Kyril Sindermann - The Inquisitor: Surviving the tragic events of the Horus Heresy, Kyril Sindermann eventually went on to become one of Malcador the Sigillite's four original founding members of the newly created Inquisition. He assumed a new identity -- "Lastan Neemagiun Veritus" -- and he would faithfully go on to continue to serve the Imperium of Man. He was kept alive for the next 1,500 Terran years through the use of an ornate suit of Power Armour in conjunction with arcane technologies. During this time, he also somehow developed the formidable abilities of a psyker.Veritus survived well into the middle centuries of the 32nd Millennium, and during the War of the Beast, Inquisitor Veritus had garnered a reputation as a senior member of the Inquisition's Puritan faction who was well known for his fanatical loyalty to the God-Emperor and the Imperial Cult. A cold and calculating individual, the man who had once been known for being such an open-minded and philosophical thinker was now a cold-hearted authoritarian, who viewed the Inquisition as the ultimate tool of control. It was to be used to rein in the Senatorum Imperialis and eventually directly rule over all of humanity, for Mankind's own benefit.Veritus finally saw his opportunity to do so during the events of the War of the Beast. Veritus called for an Inquisitorial Conclave against the Inquisitorial Representative to the High Lords of Terra, an Inquisitor named Wienand, who he viewed as grossly negligent in her duties as the senior representative of the Inquisition and her mishandling of the war against the Ork Warlord known as The Beast. He also accused her of becoming corrupted by the political intrigues and infighting that plagued the Senatorum Imperialis.Failing to oust Wienand from her position, the Conclave inevitably failed, which forced Veritus to take a more direct approach in removing the upstart Inquisitor. He did so by deploying his own Inquisitorial agents in an attempted assassination attempt upon Wienand, who was only saved thanks to the efforts of the Venenum Assassin, Esad Wire. Following this unsuccessful attempt on her life, Wienand was forced to fake her death and go into hiding.Veritus was then appointed as the new Inquisitorial Representative, and assumed a seat on the Senatorum Imperialis. Following the appearance of an Ork Attack Moon over Terra, Veritus abandoned the High Lords of Terra in order to pursue his vendetta against Wienand after discovering her deception. He then moved against Drakan Vangorich, the Grand Master of Assassins, who thwarted Veritus' assassination attempt on his life, by deploying his own Officio Assassinorum operatives, who successfully took out the sniper sent to despatch him.When Juskina Tull, the Speaker of the Chartist Captains attempted to organise a mass offensive against the Ork Attack Moon which threatened Terra, by utilising civilian volunteers and Merchant Fleet vessels known as the Proletarian Crusade, Veritus refused to support her. Due to their lack of military resources, poor strategy and a complete lack of military knowledge or experience, the Crusade proved a complete disaster.Instead, Veritus focussed his efforts on gaining complete control of both the Senatorum Imperialis and the Inquisition. With the Crusade's failure and the appearance of a mysterious Ork "ambassador" before the High Lords themselves, Veritus condemned the members of the Senatorum Imperialis for their incompetence and took his leave.Not long after this event, a small force of Aeldari Harlequins attempted to raid the Imperial Palace in a failed attempt to deliver a message to the Emperor of Mankind. In the aftermath of this lamentable event, Veritus found himself allying with Vangorich. After interrogating the Harlequin Shadowseer Lhaerial Rey (who insinuated that Veritus might have envisioned something significant in regards to the machinations of the Ruinous Powers), Vangorich was able to successfully mediate a truce between Veritus and Wienand.The Inquisitors would later declare themselves as co-Inquisitorial Representatives and would throw their support behind Chapter Master Koorland (the last surviving Imperial Fists Astartes) in the successful political coup to overthrow the incompetent leadership of Lord Commander of the Imperium Udin Macht Udo, and help Koorland's assumption of command over the Senatorum Imperialis.Following this successful coup, Veritus informed now-Lord Commander Koorland of valuable information that could potentially drastically change the outcome of the War of the Beast -- the lost Primarch of the Salamanders Legion, Vulkan, had been rediscovered upon the world of Caldera, waging a one-man war against the Greenskin hordes of The Beast. When Lord Commander Koorland and Veritus traveled to Caldera to seek out the lost Primarch, Vulkan seemed to know who Veritus was, but his relationship to the Primarch remains elusive. He once again displayed his uncanny knowledge of the past, when he informed Koorland of the existence of the last bastion of the Sisters of Silence upon the world of Nadiries. He told the Lord Commander that he had long sought them out even before the events of the War of the Beast.After The Beast was successfully defeated upon the world of Ullanor, both Veritus and Wienand laid out their future vision for the Inquisition. Both agreed to the foundation of two new Ordos Majoris -- the Ordo Xenos and the Ordo Malleus -- with Wienand serving as the leader of the former, and Veritus as the leader of the latter daemon-hunting organisation. The Ordo Xenos would concentrate its affairs upon alien threats, while the Ordo Malleus would devote itself to rooting out Chaos wherever it showed itself. The newly-raised Deathwatch would act as the Chamber Militant of the Ordo Xenos, while the secret Astartes Chapter known as the Grey Knights would act in a similar role for the Ordo Malleus. Both Ordos would be equal in power so that the Inquisition would be better able to combat threats mundane and supernatural.Though there were other dangers facing the Imperium, these two were the largest. This would not be an absolute division of the Inquisition, as the nature of the threats was such that sometimes they were intertwined. Individual Inquisitors would be free to move between the Ordos at will. Others might stay free of both Ordos Majoris. Veritus also proposed that the organisation of the Inquisition be formalised but not transformed into a binding hierarchy -- for the freedom of Inquisitors to act as they saw fit was their greatest strength. But they could no longer rely upon ad hoc quorums to guide their fate. There had to be a council of the most high Inquisitor Lords to set overall direction. This council would be smaller than the Senatorum Imperialis, and uneven in number so that deadlock could be avoided.