Inquisitorial Factions

[Kaled100]

No problem, feel free to PM your character to me and I'll take a look. I'm always happy to help someone interested in Inquisitor.

[morcus]

I see the whole thing as a political religion (Like some of the forms of communism) which combines the two, but one that has aged for 10,000 years so the scope is huge. That said, as with both politics and religion today, its easier to align yourself to a larger doctrine than to have to talk for half an hour everytime anyone wants to know your affiliation or belief. The whole puritan and radical thing is all to do with perspective so I tend to avoid it in my character backgrounds.

 

When making a character for Inquisitor I like to sit down and work out a belief system for them, I keep it fairly fluid but try to play to that system, e.g. one of my characters believes that people can repent and be saved and will do all he can to aviod killing those he thinks might be saveable and will take them prisoner if possible.

 

All said, I think the factions are important as it creates larger structures allowing for better conspiracies and complicated relationships.

[Kaled100]

I think that's a good way to think about it - after all, even though two Inquisitors might describe both themselves as Amalathians, they might still disagree violently about the details of their beliefs and how to put them into practice.

[morcus]

Vagueness can help you to make friends as it were, you don't want to give too much away to a stranger for fear it will alienate you.

[KhorneHunter57x]

I think that's a good way to think about it - after all, even though two Inquisitors might describe both themselves as Amalathians, they might still disagree violently about the details of their beliefs and how to put them into practice.

 

True. Also, the faction of your Inquisitor can cause others to make assumptions about them (which may not be correct assumptions. After all, everything you have been told is a lie. :P ). My Inquisitor sees himself as a very extremist Monodominant, but he respects and, for lack of a better word, approves of the Adeptus Astartes. Even though they are technically mutants, they were created by the Emperor, and therefore they are acceptable to him (and they are also an example that no one is immune to the lure of Chaos, and therefore humanity must maintain constant vigilance.)

[Red Lost Soldier]

Recongregator. Desperate times call for desperate measures...

[Chengar Qordath]

I think that's a good way to think about it - after all, even though two Inquisitors might describe both themselves as Amalathians, they might still disagree violently about the details of their beliefs and how to put them into practice.

That's a good point; pretty much all the factions have fairly broad philosophies with plenty of room for both moderate and extremist members. Recongregators can range from from favoring measured, moderate reform to people who want to tear down the Imperium and build it back up from the foundations, Monodominants can go from just being hostile to any non-sanctioned psykers and mutants to killing off Astropaths and Navigators even though that would almost certainly destroy the Imperium, etc.

[silversmith82]

My issue with Thorians, is that they seem to look *too* hard for living saints to the point where they'll be blinded by all else. This is why Karamazov is one of my favorite characters in the Inquisition. He actually stood up to the huge Thorian faction and found that someone they definitely would have canonized was actually a servant of Chaos. Yes he is a bit extreme but then, the Imperium in 40k pretty much has to be to survive.

[- 7eAL -]

Recongregator. Desperate times call for desperate measures...

Seconded.

 

I find it rather surprising that the "hot-head youth" are concentrated within the Monodominant faction, while no other faction seems particularly jaded and disaffected in representation of the opposite extreme. Then again, I suppose that when an Inquisitor loses all hope in affecting change for the Imperium or for humanity in general, he or she probably retires to write a dozen volumes outlining just how and why change is simultaneously constant, unpredictable, manipulable, and ultimately impossible.

[cryptomancer]

The Inquisitor that my force tended to revolve around (Sol Hargrove, a simple Plasma Pistol/Power Sword/No Retinue Hereticus Inquisitor) was a little new to his rank to have an alignment, but rather became a Thorian through a confluence of events. He was witness to a Living Saint; indeed, he'd been sent by his Ordo to investigate the claims as an "impartial" official (really, a novice Inquisitor with few allies, whom every powerful faction could maneuver around and somehow hold responsible if anything went wrong).

[- 7eAL -]

The Inquisitor that my force tended to revolve around (Sol Hargrove, a simple Plasma Pistol/Power Sword/No Retinue Hereticus Inquisitor) was a little new to his rank to have an alignment, but rather became a Thorian through a confluence of events. He was witness to a Living Saint; indeed, he'd been sent by his Ordo to investigate the claims as an "impartial" official (really, a novice Inquisitor with few allies, whom every powerful faction could maneuver around and somehow hold responsible if anything went wrong).

Standing witness to the actions of a Living Saint or similarly legendary figure would probably make any young Inquisitor or Interrogator fall in with the Thorian faction sooner or later. Unless, of course, that young and impressionable novice instead witnessed that legendary Saint die horribly and crash into the earth.

[Captain Malachi]

I should stop reading this thread, I now have roughly nine new stories planned but not enough time to write them all...

[Ferrus Manus]

I find it rather surprising that the "hot-head youth" are concentrated within the Monodominant faction,

 

Really? If I'm honest I would be more surprised to find that they weren't. I mean the young I-want-to-prove-myself Inquisitors I would see as more by the code and strict, wishing to get the job done and effectively. Not only that but I would think that a new Inquisitor would carry the arrogance that all us young people have, they would want to bully people to get the job done. I bit like Voke in the Eisenhorn book Xenos.

[Senseilord Ashahara]

The upbringing, culture and, in the case of those drafted into inquisitorial retinues and then work through the rank, previous occupation would all have an effect on which political faction an Inquisitor would fall into.

I should imagine the alligence of the Inquisitor they trained under would have a pretty profound effect too,

[Inquisitor Fox]

I'd also like to add it's quite possible that they rebel against their former master, depending on their own philosophical temperment. It's like any master/student relationship... it could go in any direction based on the beliefs of the individuals involved.

[morcus]

As we get older we learn more that life is about compromise and that some times it better to turn a blind eye to minor infringements in order to do more to stop more serious offenses. Just another reason why some one young would be more likely to be monodominant (And why under 21's should be allowed to vote).

 

It could also be that Monodominants take on more students than the overall average.