Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I'm mostly just curious, but I was wondering if inquisitors ever turn and defect from the empire. Now obviously, they're going to be one of the most resistant groups to the influences of chaos seeing as how they can pretty much boss anyone and everyone around and are the most suspicious bunch in the galaxy but I'd imagine it'd be possible. After all they're still human, and I've read situations in which more radical members of the inquisition utilize powers of chaos to fight chaos. It doesn't seem too far off to assume that a few would maybe delve too far and wind up unknowingly serving what they thought they were fighting. I haven't seen anything in the fluff about this so any answers or opinions would be appreciated. Also, let me clarify that I'm speaking about the human members of the inquisition and not the space marines such as Grey Knights who'd apparently blow their brains out for even letting the word chaos form in their minds.

Yes

In the console game, Space Marine, Inquisitor Drogan is apparently killed and his body possessed by the forces of Chaos. Not necessarily a Daemon, mind you, but apparently a fragment of the Chaos Lord's will, who claimed him.

So it's pretty likely, and even if they themselves don't turn, their bodies make great marrionettes.

Interestingly enough though, there is one Grey Knight who is said to contain the Spoor of Chaos now: Brother Brutus, as cited from the 6e Chaos Codex.

Yeah. It's a whole thing.

There's even a type of Inquisitor called "radicals" who are more likely than most to fall. Basically, they're willing to employ questionable or even Chaotic means to achieve their ends, for example Daemon summoning. That's not to say that all radicals turn to Chaos though, or that only radicals can fall.

 Troike wrote:
Yeah. It's a whole thing.

There's even a type of Inquisitor called "radicals" who are more likely than most to fall. Basically, they're willing to employ questionable or even Chaotic means to achieve their ends, for example Daemon summoning. That's not to say that all radicals turn to Chaos though, or that only radicals can fall.

There was also that one Inquisitor from Death of Antagonis who was corrupted to Chaos alongside his new-found friend among the Black Dragons who snapped over being used as a genetic scapegoat by the Black Dragons.

 ZebioLizard2 wrote:
Yes

Yes, often

Was it not Eisenhorn or Ravenor that fought and defeated an inquisitor turned chaos or something along those lines? I keep mixing events up between them. I should re-read them!

Anyway, som inqs. turn from the imperiums ways in other ways then chaos. They might employ xenos tech or be "lacking in faith" about the whole god-emperor thing.

I guess it all boils down to what ever -you- want to happen in the setting.


added: Oh, could add that every time we play Dark Heresy, the players always suspect the Inquisitor to be corrupt. :-P

lots of them have.

Sometimes Inquisitors are actually MORE likely to turn to Chaos, because they are exposed to so much more of "what's out there". Especially those who are more of a radical stance, because first they see using it as "turning the enemy's weapons against it", and then become corrupted by it.

"When you gaze into the Warp, the Warp also gazes back into you."

The Inquisitors turn to Chaos almost as often as Space Marines do. Which is a godamn awful lot!

The Eisenhorn and Ravenor series does a very good job of pointing out that new Inquisitors are often highly vocal about staying true to the Imperium. It's only after they've been battling the evil guys both outside and inside of the Imperium for a long period of time that they start doing things like using the bad guys weapons against them. That path is a very slippery slope, because at some point you become indistinguishable from the very thing you are fighting. When other Inquisitors notice, then they hunt you down.

The way it was described it seemed that it was pretty well known that if an Inquisitor isn't killed fighting for the Imperium then they turn to Chaos.

Yeah, it's mentioned that because humans who are in a powerful position like Inquisitors can live a very long time and see all sorts of things in their travels, they actually are the opposite of us in their lines of thinking. They are conservative when they are young, and become more liberal when they age.

So the longer an Inquisitor is around, provided they are not a massive zealot, tend to be more and more tempted because of how jaded they are to what they experience.

Space marines would probably suffer the same circumstances if they weren't constantly immersed in their "warrior monk" dogma when not in battle.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Yeah, it's mentioned that because humans who are in a powerful position like Inquisitors can live a very long time and see all sorts of things in their travels, they actually are the opposite of us in their lines of thinking. They are conservative when they are young, and become more liberal when they age.

So the longer an Inquisitor is around, provided they are not a massive zealot, tend to be more and more tempted because of how jaded they are to what they experience.

Space marines would probably suffer the same circumstances if they weren't constantly immersed in their "warrior monk" dogma when not in battle.

That and SM seem to have a bad tendency of dying rather early

Yes like everything else with a soul they can.

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:
In the console game, Space Marine, Inquisitor Drogan is apparently killed and his body possessed by the forces of Chaos. Not necessarily a Daemon, mind you, but apparently a fragment of the Chaos Lord's will, who claimed him.

SPOILER ALERT YOU FIEND!!!!!!

From the lore I remember I would say not intentionally but t is more common than people may think. Inquisitors usually fall into 2 schools of thought Puritan and Radicall. Puritans wish to destroy anything with the taint of Chaos and unless it's got human DNA then it must be exterminated or exploited. Radicals on the other hand want to use Chaos, be it sorcery or artifacts, to fight Chaos and further humanitie's power. While these fellows have nble intentions it is fairly common for them to fall to the Ruinous Powers eventually and be put down due to becoming Excommunite Heriticus

The inquisitor game was filed with turned ones!

Also keep in mind that a radical Inquisitor isn't necessarily an Inquisitor who flirts with the warp, but also with xenos.

Yes many of them , because they have too much contact with chaos

A lot more inquisitors get influenced by chaos rather than fall. Too many of you are implying that pretty much half of inquisitors fall to chaos.

 PhillyT wrote:

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:
In the console game, Space Marine, Inquisitor Drogan is apparently killed and his body possessed by the forces of Chaos. Not necessarily a Daemon, mind you, but apparently a fragment of the Chaos Lord's will, who claimed him.

SPOILER ALERT YOU FIEND!!!!!!

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH.....yeah. Sry bout that. <<;;;; XD

"Turn to chaos" is a strong term. Corrupted by chaos, perhaps slowly, over a long time of taint and influence, is probably closer to the truth.

And yes, it certainly happens.

 PhillyT wrote:

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:
In the console game, Space Marine, Inquisitor Drogan is apparently killed and his body possessed by the forces of Chaos. Not necessarily a Daemon, mind you, but apparently a fragment of the Chaos Lord's will, who claimed him.

SPOILER ALERT YOU FIEND!!!!!!

If you're serious, the game's three years old. There's no reason to use spoilers at that point, everyone's had plenty of time to buy and play it. Anyone that's actually surprised by the spoiler is just extremely late to the party.

The daemon that caused the Crimson Sabres to go mad and become the Crimson Slaughter was masquerading as an Inquisitor as well when he sent out the distress signal.

So yes, they do. And as was mentioned there's the group of Inquisitors that think it's fine to use Chaos against Chaos and they are more likely to get tainted because they're exposed even more than normal to the work of the Dark Gods.

Yes because there day to day job is in close contact with it, they fight it, some use it to fight chaos.

Chaos courupts even the strongest souls, even a inquisitor can fall.

Yes. One inquisitor actually turned 99 blood angels from a company in the BA omnibus.

Yes, in the Cain novels, there was a inquisitor turned chaos; in the Damocles novel, a inquisitor even turned to the greater good piloting a crisis.

As many have stated/ suggested...
Those that 'turn' or are 'tainted' don't consider themselves as such and truly believe they continue the good works.. in their own way...
As the saying goes, "There's nothing worse that a monster that thinks he's right with God."

There was a really good line in the Eisenhorn book, Hereticus, which basically says that the measure of an Inquisitor who doesn't die in the line of duty is how much good he does for the Imperium before his inevitable fall to the point where radicalism becomes Heresy.