Phaenonite - Phaenonite: A Phaenonite is a member of a malevolent Xanthite splinter faction of the Inquisition, reviled even by their fellow Radicals, that has long been declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the Ordo Malleus. They are dedicated to the overthrow of the God-Emperor and the Ruinous Powers alike, seeking a new future for humanity through the blasphemous fusing of flesh, machine and the powers of the Warp into a new mode of existence for Mankind. Once thought utterly destroyed in more recent years, the heretical Phaenonite philosophy has reared its head again and taken dangerous new shape in the Calixis Sector.Unlike some Radical factions whose existence is at least tacitly tolerated within bounds by their peers in the Holy Ordos, the Phaenonites stand as a declared enemy of Mankind. To harbour one of their number, even for an Inquisitor, is an inviolable death sentence. Cast out and persecuted for their unthinkable blasphemies and their unprincipled callousness towards the Imperium of Man's citizenry, the Renegade sect has been charged with the breaking of commandments laid down in the Imperium's very early days and of turning their faces from the God-Emperor's divinity.The fact of this faction's survival -- despite the might of both the Holy Ordos and the Adeptus Mechanicus being turned against them -- is a testament to their insidious nature and the crucible of dark power at their core. Just what governing force or intelligence first founded and perhaps is still guiding the Phaenonites' actions remains unknown even to the high councils of the Inquisition.The faction's first power base at the very edge of what would later become the Calixis Sector was brutally smashed and their ranks purged from the Inquisition and the Adeptus Terra with a great effusion of blood. However, their cancerous creed did not die. The Phaenonites' long-slumbering evils have come again, drawn to a sector already beset by troubles and conspiracies, ill-prepared to confront their subtle and dark powers.Since rumours first began to be heard of their appearance, the Phaenonites have very slowly gained fresh converts to their dread cause both within the Inquisition and among other powerful Hereteks and Renegade groups within the Calixis Sector. In their current incarnation, the Phaenonites operate as pure conspirators, insidious whisperers, and murderous shadows.Hiding their presence and actions behind shrouds of secrecy and deception, they are swift to conceal their true nature behind the persona of loyal members of the Inquisition, or by simply leaving no witnesses alive to tell of their passing. There are few Radical factions of the Inquisition more hunted, more loathed, or more deadly.Since their excommunication and purging more than two Terran millennia ago in the 39th Millennium, Phaenonism is thought to have become a growing influence in the Calixis and Ixaniad Sectors, where their operatives have been engaged slowly spreading their corrupt influence and questing after dark lore and forbidden artefacts to further their power. One thing is certain; if the Phaenonites are slowly being reborn, it is a matter of dire import for a Calixian Conclave of Inquisitors already consumed with intrigues and threats aplenty of its own. Where the Phaenonites pass, history has shown that hell and death follows with them.