Sibellus Revisionist

“If your official designation is absent from the roll of deeds, your egress will be denied.”
—Spire Portal-Archivist Wist
The merchant houses and great families of Calixis
regularly engage in political battles, power-mongering,
espionage, and, on occasion, violence to gain some
form of advantage over their rivals. However, the Sibellus
Revisionist has an approach that has seen some of the most
influential individuals in the sector reduced to poverty and,
even more remarkable, there is little or no record of how
this occurred. Indeed, there is no record of these once-mighty
men and women having ever existed. They have
been expunged from history, deleted from librarium archives,
removed from hereditary lineage logs, and purged from the
roll of charter. This is the unique genius of the Revisionist,
for the Imperium is nothing if not bound by bureaucracy and
red tape. If there is no written evidence of a person’s status,
then they have no status. If there is no record of their family,
then they cannot rule a house. If their access authorization is
invalid, then they cannot even gain entry to their own spire
estates. Even if associates and colleagues have been dealing
with the individual for years, they must abide by the written
evidence, the currency codes, the identity ciphers---to do
otherwise would be unthinkable. After all, how can you trade
with someone who doesn’t exist?
And so, these great men and women, these pillars of
commerce and icons of nobility, find themselves barred from
their estates, their tremendous wealth inaccessible, their assets
reverting to the Governor (or quietly appropriated by their
rivals). Some refuse to leave, pathetically complaining and
crying at the spire gates, but with no evidence of their standing
but the finery they are wearing, they are usually taken as thieves
and dragged away by the Enforcers. Some have ended up in
work gangs, and some have met their end in the underhive---few have any idea how to survive once removed from their life
of luxury. A lucky few are taken in by a loyal friend (those who
have such a thing), but any attempt to rebuild their reputation
is doomed, and chances are their benefactor will be tainted by
association with the crazy fool who claims he is the great lord
of an estate that patently does not exist.
Only a high-ranking member of the Administratum
could have anything like the power and access to achieve
such total deletion of a person. There are, of course,
branches of the Adeptus founded with the express purpose
of creating ‘accurate’ historical records: revising, clarifying,
and deleting as is deemed necessary. However, the Sibellus
Revisionist is not part of any such legitimate organization. He is an aberration, whose actions would be considered an
abomination by his fellow Administratum adepts, dedicated
as they are to the exact accounting of every last detail. How
the Revisionist became so corrupted is not known, but he
appears to be under the delusion that the net result of his
actions is to increase efficiency and that ultimately he is
improving the tithe output of the hive. Whether or not this
is the case, such actions certainly do not lie remotely within
his purview.