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* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Whenever Carl draws upon Slyte's power, [[ThroatLight his body lights up from within with a hellish glow so that his skeleton is visible]], the flesh of his right arm peels back up to the elbow to expose the bones, and the fingers of his fleshless right hand elongate into razor-sharp talons.]]


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* EvilMakeover: Carl starts wearing less foppish clothing after [[spoilers:getting possessed]], to the point that he's died his normally blonde hair black by the start of ''Ravenor Rogue''. In particular, he starts wearing a ridiculous number of rings on his right hand--sometimes thirty at once. To Ravenor and those unaware of the true cause, it seems like an AdrenalineMakeover instead.


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* TookALevelInJerkass: After [[spoiler:getting possessed]], Carl starts acting far more aggressive, slovenly and condescending towards his compatriots than the meek dandy he usually is. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Ravenor, his mentor, is understandably surprised by the change]], but writes it off as Carl finally growing the backbone an Inquisitor needs.


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!! Leyla Slade
->Orfeo Culzean's right hand woman and bodyguard.
* BattleButler
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* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: She has a handgun that can be used either to shoot people, or ''summon daemons''.

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* BigBadDuumvirate: With Molotch in ''Ravenor Rogue''. Being a pair of highly-intelligent and assertive masterminds, their alliance is less than stable.



* CollectorOfTheStrange: Specifically, innocuous objects that caused someone's death.

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* CollectorOfTheStrange: Specifically, Specifically he collects [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deodand deodands,]] innocuous objects that have caused someone's death. death.
* NonActionBigBad: Culzean, by his own admission, has never personally killed anyone; he leaves that stuff to his underlings, like his assistant Leyla Slade or his pet [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Brass Thief.]]




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->Ravenor's interrogator, a foppish computer expert with a dislike of fighting. [[spoiler:In ''Ravenor Returned'', he becomes the host of an extremely powerful daemon called Slyte.]]



* AnArmAndALeg: Midway through the first book Carl's right arm gets hacked off with a chainsword during a mission gone wrong. It gets reattached, but the loss of perfect motor control (which makes the stuff he normally does with ease much more difficult) drives him to depression and [[FantasticDrug flect use.]] [[spoiler:And by extension, his possession.]]
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Carl tries desperately to invoke this [[spoiler:after getting possessed]], seeing the powers this grants him as a boon to the Imperium. [[spoiler:He fails.]]



* PhraseCatcher: The stuff he knows...



* [[spoiler:RedRightHand : He loses an arm and the loss of perfect motor control following its reattachment is what drives him to drug use and ultimately his possession.]]

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* [[spoiler:RedRightHand : [[spoiler:RedRightHand: He loses an arm and the loss of perfect motor control following its reattachment is what drives him to drug use and ultimately his possession.]]


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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Gets run through by Culzean's Brass Thief daemon in ''Ravenor Returned'', being the first member of the retinue to die "on-screen".]]

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!! Lucius Worna
->A bounty hunter and former associate of Nayl's from his pre-Inquisition days. Ends up working for the villains from ''Ravenor Returned'' onward.
* AscendedExtra: Went from being an extremely minor character that only appeared for two pages in the first book to a recurring adversary from the second book onward.
* BountyHunter
* TheBrute
* GoodScarsEvilScars: His face is an almost solid mass of scar tissue.
* LightIsNotGood: He has a shock of white hair and wears polished mother of pearl power armour. He's also a very unpleasant man; Nayl says Worna gives other bounty hunters a bad name, and he has no qualms whatsoever about brutalizing a helpless Sholto Unwerth.
* MadeOfIron: Worna is ridiculously tough, able to power through injuries that would have killed a lesser man and keep fighting. Reaches its zenith in the climax of ''Ravenor Rogue''; see RasputinianDeath, below.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:First Nayl tags Worna with a magnetized grenade that sticks to his breastplate and blows up in his face, flinging him across the room and burning his face. He's able to get the upper hand over Nayl despite this. Then Kys impales him through an eye with one of her kineblades and stabs him in the chest with two more. He still hasn't gone down, so she starts choking him telekinetically and then lifts him out of a window into a raging storm, where he quickly gets struck by lightning three times. He ''still'' has enough strength left to taunt her, so she keeps him out there long enough for eight more bolts to hit him and finally set him on fire.]]

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** BadassNormal: He managed to go most of his career without ever needing augmetics digits or limbs. [[spoiler:Most of it, anyway.]]




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* LightningBruiser: He's [[TheBigGuy big]] and strong, but very, very fast.



* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession]]



* [[spoiler:RedRightHand : He loses an arm and the loss of perfect motor control following its reattachment is what drives him to drug use and ultimately his possession.]]



* BigDamnHeroes: Manages to save Ravenor from death [[spoiler:at the hands of an enemy psyker by killing his body while he was projecting his soul]].
* CasualDangerDialogue: Has this with a blank under the employment of the drug barons hunting Patience. Said blank has Frauka and Carl at gunpoint, and after Frauka and the gunman identify one another as blanks, they have a very cordial conversation about their similar lines of work. Justified by the simple fact that (as mentioned below) blanks are inherently disliked by those around them for their natural abilities and the two know ''exactly'' what sort of life the other lived before finding a limiter and work. [[spoiler:It doesn't stop Frauka from keeping him distracted long enough to be blindsided and killed.]]
* DudeWheresMyRespect: At one point he complains that no one appreciates him, even though his utility as a blank has helped the crew countless times. Justified in that his main asset, being a psychic blank, inherently causes others to dislike him. Patience even remarks (albeit internally) that he was reasonably good looking, but the simple fact that he's a blank, even with his limited, is too much to get past, especially since she's a psyker.

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* BigDamnHeroes: Manages to save Ravenor from death [[spoiler:at the hands of an enemy psyker by killing first turning off his body while he was projecting limiter (yanking the psyker back into his soul]].
body) and then snapping the confused psyker's neck.]]
* CasualDangerDialogue: Has this with a fellow blank who was under the employment of the drug barons hunting Patience. Said blank has Frauka and Carl at gunpoint, and after Frauka and the gunman identify one another as blanks, they have a very cordial conversation about their similar lines of work. Justified The presence of the trope is justified by the simple fact that (as mentioned below) blanks are inherently disliked by those around them for because of their natural abilities and the abilities. The two know ''exactly'' what sort of life the other lived before finding a limiter and work. [[spoiler:It doesn't stop Frauka from keeping him distracted long enough to be blindsided and killed.]]
* DudeWheresMyRespect: At one point he complains that no one appreciates him, even though his utility as a blank has helped the crew countless times. Justified in that his main asset, being a psychic blank, inherently causes others to dislike him. Patience even remarks (albeit internally) that he was reasonably good looking, but the simple fact that he's a blank, even with his limited, limiter, is too much to get past, especially since she's a psyker.



* NonActionGuy: Very rarely goes out on missions. The main reason he's in Ravenor's crew is because he is a [[AntiMagic blank]].

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* NonActionGuy: Very rarely goes out on missions. The main reason he's in Ravenor's crew is because he is a [[AntiMagic blank]].

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* [[spoiler: TurnInYourBadge: Has to do this after the end of ''Ravenor Rogue''. He's not incarcerated or executed, because he ''did'' manage to prevent Slyte from attacking the Imperium, but he ended up destroying a large area of Gudrun to do it, not to mention going rogue. He busied himself with writing for a while, before eventually being reinstated by the time ''Pariah'' takes place.]]

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* BoobsOfSteel: Unlike Patience Kys, Kara is, and looks, very strong due to her former occupation as an acrobat. She is also curvy enough that her speed and agility surprise some people.

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* BoobsOfSteel: Unlike Patience Kys, Kara is, and looks, very strong due to her former occupation as an acrobat. She is also curvy enough that her speed and agility surprise some people. The fact that she has a heavier build than the average acrobat is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when she infiltrates the Carnivora in the guise of a performer.

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* DudeWheresMyRespect: At one point he complains that no one appreciates him, even though his utility as a blank has helped the crew countless times.

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* CasualDangerDialogue: Has this with a blank under the employment of the drug barons hunting Patience. Said blank has Frauka and Carl at gunpoint, and after Frauka and the gunman identify one another as blanks, they have a very cordial conversation about their similar lines of work. Justified by the simple fact that (as mentioned below) blanks are inherently disliked by those around them for their natural abilities and the two know ''exactly'' what sort of life the other lived before finding a limiter and work. [[spoiler:It doesn't stop Frauka from keeping him distracted long enough to be blindsided and killed.]]
* DudeWheresMyRespect: At one point he complains that no one appreciates him, even though his utility as a blank has helped the crew countless times. Justified in that his main asset, being a psychic blank, inherently causes others to dislike him. Patience even remarks (albeit internally) that he was reasonably good looking, but the simple fact that he's a blank, even with his limited, is too much to get past, especially since she's a psyker.
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* Expy: He is most definitely the Moriarty to Ravenor's Holmes, with all the grimdarkness added.
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* HandicappedBadass: He's permanently on life support, but with his PsychicPowers and the technology in his force chair, he's far from helpless.

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* AntiMagic: He is fitted with a device called a "limiter" which dampens his blank-ness so that Ravenor and other psykers can still use their powers while in close proximity to him. When hiding from enemy psykers' scrying attempts, Frauka can deactivate it to make those around him effectively invisible to a psychic search.



* DudeWheresMyRespect: At one point he complains that no one appreciates him, even though his utility as a blank has helped the crew countless times.
* InterGenerationalFriendship: With Zael.



* TheStoic
* AntiMagic: He is fitted with a device called a "limiter" which dampens his blank-ness so that Ravenor and other psykers can still use their powers while in close proximity to him. When hiding from enemy psykers' scrying attempts, Frauka can deactivate it to make those around him effectively invisible to a psychic search.

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* TheStoic
* AntiMagic: He is fitted with a device called a "limiter" which dampens his blank-ness so that Ravenor
TheStoic: Is usually calm and other psykers can still use their powers while in close proximity to him. When hiding from enemy psykers' scrying attempts, Frauka can deactivate it to make those around him effectively invisible to a psychic search.
collected, offering the occasional [[DeadpanSnarker snark.]]

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* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler: Molotch, Culzean, and Ravenor concoct a plan to force Slyte through the tri-portal and thus back into the Warp. Molotch engraves the necessary runes into the door, but he then stands back and tells ''Ravenor'' to utter the blasphemous incantation to banish the daemon. He does this purely out of spite, all while a massive and hungry EldritchAbomination is bearing down on them.]]
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** At one point he's forced to [[PeoplePuppets "ware"]] [[BarbarianHero Angharad]] and has no time to ask her permission, and she accuses him of MindRape, using exactly those words.
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* NonActionGuy

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* NonActionGuyNonActionGuy: Very rarely goes out on missions. The main reason he's in Ravenor's crew is because he is a [[AntiMagic blank]].
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* InSeriesNickname: Not Zael himself, but he refers to Nayl as "the guy" and Ravenor as "the Chair".
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* KnifeNut: An interesting variant as the knives are all blade and no handle, and she wields four at once with telekinesis.
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->Ravenor had was left to a life largely of contemplation and passive investigation. In spite of his injuries, and even a little bit because of them, he had become a successful Inquisitor and author.

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->Ravenor had was left to a life largely of contemplation and passive investigation. In spite of his injuries, and even a little bit because of them, he had become a successful Inquisitor and author.



* GeniusCripple: He was a genius before, but being confined made him turn to contemplation more than before.

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* GeniusCripple: He was already a genius before, genius, but being confined to his force chair made him turn to contemplation more than before.
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* WaifFu: While tall, Patience is a slight, physically unimposing woman, fully capable of killing a trained soldier barehanded without using her PsychicPowers.

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* WaifFu: While tall, Patience is a slight, physically unimposing woman, yet fully capable of killing a trained soldier barehanded without using her PsychicPowers.
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Comes from his Cognitae training. He has HyperAwareness of his surroundings, and his mind is able to use that information to plot or react with inhuman speed.
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* MachineMonotone: He can speak to people in their minds using his psyker abilities, but his force chair is equipped with a voice box for normal communications, or for use with someone he can't communicate with psychically. He's forced to use it as he is no longer able to speak physically, and it renders his voice in a flat, emotionless monotone.
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* CollectorOfTheStrange

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* CollectorOfTheStrangeCollectorOfTheStrange: Specifically, innocuous objects that caused someone's death.

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* AnArmAndALeg: At one point, Ravenor visits each of his team in their dreams to ask them if they are willing to accompany him an the upcoming dangerous mission. In Zeph's dream, he's walking down a beach littered with flesh-and-blood hands, grabbing them and fitting them into his bare stump one after another, and throwing them back because they aren't 'right'.






* AntiMagic

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* AntiMagic
AntiMagic: He is fitted with a device called a "limiter" which dampens his blank-ness so that Ravenor and other psykers can still use their powers while in close proximity to him. When hiding from enemy psykers' scrying attempts, Frauka can deactivate it to make those around him effectively invisible to a psychic search.
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* Green Eyes

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* Green EyesGreenEyes
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->The eponymous Inquisitor, Ravenor was [[{{Eisenhorn}} Eisenhorn's]] Interogator until the Thracian Atrocity left him a shadow of his former self.

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->The eponymous Inquisitor, Ravenor was [[{{Eisenhorn}} Eisenhorn's]] Interogator Interrogator until the Thracian Atrocity left him a shadow of his former self.
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* [[spoiler: TookALevelInBadass - In ''The Emperor's Gift'', the [[GreyKnights Grey Knight]] Hyperion is granted a very rare opportinity to discover who he was before his mind-scrubbing and training from hell. Turns out he used to be a child called Zael Efernetti... probably better to call that a "Took ''All Of'' The Levels In Badass".]]

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* TheAce: Before becoming a burnt husk, Ravenor was quite the skilled individual. He was also [[Bishonen quite handsome]], as well.

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* TheAce: Before becoming a burnt husk, Ravenor was quite the skilled individual. He was also [[Bishonen [[{{Bishonen}} quite handsome]], as well.



* DisabilitySuperpower: Ravenor's psychic potential was already impressive before becoming crippled, it had only increased after he went into the chair.

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* DisabilitySuperpower: Ravenor's psychic potential was already impressive before becoming crippled, crippled; it had has only increased after he went into the chair.



* MindRape: Ravenor is capable of this, and won't hesitate, particularly in interrogations where he can easily read somebody's mind (provided they don't know ways to block him out), forcefully enough to do some permanent damage or destroying their sanity if he was so inclined. Also see the PeoplePuppets entry.
* PeoplePuppets: "Waring" is basically possessing somebody and overriding their mental control, and also apparently a more refined and elegant method than simply bodyjacking somebody and controlling them brute psychic power. It's perhaps Ravenor's trademark ability. It's handy when somebody needs to [[TookALevelInBadass take a few levels in badass]] on the fly, and Ravenor can do it to several people at once.

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* MindRape: Ravenor is capable of this, and won't hesitate, particularly in interrogations where he can easily read somebody's mind (provided they don't know ways to block him out), forcefully enough to do some permanent damage or destroying destroy their sanity if he was is so inclined.inclined--likely due to a failed attempt at blocking the probe. Also see the PeoplePuppets entry.
* PeoplePuppets: "Waring" is basically possessing somebody and overriding their mental control, and also apparently a more refined and elegant method than simply bodyjacking somebody and controlling them their muscles with brute psychic power. It's perhaps Ravenor's trademark ability. It's handy when somebody needs to [[TookALevelInBadass take a few levels in badass]] on the fly, and Ravenor can do it to several people at once.



* [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By Her Alias]]
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* OfCorsetsSexy: Usually wears a corset, disguising her kineblades as part of its boning.
* [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By Her Alias]]
Alias]]: Patience keeps her birth name as a personal secret, from almost everyone including the reader. Ravenor knows, but he isn't telling either.
* PsychicPowers
PsychicPowers: A very capable [[MindOverMatter telekine]], specialising in the use of double-ended "kineblades" as short-range weapons. Also good at "feeling" her surroundings for a considerable distance.
* WaifFu: While tall, Patience is a slight, physically unimposing woman, fully capable of killing a trained soldier barehanded without using her PsychicPowers.



* BoobsOfSteel: Unlike Patience Kys, Kara is, and looks, very strong due to her former occupation as an acrobat. She is also curvy enough that her speed and agility surprise some people.



* TheCombatPragmatist: Kara avoids flashy moves and any sense of fair play, in favour of unexpected strikes and quick takedowns.



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* TheDandyAmbiguouslyGay: Thonius never shows obvious attraction to anyone, but his companions occasionally joke that he is attracted to men, and his emphatic disinterest in women points at either homosexuality or {{asexuality}}.
* TheDandy: To the point that he dreams of endless racks of fine clothing.




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\n* WaifFu: An unusual male example. Thonius is extremely thin, and looks weak, but is frighteningly capable in unarmed combat.

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* {{Cyborg}}: Mathuin has [[RedEyesTakeWarning red artificial eyes]] and a mechanical arm that can interface directly with his [[GatlingGood favourite gun]].



* BigDamnHeroe: Manages to save Ravenor from death [[spoiler:at the hands of an enemy psyker by killing his body while he was projecting his soul]].

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* BigDamnHeroe: BigDamnHeroes: Manages to save Ravenor from death [[spoiler:at the hands of an enemy psyker by killing his body while he was projecting his soul]].



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* MustHaveNicotineMustHaveNicotine: Constantly smokes lho-sticks, which, while they contain a low dose of a more powerful drug, are implied to also contain a significant proportion of tobacco.
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Manages to save Ravenor from death at the hands of an enemy psyker by killing his body while he was projecting his soul]].

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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: BigDamnHeroe: Manages to save Ravenor from death at [[spoiler:at the hands of an enemy psyker by killing his body while he was projecting his soul]].
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