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Sorry to be posting multiple threads at once, but this is something I've wondered about for a while.

I have an idea for a radical Ordo Xenos inquisitor who takes inspiration in his torture from being a captive of the Dark Eldar, but how likely is it that a human could be a captive of the Drukhari and escape/be released? I know there's that fluff about an escaped slave and how one can 'never truly escape Comorragh', but how likely is it that a captive could physically get away? Is this affected by how the city stands after the devastation of Ynnead? In one of the Eisenhorn novels, the titular character is poisoned by someone who is said to have learnt the poisoners' art as a captive of the Dark Eldar - does this mean that captives sometimes escape? What do we think?

Plenty of humans have been to and left commoragh. Fabulous billy trained with haemonculai after all. There’s been a couple of space marine assaults on the city as well.

It is not inconceivable that an apt enough pupil of pain gets unleashed on the universe for the lulz. It would be a bit trickier, but not impossibly, to actually escape commoragh.

Of course, maybe the Dark Eldar let someone escape on purpose in order for them to spread terror, seasoning the meal so to speak, before their next raid.

Didn't Janus Draik (the Rogue Trader from Blackstone Fortress) escape? And Inquisitor Bronislaw Czevak?

Czevak escaped from the Black Library. It's also in the Webway, but a very different place.

 Nurglitch wrote:
Czevak escaped from the Black Library. It's also in the Webway, but a very different place.

Mind you his book seems to show a sympathetic Eldar sacrificed herself in order to let him out, rather than him escaping through his own efforts.

 Nurglitch wrote:
Czevak escaped from the Black Library. It's also in the Webway, but a very different place.

It's the short story 'Shadow Play'. He's captured by Lelith Hesperax and a raiding party - but thinking back I'm not sure if he's taken to Commorragh or just held on a planet.

beast_gts wrote:

 Nurglitch wrote:
Czevak escaped from the Black Library. It's also in the Webway, but a very different place.

It's the short story 'Shadow Play'. He's captured by Lelith Hesperax and a raiding party - but thinking back I'm not sure if he's taken to Commorragh or just held on a planet.

I was referring to the BL novel Czevak.

Captain Alessio Cortez of the Crimson Fists was busted out of the Commorragh fighting pits by the Deathwatch.

In the third edition dark eldar codex there is a description of Commoragh from a huan slave who escaped/was released. It was a fairly well written piece.

Well humans come and go from commaragh all the damn time given that there are NUMEROUS refrences of pirstes of all species going there. Why and how? feth if i know.

In the short story Hellbreak by Ben Counter a captured commissar leads a slave rebellion in Comorragh. They don’t exactly escape but manage to cause all kinds of mayhem. A few of them could probably have gotten out if they tried. Hellbreak was published in “let the galaxy burn”, a collection of short stories from 2006 (not the HH book by the same name). I’d recommend Hellbreak, it’s a damn good read and gives a bit of insight into comorragh.

 Nerak wrote:
In the short story Hellbreak by Ben Counter a captured commissar leads a slave rebellion in Comorragh. They don’t exactly escape but manage to cause all kinds of mayhem. A few of them could probably have gotten out if they tried. Hellbreak was published in “let the galaxy burn”, a collection of short stories from 2006 (not the HH book by the same name). I’d recommend Hellbreak, it’s a damn good read and gives a bit of insight into comorragh.

I recommend the entire damn Let the Galaxy Burn collection. Highly. But this was a favorite of mine, too.

People definitely escape Commorragh. The Salamanders have even done it a couple of times. Someone with the resources of an Inquisitor? Entirely reasonable. Even more reasonable for them to be permanently affected in a sinister fashion by their captivity.

 Jimsolo wrote:
The Salamanders have even done it a couple of times.

Didn't they got in and out of Commoragh as the unwitting pawns of Vect during is ascension to master of the Dark City?

 Jimsolo wrote:


People definitely escape Commorragh. The Salamanders have even done it a couple of times. Someone with the resources of an Inquisitor? Entirely reasonable. Even more reasonable for them to be permanently affected in a sinister fashion by their captivity.

Exactly what I was hoping to hear. Thanks everyone for all the examples!

epronovost wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:
The Salamanders have even done it a couple of times.

Didn't they got in and out of Commoragh as the unwitting pawns of Vect during is ascension to master of the Dark City?

Technically true. Although there's nothing to say that recaf's Inquisitor wasn't secretly aided by a shadowy patron whose interests were tangentially served (and maybe still are?) by the escape.

A number of Salamanders were also captured and subsequently rescued the the events of Nick Kyme's Salamanders trilogy.

The behind the scenes politics of Commorragh is usually a good hand wave as to why somebody is able to do X, Y, Z.

 Vankraken wrote:
The behind the scenes politics of Commorragh is usually a good hand wave as to why somebody is able to do X, Y, Z.

This. Various cabals will rarely step up to help each other out. If one get screwed over by it’s own captives that’s one less competitor on the big stage. The Drukhaari are more fractured then the Inquisition.