Inquisitor Octus Enoch

Octus Enoch is an Ordo Malleus Inquisitor and a member of
the Scholariate at Arms. He holds the title “Prognost Pursuant”,
and his primary mission is to hunt down prophesies relating to
future daemonic incursions. Once he has found a true prophecy
foretelling an incursion, and has interpreted it, he dispatches a cell
of Acolytes to ensure that it does not come about; whatever the
cost in doing so. To this end, Octus employs a huge household,
with a mix of Adepts and more militant Acolytes. The Adepts are
tasked with poring through thousands upon thousands of tomes
of prophecy, prognostication, and sometimes pure gibberish, and
the others work in the field according to their master’s instructions.
The Inquisitor rarely takes to the field himself, although
he has done so in the past, most notably when he bound the
daemon Nahterus into a daemonhost and imprisoned it within
a shuttle orbiting a dead star. Instead, Octus presides over his
many Acolyte cells, dispatching them across the entire Calixis Sector to disrupt the dark prophecies identified by his Adepts.
He is utterly ruthless, and his Acolytes have standing orders
to assassinate anyone who might bring about a daemonic
incursion, whether deliberately or innocently. Over the decades,
he has become highly skilled in thwarting the machinations of
fate. In one infamous case, his most skilled savant uncovered
a coded prophecy predicting that the end of Fenksworld
would be brought about by a Warp breach of unprecedented
proportions. The prophecy stated that the doom of Fenksworld
would be presaged by the agonized baying of the mighty
loxophants kept in the Imperial Commander’s private zoo, but
gave no other clues to its nature or cause other than the timing
of the breach. With time running out, Octus Enoch resorted to
ordering that every loxophant on Fenksworld be slain. Despite
the protestations of the beasts’ owners, they were put to death
and the Warp breach averted.
Despite his ruthlessness in averting prophecy, Inquisitor Octus
Enoch is a reasonable man in all other realms. He husbands his
resources with an expert hand, and never sacrifices agents unless
no other course of action is possible. He has spoken against the
use of exterminatus on many occasions, believing it a tragic waste
of resources. These traits make him a popular master amongst his
Acolytes, though few are so deluded as to believe their master
would not sacrifice them if it became truly necessary.
Inquisitor Enoch’s role as Prognost Pursuant grants him
access to all but the most secret of archives and reliquaries. He
has the very highest level of clearance within the Scholariate
at Arms, as well as access to many of the vaults within the
Seven Cloisters. He has many allies within the Scholariate
and elsewhere, and has even been known to work alongside
Inquisitors of other Ordos. He appreciates the wide-ranging
nature of the threat of the Enemy Beyond, and understands that
incursions can begin as heresies or xenos worship, necessitating
cooperation with the Ordo Hereticus and the Ordo Xenos. On
several occasions, this cross-Ordo approach has paid dividends.
On Dalthus, Octus uncovered a xenos-worshipping coven, only
to discover its foolhardy Warp-dabblings had attracted not the
alien overlords the cult members had sought, but the daemonic
servants of Nurgle. Octus sent a cell of Acolytes to aid the Ordo
Xenos in the battle, and during the event one of his Banishers
averted an incursion that might have cost the lives of billions.
Since then, Octus Enoch’s star has been ascendant, as all three
Ordos have seen him as a reasonable but effective man. He has
been invited to speak before the High Council of the Calixian
Conclave on three separate occasions. However, this great
honor has come at a price. The more prominent he becomes,
the more others will begin to maneuver against him and his
allies and servants, fuelled by the eternal internecine rivalries
that bedevil the Holy Ordos of the Emperor’s Inquisition.