History Characters / Eisenhorn

* PrematurelyGreyHaired: Drusher's hair had already lost all color by the time he reached forty.

->A Magos Biologis who has been trapped on the backwater world of Gershom for most of his life. Eisenhorn contracts him in ''The Magos'' with the promise of passage off Gershom to any planet he wants. His intellect and dry wit is only matched by his cowardice and crippling self-loathing.

* PrematurelyGreyHair: Drusher's hair had already lost all color by the time he reached forty.

->A Magos Biologis who has been trapped on the backwater world of Gershom for most of his life. Eisenhorn contracts in ''The Magos'' with the promise of passage off Gershom to any planet he wants. His intellect and dry wit is only matched by his cowardice and crippling self-loathing.

->A Magos Biologis whom Eisenhorn contracts in ''The Magos'', who's intellect and dry wit is only matched by his cowardice.

* AmazonChaser: His ex-wife, Germaine Macks, was a member of the Adeptus Arbites.

* Fatal Flaw: Low self esteem. Drusher has a bad habit of thinking the worst of himself, and pretty much rolls over for anyone who kicks him. It's what cost him his marriage, after his wife got fed up with his self-pity and threw him out.

* TheRival: It's obvious Eisenhorn and Heldane despise each other, but Eisenhorn doesn't seem to regard Heldane as a rival, just a nuisance. Only Heldane seems to consider their relationship a rivalry [[spoiler:especially once he learns of the Malus Codicum.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: While he was originally a Puritan, his philosophy eventually changes. He believes that the Imperium must use chaos against chaos. He believes that "white" can't beat "black", but that "grey" can beat "black". He believes that Warmaster Macaroth is too pure and that Lord Militant General Hechtor Dravere would be a better leader for the Sabbat Campaign as he is willing to take more audacious risks.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He accuses Eisenhorn of being radical for using the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Malus Codicum]]. He tries to have Eisenhorn executed... so that he and Osma can use the tome for themselves.

* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:His first puppet assassin is unexpectedly destroyed by Corbec, his torture session with Rawne is cut short when Corbec hits him with a thrown stun baton and as he tries to retaliate, Larkin fatally shots him in the neck. Even worse, his failure to finish his session with Rawne makes him aware of Heldane's mental presence and the commands he gives to Fereyd which in turn leads to Fereyd's death and his loss of the STC machine. If that's not bad enough the psychic feedback not only kills him and his chosen pawn, Dravere, but the ensuing explosion ''[[NoBodyLeftBehind atomizes his body]]''. On top of all of this, the epilogue to the ''Eisenhorn'' series makes it clear that he died in obscurity. None of this takes in account all of his defeats in that series as well including the death of his main backer, the radical Grandmaster Osma which wouldn't have been so bad if the former Puritan Grandmaster Rorken hadn't miraculously recovered from his illness.]]

* SwordAndGun: Typically wields a power sword and a bolt pistol as his main weapons.

* AmplifierArtifact: In ''Malleus'', Eisenhorn commissions the creation of a runestaff for this purpose. With it, he can increase the strength of his psychic abilities to alpha-plus levels.

* TheChessmaster: Eisenhorn resembles a Cold War spymaster with ImprobableFencingAbilities and PsychicPowers.

* AnAxeToGrind: Wields a chainaxe, oddly enough.

* DemonicPossession:

* {{Badass}}

* {{Badass}}

-> The titular Inquisitor, and main character of the trilogy.

[[caption-width-right:351:A face you can trust.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In Creator/DanAbnett's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}: Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novel ''First & Only'', Heldane attempts to MindControl Rawne, but the Ghosts interrupt the torture. Later on, Heldane manipulates the "pawn" near Gaunt and Gaunt notices Rawne acting suspiciously. [[spoiler:It turns out that Heldane only succeeded making Rawne sensitive to influence. This alerts him to Heldane's mental presence and the commands he gives to his real pawn, the spy Fereyd. When Heldane sends a command to Fereyd to kill Gaunt's party, Rawne intercepts the message and kills Fereyd first. Heldane, not expecting this, didn't prepare a fail safe in case his pawn was killed. The psychic backlash killed him and [[CollapsingLair destroys]] Dravere's mobile fortress.]]

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: His downfall is caused by his arrogance, hypocrisy, radicalism, and a small amount of incompetence. However, he finally falls into this trope [[spoiler:when he neglects to make a fail safe against psychic feedback. Had he done so, he wouldn't have indirectly killed Dravere who still had a chance of overthrowing Warmaster Macaroth without Heldane's help. To be fair, though, Heldane was fatally wounded at the time and Macaroth is only considered a slightly better leader than Dravere who should be noted as almost universally hated by his men.]]

* SmugSnake: His arrogance cause him to underestimate Gaunt. [[spoiler:This leads to him being shot by Larkin. This fatal wound makes him careless later on by overplaying his hand. This leads directly to his death.]]

* VillainBall: His eagerness to obtain the [[spoiler:Iron Men STC machine causes him to accidentally reveal part of his true motives to Gaunt through Fereyd. This causes Gaunt to declare that he will destroy the machine forcing a desperate Heldane to have Fereyd attack Gaunt's party. However, he didn't prepare a fail safe in case Fereyd was killed. This leads to him suffering from psychic feedback. To be fair, though, the pain from his fatal wound made him careless.]]

* PsychicPowers: He's a powerful psyker, and much stronger than Eisenhorn himself.

* Badass

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