Revealer Of Falsehood (Holy Name)

== Ordo Inquisitors: ==
"The Truth, no matter the cost."
 Inquisitors have the power to invade people's dreams or thoughts and peer into their souls. They can also inflict hideous amounts of pain.  They are employed by Regents or Senior Members to act as internal-affairs officers, hunting down spies and working to test fellow Adepts for mental or spiritual weaknesses.
Inquisitors have a bad rap.  But than they've earned it - because they keep together and aloof from other Adepts, and lets face it most other Adepts wont nothing to do with the guys in charge of snooping through their secrets, so Inquisitors come to see themselves as set apart and above their fellows.  A situation which usually puts a Squad on a course of intercine feuding and sectarianism.
Aspect of God: God's Omniscience.
AKA: the Inquisition.
Inquisitor Degrees
Anti-Magick 
Aberrations
Indentured
Dominicans
=== Facts: ===
-Inquisitors posses powers of analyzing and auspex, able to look inside someone's mind and receive visions of the state of their soul.  Ideally this power is used to help Adepts, or anyone, face their inner-problems and overcome them, often through grueling dreamscapes and nightmare visions.  But than again, there's power to be had in knowing people's secrets...
-The Inquisition feels it is their place to safeguard the home front by taking the reigns of power.  After all, only they have the power to face the greatest enemy of all, the enemy within.  Why shouldn't they take the lead then? This leads many Inquisitors to start patronizing Regents.
-Inquisitors do not normally work alone, they develop retinue Squads who follow their orders. These Squads are often composed of Adepts they've picked up along the way, people who might have been helped from a personal affliction by the Inquisitor and thus feel beholden to them. Innocents, Exorcists and Hunters tend to align themselves with Inquisitors naturally.
-The Inquisition maintain their own Squads and bases of operations here and there.  Dark artifacts and captured minions of the Darkness are held here for 'interrogation,' amid other things...
-Inquisitors have a rocky relationship with the Order of Kings. Both Orders, whether they admit it or not, by their very nature want to lead the Adepts of God. Ergo, they are rivals by nature even as they are brothers, and more than one occasion of conflicted leadership has brought about political bickering within a Squad or Council.
-The Inquisition's fearsome reputation is often one of their most potent weapons, and one which they actively cultivate. You'd be surprised how many Adepts would thumb their noses at a Champion but then start shaking with fear when an Inquisitor starts asking them hard questions.
-The Order of Inquisitors has a history of using the Torch as symbolic of itself in symbolism and reference. 
-inquisitors truly believe they have a God given calling to examine others and put their faith to the test. Those who are found to harbor heresy are a risk to the others, their weakness of faith could prove infectious. It would be great if we all lived in a perfect world, but as the Inquisitors see it, somebody has to step in to enforce some rule of law and theological consensus. 
-The Inquisition is hostile to the Teachings of Gamaliel. Most of the people they keep company with will probably be hostile as well. 
-Exotic Tea = The Inquisition has collected an impressive list of herbal teas, many of them unknown to modern medicine, which help with everything from memory and focus to healing minor wounds and toxins. Some of these teas are said to act as a sort of 'truth serum,' making it harder for those who drink it to lie. 
=== Aberrations: ===
The Inquisition has a long and prodigious history of breeding monstrous creations from entirely natural resources. Hulking hounds that attack anything on sight, trained wild animals like bears, whose fur has turned snow white from genetic inbreeding among Inquisitor breeding programs, and even stories of large primates armed with rusty weapons prowling the inner-sanctums of the Order.
Aberrations are only sent out on special missions, they are rather costly to upkeep so only the more central and senior members of the Order will have regular access to any. When employed in the field, Aberrations function like special ops for the military, they attack on sight and afterwards the Inquisitors normally denies any knowledge of the Aberration's identity or origin. 
Aberrations are not Supernaturals nor do they posses supernatural powers. They are naturally occuring creatures who have been monstrously enlarged and made aggressive through generations of special breeding. They have been raised by Inquisitors to be loyal and aggressive to outsiders. 
=== Brainwashing: ===
Of all the tales told about what goes on inside the halls of the Inquisition, by far the most insidious, or the most reported, are stories of brainwashing. Captured agents of the Darkness or other Supernaturals who cross paths with the Inquisition have been spotted again at a later date, only this time they were fighting on the side of the Order of Inquisitors.
People who cross paths with the Inquisition have also been known to wake up, days, weeks or months later with no memory of where they've been or what they've done. Some people believe the Inquisition uses advanced brainwashing technology and then wipes the mind of individuals they no longer have any need for.
Not all the stories are actually negative, some defenders of the Inquisition claim that the subjects whose memories are wiped are repentant monsters who opted for it. Sort of like with the Order of the Penitents. When asked, most Inquisitors merely allude to those subjects having been spies employed by the Darkness whom the Inquisitors rooted out, and whose minds they wiped in order to destroy any sensitive data they might have handed over. Ironically, they claim, the brainwashing here was done to spare the life of the subject.
While the exacts of the story remain blurry, the Inquisition is known to employ Supernaturals in the field who are non-Adept and previously worked for the Darkness. That means going up against the Inquisition means going up against the Inquisitors themselves, and any "pet" Supernaturals they may have collected in the mean time.
Creatures who have been mind wiped are known as the "Indentured."
=== Good Guys Or Bad Guys: ===
The problem with the Inquisitors is the question of whose side they are really on. They claim to be Good Guys, but routinely look like Bad Guys. The Order of Inquisitors operates within the community of Adepts, but their tactics and methods of questioning everyone, and appointing for themselves the role of judge and jury, puts them at odds with everyone. 
The enemies of the Order accuse them of putting themselves in God's seat of judgement, condeming those they believe guilty of sins only imagined. The Inquisitors have caused dissension within the ranks of Squads by attempting to force the hands of Regents, or even attempted to abdicate them entirely. Certainly there are more than a few Adepts who have felt the sting of the Order's gaze before. 
The Inquisitors defend themselves by pointing out that they have revealed the most Fallen hidden within the ranks. They have refuted the most lies, laid claim to the most impregnable of secrets, and countered the most thorough of plots. 
They say the idea of simply "getting along" doesn't last, you can only trust someone according to what they truly believe. People's actions are determined by what they believe, ergo the beliefs of the people will always be important. Love them or hate them, but the Inquisitors steadfastly believe their's is a necessary harshness. 
=== Cloak & Dagger: ===
Even in medieval times, the Inquisition concerned itself with state matters and had plenty of experts in fields like code-making and breaking, spy craft, interrogation and covert operations. In the modern world the Order has continued their tradition of moving and thriving in the world of spies and secret keepers. 
=== Reactionary: ===
Inquisitors are often accused of being overtly paranoid, of seeing the devil in everything. Inquisitors often fully admit they are indeed paranoid, but when your job is to root out Evil, capital "E," the only way you can win the war is to doubt everything and fear the unknown. 
Inquisitors tend to question anything new. They may even insist on rejecting or outlawing it, depending on the perceived danger of the thing in question. 
=== The Hidden Friend?, Inquisitors & The Order of Serpents: ===
The Order of Serpents are Adepts of total secrecy who keep themselves removed from all other Supernaturals, operating entirely on their on towards some unknown goal. The Inquisitors don't like it one bit, but right now there's not much they can do about it. The Serpents are naturally talented at obfuscation, and they posses many specific powers that allow them to cover their tracks against even the hardest scrutiny. 
Despite all that, it's wrong to think they've got the Order of Inquisitors fooled. While the Inquisition can't come crashing through the gates of any Serpent bases, the Inquisitors in the past have been able to successfully predict future Serpent activities, sometimes even ambushing them or their numerous agents. The Inquisition has gone to great lengths to study everything connected to the Serpent Order and uncover as many secrets as they can. 
Still, the fact is that the Serpents still operate in the shadows, often using hypnotized agents to do their bidding. The Inquisitors bide their time for now, believing the day will come when they root the scaled ones from their hidden lairs and bring them into the light of day. 
=== Oubliettes: ===
Inquisitors keep Oubliettes around the world, secret bases of the Order where important items and information can be stored, and persons of interest can be more properly examined. Unnatural beasts are said to walk the hallways and grounds of the Oubliettes, defending them to the death against any would-be intruders. 
Oubliettes are also utilized by the Orders of Kings and Judges to serve as prisons for Supernaturals who are not guilty of crimes punishable by execution, but can't be allowed to roam free either. 
=== But Why Do They Do It?: ===
It would be easy to characterize the Inquisition as mad and power-hungry, but to really play the role of Inquisitor you need to be honest about why they do what they do. Inquisitors love God. They truly believe there is a God, and that there are things that anger Him, things that (for His own reasons, higher reasons) He has forbidden. 
Be honest with yourself, if you truly believed in an All Powerful Being and that certain practices made Him angry, wouldn't you try to stop them? You don't have to agree with the Inquisition, especially given how prone to paranoia they are, but if you want to play as one of them then you need to get inside their heads. 
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