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[nenjin]

What I'd like to do at some point is make some Inquisitional philosophies. I really like the ones that are out there (Polypsykana best girl).

Yeah. The deeper you dig into the Inquisition the more it starts to seem like a heretical organization all of its own, what with the many beliefs held by the various cabals, sub-ordos and philosophies and the unlimited authority to act on those beliefs. There's been a couple of stories where the threat of heresy leads back eventually to the interior of the Inquisition, fostered by establishment Inquisitors who genuinely believed they were working for the betterment of the Imperium. I find the Inquisition a really entertaining microcosm of the shittiness of 40k Imperial politics and religion, all on its own.

[spazyak]

What I'd like to do at some point is make some Inquisitional philosophies. I really like the ones that are out there (Polypsykana best girl).

Yeah. The deeper you dig into the Inquisition the more it starts to seem like a heretical organization all of its own, what with the many beliefs held by the various cabals, sub-ordos and philosophies and the unlimited authority to act on those beliefs. There's been a couple of stories where the threat of heresy leads back eventually to the interior of the Inquisition, fostered by establishment Inquisitors who genuinely believed they were working for the betterment of the Imperium. I find the Inquisition a really entertaining microcosm of the shittiness of 40k Imperial politics and religion, all on its own.

This, this is why no one likes the inquisition! Not even a lot of space marines from what I've seen.

[spazyak]

Ok, please tell me I am not the only one that would play http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Dragons.

[Kot]

You're not the only one, Black Dragons are pretty popular because they're edgy and misunderstood. Pretty cool anyway tho I would take Celestial Lions (black-white colour scheme is boring, SWAGGOLD-SWAGBLUE is cool) over them any day of the day.

[TempAcc]

Sons of Malice are the only Disorder Vacuum Seamen that matter, and the thousand sons are the most fabulous.

[Tack]

Ehh. There's been a lot of new Ahriman books out recently.
I've been staring at them with that sideways indecisive stare commonly used by fanfic writers and custom chapter players.

[nenjin]

I've read two or three of the Ahriman Exile books by now. They're....ok. Imagine stories where everyone suspects or mistrust Ahriman but still goes along with his plans because
he's Ahriman. A lot of lives get thrown away pursuing his dreams of restoring the Thousand Sons.

They're written by John French, who is a pretty decent 40k contributor although not the best. There's a lot of space given over to Ahriman weaving the power of the warp, reading the skeins of time, blah blah blah. Some of it works, some of it is pure magic gibberish.

I dunno. For some reason I enjoyed the Ahriman from the Horus Heresy novels more, and have a hard time believing they are the same character in both books. But that's a pretty common problem for me when it comes to characters that have been handled by different BL authors at different times.

[sprinkled chariot]

Ahriman did nothing wrong.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I think I've got a concept forming. Do you all think Inquisitors who go Full Omnissiah would be considered Puritan or Radical? The Adaptus Mechanicus is long accepted in the Imperial system, but then again there are always still those Ecclesiarchs who low-key accuse them of heresy.

[Grim Portent]

I think I've got a concept forming. Do you all think Inquisitors who go Full Omnissiah would be considered Puritan or Radical? The Adaptus Mechanicus is long accepted in the Imperial system, but then again there are always still those Ecclesiarchs who low-key accuse them of heresy.

Generally the Inquisition would assassinate any of their members who grow to close to the Mechanicus for fear that they'll leak Inquisitorial secrets, and the Mechanicus is distrusting of Inquisitors anyway because the Inquisition tries to spy on them a lot and they resent it, so most Inquisitors who tried to switch sides would be killed by the tech-priests anyway.

The only faction of Inquisitors I know of who are closely tied to the Ad-Mech are the Phaenonites, who have close ties to some members of the Dark Mechanicus and sympathetic members of the Orthodox Mechanicus.

[sprinkled chariot]

Going as far as KILLING AN INQUISITOR? Are not they officially considered something like will of the emperor manifestation, with all the
stuff like inquisitorial sigil giving exterminatus right.

[GiglameshDespair]

Them having authority second to the emperor doesn't stop a bolt-round to the back of the head.

[spazyak]

Going as far as KILLING AN INQUISITOR? Are not they officially considered something like will of the emperor manifestation, with all the
stuff like inquisitorial sigil giving exterminatus right.

Yah, but such actions against the mechanicum could quite literally drive the imperium to a halt as forge worlds stop working, weapons are not produced, and soon enough xenoscum destroy everything dear to us.

[LordBaal]

Besides, all kind of accidents can happen, ships get lost in the warp, people slip into acid vats and leave no trace....

[Grim Portent]

Going as far as KILLING AN INQUISITOR? Are not they officially considered something like will of the emperor manifestation, with all the
stuff like inquisitorial sigil giving exterminatus right.

Every faction kills Inquisitors when they think they can get away with it and are more scared of being arrested for what they had already done than the added punishments of killing the Inquisitor, even the Ecclesiarchy. Inquisitors investigating the Mechanicus or Astartes often vanish mysteriously.

Hell, the Sons of Malice chapter actually ate an Inquisitor alive for interrupting their chapter rites with an army of Sororitas. They got excommunicated for it because enough people knew what happened that word got back to the rest of the Inquisition, but a lot of Inquisitors die with no one being certain who actually did it.