Isstvanian - Engendering of Conflict: The chief concern of Isstvanian Inquisitors is engendering and managing vital conflict. Although all conflict interests them -- from personal ambition, to economic and social struggles, to the viperous infighting of the Imperial nobility -- raw violence is the form to which many Isstvanians prefer to devote their attentions. Warfare and the battle for survival tests all aspects of the participants; it has the highest of stakes for all involved and is fatal to those that fail, winnowing out the weak.The scale of conflict may be as small as a blood feud between noble houses, or as cataclysmic as a war that engulfs planets and stars and consumes millions of lives before its force is spent. The outcome of the wars, insurgencies, and the vendettas they create is often of little interest to an Isstvanian. The fact these ordeals exist and the effect that they have on those who pass through them is everything, and most such Inquisitors pride themselves on a measured dispassion toward those involved.Isstvanians' interventions are always a matter of judgement and wisdom, as above all they wish to strengthen the Imperium, not destroy it. It is those who are perceived as weak in their eyes that are the most likely to be subjected to their attentions. But where this fine line of judgement is placed can be a matter of some difference and discord among the faction and between individual Isstvanians. While some would not strike at a world or sector already at war, others take a grander view and see that war and its outcome in the context of the wider area, or even weigh a conflict's outcome against wars and threats yet to be. They may see a sector or army grown complacent on victory as easy prey for the foes of the future and better purged now; the chaff weeded out from the strong wheat, rather than destroyed utterly later. It is this wanton creation of anarchy, mayhem, and discord as an end in itself that makes many Inquisitors outside the faction look on the convictions and conspiracies of Isstvanians with incredulous horror.The methods Isstvanians use to create conflict vary from subtle and measured to wild and indiscriminate, as suits their current aims. Many Isstvanians believe that conflict and aggression are Mankind's natural state and that a nudge in the right direction will create all the bloody conflicts that could be desired. By fanning the natural resentment of a populace, working on the paranoia of a planetary governor, and introducing a fog of disinformation, an Isstvanian or their agents can create a world of fear and bloodshed from an atmosphere of peace and harmony.Others will create phantom threats whose power to induce terror grows with every whispered conversation and whose existence demands a response. Such illusory threats can be small enough to only affect a local population (such as a killer preying on local officials) or vast and terrifying enough to seize the minds of billions and cause the Imperium to mobilise vast resources. Some, of course, abstain from such subtlety and simply start a war when they feel the cause is sufficient. A notorious tactic of Isstvanians is to first strike one side and leave evidence implicating the other. This in turn creates a counterattack, and before long, an all-out war will have sprung from nowhere.