Inquisitorial-Legate Schism

The began sometime around as a result of The Seer Crisis.
== Background ==
As The Seer Crisis deepened and confidence in the moral authority of the Seer Council waned, bulwarks of Imperial power emerged both at the core of the Imperium and on its frontier. A class of Seer Legates, including High Seer MacDonald of Hybern, was created to restore order to rebellious sectors. Granted the authority of the Seer Council within their respective sectors, these supposedly temporary Legates became a permanent fixture across the Imperium, vying with and often browbeating sector governors. Parallel to this system of control was the Imperial Inquisition, which actively searched for and rooted out heresy. This function sometimes brought the Inquisition into conflict with the Seer Legates. 
== Escalation ==
In one shocking development, a Grand Inquisitor, Radovan, accused Seer-Legate Lammus of The Sigmus Sector, of Apostasy for communing with a god that, Radovan alleged, could not be Adalna. Lammus, a candidate for the Seer Council, denied the allegation and, of course, declared Radovan a traitor the Imperium. The Seer Council hesitated to summarily denounce Radovan, lest it tip its hand toward Lammus as candidate, but was also loathe to conduct a trial of either party. Moreover, few Grand Inquisitors were willing to renounce their colleague, perhaps eager for a precedent that would further strengthen their vast legal powers. 
For his part, Radovan fled the Sigmus Sector in search of support. He could have well sought out the support of Seer-Legate MacDonald of Hybern, another candidate for the Seer Council and his former master. MacDonald was a figure of near-religious adoration in his own right, leading to accusations from some that MacDonald was a Revivalist posing as Imperialist.
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