Dora Sunahara

## Character

### **Language(s)**

High/Low Gothic, Battlesign, Thoughtmark (not fluent), Several Additional Human and Xenos languages

## Physical Description

### **Weight**

140lbs

**Dora Sunahara** (डोरा सुनहरा), nicknamed “Malka”, is a Sanctioned Psyker of immense power with a breadth and depth of abilities that leave most Psykers multiple times her age with incalculable envy. Devoid of her power armour, her slim athletic build can present an image of fragility and human weakness when compared with the Transhuman giants of the Adeptus Astartes. However, the truth is quite the opposite, as none of the mortal wounds and serious injuries she has suffered throughout a life of service to the Inquisition have left but a mark on her perfectly-formed skin. More impressive, still, are her capacity for destruction, her aptitude for investigation, and her willingness to achieve her goals at whatever cost.

"I see great things in that girl's future...and terrible things." - Inquisitor Prabious, upon first sight of the young Dora Sunahara.

## History

### A blessed birth

Born to an ageing couple of farm managers of the Imperial Civilised World of Kapalmar 3, homeworld of the Kapalmarines chapter of Adeptus Astartes, the young Dora Sunahara was the first child brought to term for a merchant couple who had attempted unsuccessfully to reproduce for several years. Her coming was a welcome event soon marred by the realisation that she was not simply an average child but something they had never known existed.

### A Child Prodigy

Dora began to exhibit her earliest Psykine abilities almost immediately after birth when she began to transmit thoughts of her needs and desires to her parents, at first limited to the request for more food or sanitary attention. Shortly after, with the rapid development of her intelligence, these telepathic transmissions evolved into complex discussions, whereby her parents found themselves speaking out loud in response to the mental questioning of the child. More worryingly, many of the concepts discussed involved the toddler using the information she had drawn from her parents' minds without their knowledge. They could not answer many of her questions regarding her place in the universe nor describe the state of what they referred to as The Imperium, and they were often left with headaches and confusion as she probed deeper into their minds to no avail.

### New Minds

Over the next few years, concerns grew, so much so that Dora's parents, who had kept her abilities to themselves and had been able to do so due to their relative isolation, eventually transported the girl across the planet to the capital city of New Surat, to seek advice. While the idea occurred to the girl's father, he was unsure whether it was his thought or that of his six-year-old daughter.

Exposed to any number of new minds, the child walked freely through the densely-populated trading city, filled with bazaars and markets, exposing her gifts to the thoughts of business owners, local Administratum, Enforcers and Off-Worlders, each providing her with experiences and knowledge she could never have gleaned from her relatively sheltered parents.

Despite their intentions, they found themselves unable to complete their personal goals in seeking advice regarding their daughter, for they were suddenly compelled to return home and tell no other person of their daughter nor to make any further attempts to reproduce. Subsequently, Dora all but abandoned her surname in an effort to ensure no means for her parents to be identified, should she be discovered by Imperial forces.

### An opportunity

Having spent less than a week in the city's largest commercial district, in the shadow of its modest, though very busy, Space Port, Dora happened across a visiting Rogue Trader and made herself known. A very risky decision, the young girl admitted to possessing abilities that could serve her in negotiations and, having read some of the entrepreneur’s less-guarded thoughts, knew that he was unlikely to turn down the opportunity to employ an unregistered Psyker in her entourage. After a quick demonstration of the girl's abilities, involving the leverage of an informed position on an otherwise potentially expensive trade, she joined the Rogue Trader vessel Outstanding Opportunity crew. Hidden from the knowledge of most of the crew and named as simply a slave on the Rogue Trader's personal staff, the young Dora began her journey among the stars.

### The Black Ship

After less than a year in the Rogue Trader's service, the vessel on which Dora had made her home was intercepted by a small, black ship she did not immediately recognise. Despite her efforts, she could not psychically breach the vessel's Hull to read the minds of those within, as she had done countless times when encountering ships belonging to security services and traders. Despite this lack of understanding, she soon received an explanation upon the boarding of the Outstanding Opportunity, which mounted an ill-fated resistance against the then-Rogue forces of the Anathema Psykana. But for the intervention of a rather vocal Novice-Sister by the name of Aimalla Baddasz, who subsequently received severe castigation as a result of her outspoken argument, the child would have been put to death immediately, and the ship's commander put to death for the danger she had caused.

Instead, taken by force and with only the severe wounding of several crewmen, Dora was transferred to the Black Ship and transported, throughout the journey suffering a level of pain and mental anguish she had never conceived of, let alone felt, in her seven years of life, and was delivered to a psychically-disruptive holding centre on Ghellos Prime. Under physical torture, Dora provided details of her birth and early upbringing, eventually surrendering the names of her mother and father. A source of eternal regret, Dora never shook of the feeling of betrayal, despite being but a child at the time, though she later found out that the information did not result in any harm coming to her distant parents. The aggression caused by these feelings were mainly directed outward towards the Anathema Psykana, frequently resulting in further hostile interactions.

### Cicatrix Maledictum

The events surrounding the fall of Cadia and the manifestation of the Great Rift passed by with little impact on the growing Dora, who spent a further year in isolation in what was meant to have been a short stay in preparation for an arranged transportation to Terra. While the Anathema Psykana were being reintroduced to the Imperium, Dora's keepers treated her with malice, and death threats remained a daily occurrence. Despite her significant intelligence, well beyond her years, her frequent escape attempts were met with failure, and she feared she was soon to be traded to outlying Imperial forces as a Psyker to be fed to the Emperor's Astronomican.

### Terra

The passage eventually came, and after a particularly tumultuous passage through the warp, during which she remained shackled at the neck with a psychic inhibitor that made her constantly sick to her stomach, she arrived in the Sol system. She was taken to Luna, where she was once again incarcerated and, expecting to receive the fate she had feared, that would have her psychic essence consumed in the daily fuelling of the Golden Throne, she was instead met by an Inquisitor named Prabious. According to him, she had been marked as a Delta class Psyker and, having demonstrated an impressive command of her abilities, according to all data and hearsay knowledge obtained in the Silent Sisterhood's investigations, she could be used for his purposes, should she be found worthy of his attention. With no means of extracting the absolute truth of his words, she accepted them and was soon after delivered to the hands of the Scholastica Psykana for testing and development.

In the initial phases, with urgency brought about as a result of the child's significant potential and the ongoing galactic events surrounding the Cicatrix Maledictum, she was almost immediately submitted to the sole-binding process that would have her mind and body traumatised as a portion of the Emperor's might was forced into the girl, fortifying her against Daemonic possession and stabilising her already profound abilities. Though it was feared she would lose her sight and much of her body's physical senses, a mid-length, near-miracle recovery demonstrated that she had somehow endured the process without any physical changes, saved for the desired effects on her Psykine capabilities. The unfortunate psychological result was for the child to display the onset of recurrent screaming night terrors, during which the child occasionally had to be physically restrained, borne from the additional warp perception granted by the procedure.

### Gamma

Despite initial assessment based on available evidence, it soon became apparent that the young girl's abilities were potentially more significant than those of a Delta class Psyker and fell closer to the Gamma level, of which very few currently existed. However, it was supposed that the soul-binding process had instigated this change, and for the first time in her life, she became aware of the full potential of her nature. Beginning with the extension of her already developed telepathic abilities, she learned to "Unleash" her will and actively project her consciousness beyond her body and occasionally into both willing and unsuspecting hosts.

Next to be tried were the remaining disciplines, including the physical combat discipline Maelstrom of Destruction, Stormwroth's electrical abilities, the manifestation of flame through Pyrokinesis and the remote movement of physical items through Telekinesis. To a lesser extent, Dora showed interest and ability in Divination, Biomancy and Psykana. While at the Schola, she was also exposed to the remaining disciplines, though it was only later that she would be forced to develop them to a functional degree.

### Psyker Primaris

Taking a mere six years to cement her position as a sanctioned Psyker of renown, serving first the internal offices in the Adeptus Astra Telepathica, Dora was transferred to the forward ranks of the Astra Militarum, often spending months with the same regiment. Beginning her career as a mere child, she was initially overlooked; however, the display of terrifying abilities beyond the scope that most of her assigned Astra Militarum personnel had ever experienced led to her being nicknamed “Malka-Dora”, in tribute to Malcador the Hero, a legendary Psyker of immense capability. Eventually, the nickname was shortened to “Malka”, and the meaning was lost on many line troops and conscripts but stuck with her as she was transferred between forces.

Around the age of thirteen, and brought about by the over-extension of her Maelstrom abilities, Dora’s physical body was subject to a harrowing ordeal involving several wounds that, by rights, should have killed her soon after. A similar event occurred less than a year later when she was forced to defend a rank of battered soldiers against overwhelming odds. Left bleeding and unconscious in the dirt, she slowly recovered from her injuries and returned to the distant garrison alone. Though these unfortunate events led to short recoveries that took her away from duty, she persisted in entering battlefields, more often in conflict with Xenos of several ilks. In the aftermaths of such occasions, her abilities were used to interrogate prisoners, divine unknown truths, and route out further distant enemies.

When encountering The Witch or The Daemon, Dora was required to use abilities she had allowed to lapse into disuse since leaving the Scholastica Psykana, and though she never acquired a taste for these disciplines, she was eventually called upon to assist attending Inquisitorial staff with their investigations. It was through such an event that she once again encountered Inquisitor Prabious, whom she had held in high regard since their previous encounter.

Though she had planned since their first encounter to finally peer into his mind and extract the purpose for his supposed interest in her, she was met with failure once again, for the presence of the former Novice-Sister of the Anathema Psykana, Pariah Aimalla Baddasz, who then served on Prabious's retinue, had been ordered to confound the Psyker's abilities with her nullifying nature. Though she did not meet the rest of the Inquisitor's retinue, she remained hopeful that she would one day join them, despite the abhorrent nature of the Pariah and the unforgettable nature of their first meeting.

### Primaris Psyker

Soon after the chance meeting with Prabious, Dora was recalled to the Scholastica Psykana for the trials that would see her elevated to the status of Primaris Psyker and among the greatest of all sanctioned Psykers. The trials were gruelling, many lasting days, some lasting months, where every aspect of her nature was tested in extremis. Forced to endure and overcome, her abilities grew so much that she left the process as a Low Beta Grade Psyker.

Once again, her physically shattered form recovered from any visible injury, and she returned to full strength, determined to prove herself. Having successfully met the challenges laid out before her, Dora was raised to the status of Primaris Psyker and received the wards, runes and psychic defences embedded in her skull and scalp. Despite having been advised her hair would not grow back to cover the affected area, it did eventually return, and in that aspect, her appearance remained distinct among Primaris Psykers. The more disturbing effect of the implants was to cause her constant low-level pain, manifesting in headaches and occasional migraines, that could only be partially addressed through medication. The frequent need for her focusing and nullifying implants to be reassessed, reset and occasionally replaced could be explained only partially as being caused by her body's unceasing attempt to rid itself of the foreign objects.

Soon after ascension, “Malka” Dora was once again transferred to the services of the Astra Militarum, where she served on the field of battle, even once having to take command of a line company and serving with great aplomb before her life was about to take a turn in the direction she had long since sought.

### Inquisition

It was not Inquisitor Prabious who recruited Dora to the Ordo Xenos, but his former Interrogator, then Inquisitor, Kora Vey. Having not met previously, where the only other member of Prabious's retune Dora had met was the abominable Aimalla Baddasz, the appointment first came with suspicion, but since the induction involved the voluntary psychic examination of the Inquisitor's mind, so high was Vey's regard for the Primaris Psyker that she trusted her to perform the procedure without concern. The truth of the Inquisitor’s intent was quickly apparent, just as were a few rather unexpected details concerning her former relationship with her Pariah subordinate.

Missions ranged from infiltration to interrogation, and though Dora was successful in almost every regard, she couldn't help but knowingly sense that Vey's expectations for her lay beyond simply the task she was set. They were unachievable, for in the ways that apparently counted, to Vey anyway, Dora was the polar opposite of Aimalla Baddasz. Despite this, and with a growing inferiority complex, Dora continued to excel in her new role. She became a valued retinue member, focusing on the abilities that served her new mistress. After the unexpected loss of Vey's Interrogator to a suspicious suicide, Dora was given that position. She began to consider her potential as an Inquisitor, for if it was possible, it was indeed achievable. Despite her unquestionable service, Dora often found herself ordered to wear an external psychic restraint collar as a security precaution when entertaining other Inquisitors. However, this was explained to serve mainly as a courtesy since other Inquisitors remained suspicious of the Psyker’s clandestine telepathy. With passing years, this requirement began to extend into the Inquisitor’s everyday workings, and Dora wore an active dampener whenever she was off-mission and in the Inquisitor’s presence. It became such a significant part of the Psyker’s expected status that one such device was eventually incorporated into Dora’s power armour, which Dora initially disputed though she eventually acquiesced.

### The Death of a Saviour

Soon after taking the mantle of Interrogator, Dora was made aware of the murder of Inquisitor Prabious, and the apparent refusal of Aimalla Baddasz to report to the Ordo Xenos Enclave In person for the purposes of their oversight. While the method of the Pariah's rebellion did indeed eventually result in something approaching a successful counter-mission, Dora personally Condemned the actions of the Interrogator, citing the Ordo's edicts as of greater importance than revenge, despite the reverence Baddasz and Vey had held for Prabious. It was by way of voicing this opinion that she was surprised by the disappointment shown by her superior. Once again, she had fallen into the shadow cast by the executor of her childhood capture and former friend of her Inquisitor, and despite her own burgeoning friendship with the older woman, she was isolated from not only a professional courtesy but also her affection.

Upon attending an emergency meeting called by the Ordo Xenos, Dora, separated from her usual method of external psychic dampening, remained at her word not to interrogate the free-flowing thoughts of her colleagues and superiors, expected that her counterpart would be punished for her actions, despite the results of her unsanctioned activities. When Baddasz eventually arrived, and Vey and two other Inquisitors convened in private to discuss the matter, the Psyker did not expect there result of their machinations to be the immediate promotion of the Pariah to the position of Inquisitor. For once, motivated by confusion above all else, she spread her psychic influence just enough to get a feel for the room.

Her heart sank when she was met with an overwhelming sensation that despite her actions, Baddasz fully deserved the rank not only for her notoriety but for her willingness for self-sacrifice that avenged the death of her late master and the several members of their retinue who had also been murdered. The only exception to this feeling was a momentary shadow of a guarded thought that indicated a darker nature of the transaction and the taste of a far more profound secret to be uncovered. Despite immense curiosity, when her faintly glowing eyes were met by those of her Inquisitor, she drew in her mental net and never discovered from whom the thought had emerged. Though the inquisitor never spoke of it, her disapproval for the Psyker’s failure to comply with her word was paid back with distance, while Vey excused herself for three months, during which it was believed she had convened with Baddasz. In the year that followed the Ordo’s meeting, Dora met Vey only once, during which the strained nature of their professional and personal relationships became apparent.

### An Irrefutable Request

Thirteen years after their first meeting, Dora was ordered to assist Inquisitor Aimalla Baddasz at her behest for reinforcements in the face of an upcoming attack involving the Necrons, which would see her travel to Watch Fortress Black Bastion in control of the Deathwatch. Dora was alone at the time of dispatch, separated from her retinue, having travelled to visit a former instructor at the Scholastica Telepathica on Terra. Thus, she was the only one available and within range to assist the Pariah Inquisitor when the request came through.

Though the order may ordinarily have been met with argument, the Primaris Psyker placed her feelings aside and silently complied with the direction, resenting that she should be sent to assist her former captor and her predecessor, in a sense, in the eyes of Inquisitor Vey. She also believed that this may allow her to learn how to surpass Baddasz both in the eyes of the Inquisition and her mistress, who still inexplicably placed the soulless abomination on an unassailable pedestal. Furthermore, the confusing nature of the Inquisitors’ relationships with Prabious, and the effect of his death, had yet to be ascertained.

## Appearance

Dora is a woman of slim build and relatively tall height, at approximately 5'10". However, she tends to wear raised heels and occasionally dons specially adapted power armour, which places her height in battle at up to 6'2".

With heritage originating in the South Asian sub-continent, her skin is a rich brown with yellow tones, and her hair is naturally black and styled based on mission requirements, often seen in a bob but occasionally in long, luscious locks that reach her lower back.

Due to her significant connection to warp energy, her eyes often glow blue, though she can fully modulate her connection to these powers; thus, she frequently chooses to allow her amber eyes to be seen clearly. As she holds an interest in her cultural heritage, aspects of Terra's ancient South Asian iconography exist in Dora's image, and so she is often seen wearing a Bindi, or "Third Eye Chakra" mark between her eyebrows. This can be a simple coloured dot or a warp-reactive jewel that glows blue, much like the similar jewels that comprise the various aspects of her collar, hood and force weapons. In addition, she occasionally marks her face with dots and shapes and sometimes affixes metallic jewellery to her cheeks.

### Accent and Languages

Having become fluent in her home planet's Imperial Gothic, which is coloured by colloquialisms and an accent inherited from the colony's original settlers, Dora retains some of the exotic tones she obtained before her incarceration and subsequent education in standard Low and High Gothic languages, which she learned mainly by the telepathic sampling encouraged by her tutors.

Having shown an ability psychically augment her linguistic learning, Dora became quite the student of the foreign tongue and endeavoured to absorb languages as a means of cultural appreciation. Her true motives, however, lay in her intention to pursue a clandestine operational capacity, thus, knowing and understanding an enemy's language would become helpful when manipulating, infiltrating and subverting. These abilities became apparent when she finally joined an Inquisitorial retinue and demonstrated her polylingual abilities.

## Personality

Dora has a generally approachable attitude to strangers and has the capacity for warmth towards her friends, but does little to hide disgust, anger and mistrust when encountering those she dislikes. Though her strong emotions may show through personal interactions, occasionally inspiring fear in others that her psychic attributes may be unintentionally released, her level of psychic control is beyond reproach, and she is fully capable of compartmentalising her feelings from her offensive capabilities. Conversely, when not using her Psykine abilities to sense at least the feelings of others, she finds it difficult to gauge the emotions of others, often failing to "Read the Room", which can lead to words spoken in error, causing her embarrassment and annoyance.

As a result of her constant headache, occasionally approaching migraine levels, she is known for possessing a constantly furrowed brow, often taken as a sign of focus, anger or confusion. This presents those without personal knowledge with difficulty in determining her current emotional state, and even when she cracks jokes and converses in good humour, she is thought of as sarcastic and occasionally possessing a dry wit.

With a fair interest in most aspects of her Psykine abilities, she often feels she has somehow let herself down, given that she has concentrated on developing the specific abilities most beneficial to her Mistress Kora Vey and her retinue. While she remains dedicated to the Inquisition, her one regret may be accepting the opportunity, where she may have served to a greater extent and, more often, among the Astra Militarum. She feels she has more in common with officers of the line since she did not originate with a particularly wealthy or learned family and feels that privilege is unfairly distributed through sheer luck and not by personal achievement.

## Abilities and Traits

### Psykine Powers

Trained in a multitude of disciplines, as most Sanctioned Psykers are, it is a relatively safe bet that any known ability has likely been successfully attempted, but a perfectionist at heart, she tends to steer clear of the abilities on which she has had less opportunity to focus, other than what she would call parlour tricks, such as Smite and basic illusory methods. With experience, she has focused on the practical application of mainly the physically offensive and mentally inquisitive aspects of her training. Below are the abilities she would claim to have mastered:

Will Unleashed - Dora may delve deeply into the minds of others, possess the bodies of the more receptive subjects and separate her mind from her body, often over great distances.

Maelstrom of Destruction - Dora can add to her physical capabilities by adding strength and fortification to her body, whether armoured or otherwise, and deal far more significant close-combat damage than her physical form should provide. Having learnt the basics of Pyromancy and Stormwroth disciples, she occasionally combines the effects, such as punching an enemy with a fist surrounded by captive lightning or breathing fire in the face of one she is grappling with.

Divination - By psychic analysis of physical objects, Dora can learn their past histories, potential future events surrounding them, and the properties of their current form.

Logokine - In a somewhat less-developed sense than the Logokine John Grammaticus, Dora can learn one’s language by keying into the psychic links activated when speaking it. It sometimes requires more than one sentence, but usually, by the end of a single conversation, Dora is conversant in the speaker’s language. Since this requires a psychic connection, she was unable to apply this ability to the sign language used by the Anathema Psykana, thus her visual-only study of the language, while suffering the pain of psychic detachment in the Silent Sisterhood’s presence, was only partially successful, and since she is yet to encounter a psychically-present speaker of the language, her study remains incomplete.

### Martial Arts

Possessing a means to augment her physical capabilities, she makes the best use of her Psykine powers by applying them to the martial arts taught to her by the Scholastica Psykana, Astra Militarum and her personal interest in applying the methods of her birth culture. Furthermore, she falls back on her physical prow when she lacks warp-reliant abilities due to strategic or operational necessity. She has also learnt the value of practising these abilities in the various forms of armour she has been expected to don during various deployments.

## Equipment

As is always the case for a Primaris Psyker, Dora is physically outfitted with internal inhibitors and, for when these psychically dampening devices are not active, several wards and runes, which are primarily embedded in her skull - these are unfortunately a source of constant discomfort. Of the readily available equipment that is not permanently attached to her body, below are her most significant items:

Force Staff - Made from a combination of wood and warp-reactive materials, Dora's staff functions mainly as a focal point for her abilities. Often connected through channelling cables to her person, it is topped with a crystalline skull that perfectly mimics the shape of her skull, much like that possessed by the famous - later infamous - Inquisitor Eisenhorn.

Head Dress - Styled in the traditional manner of a third eye, in addition to the smaller Bindi often worn by Dora, a head dress in the form of a band across the forehead containing a large central warp-reactive gem, and similar smaller gems. This device is more than simply decorative, as it performs a similar function to a Psyker's hood or weapons, as an item on which Dora's psychic might may be focused. On occasion, the central gem has been used to project warp energy in a beam to devastating consequences.

### Armour

From simple leather padding to advanced Power Armour, Dora has found the need to wear almost every form of armour available to a Human of average size. However, she has most often worn the same flak and carapace armour of Imperial forces. While working within the Inquisition, she has mimicked several identities that have had her don more exotic coverings, but she currently utilises two forms of armour:

Armoured Bodyglove - Complete with a reduced-form obscuration hood, this armour is used for missions where the full force of Dora's destructive abilities is less likely to be required and where carrying a staff would prevent her from remaining a low-key individual. Though the hood contains an array of warp-reactive gems and a system that syphons off excess warp energies, it may remain entirely darkened whilst Dora's inhibitors remain active, which allows for a discrete appearance.

Power Armour - Unlike the armour used by the Adepta Sororitas, it incorporates a mechanical hood built to a similar standard to those employed by the Librarians of the Adeptus Astartes. It also incorporates a collar replete with similar warp-reactive gems and an additional external inhibitor that visually indicates psychic dampening through a red-glowing rune that lights when active. The armour, and its various predecessors, have been provided with multiple varied appearances, ranging from colour to orientation of protective wards, runes and warp-reactive gems.

### Used Weapons

Force Khanda (Sword) - Like the staff mentioned above, Dora's sword is a focal point for her powers. It is generally favoured in combat situations, so great is her interest in getting into physical fights, despite the severe injuries this attitude has caused. The blade differs from most bladed Force Weapons as it has a broad blade with two straight edges that widen towards the tip, which is pointed at a shallow angle. It is completed by a full, rounded hand guard cast in simple white metal. Based on a traditional Terran design from what was known as South Asia, the weapon was commissioned by Dora using the knowledge she psychically obtained as a child from her home planet's historian.

Force Katar (Punch Dagger) - Another weapon with a shape reminiscent of Terra's ancient heritage, Dora's Katar is imbued with the same properties as her sword and staff, allowing the focused projection of her destructive and inquisitive abilities. However, it is a brutal weapon in its own right, and its monomolecular blade is used to significant effect in mundane combat.

Inferno Pistol - Though she was once issued a simple Laspistol, Dora acquired a taste for Melta-weapons, as a means of damaging and destroying the armour protecting her enemies from her Psykine abilities, thus; she permanently possesses a weapon presented to her by a Battle Sister of the Adepta Sororitas prior to what became a successful conflict against the Necrons, despite the death of the Canoness from whom she received it. While she holds all of her equipment in high regard, it is her Inferno pistol, inscribed with the name of its former owner, that she would least wish to part with. When on extended missions that require her to abandon her weapons in favour of subterfuge, she often limits herself to this single ranged weapon, guarding it closely.

### Munitions

Grenades - Dora is outfitted with a selection of grenades made available to her by the Inquisition. In addition to standard Frag, Krak pattern grenades, Dora is known to carry a single Psyk-Out grenade. Though this may seem counter-intuitive for a Psyker to carry, Dora has functioned for extended periods with her warp-link severed by her own internal dampeners, which negates the effect of rapid detachment from the warp upon the use of such a grenade. This weapon is known to have been used on at least one occasion by Dora, where the immediate cessation of a more powerful Psyker's abilities provided her with a momentary advantage to assassinate him by conventional means - in this case, decapitation.

## Relations

### Friends/Allies

Astra Militarum - Having served beside a number of high-ranking officers of the Imperium's armies, Dora is well-connected to the sources of power and leadership, and while this is beneficial for her, she does hold some notoriety among the line troops of at least a few regiments, by whom she is often referred to as "Malka Dora" or simply "Malka". Unfortunately, most of the line officers with whom she was aligned have since been killed through various means. One such officer, with whom she was very close, died in her arms in the midst of a bombardment that could easily have ended her own life - consequently, Dora successfully defended the objective, though the destruction wrought to the irreplaceable cultural icon was significant.

### Rivals/Enemies

Necrons - Having served on battlefields across the Imperium, the Xenos she hates the most are the soulless machines purported to have once been a race of biological humanoids. Their nature is as much an affront to the Psyker's sensibilities as a psychic Blank, thus; she would sooner see the obliteration of all the ancient constructs than any other race.

Inquisitor Aimalla Baddasz - The predecessor (of sorts) that Dora can never match, Baddasz's status as a Pariah makes her an obvious source of distaste to the Psyker, though the animosity, which has been reduced from the detestation she once felt at their first meeting. Baddasz was instrumental in the capture of the young Dora when she was secretly serving aboard the Outstanding Opportunity in the service of the ship's Rogue Trader commander. Having followed a series of reports along a journey that began almost immediately after Dora left her homeworld, the Novice-Sister of the Anathema Psykana eventually located the child on approach to Vorea Secundus. Having been given the mission as a part of her ascension to full Sister rank, Baddasz defied orders to instantly kill the child as a dangerous creature, and instead confined her to captivity. Years after the encounter, while studying at the Scholastica Psykana, it was presented to her that records handed over by the re-instated Silent Sisterhood indicated Baddasz's hand in saving her life. If was just as well, for the second time Dora met with Prabious, Baddasz was also present, and fully aware that she had saved the girl's life. Yet to take the role of Interrogator, Agent Baddasz recognised the young Psyker and made sure not to apologise for any hardships Dora had been made to endure at the hands of her own captors, for it was superior to death. Though Baddasz was right, Dora maintained a level of belligerence to the Pariah while being physically repelled by her soulless, anti-warp nature. Later encounters were at a distance and did nothing to improve Dora's perception of the woman, though envy and jealousy were both felt when she began to learn better of her relationship with Dora's mistress Kora Vey. The parts of Baddasz that Dora hates the most are those that seem to run parallel with her own, including her capture by the Anathema Psykana, which also took her from the painless life she could have had.

Anathema Psykana - As above, Dora once detested the Sisters of Silence as the brutal kidnappers that took her from a life of exploration. It was through later teaching that she understood the threat she posed and the necessity to prevent her from reaching a point of no return, where she could be possessed by the Neverborn Daemons of the Warp. Though the physical presence of any of the Sisters is painful to endure, when she is not dampening her own abilities, she no longer feels such hatred towards them, and hates herself for agreeing with their tactics.

## Quotes

"*I don't care, flog me if you like - you're good at that - but this girl deserves to live and serve the Imperium, like we all want to. Give her a chance, you stupid old crone.*"
— Aimalla Baddasz. Extract from communications to commanding officer at Anathema Psykana concerning the capture of Dora Sunahara.