Inquisitor Feyd Jaxsan, Ordo Sepulturum
Feyd Jaxsan was born to privilege and power, as only son to a planetary governor installed through loyal service to the Imperium, replacing the incompetent, indigent former Lord and his scions. Raised on a creed of duty and service, he was primed for a career in the Administratum. However, returning to his home after his off-world training, he began to notice subtle changes in the behaviour of his family and their followers. He uncovered, through rigorous research, evidence of a cult of personality that in truth centred on the first son of the former Lord, Makhelin, a chirugeon who had escaped the purges through his purported loyalty to the Emperor: in truth, he was a biomancer in thrall to the Plague Father. Having contacted the Imperium, Jaxsan saw that he had little time to act and so took it upon himself to expose Makhelin; he was captured and tortured by his minions, Jaxsan’s own father gleefully inflicting terrible pain upon him. Throughout, however, he remained steadfast in his faith and loyalty; before he could be offered up as vessel to the great daemon Mabrothrax, he was liberated by squad of Knights Carnelian in service to Inquisitor Darkhammer, and returned with them to his flagship just as the Exterminatus was enacted upon all he had ever known. Returned fully to health, though scarred and savaged in body, he pledged himself to the Inquisitorial creed.
Uncommonly, he is relatively affable in nature, and manages to walk the line between the Ordos with skill. His quest to hunt sources of plague at the point of origin means that he oftimes works with agents of the Ordo Malleus in sharing knowledge of Nurgle and his minions, but he is as likely to found sharing knowledge on alien pathogens with the Xenos, whilst with the Hereticus he shares a common respect. Philosophically, he is purportedly of a puritanical bent; Amalathians see him as one of their own, destroying diseases that could strike down humanity in its entirety, whilst Monodominants and Thorians alike have noted his interested in the possibility of programmable pathogens (and indeed it is here that he has most frequently worked alongside the Hereticus). However, he is fundamentally a Recongregator, carefully selecting those plagues to exterminate and those to allow run their course, the strongest surviving the tide of pestilience.
In his retinue, he keeps a Scrivener with limited psychic potential, named Merrick. This fanatically loyal aide faithfully records all of the plagues and pathogens encountered by Jaxsan and his team, and possesses encyclopaedic knowledge of those encountered by the Imperium and beyond.
Oskar, Jaxsan’s cyber-mastiff has been specifically genegineered to be able to detect a range of viral, bacterial and chaotic pathogens simply by scent. At the merest nod from Jaxsan, he erupts in a frenzy of teeth and mechano-dendrites, utterly destroying a host before disease can spread.
The doughty man-at-arms, Sgt. Andreas, is a former Guardsman from the Cydonian 9th whom Jaxsan has permanently seconded to his service. Gruff and uncompromising, there are those who could be mistaken in thinking he was the fanatical overlord and his master the cheerful aide-de-camp; indeed, it is a ruse that they have used on many an occasion. He prefers to get close to his foes, unleashing a hail of storm bolter fire before dispatching any survivors with his enscrolled chainsword, Monty.
The young Stephanos serves as assistant, aide and advisor to the Inquisitor. Marked at a young age on his homeworld Lacrimosa for joining the Weeping Angels Astartes, Jaxsan made special representation to the Chapter’s Master of Recruits after Oskar singled the boy out with an affection that should have utterly deleted through programming. As the years have passed, the boy has grown into a man who shares the zeal of his master – but, perhaps, holds an undercurrent of resentment fuelled by having seen the might of the Astartes upon the bloody fields of the Emperor’s glorious battles. Small wonder that his most prized possession is a millennia-old bolter of exquisite quality.
The nomad known only as Whisper is an enigma even to the other members of Jaxsan’s retinue. It is said that he is that rarest of men – a survivor of the ravages of the Zombie plague. Whatever the truth, this cowled and caped marksman has pledged his custom-built lasgun and life to the Inquisitor’s cause.