History Characters / Eisenhorn

* DemonOfHumanOrigin: The chaos entity known as "Cherubael" is a Daemon Prince, meaning it was originally a mortal being, possibly a humaan, who embraced Chaos and became a thing of the Warp.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: A chaos-corrupted Battle-Titan overwhelms her blankness and destroys her mind at the start of ''Hereticus''. While it doesn't kill her outright, it does leave her brain dead, which the rest of the cast treat as a death.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: While he is remembered as an upright Puritan, [[spoilers: by the time Gregor meets him, he's not only full Radical, but twisted and monstrous by the influence of Chaos]]. ''Codex: Daemonhunters'' of 40k 3rd Edition had a blurb about him which expanded on his journey somewhat, [[spoiler: while fighting a daemon, the tip of the daemon's claw broke off in his heart. With the options being limited to removing it and killing him, or leaving it in place, Quixos not only left it in place, but started to tap into its power, increasing his psychic ability and corrupting his body]].

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Being an Inquisitor grants him authority over planetary governments and immunity from local laws. However, especially in the first book he far prefers to cooperate with local authorities when possible, explain his actions and share information about evidence that shows the validity of his investigations.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Being an Inquisitor grants him authority over planetary governments and immunity from local laws. However, especially in the first book he far prefers to cooperate with local authorities when possible, explain his actions and share information about evidences that shows the validity of his investigations.

* AnAxeToGrind: Wields a chainaxe, oddly enough, which is a little unusual for a member of the Emperor's Children as they usually prefer elegant blades.

!! Commodus Voke
A puritanical Inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus, whom Eisenhorn ends up working with during ''Xenos'' (to their mutual dislike).

* 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.

!! Konrad Molitor
A radical Inquisitor brought onto the investigation of House Glaw. He has a keen interest in the Necroteuch.

--->'''Eisenhorn:''' I like her '''because''' she's a hard nosed bitch!

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:His end goal is to create duplicates of the Cadian Pylons, supercharge them with the energies of captive psykers, and use them to collapse the Eye of Terror in on itself. While the goal itself may be commendable, the methods he uses to achieve it—such as fostering Chaos cults to do his bidding, binding daemons into his service, murdering anyone who gets in his way, and committing acts of terrorism and mass murder against the very Imperium he ostensibly serves just to cover up his activities—are nothing short of monstrous, to say nothing of the fact that his method of closing the Eye of Terror would also destroy several subsectors. Eisenhorn speculates that Quixos knows this and ''doesn't care.'']]

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: In a meta sense. In general, Magos is a title reserved for the [=AdMech=], and Magos Biologis is a [[CaptainObvious Magos of the Biologis division]], a small but respected wing of the Mechanicus. Despite his title, Drusher does not have any ties with the Adeptus Mechanicus, and his title is used as synonymous with "Doctor of Biology". He is simply a freelance, albeit highly qualified, zoologist and botanist.

* TheDreaded: Though information on him is classified to the citizens of the Imperium, his reputation is something that can cause heretics to start shaking in their boots, and the Inquisition to loosen their efforts to actually find him.

* HandCannon: His bolt pistol, which was gifted to Eisenhorn by a Deathwatch Librarian in honour of him slaying Mandragore.
* HolyHandGrenade: In ''Malleus'', Eisenhorn takes Barbarisater and the runestaff to be consecrated by a priest in preparation for his final encounter with [[spoiler:Quixos]] and the daemonhosts. He also has pentagrammic wards carved into both weapons to make them more effective against daemons.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Like any in the Inquisition.

* DemonOfHumanOrigin: The chaos entity known as "Cherubael" is a Daemon Prince, meaning it was originally a human being who embraced Chaos and became a thing of the Warp.

* {{Seers}}: He can see the future to some extent, and foresaw that Eisenhorn would be the one to free him from [[spoiler:Quixos]]'s control a century in advance. [[spoiler:He did ''not'' foresee that Eisenhorn would enslave him afterward, however.]]

* EvilWeapon: [[spoiler:His daemonic sword, Kharnagar.]]
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:For a given value of "hero", anyway. By the time we meet him, he's become so twisted by the dark powers he was relying on that he's physically mutating and is doing some terrible things in pursuit of a mad scheme.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:Was once a paragon of the Ordo Malleus, but by the time he appears in the book, his methods and goals are as monstrous as the forces of chaos he claims to fight.]]

* HornedHumanoid: [[spoiler:He’s grown rudimentary antlers as a result of his corruption by the time Eisenhorn encounters him.]]

* ReducedToDust: [[spoiler:He crumbles into dust after Eisenhorn mortally wounds him, leaving behind his empty armour and cybernetic implants.]]
* 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

* NewOldFlame: She had a relationship with Eisenhorn between the events of the first and second books, but isn’t introduced—or even mentioned—until book three.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Glaw isn’t much of a threat in the first two books. He has no body, after all, and he’s prevented from using his psychic powers in various ways. Then Magos Bure builds him a robotic body, and he becomes far more dangerous, [[spoiler:rebuilding his powerbase, wiping out most of Eisenhorn’s associates in a single day, and getting his hands on a dead god’s superweapon that could destroy the universe]].
%%* SealedEvilInACan

* WeCanRebuildHim: Eisenhorn successfully wrests a great deal of information out of him by promising to have a custom robotic body built for him that his SoulJar can be mounted in and controlled by. [[IGaveMyWord Eisenhorn is true to his word]]. [[spoiler: [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Which costs him dearly in the end]].]]

%%* TheBrute

* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: His body bursts into green fire after his death; Eisenhorn exploits this by sliding the Necroteuch inside the blazing furnace that used to be Mandragore's torso, destroying it.

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

* WasOnceAMan: The chaos entity known as "Cherubael" is a Daemon Prince, meaning it was originally a human being who embraced Chaos and became a thing of the Warp.

* DoomMagnet: Even by Inquisition standards, Eisenhorn has a bad streak of getting people killed [[AndIMustScream or worse]] while in his service. The first two books end with him losing companions and [[spoiler: the trilogy as a whole with almost ''all'' of his retinue dead.]]

* HolyHandGrenade: In ''Malleus'', Eisenhorn takes Barbarisater and the runestaff to be consecrated by a priest in preparation for his final encounter with [[spoiler:Quixos]] and their daemonhosts. He also has pentagrammic wards carved into both weapons to make them more effective against daemons.

* MagicKnight: In addition to his telepathic abilities, Gregor has used a few swords and a force staff over time, in addition to a collection of large bore pistols. Over time he added Enuncia and Sorcery to his repertoir.

* {{Necromancy}}: [[spoiler:In ''Hereticus'', he uses sorcery to reanimate a slain mercenary as an undead thrall that he can speak through and control from a distance. He sends it off to meet with—and kill—the people who are trying to kill him. On a less damning note, he also holds a seance to connect Medea Betancore to the father she never met.]]

* 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.

* UnscrupulousHero: Especially after seizing the ''Malus Codicium''. He remains devoted to preserving the Imperium...but he's willing to use some very nasty weapons in that goal.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Fischig ends up [[spoiler:betraying Eisenhorn to the Inquisition]] because he believes he is helping a man he considers a friend, even if it means killing him to save his soul. [[spoiler:Medea Betancore kills him before he can deliver the fatal shot.]]

!! Tobius Maxilla

* Jerkass: Played with. Neve ticks a lot of boxes in TheJerkIndex, and isn't shy about showing it. However, much to Fischig's surprise...:

%%* HeWhoFightsMonsters

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:His end goal is to create duplicates of the Cadian Pylons, supercharge them with the energies of captive psykers, and use them to collapse the Eye of Terror in on itself. While the goal itself may be commendable, the methods he uses to achieve it—such as fostering Chaos cults to do his bidding, binding daemons into his service, murdering anyone who gets in his way, and committing acts of terrorism and mass murder against the very Imperium he ostensibly serves just to cover up his activities—are nothing short of monstrous.]]

* CowboyCop:

%%* FaceHeelTurn: So far, subverted.%%Context?

* StarCrossedLovers: He and Bequin have a deep emotional connection, but since he's a psyker and she's [[AntiMagic a Blank]], it would be agony for them to actually be together.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: 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.

* {{Necromancy}}: [[spoiler:In ''Hereticus'', he uses sorcery to reanimate a slain mercenary as an undead thrall that he can speak through and control from a distance. He sends it off to meet with—and kill—the people who are trying to kill him.]]

%%* AcePilot

%%* FallenHero: [[spoiler:For a given value of "hero", anyway.]]%%ZCE -- fallen how?

* DoomMagnet: Even by Inquisition standards, Eisenhorn has a bad streak of getting people killed [[AndIMustScream or worse]] while in his service. [[spoiler: His trilogy ends with almost ''all'' of his retinue dead.]]

--> '''Eisenhorn:''' The Emperor protects.
--> '''Cherubael:''' The Emperor craps himself at the sound of my name.

* HumanoidAbomination: The chaos entity known as "Cherubael" is a [[EldritchAbomination Daemon Prince]], meaning it was originally [[WasOnceAMan human]].

* {{Seers}}: He can see the future to some extent, and foresaw that Eisenhorn would be the one to free him from [[spoiler:Quixos]]’s control a century in advance. [[spoiler:He did ''not'' foresee that Eisenhorn would enslave him afterward, however.]]

-->‘Let us both be abundantly clear about this, ''Gregor''. You will give me the primer. Either you will hand me the primer now, or I will come over to you and take it. And break every bone in your body. And rape that girl at your side. And break every bone in her body too. And then drag your jiggling carcasses down into the chamber below and string you both up on the hooks, and burn out your agony centers as I wait for the bombardment to flatten this place.’\\

‘Your choice.’

* NakedFirstImpression: Eisenhorn first bumped into her during a raid on an apartment complex, where she'd been [[TheOldestProfession servicing a client]]. Naturally, she was quite mortified.

* 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.