Emil Darkhammer

Darkhammer in BFGA2

Emil Darkhammer was an Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Lord. As a follower of the Monodominant philosophy, he is insanely anti-xenos tech, which puts him at odds with Inquisitor Valeria.

Biography

In his pursuit of extreme purity, Inquisitor Darkhammer has personally ordered the Exterminatus of more than thirty worlds. While he has done this for actual important reasons -- heresy, corruption, sedition -- he could also be quite petty. Like nuking a world to destroy a xenos Artifact his rival Helyna Valeria had been pursuing. This happened multiple times.

This rivalry eventually comes to head when he learned about the newest device that Valeria was after: the Dimensional Forge, which could supposedly create a null zone sectors-wide where Daemons could not manifest. He ordered an Exterminatus on the world that Valeria thought the artifact was kept. Billions died, but that was the final straw; Valeria declaired him Excommunicate Traitoris, and chased him across Segmentum Obscurus to the world of Mindo Station.

Their followers battled there for a day, but in the end Darkhammer managed to escape on a starliner.

Codex: Inquisition would add a small aside about Darkhammer being part of the Months of Shame, but interestingly enough he was noted to NOT pursue ships with Armageddon survivors, because he was terrified of what the Space Wolves would do to him.

Meta

Emil Darkhammer was introduced in the 5th Edition Grey Knights codex as part of Inquisitor Valeria's background fluff as a rival.

In Other Media

Inquisitor Darkhammer is an important part in the third part of the Imperial Campaign, after he BLAMM's Fleet Commander Drax for being an Alpha Legion double-agent. As mentioned, he is ridiculously anti-xenos, and takes a lot of glee when Spire puts down Aeldari Craftworlder and Corsair raiders.

In the timeline that BFGA2 follows, it is he that eventually gains the upper hand over Inquisitor Valeria, with the latter being executed for being compromised by Xenos (likely due to being a penpall of Trazyn the Infinite). He is rather smug about this fact.

Spire is eventually forced to either ally with him in destroying Craftworld O'Stara, or put down the mad inquisitor to save the Space Elves.