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So I got Dark Heresy over spring break for the managable price of $25 and I'm really excited about starting it! I've currently developed two characters, a dark and mysterioius assassian named Ravion who passionately hates Chaos more than most and a female Arbite named Plath (since it's name in the book and the last name of my favorite poet) who's hunted by a bounty hunter of a gang lord she defeated in the past. But anyway, I'd like to hear about characters of other Dakka users, or roleplaying experiences/advice.

Our campaign has 5 characters:

Arbite Mason Roth – Born in Kiandra, an Imperial World rife with gang warfare, Roth wanted to rise to the top of the heap and become a respected Gang Lord. Things didn’t go to plan, and soon Roth saw the error of his ways and joined the local Precinct House for training. He did well, became fiercely loyal to the Imperium and to Imperial Law, and became a respected and competent Arbite. Sadly for him, he found corruption everywhere, and after exposing several members of his own unit as corrupt, he became a pariah to everyone. He was still a fantastic Arbite, but everyone saw him as a traitor, despite uncovering the truth about corrupt activities. However he soon came to the attention of the Inquisition, specifically Inquisitor Dyne, and was transferred off Kiandra to the Hive World of Symposa, where he conducted his first mission – breaking a noble out of the prison of a corrupted Arbite unit (the Opening Moves scenario).

Lord Sigmund Castus – Lord Castus, his full name being Lord Baron Sigmund Hoyt Amos Castus XIII, eighteenth in line for the throne of Havenspire. His father knew he was a Psyker from an early age, and used Castus’ natural mind-reading talents in negotiations and diplomatic settings. Castus always held a firm belief that he would rise up to be a high-ranking member of the aristocratic elite within the Aquila Sector, but sadly his ambition was not matched by his station – as the eighteenth in line for the throne, he was unlikely to ever be the ruler of anything. However, after being taken by the Black Ships, his natural skill and especially his natural control over his abilities saved him from the menial life as a Sanctioned Psyker and saw him transferred to the College of Light, a Scholastica Psykana training ground. There his arrogant nature annoyed just about everyone, but none could deny his power. He soon came to the attention of the Inquisition, and an Inquisitor by the name of Sebastian Lanzo. Lanzo recruited the young psyker, yet on the way back to Seventh Sanctum disaster struck as a docking collar exploded. Lanzo was sucked out into space, and virtually everyone on board was killed. Risking madness, death – or worse – Castus looked into the mind of the ship’s dying Navigator, looked into the Warp, and found the location of Seventh Sanctum. He then piloted the ship himself back to the Inquisitorial fortress, and was noticed by Inquisitor Dyne, who immediately recruited him. Sent on his first mission to Symposa, Castus was quickly captured by the local Arbites on trumped up charges. He was rescued by Roth and an Assassin named Syara Xan, but the truth was Dyne had purposefully sent Castus there to be arrested, as Castus’ great psychic power would help draw out a Daemonhost that Inquisitor Lanzo had hidden on the planet. The plan worked, and the Daemonhost was revealed. And it turns out that Dyne had been the one to cause the explosion aboard Lanzo’s ship – killing the heretical radical Inquisitor but saving the promising young psyker.

Deacon Vasco Moriendi – A low-level Preacher, Moriendi wanted to join the Imperial Guard and minister to the troops as he lead them into battle. The reality of it was far worse, as he was assigned not at the company command level, but to the platoon and squad level, fighting on the front lines and living every day like it was his last. As part of the 600-year war against the vicious alien Kyaire in the Spiral Worlds, Moriendi saw his fare share of horror and death, and knew end would come one day on the hellish world of Zatrall. However, that did not come to pass, as the Orks got wind of this endless war and decided to join in. In a single day, a lucky surprise attack killed every single member of the Adeptus Ministorum on the planet, who had gathered to discuss the failing morale of the Guard – all except for Moriendi, who was too far out at the front lines to get the message to return. Injured during the Ork ambush, Moriendi’s life was saved by the only surviving Guardsman of his platoon, and the pair hid from the Ork patrols and the Kyaire Blade-Packs for several days until they were rescued. As the only priest on the planet, Moriendi was given the ceremonial title of ‘Deacon’, and asked to be the chief pastor for the Imperial High Command on the planet. He took the Guardsman with him as his personal bodyguard, and for years the two became a fixture of the High Command on Zatrall. Through this Moriendi came to the attention of Inquisitor Dyne, and he ordered the preacher to make his way to Nesol, where he would be collected by his own agents. Moriendi again brought the Guardsman with him, and it is a good thing he did, as the spaceport on Nesol was attacked days later by pirates and Orks. After this small battle, the pair left Nesol for Seventh Sanctum, where they await their first new mission.

Corporal (now Sergeant) Yanick Johansson – A young ganger conscripted early into the Chertan 23rd, Johansson never wanted to be in the Guard. He hated it, and wanted nothing more than to escape. Posted to an ever-lasting war against Ork raiders, Johansson soon found that if he kept killing Orks, his fear of dying and need to run away subsided. He was eventually promoted to his squads Meltagunner, and loved nothing more than burning and melting away the Greenskins as other conscripts cowered around him. Soon he was moved to another theatre of war, this time the world of Zatrall, deep within the Spiral Worlds where the war with the Kyaire had lasted for 600 years. An annoying low-level preacher was assigned to their platoon, but Johansson ignored the man mostly – he just wanted to kill as many xenos as he could! Fate smiled upon Johansson when he became the only member of his platoon to survive an Ork ambush – all except for the preacher that is – who was wounded and needed assistance. Johansson didn’t save the preacher out of charity, duty or loyalty, but more because a fleeing Guardsman would always be executed, but a fleeing Guardsman helping a wounded priest back to the rear lines was likely to be rewarded. And rewarded he was, taken by the preacher as his personal bodyguard at Zatrall’s Imperial High Command. Johansson received no invitation to join the Inquisition, rather he simply ‘came along for the ride’ as the preacher simply refused to let his saviour from his side. So Johansson came with the preacher to Nesol, fought the pirates and the Orks, and is now an unwitting and unwanted member of the preacher’s team of Acolytes.

Tech-Adept Arturo Dey’towa – With a name that sounds suspiciously similar to a fictional robot from an ancient Terran entertainment movie, Tech-Adept Arturo was a Tech-Priest serving aboard the fabled Flotilla 9, a Forge Fleet that criss-crossed its way over the Aquila Sector bringing items, trading for things, making new things and so on. Arturo served as a regular yet promising Tech-Priest for many years until a mighty Space Hulk, the ‘Woebringer’ suddenly appeared before the fleet. Unable to destroy it and unable to escape, the Flotilla 9 was annihilated, but not before Arturo managed to escape, taking just over thirty survivors with him. However, Arturo had left several SCT’s aboard the fleet when it had been destroyed, and had chosen to save people rather than these holy mechanical creations, and thus the Tech-Priests of Minara Prime banished him to the menial task of a minor spaceport worker at a minor port on the minor world of Nesol. Years passed, and Arturo grew resentful of his posting and his demotion, but he knew he could do little about it – he was but a small cog in a very big machine. However, while the Adeptus Mechanicus saw little worth salvaging in Arturo, the same could not be said of the Inquisition. One of Inquisitor Dyne’s chief recruiters had been aboard Flotilla 9 looking for exceptional individuals, and had identified Arturo not long before the Forge Fleet had been destroyed. Even better, the recruiter had been one of the 30 souls Arturo had saved that day. Inquisitor Dyne had lost track of Arturo after the Tech-Priest’s demotion, but had finally managed to find him several years later on Nesol. After the pirate attack on the space port in which Arturo played a starring role in defeating, Arturo was asked to board the Inquisitorial transport alongside the Preacher and the Guardsman, much to their surprise. And now he sits, awaiting his new master’s first assignment.

Plus all the NPC's in the campaign.