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Adrastia

2019-03-22T19:06:35Z

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[[Image:Adrastia.jpg|right|400px|"Pity. Nurgle's pets respond poorly to my methods."|thumb]]
'''Adrastia''' is an [[Inquisitor]] of the [[Witch Hunters|Ordo Hereticus]] who easily ranks in the top 10 of the 41st millennium's "Best hats" list which is [[Commissar|really]] [[Mordian Iron Guard|saying]] [[Carlos McConnell|something]].

== Dawn of War 2: Retribution ==
According to Captain [[Gabriel Angelos]] of the [[Blood Ravens]] he met and befriended Adrastia during his "darkest hour" so when the Imperium finally got sick of all of the insane drama going on in sub-sector Aurelia and sent the [[Daemonhunters|Ordo Malleus]] [[Exterminatus]] fleet to deal with it he was quick to call on his one ally in the Inquisition. He told her of his certainty that the sub-sector's woes were the machinations of his corrupted Chapter Master [[Azariah Kyras]] and requested she look into the situation in the hopes of finding proof she could use to halt the Exterminatus. Adrastia basically told him she'd take a look as a favour to him but no promises and headed over to check it out. Unable to request forces from the Inquisition like she normally would due to the unofficial nature of her investigation she met up with Lord General [[Castor]] who had been sent to make sure the sub-sector's guardsmen got their shit together and eventually rescued Sergeant [[Merrick]] and his men who agreed to help her with her task.

After a series of grimdark adventures around the sub-sector that saw the destruction of many heretics and xenos the group ended up on the planet Typhon where Kyras invaded Adrastia's mind and taunted her telling her the Eldar seer council she just slaughtered were the only thing preventing the Exterminatus fleet he summoned from finding the sub-sector which promptly arrived and immediately began doing its thing. Adrastia and her group of merry men barely escaped the planet before the fleet's bombardment reduced it to a lifeless rock and, after Castor deduced where Kyras was hiding, they quickly turned up on the freshly ascended Chapter Master's doorstep with a force of guardsmen appropriate for a confrontation with a Daemon Prince the size of a [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)|Titan]]. They arrived just in time to see Kyras seemingly kill Gabriel which caused Adrastia to rage the fuck out and give Kyras the [[Exterminatus|Inquisitorial middle finger]] blowing him to pieces and taking the remains of the psychic hood he had worn as a librarian from his corpse which she claimed was sufficient proof and that it, along with her testimony, should be enough to halt the Ordo Malleus' destruction of the sub-sector.

Some of the game's other storylines see Adrastia operating alone rather than with Castor and Merrick. In the Ork campaign she attempts to hire Kaptin Bluddflag and his crew to deal with Kyras for her but negotiations go sour when she refuses to throw in her hat to seal the deal and, at the conclusion of the game, Bluddflag catches up with her and basically mugs her for it leaving her alive but hatless and thus devoid of any authority. In the Eldar story Autarch Kayleth and her warhost reach Bluddflag before Adrastia does and kill him due to their warlock having had a vision telling them finding Adrastia and doing what she tells them will save a few thousand soulstones buried on Typhon. Having planned to use Bluddflag as a big, green hammer to bludgeon Kyras to death with Adrastia is pretty pissed off about this and almost has the Eldar killed but quickly changes her tune when they reveal they plan to do her dirty work for her and lets them get on with it. She later turns up to tell them Kyras has the deceased Farseer [[Taldeer]]'s soulstone should they wish to recover it and when they tell her to piss off she basically goes "Pfft. FINE." and ports out. She also appears in the ending of the Chaos campaign in which the Exterminatus of the sub-sector goes ahead as planned and she ends up face to face with [[Eliphas]].

== About Adrastia ==
Adrastia is a lot like what you'd expect from a Witch Hunter. Suspicious, ruthless, uncompromising and utterly devoted to finding and destroying all things heretical for the Emprah. She has a haughty and cavalier attitude and frequently found herself in conflict with Sergeant Merrick who was convinced she only came to sub-sector Aurelia because she hoped to capture Kyras and net herself a promotion rather than actually giving a crap about the sub-sector's imminent annihilation. She doesn't really bother to confirm or deny his accusations instead telling him to quit bitching at her and get on with his work but when Kyras turns into a gigantic Daemon the option to capture him alive quickly disappears so who knows. Her personality is somewhat grumpy and harsh having very little time for anyone who is not a heretic or pointing her in the direction of one (then again being kind of a buzzkill is pretty normal for Inquisitors who are not [[Amberley Vail]] so we can't really fault Adrastia for that). She's also a radical Inquisitor, more specifically a Xanthian, given that she has no qualms using chaos artifacts against the enemy, like a Daemon blade you find along the way.

Oh, and that time a giant Daemonic death machine killed Gabriel in front of her? She responded with the following:

''"No! Captain Angelos! Azariah Kyras! Pray that you fall in battle today for whatever life you have remaining shall be spent in '''absolute''' suffering!"''

We here at 1d4chan like to think calling out a Pacific Rim sized monstrosity like the one Kyras becomes when you're just a wee human who just saw it effortlessly krump a [[Space Marine]] takes a certain amount of badassitude (it helps that her voice actress, Kirsten Potter, has kind of a husky voice which works very well for hurling curses and threats at massive Daemons apparently). Oh, and as long as we're doing quotes of hers here's another one:

''"My chief weapons are surprise and fear!"''

Yeah. Considering Castor makes a reference to the same Monty Python sketch it could be the Imperium has a list of mandatory viewing.

Her exact relationship with Angelos is unknown though they seem to be close given how distressed she gets when she sees him incapacitated by Kyras and how the first thing she asks of Diomedes when Kyras is dead is if Angelos is alright but, with Gabriel being a Space Marine, it makes any chance at romance unlikely (especially considering his salmon aren't swimming anymore if you know what I mean). He's probably just a bro, though a very close friendship between an Astartes and a mortal; even an Inquisitor who likely has frequent access to them is quite unique in any case. While the 40k fandom has rather often partaken in some [[LCB|deeply crack pairings]], the shippers seem to have kept Adrastia and Angelos' relationship platonic in any case (as if to make up for that, she has been shipped with Kaptin Bluddflagg, the Ork Freebooter).

In the game she's a pretty good fighter but Merrick is better at shooting and Commissar LORD Bernn is better at melee so the best way to make Adrastia unstoppable is to give her the upgrades that pump up her [[Stormtrooper]] honour guard. Give them everything with the word "[[melta]]" on it and pretty much anything unfriendly that gets too close will just evaporate.

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Image:Ingameadrastia.jpg|Being able to see is quite low on the priority list for Inquisitors apparently.
Image:Adrastiaportrait.png|40,000% done with your [[Heresy|blasphemous shit.]]
Image:Adrastiapinup.png| It is said when Adrastia discovered this she Exterminatus'd not only that planet but every nearby planet as well (after taking a pict for herself of course).
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[[Category:Warhammer 40,000]][[Category:Imperial]][[Category:Inquisition]][[Category:Dawn of War]]

Inquisitor Greyfax

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[[Image:Greyfax.jpg|thumb|Right|350px|[[Blam|GG, heretic]]]]
{{topquote|Faith. In the right hands, it is Humanity's greatest weapon. Yet even the finest blade is rendered fallible by its wielder. In the wrong hands, the mighty sword of faith can do more hurt to the Emperor's Realm than can all the treacherous daemons of the Warp combined. This is why those who profess to be the most holy amongst us must be put to the sternest test.|Inquisitor Greyfax}}

The coldest bitch who ever bitched, and the most badass space pilgrim to ever grace 40k, '''Inquisitor Katarinya Greyfax''' is one of the most infamous members of the [[Inquisition]]. Even other members of the [[Ordo Hereticus]] are scared shitless by her, and for good reason. She sees [[heresy]] pretty much everywhere, <s>even</s> ''especially'' among Imperial allies. Seriously, even [[Commissar Fuklaw]] thinks she takes it too far sometimes. On top of that, she's a potent [[Psyker|telepath]], something she takes advantage of extensively to speed her investigations along to their [[Exterminatus|inevitable conclusion]]. This could go a long way towards explaining her <s>rampant paranoia</s> steadfast vigilance, as spending lots of time in other people's heads, especially heretics, isn't exactly healthy.

Her model designer said that she wears modified [[Sisters of Battle|Sororitas]] armor, which has some interesting implications when her psychic abilities and hyper-suspicion are also taken into account.

She also has a huge crush on [[Saint Celestine]] and is just too tsundere to admit it. [[Games Workshop|GW]], [[/tg/|we]] know you want to add more diversity to 40k, and we think this would be a fantastic way to do it, [[PROMOTIONS|for purely altruistic reasons of course]].

She's also voiced by Catherine Tate.

==History==
Inquisitor Greyfax was introduced in Fall of Cadia as one of the reinforcements [[Trazyn the Infinite|Trazyn]] brought from his museum. She first appeared when Trazyn opened his Tesseract Labyrinth during the battle of the Elysion Fields. As the other Imperial reinforcements either charged into the fray or soiled themselves, Greyfax and her Inquisitorial <s>Stormtroopers</s> [[Tempestus Scions]] took some time to be [[/d/|thoroughly revolted]] with the whole situation. On one side, she saw a bunch of [[Chaos Space Marines]] and [[Chaos Daemons|Daemons]], but on the other, a bunch of [[Wulfen|heavily mutated space marines]], [[Legion of the Damned|daemonic-looking motherfuckers]], and [[Saint Celestine|that supposed "Living Saint" who was probably a witch]]. After trying and [[Scarab#Mindshackle_Scarab|failing]] to kill Trazyn, she came to the conclusion that the Imperial side was probably less heretical than the Chaos side, and helped Celestine and [[Belisarius Cawl|Cawl]] beat the shit out of [[Abaddon the Despoiler|Abaddon]], though with the intention of investigating and executing her erstwhile allies afterward. Of course, then the planet exploded, so she had to get onto a transport with Cawl and Celestine. Although she tried to get the surviving [[Black Templars]] to back her up in declaring Celestine a heretic, Cawl pointed out that she had xenotech flowing through her veins, making her heretical as well. He offered to remove the mindshackle scarabs later, on the condition that she stop trying to [[Blam|BLAM]] everyone while they were running from Abaddon's fleet, so she spent the rest of the trip [[Corvus Corax|pouting in a corner]]. She is of the opinion that anyone clearly blessed by the Emperor should be executed anyway just in case they turn to Chaos. Which would make her a double-heretic for believing her opinion outweighs the decisions of the Emperor himself.

After sustaining heavy damage from the chaos fleet pursuing them, and guided by Celestine's prophetic dreams, the newly christened Celestinian Crusade landed on the frozen world Klaisus, engaging the Black Legion in a running battle through the icy wastes as they continued towards an unknown destination. During this journey, Celestine gave Greyfax a little pep talk, which Greyfax brushed off as more lies and idolatry, though she did start to feel the slightest twinge of hope, [[Love Can Bloom|or something like that]]. Just as the Imperial forces drew up for a last stand, the combined forces of the [[Ynnari]] emerged from a nearby webway portal, driving the chaos space marines back, proving Celestine's prophecies correct, and turning Greyfax into even more of a tsundere.

After the Celestinian Crusade successfully arrived on Ultramar and resurrected [[Roboute Guilliman|Space Caesar]], Greyfax couldn't control her feelings for Celestine any longer. Blushing profusely and nervously looking at her feet, Greyfax admitted that she fucked up and the living saint was right all along. As the Inquisitor sheepishly admitted her true feelings, Celestine took her in her arms and... congratulated her on finally seeing the Emperor's light, before leaving to talk to Guilliman about how awful this [[grimdark]] future is. Greyfax nervously cleared her throat and straightened her hat before following suit.

After the Celestinian Crusade, she played an active role in the Terran Crusade, helping Guilliman reach Terra. Shortly after she was debriefed by Lord Inquisitors of the Ordo Hereticus on Terra, she was summoned by Guilliman, who set her on a quest to retrieve [[Battlefleet Gothic: Armada|the Eye of Night]] in order to help fix the Cicatrix Maledictum which now cut the galaxy in half. After going on a cool Indiana Jones adventure through the Gothic Sector along with some Grey Knights, she encountered the ghost of Inquisitor Horst from the [[Black Crusade|12th Black Crusade]], fought a bunch of cultists and daemons, and found and retrieved the artifact in the skull of Horst's corpse.

==On the Tabletop==
[[File:GreyfaxModel.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Even her miniature looks pissed]]
{| class=wikitable
! || Power || Points || M || WS || BS || S || T || W || A || Ld || Sv
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| '''Inquisitor Greyfax:''' || 5 || 85 || 6" || 3+ || 3+ || 3 || 3 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 3+
|}

Inquisitor Greyfax has been nerfed with the release of [[Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition|8th edition]]. Although her master-crafted condemnor boltgun is better due to the changes to their rules, her psychic might has been reduced considerably. She no longer has her special Aura of Oppression psychic power, and she can only cast one power per turn. On the bright side, she can deny two psychic powers per turn, and she gets a +1 bonus on any rolls to do so. Additionally, she's the only character in the Inquisition who has a psyocculum, letting her snipe {{Template:W40kKeyword|PSYKER}} and {{Template:W40kKeyword|DAEMON CHARACTERS}}. She can completely ruin any psyker's day, but her abilities are almost completely wasted on non-psychic armies, making her an iffy choice unless you know for certain you're fighting a psyker-heavy army, like [[Warhammer 40,000/Tactics/Grey Knights(8E)|Grey Knights]], [[Warhammer 40,000/Tactics/Chaos Daemons(8E)|Chaos Daemons]], or [[Warhammer 40,000/Tactics/Eldar(8E)|Craftworld Eldar]].

Her model still makes for a great [[Inquisitor Adrastia]] [[Counts As|proxy]].

===7th Edition===
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
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| '''Inquisitor Greyfax:''' || 150 || 4 || 4 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 4 || 3 || 10 || 3+
|}

Inquisitor Grayfax has the exact same statline as normal inquisitors, but has a Master-Crafted Condemnor Boltgun, a Master-Crafted Powersword, and a Psyocculum in addition to her Psyk-out grenades. This makes her worth it up front as an anti-Psyker tool. Moreover, she's an ML2 psyker who can only take Telepathy, but she also always knows a unique power called '''Aura of Oppression''' which comes in Warp Charge 1 and 3 varieties. The WC1 version is a malediction targeting a single enemy non-vehicle unit within 12" which forces a pinning test, which even if they pass they cannot run, turbo-boost, sweeping advance, or fire Overwatch. The WC3 variant is instead a "nova Malediction" targeting ''all'' non-vehicle enemy units within 12". Great in particular at shutting down Tau Support fire bullshit and Dark Angels Supreme Fire Discipline, but grab some Psykers for extra charges.

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