Unknown Heretic

Lord Inquisitor Caidin has taken the unusual step of
releasing and confirming a capture/termination
warrant against a party whose true name,
nature, and activities remain unconfirmed.
The existence of this “unknown heretic”
has never been definitively proven,
except perhaps by a telling absence
of perpetrator, evidence, or motive
in certain cases of great concern
to the Inquisition. Like a dark
void hiding amid the blackness
of night, his existence can
be inferred from instances
of mystery and apparent
coincidence linking
together a telling string
of mysterious deaths and
disappearances over the
last decade and a half.
These deaths have
uniformly occurred
among the contacts or
affiliates of Inquisitors,
and, as a result,
operations have been
repeatedly compromised
or crippled through the
termination of vital agents,
data-sabotage, theft, and
entire covert operation
cells simply vanishing.
Forensic examinations
reveal nothing. Alone, each
incident could be dismissed
as coincidence, but together
they form a web that darkly
hints that there is a traitor
in the Inquisition’s midst.
This unknown individual
appears able to move and kill
at will within the Imperium, leaving no trace behind.
Recently, the deaths of Inquisitors Chalan and Severon are believed to be the work of the faceless traitor---both died
when pursuing operations based on intelligence thought to have originated from within the ranks of the Ordos Calixis. In
both cases, the method of killing took the form of ambushes that appeared to mimic the methods of well known heretical
or blasphemous organizations. This alone indicates that the unknown heretic has access to the highest quality information
and materiel. For example, the psychic wracking of Inquisitor Severon was carefully hallmarked to replicate the horrors
perpetrated by the Pilgrims of Hayte, a subterfuge that could only be orchestrated by one who is intimate with the details
of the Pilgrims of Hayte’s modus operandi. Worryingly, Inquisitor Chalan was notoriously circumspect, to the degree that
he could only have been drawn-out by someone that he trusted.
Recently at Lord Caidan’s express arrangement, a more esoteric investigation has been undertaken. Auguries and
divinations by the most potent seers have revealed an empty and impenetrable void around events surrounding the suspected
activities of the unknown heretic---as if the whole incident has been simply ripped from history, leaving a rent in the fabric
of things in its place. This void has consequently added an even darker dimension to the investigation.
The heretic’s motivations and goals are unknown, but it seems the foundations of the Holy Ordos are the direct target.