History Characters / Eisenhorn

!! Valentin Drusher
An aging Magos Biologis who has been trapped on the backwater world of Gershom for thirty years. 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.

* 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 is, in part, what cost him his marriage, after his wife got fed up with his self-pity and threw him out.

* OlderThanTheyLook: By ''Malleus'', Bequin is a hundred and twenty-five. She doesn’t look a day over thirty thanks to augmetic surgery and regular juvenat treatments.

* OvertOperative: Voke doesn’t believe in stealth or subterfuge, believing that concealing one’s allegiance to the Inquisition is the mark of the radical. When he’s on the case, he openly throws his weight around and makes his status clear because he wants people to ''know'' that the Inquisition is in town.

* BigBad: Of ''Malleus''. He orchestrated the Thrachian Atrocity which kicks off the novel’s plot to cover up his theft of the captive Alpha-plus psykers. He’s also the master of Konrad Molitor and the creator of Cherubael the daemonhost, making him indirectly responsible for their crimes.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He first appears in the prologue of ''Xenos'', but doesn’t become directly relevant to the plot until ''Malleus''.

* HiddenVillain: Eisenhorn doesn’t learn that Quixos is even alive, let alone behind both Cherubael and the Thracian Atrocity, until fairly late in the book.

An infamous Inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus, Quixos was once held up as an exemplar of his Ordo by other Inquisitors before he began to dabble with the powers of Chaos and fell from grace. He vanished hundreds of years ago, and was assumed dead by his peers. [[spoiler:In reality, he's very much alive and very much a renegade...]]

%%* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of ''Malleus''.]]

* FacialHorror: After Heldane's face is heavily damaged, he has his face altered to look like a horse's with the intention of scaring his enemies and intimidating his allies.

* FaceOfAThug: After Heldane's face is heavily damaged, he has his face altered to look like a horse's with the intention of scaring his enemies and intimidating his allies.

* CaptiveSuperEntity: Like all daemonhosts, Cherubael is a powerful daemon bound into a human body and forced to serve a mortal master.

* PosthumousCharacter: In many ways. He dies quickly in the first chapter of Xenos, but most of what Eisenhorn and company do for the remainder of the trilogy is shaped, or at least initiated, by the clues they picked up from Eyclone.
%%* StarterVillain

!! Golesh Heldane
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[[caption-width-right:351:A face you can trust.]]
Introduced as Voke's interrogator in ''Xenos'', Golesh Heldane has become a full-fledged Inquisitor in his own right by the time ''Malleus'' rolls around.

* BigBad: As the ringleader of House Glaw’s conspiracy to obtain the Necroteuch, he is arguably the main villain of _Xenos_.

!! Gorgone Locke
A rogue trader in service to House Glaw, Locke is one of the main antagonists of ''Xenos''.

* TheStoic: He expresses little emotion, though it’s not by choice: the torturous ministrations of Gorgone Locke left permanent nerve damage in his facial muscles, leaving him unable to smile.
* SwordAndGun: Typically wields a sword and large bore, solid projectile pistols as his main weapons.

* TheSmartGuy: The most learned and intelligent member of Eisenhorn’s retinue, thanks in no small part to a meme-virus that compels him to learn as much information as possible, no matter how trivial. His primary role is to assist Eisenhorn’s investigations by sifting through data and conducting research.

%%* TheNarrator

%%* TheLancer: In ''Xenos''.

!! Mandragore
A Chaos Space Marine of the Emperor's Children; he works with the Glaws to recover the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Necroteuch]] in ''Xenos''.

* TheAce: Midas is easily the most competent and physically skilled member of the retinue in _Xenos_. He’s an ace pilot, an expert marksman with rifles and pistols, a master of stealth, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a talented musician]].

%%* TheSmartGuy

%%* AcePilot

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

* FaceHeelTurn: So far, subverted.

* TheNarrator

-> A Pariah that Eisenhorn meets during his investigation on Hubris in ''Xenos''. She joins his team then, and goes on to become one of the longest-serving members of his retinue as well as one of his closest companions.

* AntiMagic: As a Pariah, psychic powers and sorcery don't work in her presence.

-> Eisenhorn's savant, who previously served his mentor Inquisitor Hapshant.

* CatchPhrase: "Most perturbatory..."
* TheSmartGuy

->An Arbites chastener from the planet Hubris. Joins up with Eisenhorn in ''Xenos'' to untangle a conspiracy behind a terrible atrocity committed on his home planet, and becomes a full time member of Eisenhorn's retinue by the end of the book.

* [[spoiler: DemonicPossession: Fischig becomes the host for Cherubael after his death.]]

-> A Glavian pilot and one of Eisenhorn's closest friends.

* AcePilot

* GunsAkimbo: Wields a pair of Glavian needle pistols as his weapons of choice.
* TheLancer: In ''Xenos''.

->Eisenhorn's Interrogator by the time of ''Malleus'', and the best pupil he's ever trained.

->For more information about him, see [[{{Characters/Ravenor}} the character sheet for his own series]].

-> An ex-bounty hunter from Loki.

->For more information, see [[{{Characters/Ravenor}} the Ravenor character sheet]].

->Midas' daughter, she inherits his position as the pilot of Eisenhorn's guncutter. [[spoiler:She never knew Midas, as he died shortly before she was born; this left her with a strong desire to get revenge on Fayde Thuring, the man who killed him]].

* AcePilot
* ActionGirl

-> Master of the rogue trader ''Essene'', who joins Eisenhorn's motley band in ''Xenos''.

* TheCaptain

-> A puritanical Inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus, who Eisenhorn ends up working with during ''Xenos'' (to their mutual dislike).

-> Introduced as Voke's interrogator in ''Xenos'', Golesh Heldane has become a full-fledged Inquisitor in his own right by the time ''Malleus'' rolls around.

* FaceOfAThug[=/=]HumanoidAbomination: After Heldane's face is heavily damaged, he has his face altered to look like a horse's with the intention of scaring his enemies and intimidating his allies.

->Another Malleus Inquisitor; he's introduced as head of the Ordo Malleus' branch in the Ordos Helican in ''Malleus'', and becomes Grandmaster of the entire Ordos Helican partway through ''Hereticus''.

-> An infamous Inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus, Quixos was once held up as an exemplar of his Ordo by other Inquisitors before he began to dabble with the powers of Chaos and fell from grace. He vanished hundreds of years ago, and was assumed dead by his peers. [[spoiler:In reality, he's very much alive and very much a renegade...]]

* [[spoiler:BigBad]]: [[spoiler:of ''Malleus''.]]
* [[spoiler:EvilWeapon]]: [[spoiler:His daemonic sword, Kharnagar.]]
* [[spoiler:FallenHero]]: [[spoiler:For a given value of 'hero', anyway.]]
* [[spoiler:HeWhoFightsMonsters]]
* [[spoiler:MasterSwordsman]]: [[spoiler:He's described as moving so quickly in swordfights that he can't be seen with the naked eye.]]
* [[spoiler:TautologicalTemplar]]: [[spoiler:He's convinced that only heretics would try to stop him from completing his work, work which even the most radical of Inquisitors would denounce as heretical. Even his last words are to condemn Eisenhorn as a heretic.]]
* WalkingSpoiler

->An aging Magos Biologis who has been trapped on the backwater world of Gershom for thirty years. 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.

* [[NotThatKindOfDoctor Not That Kind of Magos]]: Despite his title, Drusher does not seem to have any ties, previous or current, with the Adeptus Mechanicus, as he's entirely unaugmented and didn't know how juvenat treatments worked until someone told him. Instead, he is simply a freelance, albeit highly qualified, zoologist and botanist.

->Also called "the Recidivist," Murdin Eyclone is a heretic who acts as a mercenary, selling his services to various Chaos cults. Eisenhorn tracks him down on the planet Hubris and kills him at the beginning of ''Xenos''.

* StarterVillain

-> An infamous heretic who was killed more than two hundred years before the events of the first book; while his physical body was slain, he lives on as a preserved consciousness inside an arcane device called "the Pontius".
* AndIMustScream: Trapped in a crystal for centuries, unable to do anything.
* SealedEvilInACan

-> A Chaos Space Marine of the Emperor's Children; works with the Glaws to recover the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Necroteuch]] in ''Xenos''.

* TheBrute

-> A powerful daemonhost, who takes a keen interest in Eisenhorn as the series goes on...

* HumanoidAbomination: The chaos entity known as 'Cherubael' is a [[EldritchAbomination Daemon Prince]], meaning it was originally [[WasOnceAMan human.]]
* LightIsNotGood/PureIsNotGood: His host's eyes radiate a white light, but you shouldn't let that fool you.

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* Cyborg: Revealed to be mechanical from the waist down after being blasted by naval security officers (actually [[spoiler:a bunch of Imperial Guard deserters sent to hunt for Eisenhorn]]).

-> Eisenhorn's savant, and one of his longest-serving companions.

* MadeOfIron: Despite his failings, he shares his mentor's [[NoOneShouldSurviveThat extreme resistance to death]] including getting his face horribly disfigured by a giant, crazed beast and years later having his legs crushed proceeded by immediately being ''set on fire'' by [[spoiler:Cherubael. It takes a gunshot wound to the neck to take him down which takes over a day to finish him off. He ends up being killed by being ''atomized''.

* TimeAbyss: One acount states that he plagues the galaxy for thousands, if not millions of years.

* HumanoidAbomination: It's at least hinted that the chaos entity possessing him is a [[EldritchAbomination Daemon Prince.]]

* CowardlyLion: He's terrified by the prospect of even holding a gun, but when push comes to shove, he'll stand his ground.