Gideon Ravenor

Gideon Ravenor is proof that in the Imperium the mind may be a deadlier weapon than any blade, for he is at once one of the most gifted Inquisitors of the Ordo Xenos and among the most powerful sanctioned psykers ever to serve the Ordos. In his youth he was a rising talent, taken on as an Interrogator by the infamous Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn and schooled in the trade beneath that formidable and increasingly radical master.

His promise was very nearly extinguished upon the world of Thracian Primaris. Caught in the fire of a terrorist atrocity, Ravenor was hideously burned across the whole of his body and reduced to a barely living shell, a man who by every reasonable expectation should have died. That he did not is a testament to the arts of the Adeptus Mechanicus and to a will that refused to yield, though survival came at a terrible price: for the rest of his days he would be sealed within a life-sustaining force chair, unable to walk, to touch, or to look upon the world with his own eyes.

A Mind Unbound[edit]

What the fire took from his body, however, it gave back to his mind. Cut off from ordinary sensation and augmented by the psychic amplifiers built into his chair, Ravenor's already prodigious powers swelled to extraordinary heights, mastery of telepathy, telekinesis, and divination chief among them. He can slip his consciousness free of the chair entirely to walk unseen through the thoughts of others, or even to inhabit another's body and wear it as his own.

From within his armoured shell Ravenor has led his warband to victories that belie his utter physical helplessness, unravelling conspiracies that threatened whole worlds and, on at least one occasion, helping to avert a catastrophe that menaced the very fabric of reality. Where his old master Eisenhorn slid toward damnation, Ravenor has laboured to hold to the light, a reminder that faith and reason, wielded together, remain among the Imperium's sharpest weapons.