Dark Heresy: Malice: DH2E Character Cast: Inquisitor Eldrus Ivo and his acolytes

Inquisitor Eldrus Ivo is an inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos. He was the interrogator to the late Inquisitor Ritornello. He was also the last to be ascended to inquisitor by his master. Eldrus Ivo is relatively young for an inquisitor being physically 33 but receiving rejuvenat for his true age of 87. He is a very independent agent in a sector that lacks a grand Inquisitorial structure and entrenchment such as the Calixis, Scarus, or the Ixaniad sectors. He often travels lightly and his operations have him be highly mobile due to constant journeying throughout the sector. His only consistent company is his acolytes. Inquisitor Ivo would be considered radical by general inquisitorial standards. He does not ally to a specific ideology like xanthism or recongregationism but does hold slightly similar views to the Xenos Hybris ideology found in the Calixis sector. Slightly because he does not fully believe in the viability of humanity allying with xenos, but he does work with them. Specifically, Ivo has built up an alliance between him and the hidden craftworld of Askellon. He has been building up this relationship for a long time in order to achieve his ultimate goal of being allowed into the Black Library. He sees the Black Library as a shortcut to finding a way of ultimately solving the problem of the pandaemonium that his contemporaries, including Inquisitor Rondos, are taking the long way towards as he sees. Inquisitor Rondos knew Ivo as a young acolyte of Ritornellos far after Rondos had taken up the rosette. Rondos finds Ivo's personal errant journey to be incomplete in fighting the enemies of man versus Rondos's intricate web of intrigue and alliances. Rondos has also spent a longer time trying to find the same thing and does not believe the Eldar have the answer or could even be trusted to give a true answer that would not just be a ploy for their own gains. Ivo finds Rondos's ways quaint and has argued with him in the past that Rondos's blind stabbing in the dark to find an answer wastes time that leads to the warpstorm consuming more and that there could be an answer that the Eldar do not want to use simply because of its manner or their disinterest in the overall sector aside from their personal interests. If it turns out to be a farce than it was a farce and at least the avenue is used. If it turns out to be genuine than it could save the sector from its seemingly neverending doom along with other possible major benefits.

Inquisitor Cavello might want to kill Inquisitor Ivo.

Inquisitor Ivo is a tall man with an athletic build and a head of close shaved hair. He has brown eyes and is generally ruggedly good looking and cleanshaven. He often travels in a black grox-skin duster, tan closed vest, white button-up shirt, black gloves, dark grey denim pants, and black combat boots. He is generally a light-hearted person whose deep voice and direct demeanour give an intimidating presence who can turn on the terror when he needs to. He keeps his humour even in the field and has an oddly amused flippant attitude to most of the things he does. It keeps people he meets on his toes. He tries to enjoy his work. He does not insult or demean the people he knows but he is extremely sarcastic with them. Ivo is an very intelligent and headstrong person which he has to be when he regularly meets with the intentionally befuddling Eldar.

He generally packs a large array of equipment. He has tools, gear, armour, weapons, and anything he can carry conveniently on his personal guncutter, the "Revelry". He does not keep access to heavier equipment due to his vagrant nature but he is ready at the drop of a hat to use his power as an inquisitor to requisition what he needs. He rides a middle line of subtlety and overtness as he is ready to drop into disguises and pseudonyms and engage in covert skullduggery, and he ready to open fire in the middle of a crowded room and announce himself if it gets him what he wants. He does not keep cells of acolytes but he does keep a personal retinue.

(He basically is 40k Idris Elba. Even his name is a gigantic mangling of Idris Elba. He's my interpretation of what Gregor Eisenhorn and Luther from the BBC series Luther would be if you would put them in a blender)

Karl Grimskalle-Big guy. Nice guy. Swears like a sailor. Fenrisian. Thick accent. Just barely failed initiate trials for the Space Wolves but was allowed to work as a chapter serf. Picked up for Inquisitor Ivo's warband later. Karl was a young warrior of the Grimskull tribe of Fenris. He grew up in a tribe that mainly fished for their sustenance and Karl grew big and strong hauling nets, cutting down trees, and knocking out ruffians in the long hall that would attempt to steal his mead. When the local fisheries ran dry one Fenrisian winter, Karl was chosen along with his other kinsmen to go out into deeper water where great leviathan preyed. Unfortunately for him, his boat caught the eye of a Fenrisian kraken. Fortunately for him, during the time a Wolf Priest was observing his struggle. Karl cleaved and rent and and screamed his fury but unfortunately the kraken had its fill of his kinsmen. It missed him and he was revived using gifts of the omnissiah. He was chosen as an aspirant. Karl did very well in the training camps and trials. His fall from being given the geneseed was a literal fall during the trial right before the test of morkai. Unfortunately, Karl was on the older side of the prime age range to accept the canis helix. The recovery time would have put him right outside the age needed. So he was not able to become a space marine. Karl took this in stride. Karl is an oddly optimistic and calm person, especially fr a Fenrisian. He was instead taken on to be a chapter serf which he was equally happy to become. Chapter serfs are an esteemed position in the Imperium and the Space Wolves are one of the better chapters to become a serf for. Carrying out his duties for around a decade, Karl became embroiled in an operation by an inquisitor Eldrus Ivo that concerned the Vulka Fenryka. Eldrus found Karl to be a steadfast and tough warrior so he had Karl join his retinue.