Uriah Olathaire - History: Uriah Olathaire was born on ancient Terra in the 30th Millennium shortly before the start of the Unification Wars. The youngest son of wealthy parents, he spent his youth drinking and rebelling against authority, especially that of the Emperor whose forces had begun to assume control over ever-larger portions of Terra.After a difficult encounter with a squad of Thunder Warriors who whipped his dislike of the Imperium into hatred, Olathaire made for the town of Avelroi, where the local governor had rebelled against the Emperor, and participated in the Battle of Gaduare, where the rebels were slaughtered almost to the last man by a small force of Thunder Warriors. Wounded, Olathaire fled, and received what he believed was a vision of God Himself, who healed him and told him: "Why do you deny me? Accept me and you will know that I am the only truth and the only way."The shaken and broken Olathaire then returned home, only to discover that his family had been murdered by Scandian raiders and their holdings plundered while he was away. Remembering his vision, he entered the Church of the Lightning Stone, and started a new life as a priest, one of preaching kindness and offering assistance to any who came into his sanctuary.This he did daily for almost forty standard years as the Unification Wars slowly came to their conclusion, and the atheistic creed of the Imperial Truth favoured by the Emperor spread across Terra, and fewer and fewer faithful came to Olathaire's church.Such it was that one day, a strange, noble but warlike man garbed in plain clothes, escorted by a group of Thunder Warriors, arrived at the church just before midnight's sermon. Introducing himself only as "Revelation," the stranger said he wanted to speak with Olathaire and understand what kept him chained to faith in the light of the advances of science and reason.Unbeknownst to Olathaire, the man was actually the Emperor Himself, veiled by a psychic illusion to appear as a normal Human. However, the Master of Mankind had been so long removed from normal Humanity that Olathaire immediately sensed that something was amiss about this visitor, although he could not understand what.Despite this initial misgiving, Olathaire graciously invited his visitor inside, and led him to his church's most treasured possession, a masterfully painted mural fresco by the noted artist Isandula Verona depicting mythic events from Terra's past and future. Ironically enough, one of the scenes was a stylised depiction of the fight between the Emperor and an entity later called the "Dragon of Mars" that may have been the C'tan known as the Void Dragon that had occurred many standard millennia earlier in what was once known as ancient Libya.Uriah used the fresco's splendour as a proof of divinity, stating that the artist had been touched by the divine to bring into being such grandness. Revelation was moved by the fresco's beauty, but bluntly countered Olathaire's argument by stating that while Isandula Verona had certainly been a woman of incredible vision and talent, what had moved her was money and not the power of God.Refusing to be daunted by Revelation's lack of faith, Olathaire led him to his quarters where they could continue their discussion more easily, sharing a bottle of wine. Revelation confirmed that Olathaire's church was the last one on Terra, and that he had been tasked by a decree of the Emperor to destroy it, but he offered no violence, and once again reiterated that he wanted to understand Humanity's need for faith first.Uriah then attempted to explain how faith appeared from unexplainable facts as a reassuring explanation of the course of events in a Human life, citing the history of his own Church of the Lightning Stone: it had been founded by a man who was blind, deaf and mute but recovered the use of his eyes and ears after lightning struck the stone he was sheltering under during a thunderstorm.To thank God for this miracle, the man had founded the faith, and many visitors came to the stone to pray in hope for a cure for their own ills. Yet Revelation was unconvinced, and explained that there was a scientific cause to the miracle: the "holy man" who had founded the Church of the Lightning Stone had probably been mentally addled instead of physically impaired, and the shock of the lightning strike had altered his neurochemistry, repairing his brain's damaged state.Revelation then bluntly stated that the founder of the Church of the Lightning Stone might have believed that he had been the recipient of a miracle, but that believing something does not make it true or real.