Donna Iranius

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Donna Iranius is a Psykic Inquisitor from the Imperial World Casimus. She is known for her tact, diligence and association with Kill-Team Thanatos. Although her primary focus is within the Ordo Xenos, she is also skilled against facing heretics and daemons.

## History

Donna was born as Lillia Iranius to Rethon, a senior attendant of the noble Diven family of Casimus, and Anna Iranius, a PDF officer part of the Diven family's security detail, and lived with her older brother Caelus, who preferred to call himself Kal. Despite the order of their ages, Lillia ended up being more commanding of her brother than visa versa. When they were very young, Rethon realized that his kids may be psykers, so instead of having them face persecution on Casimus, he had their psykic connections nulled via dubious injections.

However, when Anna and Rethon were drafted for the Imperial Guard, they were unable to take care of their children, so Donna was sent to the Schola Progenium, while her brother Kal became an aspirant for the Astral Carbines Astartes chapter. Anna and Rethon pleaded to the Schola to take Lillia, to which the Schola was reluctant, since Rethon and Anna were still alive, but a recommendation from House Diven secured her place within the Schola. The last time she ever saw her parents was when they walked away from the Schola Progenium, leaving her at the mercy of one of the Imperium's finest, and one of its most brutal, institutions.

### Schola Progenium

Donna was pushed to the brink of death by the drill abbots at the Schola, being broken down and reforged into a weapon. Yet Donna was perhaps the most punished out of her group, not shying from venting her frustration and exhaustion at the Drill Abbots. However, her defiance was not enough to warrant an expel or execution, as she showed promise in her grit. However, one Drill Abbot, by the name of Sabine Rense, made a severe example of Donna, whipping her so hard to the point even her spine started to show. When Donna snidely called for 'more', Sabine relented, and assigned her to a year of toilet duty.

Donna did make a friend during the years at the Schola, however, in another girl of the same age, named Lucia. Donna and Lucia, especially during their second and third years in the Schola, were considered an almost inseparable duo, exemplifying the comradery which the Schola had wished to foster. Lucia even acted as a rational voice for Donna's hot-headed nature. However, during an extremely severe trial where, in full carapace armour, the Progena had to run a marathon in sweltering heat, Lucia and Donna found themselves falling behind everyone else. Moreover, Sabine had threatened Donna after the whipping incident, saying that if she were to fall behind, Sabine would have to expel (or execute) her. During the run, where the course led up a dune, Lucia collapsed under the weight of her fatigue, and found herself unable to get up. Donna, with a heavy heart, abandoned Lucia instead of rescuing her. When the marathon finished, Donna ran back to where Lucia collapsed, and found her lifeless corpse. Donna was bereaved by the death of her friend, and blamed herself for her selfishness, leaving her best friend behind to die. She was unable to sleep and unwilling to eat for days.

One night, when Donna was having a restless night of staring at the ceiling, trying to hold back her tears, she sensed something. Not with her eyes, her ears, her nose, not even her fingers. She just sensed something, skulking, hiding in the shadows. She tried to rest her eyes, but she couldn't. She felt something coming. Coming for her. She hopped down from her bed, and she looked around, until she locked eyes with another pair of eyes. Hungry eyes. Starving eyes. The eyes approached, slowly. However, as Donna stepped back, the beast shone with coalescing energy, before immediately appearing much closer to her, about ten metres in front. Donna hurried, running as quickly as she could in her fatigued body, hardened by rigorous training. She yelled for help, stirring her peers from their slumber, who saw her being chased by a black-furred hound with blazing eyes. Donna rushed towards the door towards the corridor, but before she could reach, the hound appeared just before her and growled. Donna evaded a snap of its maw and hurried without direction outside of away from the hound, grabbing a rough pillow from another bunk and throwing it towards the hound to throw off its tracks. However, it only worked for a few seconds, but those few seconds allowed Donna to charge into a window and burst through it, cutting herself with shards of glass slicing her skin as she tumbled down a level. However, she still kept hurrying as the hound leapt from the window and teleported again, but right above her, plummeting down to bite her. Donna, just as that same instinct kicked in, narrowly evaded the bite and pushed herself towards the training grounds, hoping to grab anything to aid her. Still the hound had not relented on its prey, and then came to chomp down on Donna's ankle, making her body go limp as she collapses onto the dirt and stone. She felt her body start to fray as the hound's eyes flared, bringing its feast back home.

However, floodlights flashed across the courtyard, and before Donna could be taken by the hound, the hound is blasted by a powerful psykic smite, tearing the hound asunder. Donna, feeling her body return fully to reality, looked upon her saviour, an Inquisitor named Sheina Misk. Donna spent weeks in recovery, with the Schola Progenium, for a while, being confounded on what happened. Sabine proposed that Donna had summoned the hound, but the theory was discarded, much to Sabine's dismay. Sheina then realized that the creature was an Astral Hound, a beast that hunted psykers, and Donna, like her, had psykic potential, and could be honed. Sheina reviewed Donna's record within the Schola, and although Donna's record of beatings was some measure of concern, there was found, between the lines, determination. Sheina decided to take Donna on within her retinue, seeing Donna's potential.

### Acolyte

Donna was recruited to Sheina's retinue, and was put to the strict training methods of Sheina. Although Sheina would not punish Donna corporeally, Sheina would make Donna arduously study every aspect of her training, and would test every detail. Donna pushed through, both because of a genuine desire to test her powers, and gratitude to Sheina for rescuing her from the whip of the Drill Abbots. Sheina's retinue also assisted in the training.

### Inquisitor

The death of Sheina left Donna, deep down, bereaved. However, she adhered to the stoicism Sheina had taught her to hold and did not grieve. However, in Sheina's will, Donna would be examined to become a Throne Agent. It was somewhat contentious, since Donna had experience, but some Inquisitors considered her young and inexperienced.

## Appearance

Donna is remarked as a 'professionally attractive' woman, with a sharp yet not gaunt face, long black hair which is typically tied back, and eyes like steel, as well as an average height and a quite muscular frame. She exudes a confident charisma around her, even if she didn't have psykic powers.

She is typically seen wearing a long coat, black with silver trimmings at the hems, adorned by the emblems and insignia of the Imperium and the Inquisition, as well as a reinforced leather cuirass, trousers, and boots.

Due to her involvement alongside Astartes, she also has a set of artificer power armour akin to the Adepta Sororitas' power armour, although with a lack of embellishments apart from the mark of the Inquisition.

## Personality

Donna Iranius, even from a young age, had a confident personality, triumphing over his older brother on numerous occasions. During her years at the Schola Progenium, she was forged from a vulnerable girl into a hardened soul. When on duty, which is most of her life, Donna Iranius is able to conduct herself accordingly, and be as ruthless as need be. However, she was not completely broken, although she remembers little of her life before the Schola, as a certain inner defiance drove her further. She wants to serve the Imperium, she wanted to purge the witch, the heretic and the xenos filth, but she also wants to show others that she was able to endure whatever they threw at her. There is a hot-headedness which lies under her professional mask, and Donna is an idealist at heart, hoping for an end to Chaos and the thriving of humanity above all others.

Donna Iranius' philosophy adheres to mostly Puritanical beliefs, especially Amalanthianism, believing that the Imperium ought to be united, and understood the danger of changing the status quo in the face of the Imperium's dire circumstance. She believes that humanity will defeat Chaos, eventually, but by what gambit the God Emperor of Mankind has set in store for this to happen is beyond her understanding. However, she does develop some personal beliefs beyond her puritan ideals, influenced primarily by the Daemon Box campaign, believing that there are xenos who shouldn't be exterminated, but nevertheless should be under the thumb as vassals under the Imperium, barred from faster-than-light travel so they may not challenge the Imperium itself.

## Abilities and Wargear

Donna is skilled with blade, bolter and interrogation. She adapts to combat with fluidity and pragmatism. Her fighting style relies on evasion and striking at weaknesses.

## Psykic Powers

Donna is a natural telepath, able to understand and manipulate the feelings of those around her. This allows her to investigate and interrogate in subtle, or not so subtle, ways. However, she is able to learn from other psykic disciplines, though not to the same extent. Interrogations are quick, no matter how painful. She also is also adept at Divination.

She also has an uncanny ability to sense imminent danger and react accordingly. Moreover, she has an affinity for familiars, and is able to command them relatively more sophistication than most.

## Retinue

**Psyber 4**- Psyber 4 is Donna's Psy-Eagle (her fourth one). She uses it as a scouting tool, and to aid in her psykic powers. It also tends to be protective of Donna, and doesn't like being petted.

**Jack Kerrin**- Sergeant Kerrin of the 5th Casimian Breakers was born in Casimus' slums. However, the abuse he endured from his parents made him run away and join the Astra Militarum's regiments. Despite his roguish exterior and slang, he is a dutiful soldier at heart. The many trials he had faced alongside Donna makes him someone she can trust. Even in Kerrin's twilight years, he serves Donna as a mentor to other members of the retinue and a tactical advisor.

**Chiurgeon Sare**- Chiurgeon Sare was part of a Naveran Rogue Trader regiment before she joined Donna. Pragmatic, analytical and emotionally distant, Sare patches up her wounded comrades with efficiency.

**Techpriest Text**- Techpriest Textorin, or Text for short, is a Techpriest Reclaimator who has ties to the Ivenkis Rogue Trader Dynasty.

## Relations

### Allies

* **Caelus 'Kal' Iranius**- Kal and Donna were brother and sister before the two split, Donna being more commandeering of her older brother. However, when they reunited, they didn't know who each other were, although both remembered they had a sibling. Yet still, Donna sometimes ordered Kal and his kill-team in some missions. When they finally found out that they were siblings, Kal and Donna kept their quite professional relationship alive, but they treated each other as siblings when in more relaxed environments. Donna and Kal most certainly have their differences, like their positions on whether the Emperor as a God. Donna thinks that, if Kal had been assigned to the Schola Progenium, he would be an absolute firebrand of a radical inquisitor.
* **Sheina Misk**- Sheina Misk was Donna's mentor. Sheina was very firm, but to a certain extent fair, making sure Donna would thoroughly learn one particular aspect into near perfection before judging whether she could move on. Sheina valued Donna's advice and thoughts, although chastised her less educated ideas. Moreover, she imbued in Donna professionalism and stoicism.