Arch Exorcist

“I charge thee, foul spirit, whatever thy corrupt nature, along with all thy twisted minions now possessing this servant of the God-Emperor, by the mysteries of his holy ascension and enduring sacrifice in the sacred chains of the golden throne, that you tell me by some sign thy name, and the day and hour of thy departure. I compel thee, moreover, to obey me to the letter, I who am a humble servant of the God-Emperor. Depart, then, despised transgressor. Depart and burn forever in the outer darkness that awaits thee and thy benighted kin!”
–Extract from the Codex Exorcismis
The senior members of the Adeptus Ministorum are
aware that there are unclean and unquiet spirits
lurking in the warp, seeking to devour the
souls of the faithful. The senior clergy fear the
influence of these beings, and rightly so, for
they are the antithesis of all for which the God-
Emperor’s church stands.
The Calixian Ministorum is not tasked
with combating these entities: that is the
role of the elite Daemonhunters of the Ordo Malleus. However, some within the Calixian
Ministorum chafe at such political restrictions. A
large proportion of those clerics who are aware of
the existence and nature of Daemonkind yearn
to take the fight to them, to dispel them and
cast them out of the material realm and back
to the myriad hells that spawned them. For
these zealots, combating the Daemonic is a
holy work that follows the example of the
Emperor himself.
A few senior clergy of the Calixis sector, including
Arch-Cardinal Ignato himself, maintain a small and
secretive order of specialist clerics devoted to the
expelling warp fi ends from the material realm.
This is a dangerous measure, for the Cardinal
risks offending the powerful and secretive Ordos.
He reasons, however, that in these dark days,
command of a cadre of skilled and devout holy
warriors sworn to destroy Daemons is a treasure beyond
measurable price.
This gamble paid off during the events on the world of
Redemption. Inquisitor Octus Enoch desperately fought to
avoid invoking the Exterminatus in the face of a daemonic
incursion. Unable to procure Ordo Malleus resources due
to a warp storm, he petitioned the Ecclesiarchy to raise a
Frateris Militia to combat the threat. Instead the local diocese
sent three Arch Exorcists. To this day Inquisitor Enoch works
closely with the Ecclesiarchy when pursuing daemonic
threats and works to ensure that Arch Exorcists are available
to members of the Ordo Malleus. Where the Daemonhunters
assist the Ordo Hereticus, Ignato and other Cardinals with
Arch Exorcists among their staff often lend their services to
Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus.
The Arch Exorcists use faith itself as a weapon to scour
a Daemon. Their prayers and hymns madden and deafen
the servants of the archenemy, and their holy symbols and
gestures blind them. They castigate and berate the possessed,
driving the Daemon forth before them and freeing the
victim—often with fatal consequences for both.
Such is the faith of these individuals that they are
permitted to study the foul texts of the enemy in order to
learn the wiles of the Daemon. However, unlike the radicals
of the Ordo Malleus, they scorn using the methods of the
archenemy against him. They know better than anyone that
such methods are inherently corrupting, eventually turning
the user into that which he fears most.
==Alternate Career Rank==
Clerics who have shown a particular aptitude for defeating
Daemonic opponents will be gently nudged by their superiors
in the direction of Arch-Cardinal Ignato’s secret order of Arch
Exorcists. Based in an obscure side chantry of the Cathedral
of Illumination on Scintilla, the order poses as a harmless
order of choristers, devoted to study and song. Here they
peruse arcane and forbidden texts and memories hundreds of
holy exhortations crafted to smite the Daemon.
Required Career: Cleric
Alternate Rank: 7 or higher (7,000 XP)