Inquisitor Suresya

A veteran Daemon Hunter and long-serving member of the
Scholariate at Arms, Inquisitor Suresya espouses the Xanthite
philosophy, even going so far as to openly wield a known
daemon weapon called Kherez’phyr. Suresya’s methods have
earned him the condemnation of dozens of fellow Inquisitors,
especially Puritans, but so far he has avoided formal censure.
This is largely because his methods have always proven
highly successful, but also due to the governing principles
of the Scholariate at Arms, which enforce an uneasy truce
between peers with widely divergent beliefs.
Suresya has been instrumental in purging many widespread
conspiracies and cults, and has halted several potentially
devastating daemonic incursions. He maintains a small, but
highly competent, household that includes dozens of oathbound
Banishers and Tech-Priests, as well as a large cohort
of warded gun-servitors. Suresya rarely undertakes missions
alongside other Inquisitors, although he will cooperate in
the early stages of an investigation if circumstances dictate.
However, the final execution of any mission is always
undertaken exclusively by Suresya and his followers. None
outside of his household have ever witnessed the methods he
uses to such great effect in the banishment of the enemies of
Mankind.
The true reason that Suresya refuses to work alongside
other Inquisitors is that he is not a Xanthite at all. He is in
fact a member of a splinter faction of the Xanthites known as
the Phaenonites. These individuals are rare indeed, for their
philosophies have caused them to be outlawed the length and
breadth of the Imperium. The faction was thought wiped out
long ago, but has recently reappeared in the Calixis Sector.
The faction takes the philosophy of the Xanthites---that
Chaos can be used against Chaos---to such an extreme that
even their fellow Radical Inquisitors often believe them to
have crossed a line. The Phaenonites believe that the Warp
and technology can be fused to create an ultimate weapon,
which they are fated to wield. But what truly sets them
apart from even the most radical of Xanthites is that they
believe that anyone who follows a god---whether that god
is a Ruinous Power or the Emperor himself---is nothing but
a deluded fool. They denounce the worship of all gods and
believe themselves the true ultimate power in the universe.
It is through their mastery of Warp-technology---known to
the Adeptus Mechanicus as “Maletek”---that the Phaenonites
hope to become far greater than the gods themselves.
Suresya follows this pariah creed and surrounds himself
with servants useful to him in the pursuance of its ends. His
daemon blade is in fact the least of his heresies, and he wields
it to draw attentions away from his true allegiance. In the field,
Suresya uses the most wretched of technologies, including
Warp-infused armor and infernal engines of destruction. His
legion of gun-servitors are in fact heretical parodies of the
constructs used by the Adeptus Mechanicus, created through a
combination of daemonhost-summoning rites and forbidden
technologies. Very few of Suresya’s servants are aware of his
true loyalties, for his every word and deed is part of his web
of falsehood and deceit. Even the closest of his allies believes
that his Xanthite beliefs are his worst excess and are unaware
that impossible depths of heresy lurk below that mask.
The only Inquisitor in the Calixis Sector seemingly able to
exercise any authority over Suresya is Inquisitor Lord Dhar,
Proctor of the Scholariate at Arms. Whether or not Dhar is
aware of Suresya’s true loyalties remains to be seen, but so
long as the false Xanthite maintains his record of success in
the eternal battle against the Enemy Beyond, the question is
likely to remain unanswered.