The Malleus Annotated Edition

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**Shakalooloo**

Gah, this happened with the first annotated Eisenhorn novel as well. I'm trying to read through it, but every now and then one of the red text annotations will really throw me off as I have to go and put the book down to check.

I got to page 27 this time.

Abnett mentions that Witchfinder Tantalid "like Eisenhorn, was a character mentioned and depicted in the original Inquisitor rulebook".

It's been a while since I read through Inquisitor, and I don't remember Tantalid appearing there. Yet his illustrated appearance does look similar to Inquisitor "It shoulda been me, Coteaz" Tyrus...

So, am I completely forgetting Tantalid appearing prior to 'Malleus', or did Abnett get him and Tyrus conflated, two decades on?

**beast_gts**

This is what Lexicanum says about Tantalid:

Arnault Tantalid was a Witch Hunter of the Ecclesiarchy and enemy of Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn.[1]

History
Tantalid was well-known for his heavy, red power armour and the chainsword Theophantus, and was known on occasion to make use of a concealment field to become invisible. He had an extreme hatred of psykers, possibly placing him in-line with Thorian or Monodominant mindsets, which was the basis for his hatred of Eisenhorn, made more extreme by Eisenhorn's determination to use psykers in his staff and to advance his own psychic abilities.

They met on Bradell's World, where they argued in a court over the right to try a heretic, an argument which Tantalid won. Later, on Kuuma, the two fought over "virgin" psychic slaves, whom Eisenhorn wanted to send in the Black Ships, but Tantalid wanted to slay; Eisenhorn won this round. Still later, on Lethe Eleven, Tantalid slew the heretic Beldame Sadia and nearly killed Eisenhorn.

Finally, on Orbul Infanta, Tantalid he killed the astropath Taesera Ungish before being killed by Eisenhorn in an Ecclesiarchy chapel.[1]

Sources
1: The Inquisition (Background Book), [Needs Citation]