Kill Team had failed and a mysterious group of attackers had ended the Warboss' rampage. He had told Inquisitor Ngiri about this, after she recruited him, and from Duscaris' descriptions she had surmised that the attackers had been Eldar Harlequins. Thus, Duscaris speculated the xenos had been responsible for the package.[1]
When the retinue finally reached the surface, they learned that Inquisitor Ngiri was defending the Blade of Saint Aruba's location from the cultists. While she had the rest of her retinue with her, they were heavily outnumbered and Duscaris' group raced to reach Ngiri. When they finally arrived, though, the combined strength of the Inquisitor's retinue was still not enough and several of her Acolytes were killed. Ngiri and her surviving retinue would have then been overrun, had a Harlequin not appeared and begun slaughtering the cultists. Working beside the Xenos, Ngiri and her retinue were then able to kill all the attacking Cultists and prevented the Blade from falling into their grasp. The Harlequin then spoke to the Inquisitor and it was then revealed that the Xenos had been responsible for the murders that had occurred since the Blade's unearthing. The Xenos had been working to prevent the cult from claiming the Blade and had given the dog tags to Duscaris, in order to lead the Inquisitor and her retinue to the cult's location. Ngiri thanked the Harlequin and began to question him, when the xenos interrupted her. He cryptically said Ngiri still lacked comprehension and that her stupidity made her dangerous. The Harlequin then attempted to kill Ngiri, but luckily her power armour stopped the attack and her retinue then mortally wounded the Xenos. As the Harlequin lay dying, he yelled for Ngiri to destroy the cursed Blade of Saint Aruba and the Inquisitor admitted she had doubted if the Blade was a holy weapon. The Inquisitor had wanted to see how events would play out and, after Nero confirmed the Blade was a heretical weapon, Ngiri destroyed it with her plasma pistol. She then told the Harlequin she had been interested in talking to its kind ever since she learned they had killed the Manchewer. To the Xenos' dismay, Ngiri then had the Harlequin placed within the stasis cabinet that had once housed the destroyed Blade. Within its hold, the Harlequin would be prevented from dying, which allow Ngiri to interrogate the Xenos at her leisure.[1]
Vorlese
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Sometime after the events at Verbaden City, Inquisitor Ngiri would pursue investigateions of the Navis Nobilite House Brobantis. The Novator of the House, Azaziel Brobantis, had taken on a hobby of building a collection of Aeldari artefacts. The Inquisitor had already positioned a mole within the house, Alyssana Nero, who took on the fictitious identity of DeShelle DuVoir and served as the personal aide to the Brobantis Novato's wife, Chetta Brobantis, for some time.[2]
After the Brobantis Novator's death by an assassination orchestrated by his wife, a wake was held for Azaziel on Vorlese, a seat of power for House Brobantis and many other attending Navigator Houses. Ngiri would attend to further her investigations of Aeldari Cold Trade under the guise of a newly appointed Rogue Trader.[2]
Things would become more complicated with the recent disappearance of an entire planet Gallimo Prime in the nearby Gallimo System. This lead the Inquisitor to take on the investigation of this and her original goal, plus any possible connections between the two.
While dealing with the Navigators on Vorlese Ngiri take on the entirely fictitious identity of Indrinian Vass, a rogue trader of the Ixaniad Sector who had only received their Warrant of Trade a few years prior. As Vass, she entered the social circles of the Navis Nobilite pretending to seek connections for prosperous future deals. Using her prior Inquisitorial connections with the Novator of House Xudine, Ngiri (as Voss) attended the wake as a guest of Kennevario Xudine, who was a proven ally of Ngiri in the past.[2]
Still under the guise of being a Rogue Trader, Ngiri would attend the Planetary Governor Ezallien Taranthis's large Feast of the Emperor's Ascension party within their Hive Spire. During this, an assassination attempt was made, nearly killing Chetta and the Governor Taranthis, but Ngiri (as Voss) readily killed the assassins. Immediately, departing together aboard the Inquisitor's Gun-Cutter, Ngiri would reveal her identity to Chetta and the two would agree to work together to track down the sorcerer who orchestrated the disappearance of Gallimo Prime before they did the same thing to Vorlese. Both had been pursuing the same trail prior and would now pool their knowledge and connections to root out the unknown perpetrator.[2]
Returning to the House Brobantis spire, Ngiri (as Voss) and Chetta would uncover the identity of the culprit, Radimir Niklau. In the midst of a city-wide search being started, House Dukar would begin outright hostilities against Brobantis holdings, having his subordinates torch and gun down various Brobantis-owned businesses in the city. This was causing unnecessary and misguided confusion in the city as Enforcers were now searching for Radimir. This was due to an unfortunate misunderstanding. The sorcerer had assassinated Dukar's son, and in the throws of grief and rage, assumed it was done by House Brobantis due to the recently initiated Trade War between the rival houses. Ngiri and Chetta would explain the navigator-hunting sorcerer's plot, as far as they understood, to Dukar and offer to pool their resources with the grieving father to hunt down the fugitive murderer. As a sign of good will Chetta and Ngiri would travel to the House Dukar spire to continue their investigation. The Brobantis sister, Morandia Jo'Sin who also offered to pool their resources, would follow Ngiri and Chetta in their own separate gunship. However, during the flight, an incoming communication from Arbites enforcer revealed the House Jo'Sin's involvement of hiring the sorcerer-thought-assassin to kill Brobantis Navigators on Vorlese. The Jo'Sin gunship following Ngiri would immediately shoot down Ngiri's Guncutter after the communication came through. Enginseer Sef Lentzen would sacrifice himself to save the guncutter and its occupants from all dying from the crash impact.[2]
Unbeknownst to House Jo'Sin, the sorcerer was more than a specialised and was a warp-dabbler planning to use the third eyes of the Navigators he had killed to fuel a ritual that would drag Vorlese into the warp, just like he had done on Gallimo Prime. The Dukar child's navigator eye was the last one needed to fuel the ritual, which was being conducted in the smog-choked depths of the lower hive, not far from where Ngiri's guncutter had crashed.[2]
Known Retinue
- Alyssana Nero - Psyker who is able to read items, Humans' emotions, has unreliable precognition and can project her mind outwards to search an area. She was recruited directly from a Schola Progenium by Inquisitor Ngiri.[1] She would later be planted as a spy into House Brobantis under the false-name DeShelle DuVoir, acting as the personal aide to Chettamandey Vula Brobantis[2b]
- Carmine - Psyker who uses his powers in a brutal fashion.[1] A telekine of the scholastica psykana.[2a]
- Aberfell Duscaris - Veteran Guardsman of the Eighty-First Tarradis who recruited after taking part in the operation that killed the Ork Warboss, Manchewer. Has a bionic arm and wields a combi-bolter.[1]
- Davis of Rawl - Crusader sworn to protect the Inquisitor.[1]
- Jekri - Former Skitarii Ranger and a skilled pilot.[1][2a]
- Sef Lentzen - Tech-Priest Engineer.[1] An Enginseer[2a]
- Alfrett Hurzley - Adeptus Arbites who commands the cyber-mastiff Razorfang. He was recruited by the Inquisitor in the aftermath of a Xenos incursion on a Mining World.[1]
- Alyssana Nero - Psyker and spy planted in House Brobantis as an assistant.[2b]
Known Contacts
- Harral Jonas - Archaeologist who informs the Inquisitor about anything interesting or concerning he discovers.[1]
- Judge Arctos - Commands the Adeptus Arbites on Vorlese
