Editing Setting:Cloudburst/People (section)

==Archbishop Haggar of Oromet – Captured and executed==
{{Topquote|Souls aren’t a currency, you twit. They’re worth so much more than gold or glory! Gold goes up and down in price, people forget gory, but SOULS! Oh, they are eternal, and they are all mine! To guide. Yes.|Haggar of Oromet}}

No one human in history has ever caused as much trouble for the Cloudburst Sector since Horus as has Archbishop Haggar. The fiery, impassioned, secretly psychic preacher turned most of a planet against the Imperium, and set the stage for another to do the same centuries later.

Haggar’s roots on the planet ran deep. His father and mother were both employees of a large cathedral on the young colony, the largest in the system. When he was thirteen, his father realized he was psychic, but could not bring himself to turn the young lad over to the Arbites. Eventually, Haggar did away with his parents by means unknown, and entered the clergy, living off his parents’ wealth.

As Haggar grew, he sought out every scrap of lore about psykers that he could find, ostensibly to help identify them among his own parishioners. As he learned, he focused his power, and gained a level of control over them that few outside the Scholastica Psykana ever gain on their own. By the time he was forty, and had risen to become the second highest ranking member of the Ministorum in the entire system, he had gained the ability to influence the faces of Tarot cards.

After ten more years of practice, he had perfected his Tarot skills. A mastery of common sleight of hand and his own psychic skills allowed him to force his Tarot cards to display whatever images he wanted.
It was time to make his move. Over the next few months, Haggar began working his way into position to succeed his superior, the current Archbishop. When the Archbishop died of a pulmonary embolism, Haggar naturally took his place. One year later, he made his historic announcement that he could read the Tarot. When local Astropaths disregarded that, knowing it was impossible, Haggar had already won. He began performing public readings, using a combination of his own psychic and sleight skills to force the cards to show whatever he liked; when he tried to read them naturally, the Emperor showed him only Death.

When a local Astropath challenged him, he used his card skills to force a broken card into the Astropath’s reading. When the Astropath finally noticed, the mob tore him apart for daring to accuse Haggar of falsehood.

Haggar’s story ended in battle. When the Inquisition gained news of the events on the planet from a surviving Astropath, Haggar used his psychic power to manipulate millions into coming to his aid. The Inquisition feared his pure, righteous power, he roared, and all who did not would fight for him! The flock he had cultivated for thirty years streamed to his side, and the lines were drawn. A gruesome siege followed, one that did decades’ worth of damage to the planetary capital’s infrastructure.

Eventually, after using white phosphorous and other non-conventional weapons to disperse the mad gangs of Oromet citizens, the Inquisition and a small army of support troops and Thimblan Argent Swords swarmed Haggar and captured him. They beat him into a coma and dragged him into a shuttle. When he awoke, he was sitting across from a man who made his brain hurt. The man, a blank in the employ of the Ordo Hereticus, tortured Haggar for information, and then threw him into space.

Thus in the cold and ignominy of vacuum did the life of Cloudburst’s worst Heretic end.