Conclave Victorum

The Fidelis Vigil Ex Victorum, to use its formal name, coordinates and, in recent years, governs the activities of Inquisitors throughout the Victorum Sector. Given the sector's apparent strength and stability, the Inquisitorial presence in the sector at times seems overblown and overzealous to other Imperial organizations. To the vigilant eyes of The Holy Order of the Emperor's Inquisition, their weakness in the sector is a disaster brought on by hubris, overconfidence, and a complete failure to understand the dark history of these benighted stars.

The Ordos of The Conclave

Unsurprisingly, the Ordo Hereticus and Ordo Xenos command the largest membership among the hundred-odd Inquisitors remaining in the sector. Having once been a bright, shining star in the ranks of the Temple of the Saviour Emperor, and thus tainted, the Ordo Hereticus maintains a constant watch over its rulers and prelates. The Ordo Xenos, no less vigilant, knows that the sector's rich traffic in interstellar trade makes it dangerously exposed to alien influences brought from strange and distant stars, not least of which are Eldar pirates and corsairs drawn by the sector's bounty.

It is known that the Ordo Barbarus maintains some presence in the sector, though its agents prefer to go unnoticed and unrecognized by the wider Inquisition. So too does the Ordo Sanctorum operate in secrecy, its purview overlapping with the Ordo Hereticus and its fanatically anti-Ecclesiarchal Inquisitors treading lightly lest they draw the attentions of the Sector Synod. More public is the Ordo Machinum, its presence absolutely demanded by the heretekal relics left by the Falxian Gladocracy and the unorthodoxy of some of the sector's notable tech-magi.

Factions: Majoris & Minoris

Puritans

Amalathians

The dominant faction in the Victorum Conclave, the Amalathians are much to blame for the Inquisition's present weakness and division. Having prosecuted a shadow war against the rival Recongregator doctrine in the recent past, they turned a fractious band of watchful sentinels into a splintered, paranoid mass of distrustful rivals united only in their suspicion of one another.

Thorians

Particularly vibrant in the Victorum Sector, Inquisitors of a Thorian mindset have been drawn to this region since the earliest days of the Imperium. Even before the time of Sebastian Thor, those who looked to the masses of humanity for signs of greatness and divine imprint have considered the Victorum Sector particularly blessed in talent and potential, and they have only waxed stronger since the overthrow of The Temple.

The Black Badge

A minor Puritan faction consisting of fewer than a dozen Inquisitors and Interrogators, the Black Badge's ranks are made up exclusively of former Arbitrators and Imperial legal prelates.

Consanctorians

An offshoot of the Thorians, Consanctorians are an ideology unique to the Segmentum Tempestus.

Obliates

A dangerous and nearly-outcast Puritan faction, the Obliate philosophy is a foreign import from the Segmentum Pacificus. It fiercely condemns the use of psychic powers and warp knowledge, including such Imperial-sanctioned uses as Navigators and Astropaths, and is notorious for the servitor-like nature of those warp-touched individuals unfortunate enough to be seconded to their use. Particularly strong in the sectors about Hydraphur, the Obliates influence touches any sector with significant warp traffic, and Victorum is no exception. Somewhat uniquely, its adherents are not confined to the Inqusition and may be found among the ranks of the Adeptus Astra Telepathic and the Scholastica Psykana, where they are much opposed by more experienced (and cynical) adepts. Often confused for Monodominants, they are if anything more extreme and are regarded as dangerously naive by more experienced Inquisitors. In the Victorum Sector, only three Inquisitors are openly sympathetic to this philosophy, but their allies and acolytes mean it has adherents throughout the sector.

Radicals

Xanthites

Xanthism has been driven underground by Lord Inquisitor Qatasoum, but despite all appearances it has survived, and indeed thrived in the ranks of the conclave.

Recongregators

Essentially extinct in the Victorum Sector, those Recongregators who survived the Rostrum Purge fled beyond the borders of the sector, leaving behind fearful acolytes operating under the strictest and most paranoid secrecy. Their remaining agents bear the scars of Qatasoum's War and seek bloody vengeance upon their former comrades in the Inquisition.

The Rostrum Conclave

Once seen as a potential rival to the Victorum Conclave itself, this body of arch-Radicals was purged by Lord Inquisitor Qatasoum and his allied Amalathians in a short and brutal Inquisition War. Democratic, open-minded, and willing to use any and all tools to protect Mankind and the Imperium, they represented the worst excesses of Radical ideology.