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Daemonhunters

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'''Daemonhunters''', aka the '''Ordo Malleus''' ("Order of the Hammer"), are a branch of the Imperium's [[Inquisition]] specifically for hunting the manifestations of the [[Warp]]. These are further divided into Inquisitors and a special form of [[Space Marines]] known as the [[Grey Knights]]. The Inquisitors can be found surrounded by many different branches of the Imperium's Militant forces due to their ability to call on local governance for support. Malleus Inquisitors are probably the oldest ordo of the Inquisition, since the original purpose of the Inquisition was to root out and destroy Chaos. They work with the [[Witch Hunters|Ordo Hereticus]] regularly, where the Witch Hunters deal with [[heresy]], and the Daemonhunters deal with [[Chaos]], which most of the time ends up being one and the same in most cases where somebody rebels against the Imperium, and then starts summoning daemons.

== The Enemy Beyond ==
The Daemonhunters were created right after the Horus Heresy by the decree of the Emperor, acting as a special force of men to fight against Chaos now that it was all out in the open. The Grey Knights were to be the muscle power behind the Inquisitors who were the brains of the operation. Due to the nature of the foe they fight, the Malleus must be hard bastards totally pure of temptations and sins. Even so most of them slowly go off the rails from all that insanity and most develop mental problems. A great deal of the Malleus's efforts are focused around active chaos regions such as the Eye of Terror and the Maelstorm but they can be fast deployed anywhere where Chaos springs up across the galaxy. Nobody outside of the inquisition knows about this ordo (or at least its true mission) minus a few Space Marine Chapter Masters and the High Lords. This allows the Daemonhunters to be one step ahead of Chaos whenever it pokes its ugly head out. However, this also makes this Ordo the darkest as well. To the people outside of the inquisition, they only know of the Ordo Malleus as the Inquisitors who monitor the other Inquisition Ordos, masking its true mission from the wider imperium. When someone not important finds out about the Malleus's Secret Weapon, (read: [[Grey Knights]]), [[grimdark|they can be subject to execution to prevent the spread of the Grey Knights' existence]]. It really only happens often when someone discovers the Grey Knights, considering that [[Cadia]], you know, fights Chaos on a regular basis and its main export is soldiers that go all over the wider Imperium, so it would be ridiculous not to mention be incredibly wasteful to destroy all that manpower.

==1st War of Armageddon==
The 1st War of Armageddon is where [[Angron]] and the [[World Eaters]] decided to rampage all over the Imperium and landed on Armageddon where it took the [[Armageddon Steel Legion|Steel Legion]], the [[Space Wolves]], and the Daemonhunters to banish him. The Inquisitor in charge, deciding not to risk the existence of the Grey Knights to the wider imperial folk decided to [[grimdark|sterilize and inter the survivors of the war into work camps in the wider Imperium]]. This pissed off the Space Wolves to no end, starting a mini civil war within the Imperium. It only ended when [[Bjorn the Fell Handed]] managed to talk down [[Logan Grimnar]] and his brothers. The Inquisition, as a result, keeps an arms length away from Fenris at all times.

==Siege of Vraks==
Vraks is another instance that involved the Ordo Malleus. Basically an Ecclesiarchal cardinal named Xaphan and his assistant Deacon Mamon decided to raise a crusade in the Emperor's name. This obviously violated the Decree Passive and drew the attention of the [[Witch Hunters|Ordo Hereticus]]. They sent a [[Vindicare]] to take care of him, but his [[rosarius]] protected him from the shot. He used the assassination attempt to state that traitors and heretics tried to ursurp him, causing Vraks to rebel from the Imperium. This wouldn't usually cause much of a problem except for the fact that Vraks was a Munitions world used to supply Cadia. It drew the Hereticus even further as well as the [[Death Korps of Krieg]]. Things escalated even further when the previously mentioned Deacon Mamon turned out to be an [[Alpha Legion]] spy who called backup in the form of the [[World Eaters]], the [[Death Guard]], and Chaos Titan Legions. The Inquisitor in charge, [[Hector Rex]], went to Vraks with a few Grey Knights and cleansed it. However, the munitions were used up in the war, as well as the planet being corrupted by the influences of [[Khorne]] and [[Nurgle]], so it was placed under Malleus Quarantine.

==Notable Members==
*[[Hector Rex]]
*<s>[[Jaq Draco]]</s> {{BLAM|HERESY!}}{{BLAM}}
*Torquemada Coteaz
*[[Mordecai Toth]]

==See Also==
*[[Grey Knights]]
*For those interested in historical matters, check out their tactics: [[Warhammer_40,000/Tactics/Daemonhunters]]
*Incidentally, the old rules are still available, since GW released them online for some reason, along with the Witch Hunters Codex, which has now been taken down, <s>presumably the only reason the Daemonhunters Codex hasn't been removed is because they've forgotten about it, or it's their advance apology for [[Matt Ward|Our Spiritual Liege.]]</s> They've both been removed now, but thanks to the internet archive can still be read and downloaded, GW's Updated rules can be found here: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130617033945/http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1050287a_Codex__Daemonhunters Updated Codex: Daemonhunters]
*[[Exorcists]]

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Ordo Sicarius

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The '''Ordo Sicarius''' are an Order of the Inquisition formed after the [[Age of Apostasy]] and the Wars of Vindication which threw the [[Officio Assassinorum]] into chaos (small "C"). Following the nicknaming conventions of the other Orders, they would presumably be the '''[[What|Assassinhunters]]''', though one could make an alternative case for the '''Manhunters''', the '''Manhunterhunters''', or the '''Dagger-Man Hunters''' if you want to be a little more literal with your Latin. During the reformation of the Officio, Inquisitor Jaeger ("hunter", subtle G.W) proposed a number of safeguards be placed upon the Assassins so that an eventuality such as the Wars of Vindication or [[The Beheading]] that preceded it would never happen again.

*The Assassin Temples would be decentralised throughout the Imperium so that they could not become corrupted or fall to heresy if any of the others fell.
*All Assassins ''(Eversor excepted)'' would be subject to regular psycho-indoctrination to maintain their loyalty.
*All missions performed by assassins will be followed by a detailed report, subject to the scrutiny of the [[Inquisition]].
*Any deployment of an assassin will require the sanction of a two-thirds majority vote by the [[High Lords of Terra]].
*Finally, an Ordo of the Inquisition was formed to monitor the assassins to root out any corruption within the Office of Assassins; thus was formed the '''Ordo Sicarius'''.

As the Assassinorum works secretively, its adherence to the above requirements would be limited to how much the Imperium trusted the Assassinorum to actually stick to them, since they could otherwise be flaunting the rules, assassinating everyone and sundry, making it look like an accident and no-one would be the wiser. Therefore the only way to effectively monitor each of the Assassin Temples was to embed a number of Assassin-Inquisitors to monitor them from within; these agents may not necessarily become ''(or even qualify as)'' "Temple Assassins" themselves, but considering that the Officio Assassinorum has considerably more resources and staff than just the temple assassins, it would be much easier to infiltrate the organisation under the guise of a analyst, instructor, artificer, surgeon or any other role. One would hardly expect an Inquisitor to become an Eversor for example. The better question becomes whether the Officio is actually aware of which agents belong to the Inquisition, and what information they allow the Inquisition access to.

The Ordo Sicarius has successfully uncovered and prevented two assassination attempts on the High Lords of Terra; considering that each assassination officially requires a two-thirds vote from the High Lords, the fact that they needed prevention is... odd. <u>However</u> as more and more fluff on the High Lords has been released, it has been shown that some, but probably most if not all of the agencies of the Imperium ''(not just the Officio Assassinorum)'' have operatives spying on and manipulating each other all the time, and are not adverse to bloodying each other over conflicts of interest and no-one bats an eye. A potential plot against a High Lord directly would be scandalous, but probably not out of the consideration of the agencies if they thought they could get away with it. Even the Chancellor of the Imperial Senate has agents within the other organisations, and he's not even a High Lord, though he had enough power that such an astute politician as [[Roboute Guilliman]] found him useful. Not all of the agents of the Officio Assassinorum are actually ''"Temple Assassins"'' and in fact they have access to considerably more resources than that. The assertion seems to be that the Officio Assassinorum is simply the best at infiltrating other Adeptus, and is the best as rooting out foreign from within, the fact that the Ordo Sicarius even uncovered the plot would have been a tremendous victory for them.

===The Two-Thirds Rule===
A lot gets made by fa/tg/uys about the requirement for two-thirds assent from the High Lords before an assassin is deployed, even when this becomes impractical or so far below the purview of the High Lords themselves that one would wonder why it would matter ''(such as killing Xenos, or enemies of the state)'' or gets used as evidence that the High Lords had something to do with it whenever an Assassin kills somebody, but this is not always the case.

Assassins have considerable leeway when they are undertaking their assignments: Just because an Assassin wastes a priceless piece of munitions on you does not mean that the High Lords wanted you dead, or even know your name. This is not merely true for the nameless bodyguards protecting the target, but there are documented cases of Assassins changing their mission parameters based on shifting circumstances ''(like the original target being dead by the time they arrive)'' and then chewing their way through planetary leadership to achieve their objective. This is probably why the Inquisition gets detailed reports following a mission, to ensure that the Assassin hadn't reached beyond their original remit in the execution of their target(s) and to mitigate against unexpected collateral damage.

These rules also seem to get bent when it is necessary to do so, as found during the '''War for the Golden Cog''' when the Fabricator General claimed ownership over the Fortress of the Soulless on Terra. While the Culexus assassins had every right to defend themselves, it was a snipers bullet that managed to avert a larger civil war between [[Mars]] and [[Terra]]. If the deployment of a Vindicare assassin to the situation was officially authorised, you can bet that the Fabricator General was not present during that vote.

The older Codex: Inquisition as well as the [[Inquisitor (RPG)]] both provided the rather commonsense detail that these edicts have been forged by the Ordo Sicarius itself in matters of political expediency, reasoning that since the Imperium is so huge, such abuses of power become necessary, and in any case if the Assassin does their job well then no-one would have to know about it. This is backed up in newer fluff in the case of the attempted assassination of [[Gabriel Seth]] by an [[Eversor]], Seth was presented with an Inquisitorial sigil as justification for the attempt with the claim that he had made powerful enemies. As well as the ''actual'' assassination of Chapter Master Dubaku of the ill-fated [[Celestial Lions]]. Hell, even [[Lord Solar Macharius]] was slain by the Officio Assassinorum on the orders of the Inquisition; the assassin then later killed the Inquisitor to cover up the truth. It seems unlikely the High Lords will be amused that the Ordo Sicarius has been abusing their power. Having someone who needs killing (like the Fabricator-General) dead to prevent civil war is one thing; attempting to kill a person keeping a Chapter of Astartes from going over the deep end is essentially treason and murdering a Chapter for trying to tattle on an Inquisitor for abusing his power severely and massively harming the Imperium by his unnecessary use of Exterminatus on a Hive World...look, the Ordo Sicarius seems suspiciously heretical. The first is basically an attempt to cause a Chapter to turn renegade and have good reason to slaughter Imperial Worlds in a berserk frenzy. The second is basically allowing Inquisitors to go around destroying the Imperium’s worlds (particularly the rare and invaluable Hive Worlds) for no reason. This is definitely treason and heresy.

Therefore, it is unlikely that the Sicarius is actually able to oversee all of the Assassinorum, but it also seems that parts of the Inquisition are able to use the Assassinorum for their own bullshit when they want to. Very 40K.

==Notes==
*It has been spelled Ordo Sicarus (without the second "i"), although it seems the "Sicarius" is the official spelling now.
*Nothing to do with the [[Word Bearers|planet Sicarus]].
*Also has nothing to do with ''that'' [[Cato Sicarius|Sicarius]]. Although an entire Ordo dedicated solely to rooting out the corruption within Cato Sicarius would probably be endlessly amusing.

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