Revivicators
There is but one universal truth
- one irrefutable fact that drives us on.
That the Emperor is forever.
- Inquisitor Mestan of the Ordo Xenos on Pavia
Unusually for a resurrectionist cult, the Revivicators have few ties with the
Ministorum. Their focus is directed towards the transition of the soul to the
Warp at the point of death. In particular, they study the means by which this
can be slowed, halted and, ultimately, returned. This study takes them to
battlefields and plague areas, to conduct their investigations on those close
to the death. They are also frequenters of tombs and mausoleums, hence a certain
amount of disrespect for the practices of the Ecclesiarchy.
Known as ghouls or ravens for their somewhat morbid practices, the
Revivificators are also known to have learned much from the capture of various
Eldar over the centuries. In particular, they find the principle of the Eldar
spirit stone intriguing, and have on numerous occasions attempted to replicate
the practice of capturing a departing soul. So far, such attempts have proved
wholly unsuccessful, for Mankind's psychic technology is far inferior to the
psychic-engineering properties of Eldar wraithbone.
There are also those that have read Van Hinkel's Treatise on the Soultheft
Methods of Eldar Pirates, penned by that Inquisitor Lord in the late 39th
millennium. This detailed manuscript contains Van Hinkel's report on
interrogations of captured Dark Eldar, as well as collating information from
many other sources previously scattered in various libraries and data files
throughout the Inquisition's fortresses and stations.
The least scrupulous Revivificators have attempted to repeat the torturous
practices of the Dark Eldar, usually on heretics and other criminals, though not
exclusively so. Few amongst the Inquisition know of the grisly dungeons staffed
by telepaths and wired with arcane machinery for the detection and extraction of
psychic energy.
Ultimately, it is the goal of the Revivificators to study the Golden Throne
itself and perhaps alter its working so that the Emperor's body might be
restored. To this end, it is not only the passage of the soul to the Warp that
the Revivificators study, but also the processes by which a corpse may be
maintained in a state ready for such a re-infusion of the soul. Access to this
knowledge and technologies means that Revivificators often live far longer than
even other Inquisitors, the oldest being Inquisitor Lord Verinath, who was shot
and killed whilst hale and hearty at the age of seven hundred and sixty three.
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