Prosperitas Dramatis Personae

The Prosperitas Sector has many notable individuals. Through deed, fortune, or blood, when someone’s name becomes something of note, it is written in Administratum records, and it is a trivial matter to discover the identity of the individual for someone of an educated nature. The following list includes those individuals, alive and dead, who have garnered a measure of fame within the Prosperitas Sector.

Last Updated late 594.M41

Major Nobility

House Durovera

Lady-Captain Autokrator Hermione Durovera, Sector Governor of the Prosperitas Sector is the holder of the Durovera Warrant of Trade and sister of former Sector Governor Armelius Durovera. Scandalised the Sector in 569.M41 when she took the Warrant and departed to make her fortunes in the Rimward Marches. Notable for her return, in 592, at the head of an Imperial Expeditionary Fleet following rumors of some great religious revelation or holy artefact discovered in the Rimward Marches, after which she left the Sector on pilgrimage to Holy Terra. Her flagship is the Mercury-class battlecruiser Will of Iron.

At the end of 593 she returned to the Sector supported by several gathered elements of out-sector Imperial forces including a cadre of Adeptus Astartes from the Void Hounds Chapter. Her forces launched a surprise attack on, and subsequent occupation of, Duroverum. This coup attempt saw her lay claim to the titles she previously renounced in 569 and sparked a short-duration civil war in the Sector. After securing her title as Sector Governor with the death of her brother and the assent of the High Lords of Terra, Hermione made a play to claim the role of Warmaster too - but was snubbed by the High Lords, who instead supported Sarina Khan to take the post. This is a slight that the Sector Governor has not forgotten, and she remains ever waiting for opportunities to secure power.

Many fear that, as a Rogue Trader first, and a Governor second, Hermione wishes to see the Prosperitas Sector become a frontier haven for her kind with herself as a self-styled 'Pirate Queen' taking tribute from those Rogue Traders that operate in the region.

Armelius Durovera [deceased 594.M41] was head of House Durovera and Sector Governor. Never intended to inherit, he was thrust into the position in 569.M41 when his sister Hermione, the Heir, took the family’s Warrant of Trade and House Fleet but refused the Governorship. Initially dismissed as inept and unprepared for the position, Armelius’ fortunes appeared to change in 586, when, after surviving an assassination attempt, he successfully appealed to the High Lords of Terra for the position of Warmaster; he was confirmed in this position in 589.

Armelius' rise to power was rapid and marked with a turn towards a ‘peace doctrine’ which restricted the advance of the Crusade and ensured the safety of Imperial citizens and holdings in the sector. After a second assassination attempt in 593 which claimed the lives of much of the senior staff of the Crusade, the Warmaster entered seclusion, rumored to be suffering extensive injuries. He remained absent in late 593 when Hermione seized control of his House and Duroverum, with his flagship the Word of Despite passing to a key ally, Drusilla Vox of the Adeptus Arbites. In 594 he died aboard the St Sanguinius, in front of a number of witnesses, during the tragic events there, officially ending his rule.

House di Firro

Lady-Captain Octavia di Firro is the holder of the Di Firro Warrant of Trade. Octavia di Firro is one of the oldest Rogue Traders currently active within the Prosperitas Sector and is a savage foe to any who wrong her or her family. Highly respected and feared by the other Sector Nobility she is notably vicious and pragmatic as a Captain, and has played a large part in securing the destiny and wealth of her House. During the House conflicts of 593, Lady-Captain Octavia cemented her House’s control over Subsector Secundus and the Prosperitas Trade Spine, including seizing control of Kydos from House Vilas-Lobo. She has declined to ally clearly with either House Durovera or House Vilas-Lobo in their contest for control of the Sector.

Lady-Captain di Firro has suffered a series of tragedies in recent years, losing all three of her adult children – Lucius, Servilia and Anoretta. This has led to her making an unusual decision, as she has no blood heirs. She has adopted Charon di Firro (né Jensch), her late son Lucius' husband, as her heir-designate. Her flagship, the Exile of the Void, is an unnecessarily fast Orion-class star clipper.

Scion-Heir Charon Di Firro, unexpectedly nominated heir in 594.M41, is the widower of Octavia's son Lucius. The Scion-Heir is a member of a long-serving line of the Battlefleet’s void-aristocracy and is reported to have quite the history as a Naval Officer despite his apparent youth. The Scion-Heir has yet to make a formal society debut.

Lucius di Firro [deceased 582.M41] was Lady-Captain Octavia’s son. He attracted some scandal by eloping with a military officer in the early 550s and neglecting his duties as House heir. He wrote a renowned series of journals about his exploits across the Sector. These were collected and published as the Travel Diaries of Lucius di Firro, still popular to this day with pilgrims and tourists. He died during the Caudican Exterminatus in 582.M41, leaving the Lady-Captain in mourning for over a decade.

Anoretta di Firro [deceased 564.M41] was Lady-Captain Octavia’s youngest daughter. She distinguished herself fighting as part of the House Fleet in engagements against pirates at the edge of Imperial territory, and was tragically killed during a boarding action in 564.M41.

Servilia di Firro [deceased 593.M41] was Lady-Captain Octavia’s eldest daughter. She was the most recent Heir to the House until her heroic death leading civilian volunteer forces defending Polarnus from Archenemy incursion in 593.M41.

House Majid

Lady-Captain Amira Majid is the current head of House Majid. She is the niece of Lady-Captain Khadija Majid, and former lead Void-Mistress of House Majid’s combat and trade protection forces. Amira was known as her aunt’s right hand when it came to void engagements until Khadija's death in 594. She is well-renowned for a storied history in the Imperial Navy, where she earned the rank of Commodore. She is known for being a ruthless woman, not afraid of the lash or the bolt-pistol when it comes to disciplining those beneath her, but she is well respected by her crews.

Her wife Septima is known to be a gentler soul and presents outwardly as a kinder woman than her wife, though there are numerous rumours that she is as ruthless as her wife, and her enemies often vanish before they can threaten her family. Although Lady-Captain Amira now leads House Majid, the couple bear the weight of the shame for the destruction of their House's fortune. The renegade Scion of the House, Erydia, who unleashed a techno-viral attack that devastated the entire House Majid fleet in orbit of their vassal agri world Midsummer, is their own child.

Both women have sworn to bringing their child to justice. Their flagship was the Dauntless Mk II-class light cruiser Fort Briggs, one of the few ships able to escape the destruction of the House Majid fleet by their child, but since its sacrifice at Oletheros Secunda along with Lady-Captain Khadija, they have commanded the Majid flagship, the Cardinal-class heavy cruiser Torchbearer.

Lady-Captain Khadija Majid [deceased 594.M41] was once holder of the House Majid Warrant of Trade. Khadija was generally considered to be a warmer and easier individual to work with - a canny and careful operator who built her wealth on as many trade deals with Sector factions as she did from exploiting the Imperial frontier. However, when House Majid fortunes were utterly devastated in a betrayal by their own, she survived by sheer tenacity, and led her ships in a hunt for the renegade Scion behind the attack. Her vengeance was never achieved, as the Lady-Captain gave her life protecting refugees evacuating from the Imperial colony of Olethros Secunda.

House Roshan-Fikran

Abichael Roshan-Fikran is the head of House Roshan-Fikran. Her kindly and maternal demeanour hides a terrifying intellect. She sponsors many academies and Scholae which take in bright children from poor backgrounds and give them an Imperial education. She has no declared heir and has publicly stated that the House title will pass to any Scion clever enough to defeat her at Regicide two games out of three. None have achieved this so far in forty years of trying. Publicly drawn into the fold alongside Autokrator Durovera in the House conflicts of 593, House Roshan-Fikran have found their fortunes on the rise as Lady-Captain Hermione has favoured the House’s educators over the seminary of St Sebastian’s Redoubt.

House Ruttyer

Lord Gaedren Ruttyer is Head of House Ruttyer. Known throughout the Sector as ‘The Rat King’, he has thoroughly co-opted the term, initially intended as an insult. At nearly three hundred years of age Gaedren has quite literally built an Empire out of trash and salvage, ruthlessly bringing most of the Waste Collection Guilds in the Prosperitas Sector under the influence of his House and ensuring the successful installment of his son, Axelus, as the Governor of the poison-world Letifer Secundus. It is constantly rumored that Gaedren is well aware of the suspicions of criminal activity and smuggling carried out by the ships of the family fleet and that the ‘Rat King’ sits at the center of a verminous criminal empire hidden behind a charter of Nobility. Those who openly make such accusations often fall afoul of bad luck, and no Arbites investigation into Gaedren has ever successfully led to a prosecution.

It is said that the ‘Rat King’ has no friends amongst the nobility, and that is largely true; the deformed, pale, figure of the voidborn Master of House Ruttyer is shamelessly unkempt in public and notoriously miserly towards his extensive family. His ship is the Trancier-class hyperhauler waste barge Diamond of Prosperitas.

Lord Gaedren has remained aloof from the conflicts between the various Houses, publicly declaring the Rat House unwilling to accept the authority of the Di Firro, Durovera or Vilas-Lobo “Petty Regents” and choosing instead to play all three to continue to gain power.

Governor Axelus Ruttyer is the Governor of Letifer Secundus and the son of Gaedren Ruttyer. The most favoured of Gaedren’s sixteen children, he was selected to be his father’s right hand on Letifer when the House won rulership of the planet via Axelus’ marriage to a lady of a lesser Noble House. Considered much like his father in temperament, Axelus is nonetheless better presented then his father and carries with him an air of nobility that the Rat King lacks, the product of several years of Collegia education. As a result, Axelus is often viewed as the ‘face’ of House Ruttyer, and represents his father where intimidation will not suffice in the place of more civilized nobility.

Though he has many siblings, Axelus is the current heir to the House and possesses three daughters and three sons educated in the manner of the House and the Praefectus Imperialis. He is, however, the only non-fleetbound Ruttyer, as the job of retaining order on Letifer Secundus takes his full attention.

House Vilas-Lobo

Dominatus Śikārī (Si-ka-ri) Vilas-Lobo is the Master of the House of Jackals. Śikārī, like most of the House, has been subject to accusations of genetic subversion since he was first decanted from a Vilas-Lobo genevat. A reclusive figure, raised by his family on the rigs surrounding Bachian IV, Śikārī ascended to the rank of Master of the House in 582.M41 when he killed his predecessor in one of the infamous blood duels of the House, after deeming his predecessor to be weakening the House. Since becoming the leader of the House of Jackals, Śikārī has expanded the House’s interests and fortunes beyond its mining and fleshtrading interests, building an impressive fleet capable of competition with the more trade-focused Houses, and winning lucrative access to the Forges of Naximus Prime, the first Imperial House in five hundred years to successfully do so.

Lord Śikārī is known for being a ruthless creature, a requirement of all Vilas-Lobo Scions should they wish to survive the relentless internal purges of the House, and to date has staved off multiple assassination attempts, including three from his own daughters. With the ongoing civil war between the Houses of the Prosperitas Sector following Hermione Durovera’s coup of her House, Lord Śikārī has been ferocious in asserting power over the trailing regions of Subsector Tertius and Subsector Primus, positioning his House as one of the strongest challengers to House Durovera gaining dominance and taking the title of ‘Dominatus’ in the process.

Governor Mindinha Vilas-Lobo is the Planetary Governor of Bachian IV. Mindinha has struggled against local agitation within the abhuman workforce of the planet. As the sixth Governor of the planet in a decade she is aware of the dangers of controlling the lucrative mining world for her House. Insurgent workers may kill her if she treads wrong; if she fails at her duties it is just as likely that the Master of the House of Jackals will expect her to fall on her sword (quite literally).

House Volkov

Lord-Governor Emrys Volkov is the hereditary “Lord of Midsummer”, titular Regent of that planet and the head of the local Ecclesiastical sect the ‘Harvest Cult’, Emrys has a reputation as a plain and just ruler, and a steady and reasonable voice when called upon. The Lord of Midsummer was catapulted to unexpected power in 593.M41 when the near destruction of House Majid resulted in his House – formerly the vassal house Volkov-Majid – gaining the vast majority of the Majids’ abandoned assets and being declared a major House in its own right.

Cafall Volkov is Emrys’s only surviving son after tragic events on Midsummer in 593.M41, Cafall is a renowned huntsman known previously amongst Sector nobility for arranging hunting-lodge stays on his homeworld for others. He has been catapulted to prominence alongside his father as the sole heir of the House; he shares the spotlight with his youngest sister Morwen, of whom he is famously defensive. Boisterous and rugged, he cuts an unusual figure amongst Sector nobility.

Morwen Volkov is Emrys' only daughter. Morwen was raised as a sheltered child; however, after the traumatic events of 593.M41 where she lost two of her brothers, the young Scion took to the fields of her homeworld, seeking to heal the damage done by the riots. A landskeeper of some talent, she is revered by the local peasantry, despite not seeking temporal power in her homeworld's Harvest Cult.

Boyar Angharad Volkov is Emrys’ youngest sister. Perhaps the most outward-looking of a family known for being somewhat technophobic, Angharad has taken readily to control of the House’s new trade fleet granted by House Durovera and spends a goodly amount of time on Duroverum representing the House in political matters at the court of the Lady-Captain Autokrator.

Boyar Bronwen Volkov, Lady of Firstlanding, is Emrys’ sister. Said to have a fascination with agricultural experimentation and environmental planning, she is the Boyar of the culturally significant settlement which acts as the spiritual home of Midsummer and a popular site for pilgrims.

House Caerlyn and House Palamyr

Baron Peyton Caerlyn is head of House Caerlyn and husband of Ysabella Palamyr, locked in a war with her House since the unfortunate events surrounding their betrothal earlier in the century. The Baron Caerlyn commands a considerable and effective House Guard, and is well renowned for his service in the 12th Merewald Regiment of Foot ‘The Gladewardens’ of the Imperial Guard prior to his ascension to head of his House.

Baroness Ysabella Palamyr is head of House Palamyr and wife of Peyton Caerlyn. Forced to commit familicide and slaughter a number of her family compromised by malign influence, Ysabella assumed control of House Palamyr at a young age. Her House is renowned for holding powerful secrets on the other Houses of the Prosperitas Sector, and rumoured to control an extensive spy network. Having eloped with her husband against the wishes of both their Houses, she remains in a precarious position because she still refuses to take his name and leave the ruling of her House to join his. Inexplicably, she manages to put down every single potential threat to her before they arise.

Navis Nobilite

Novator Caius Solon is head of the Navigator House Solon. Well known amongst high society on the Sector capital Duroverum, Novator Solon is a rare type to mingle outside the seclusion of the Navigator’s quarter. More powerful than his House’s only rival, Sereaus de Sousa, Caius enjoys a near-monopoly over the provision of Navigators to the vessels of the Imperium in the Prosperitas Sector – and has a reputation as an affable, if unsettlingly shaped man. He has a habit of wearing masks to hide his warped features, the hereditary result of his Navigator breeding.

Novator Sereaus de Sousa is the head of the Navigator House de Sousa. She is an ageing woman well past her prime and wracked with several hereditary diseases, a consequence of the inbreeding of the Navis Nobilite. The Scions of her House are nervous that she is reaching the end of her years, and few of them are prepared for the role, having lost so many senior Navigators to the violence on Nivalis. Her youngest son Marteus fled the family several years ago, but was later found murdered on Monacus under suspicious circumstances. The family teeters on the brink of extinction after years of its Scions leaving or marrying into other Houses of the Navis Nobilite.

Minor & Planetary Nobility

Governor Catal Antoni is hereditary Architect-Governor of Gaudium. He is notoriously hostile to House Monforte, who he blames for his planet’s problems with overcrowding. It is an open secret that he toasted their destruction in 594.M41 with some of the finest vintages in the sector. Following the sack of Agrial III by Fidelis Templar forces, Ecclesiarchy Loyalists flocked to Gaudium to regroup; he welcomed them in the hope it might raise the status of his world.

Governor Halina Chenau, an elderly but plasteel-tough woman originally from Helaerus, is now Governor of Macharion CDXI. After a distinguished career in the Helaerus Reconnaissance Regiment, Chenau was awarded retirement with full honours and the Governorship in lieu of higher command – some mutter that this was a ploy to get her out of Crusade High Command and far away from her political rivals. She has no genetic heirs and has not yet seen fit to adopt any colonist as her successor.

Governor Alice Dunkeld [missing since 594.M41] is the Planetary Governor of Lerwick. Though by law Lerwick is not a feudal world, power almost always falls to a Dunkeld, not least because of their political astuteness and their intimidating grip over their homeworld. Alice comes from an unbroken line of Dunkeld Governors since the planet’s pacification; she is not physically intimidating, but many opponents would think twice before taking her on politically. Her power grew due to a marriage of convenience to her wife, Ingrid, the Archdeacon of Lerwick; they have grown into a formidable power couple, which will likely ensure the unbroken lineage of Dunkeld governors continues. Since the Rising Flame uprising and Archenemy invasion in 594.M41, Alice Dunkeld has not been seen in public, and she is believed to have gone into hiding as-yet untraced by Imperial forces.

Lord Governor Egon Gaudin was the Governor of Butonia until his death in 597.M41.

Chancellor-Artisan Majoris Balustrade Hacknesse is an elderly and mostly deaf professor of Ecclesiastical Archaeology and de-facto ruler of Mazar-63, the hollow moon that is House Roshan-Fikran’s home.

Governor Aoife mac Sachairi is Planetary Governor of Kirkcud III. A Roshan-Fikran scholarship girl, born on Kirkcud but educated offworld, she is caught between recalcitrant locals who see her as an Imperial quisling and Administratum censors who see her as too sympathetic to the restless natives. Distinguished herself in the defence of the planet during an Archenemy strike during the Silence of 595-7.

Scion-Governor Amari Maldigri-Durovera is the Planetary Governor of Monacus. Amari is rumoured to have ambitions towards an Imperial Charter and full Noble status for their House. They are viewed with a mixture of resentment and intense pride by their subjects; ever since they gained the planetary throne in a freak baccarat accident which killed both their mother and all eligible sibling rivals, they have relentlessly pursued an agenda which puts Monacus first, even at the cost of endangering centuries-old treaties.

Alastair Rauchstadt was the head of the minor but wealthy House Rauchstadt, a trading House from Nivalis, until the House's disgrace and his disappearance in 597.M41.

Count Bhaltair Stirling is the former General of the Kirkcud PDF, promoted to leadership of the newly-raised 15th Kirkcud Foot Regiment of the Imperial Guard.

Governor-General Sebius Van Heth [deceased 594.M41] was the military Governor of Kydos, killed during the Toll War.

Khan Damir Zoric of the Pathka is the Imperial-backed planetary ruler of the savage world of Morghull.

Governor Kojo zu Septimian [deceased 594.M41] was the Governor of Olethros Secunda and the eldest child of the planet’s founder, Akwesi zu Septimian. Kojo was amongst the unfortunates who did not manage to escape Olethros Secunda after its invasion by the Archenemy, who have eagerly broadcast their sacrifice to their dark gods before every request to an Imperial vessel to surrender.

Imperial Functionaries

Master Adept Jarric Octavius [deceased 593.M41] is the former master of the Prosperitas Adeptus Astra Telepathica enclave. He was executed by High Warden Jacinta Kreel of the Black Fleet of Prosperitas following the destruction of the Tower of the Orphan’s Wail (the primary AAT holding facility for psykers awaiting shipment to Terra).

High Warden Jacinta Kreel is the current mistress of the Prosperitas Adeptus Astra Telepathica enclave. A non-psyker with extremely prejudiced views towards their population, she has overseen increasing restrictions on their freedoms throughout the sector.

Emmissarius-Palantine Sylas Derrig Soren van Boren de Toombes, Envoy First Class, Servant of the Master of the Adeptus Administratum, Scion of House Boren de Toombes, Bearer of the Voice of the Throne, is an Ambassador from the Throneworld. He arrived in the Sector in 595.M41 to officially invest Sarina Khan as Warmaster. He has since travelled to Duroverum to establish an 'Embassy' of Terra on the Capital World of the Sector.

Lady Anwyeth Ailil of House Ailil, of the Navis Nobilite, arrived as Emissarius-Palatine de Toombes' companion and chosen hand in 595. House Ailil is one of the Terran Houses closest to the Paternova of the Navis Nobilite. With the chaos and degradation of the Navigator bloodlines of the Prosperitas Sector, it appears that the Paternova wishes the establishment of new blood on the frontier, and it is House Allil’s duty to guide the foundation of new Navigator bloodlines, an essential thing for the survival of the Sector.

Crusade Forces

Warmaster Sarina Khan is the Warmaster of the Prosperitas Crusade. As an Admiral, Khan was a brilliant but eccentric commander, favouring lightning-fast decisions and reversals of strategy to confuse the enemy. Her detractors say that she was promoted too early – she was a Commodore only a few years ago – and that she delegates too much to her subordinates. Her loyal generals and Navy Captains revel in the freedom she gives them to carry out her missions in whatever way they see fit. In 595.M41 Khan, styled Warmaster Khan I, was granted the post of Warmaster with the approval of the distant High Lords of Terra. Of native Ruwwad ethnicity, Khan is the first native of the Sector to hold the title of Warmaster and is considered by many to be too young for the post.

Her position is precarious, she has few trustworthy and loyal allies, many of those are of political convenience, and she has her enemies in the form of Traditionalist factions of Crusade High Command and many other commanders who were once her peers. Worse still, although it is not publicly acknowledged, the Nobility resent having someone in a position of supreme military power who is not one of them. Though they will court the new Warmaster they will have their knives out for her - none more so than House Durovera, who have taken Terra’s decision as an affront to their honour.

Despite these threats, Khan has done her best to plot and plan a strategy to see the Crusade to victory.

Admiral Ridea Holz is the Director of Naval Intelligence. Holz is a shadowy figure. She favours deception and surgical strikes on key Archenemy command nodes, and has an utterly ruthless dedication to safeguarding the secrecy of her plans and the information security of the Crusade. In person, Admiral Holz is reportedly polite, charming and humble, but the lack of publicly available information on her previous career – coupled with a tendency for her political rivals to suffer embarrassing or lethal accidents – makes her fellow commanders extremely nervous in her company. She is responsible for the eponymous 'Holz Protocol' that implemented military rule on several vital worlds of the Prosperitas Sector. Once a salient commander, she now is the official Director of Naval Intelligence and sits at the side of Warmaster Khan as one of the most powerful commanders in the Prosperitas Crusade.

Lord-General Militant Ruprecht Janus is Aide-de-Camp to the Warmaster. A dogmatic, perfectionist officer, Janus is infamous for poor relations with his officers; while in command, he refused to give them the freedom to act independently, requiring that every minor engagement and routine transport mission be executed to his precise and exacting specifications. He is known to deliver harsh punishments to those found wanting. General Ruprecht’s mother, Heta Janus, was a famous war hero under the previous Warmaster who died while personally leading a suicide charge on an enemy General’s command vehicle. Since being retired from salient Command he has been kept in Crusade High Command as an 'advisor' - although many know that Warmaster Khan is eager to reassign him away from a command role, perhaps as the commandant of a military academy.

General Adora Astara is a senior commander in the Crusade. General Astara made a notable departure when she was under the command of Lord-General Militant Janus by seizing the initiative and pushing the Henlock front in late 593.M41; the pedantic Lord-General Janus was left fuming at her temerity. Adora is charismatic and incredibly popular with both Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy personnel. She favors the use of a Capitol Imperialis-class landcrawler, the Virtutem Gladii, as her headquarters, maintaining a close presence to the front lines. Since the opening of the Machine War on Henlock she has earned the favour of Warmaster Khan, who, after seeing her performance, nominated General Astara commander of the Cerastes Salient of the Prosperitas Crusade. Inspiring, young, and full of ideas, her good assets are tempered a little by a reputation for being hot-headed and a bit of a technophile - her forces are well-equipped, but some of that technology is untested and dangerous.

Commodore Haridax Kirill, the Void Wolf, is a former pirate brought under the wing of Warmaster Khan many years ago. Kirill has a dread reputation among Naval commanders: he is seen as the enforcer of the Warmaster and few dare speak against him, despite his chequered past. Kirill is seen as the long arm of the Warmaster, directing the fighting in the Jaculus Salient. He favours, as she does, the same unorthodox tactics that saw her rise so meteorically in the ranks of the Crusade. Many irregular and unusual formations operate under his Salient command, and he has demonstrated his knowledge of the pirate havens and secret passages of the Prosperitas Sector to great effect when leading forces on his Salient.

Vice-Admiral Rycus Frolan is a Naval officer of classic breeding, who straddles the line between the Traditionalist factions of the Crusade and the newer philosophies of officers like Warmaster Khan. Frolan fancies himself a warrior-philosopher, and has dedicated his life to revisiting the great works of the Imperial military. Of all the Salient commanders, he is the most ambitious, and would dearly love to be Warmaster one day. By reputation, Frolan favours more traditional troop formations and to him falls the fighting on the Hydros Salient. Many view Frolan as a compromise appointment; favoured by Traditionalist individuals like Lord-General Militant Janus, he is the Warmaster's one acquiescence to her rivals.

Admiral Denita Chandier is Commandant and de-facto ruler of Polarnus Station; she maintains command over the various scattered Crusade elements based there, as well as remnants of Fleet Arm Geryon limping home, defence ships from Kydos that refused to surrender to di Firro rule, and many others. A considerable if ragtag fleet has gathered under her command.

Colonel Giancarlo Firenze is the Hero of Persephon IV. A native of the once-bountiful Agri-World, the former veterinarian volunteered for the Guard when Waagh! Gazbag descended upon his home planet, and distinguished himself in service as a Medicae over the many years of gruelling war against the Greenskins. When Warmaster Armelius Durovera's reticence to engage left Persephon’s forces unsupported, the then-Major spent the wilderness years lobbying Crusade High Command for further support, culminating in being trapped aboard during the 592-593.M41 siege of Polarnus Station. With the recovery of artifacts of St Leonidas of Persephon at the breaking of the siege, Firenze ultimately returned to the planet at the head of a rallied force of the Persephonian diaspora and other faithful citizens. Since them, he has been hailed as a role model of the dutiful Guardsman across the sector, and his face plastered across posters and pict-films to inspire similar deeds of tenacity and virtue. In 595 the Colonel retired from public life, a War Hero to be remembered.

Captain-General Brianna Twine [missing since 592.M41] was an aggressive, idealistic commander from old aristocratic stock. She earned her stars as the commander of a Leman Russ tank regiment, and had the reputation for carefree arrogance typical of a senior cavalry officer. She is currently missing in action, believed killed or captured by Weeping Eye forces during the Fleet’s disastrous counter-attack during the occupation of Polarnus Station.

Commissar Demelza Quinn is the Governor of St Sebastian's Redoubt, since orchestrating a rebellion in 597.M41 which overthrew a Templar occupation led by Arch-Militant Scyre Parnassus. Rumour has it that the Officio Praefectus intend to bestow the rank of Lord Commissar for her prevention of yet another case of potentially devastating corruption of a Schola class by heretical agents.

Ecclesiarchy Loyalists

Canoness Asenath Dinah is the single most powerful Soror in the Prosperitas Sector, commanding the Sector’s only Convent-Garrison on Nivalis, and having been newly-created as the Head of the Order of His Sanguine Tears. She is a grizzled, veteran Soror who has lost much in the line of duty, and is more heavily augmented then some lesser members of the Machine Cult. Initially an ally of Cardinal-Emissarius Grulge, the Order of His Sanguine Tears was responsible for stabilizing Nivalis and enforcing the Cardinal’s iron rule until his attempted purge of his opponents in the Ecclesiarchy in 593.M41 where she interposed her Sorors between his Fidelis Militia and his foes in the Priesthood. Since the unmasking of the Cardinal as a heretic, the Canoness and her order have taken rites of penitence in shame for their part in the rise of the so-called Heresiarch.

Archconfessor Pietr Thrane [deceased 593.M41] was the Archconfessor of Duroverum (the highest Ecclesiastical station on that planet). Thrane was the leader of a moderate faction within the Ecclesiarchy opposed to Cardinal-Emissarius Grulge until his assassination in 593.M41. Initially his death was blamed on non-Imperial elements; however, subsequently, Cardinal Grulge was accused of masterminding it.

Archdeacon Ingrid Dunkeld [missing since 594.M41] is head of the Ecclesiarchy on Lerwick and wife of Alice, the Planetary Governor. Known for being a friendly, bubbly personality, who sits neatly within the orthodox factions of the Ecclesiarchy, Ingrid is more charming then her wife, relying more on convincing others to her way of thinking than using threats. Since the Rising Flame uprising and Archenemy invasion in 594.M41, Ingrid Dunkeld has not been seen in public and is believed to have gone into hiding as-yet untraced by Imperial forces.

Prelate Hadrian Grulge is the widower of disgraced heretic Ignatius Grulge. Officially pardoned for his husband's crimes in 597.M41, he now acts as a Coordinating Chaplain for the Fidelis Militia.

Adeptus Mechanicus

Archmagos Myrioi-513 is the Fabricator-General of Ferraeus, and is a truly immense augmented being with little flesh remaining upon their bones. The Archmagos has augmented and expanded their neural capacity to ridiculous levels, forgoing a Fabricator-Locum for operating several independent digital facets of their personality and spreading their biological matter amongst multiple host armatures. Considered highly conservative by their peers, the Archmagos enjoys a close relationship with Crusade High Command and the Sector Government as the most closely Imperial-loyal Forge in the sector, and the only Forge with a full Titan Legion at its command.

Chief Princeps Leks Koenig leads the Legio Ferraeus Titan Legion. A formidable warrior, he is notably arrogant and ambitious. From the control throne of the Warlord Deus Imperatrix he rules like a petty God-King of ancient times; often overstepping his place in the order of battle to issue orders to allies outside his command chain, he is considered disruptive by many Crusade officers.

Fabricator-General Every-Simply-Connected-Closed-Three-Manifold-Is-Homeomorphic-To-The-Three-Sphere Lockwood is the Fabricator-General of Castellum. A pious and efficient Magos, “Three” Lockwood runs her young and vulnerable planet with a canny eye for political advantage. Despite the constant manoeuvring and political sparring with her neighbours on Ferraeus, Lockwood gives the outward appearance of being concerned with nothing more than the spiritual and moral welfare of her charges.

Fabricator-Locum Continuity-For-All-Delta-There-Exists-Some-Epsilon-Such-That-If-Y-Lies-Within-Epsilon-Of-X-Then-F-Of-Y-Lies-Within-Delta-Of-F-Of-X Witherick concerns themselves with the day-to-day running of the manufactoria, orbital shipyards and Skitarii regiments of Castellum, and is known as an efficient and ruthless logistician.

Magos Secutor-Navpati Amytis-yâzdah is an extensively modified Secutor (war-priest) of the Naximan Mechanicum. The Magos Secutor-Navpati commands the Naximan Warfleet and holds rank equivalent to an Imperial Admiral. In 593.M41 she was responsible for collaborating with General Adora Astara to launch the Third Battle of Henlock. Her command extends over the Demi-Legio Custodii Incudatem and - in theory - the forces of House Qureshi, plus extensive Skitarii maniples. It is said she is a terror to behold, her chassis incorporating multiple armaments otherwise forbidden to the Imperium.

Aspbed-Princeps Setareh Korrami currently leads the Naximan-aligned Demi-Legio Custodii Incudatem from the Reaver-class Titan Falx Omnissiah. A stern veteran of two hundred years of combat, she is aging, and considered to be reaching the end of her service life as she becomes increasingly blended with her God-Machine and it becomes hard to distract her from the manifold.

Satrap-Princeps Laleh Qureshi of Anaximund Alpha is alone amongst the political figures of the Sector's Mechanicus political hierarchy, in that she is not a member of the Priesthood. Rather, the services of her Knight-House and the food supplied by her world are essential components of the domain claimed by Naximus Prime, and she is afforded great individual political might within the Mechanicus owing to the attempts by other Forges and Imperial Commanders to court her loyalties and gain her support. In any other sector she might simply be dismissed as a minor ruler of an agri-world, but her independence and the Knight-class war machines at her command make her uniquely powerful despite her traditionally servile position within the hierarchy. Since late 594.M41, tensions between House Qureshi and Secutor-Navpati Amytis-yâzdah, with battlefield command beset by personal animus between the two factions.

Adeptus Arbites

Provost-Marshal Sammias Carrick is the current commander of the Arbites in the Prosperitas Sector. He is a ruthless and straightforward leader who made his name as a Regulator on the wild and lawless planet of Mawson’s Wake. Nearing his second century, the Provost-Marshal has been speaking in wistful terms of retirement for the last decade – it remains to be seen which of the High Marshals will gain sufficient political capital to succeed him. Rumour has it that he finds his full title tedious in the extreme and insists on being addressed as “Chief”, an irreverence that scandalizes his noble peers on Duroverum.

Marshal-Protector Drusilla Vox is a Merewaldian noble born to an obscure and now disbanded house with notable service on Nivalis. She was promoted to Marshal of the Kuatis System in 593.M41, and shortly afterwards injured in the line of duty during the arrest of Commodore-Governor Oceanus (deceased) for treason. For her heroism on Kuatis, Vox was promoted to the rank of Marshal-Protector. Author of the "Vox Doctrine", an Arbites philosophy which favours brutal suppression of the native Annwfyn and Ruwwad populations, in contrast to the "Virellian Doctrine", which believe stricter enforcement will lead to more civil disobedience. Not seen in public since 595.M41.

High-Marshal Kemal Jabez is responsible for the policing of Subsector Primus. A former Intelligencer with out-of-sector origins, High-Marshal Jabez rose to fame after they cracked the ciphers used by the Yarrow Cartel to smuggle weaponry to criminal gangs on Gaudium. Humourless, highly intellectual and utterly devoted to their work, they are popularly said not to understand the concept of a personal life.

Lady-Marshal Adjoah Sparksmith is responsible for the policing of Subsector Secundus. A native of Olethros Secunda from humble beginnings, Lady-Marshal Sparksmith is usually to be found aboard her Punisher-class strike cruiser the Lex Glorificus, scouring the corners of the Subsector for wrongdoers. She is heavily augmented following serious injury while hunting down a raiding gang on Helaerus, and reportedly owes her life and mobility to timely intervention by the Cult Mechanicus. She is said to maintain a close relationship with several of the Fabricators-Locum of Naximus Prime.

Lord-Marshal Lask Yusuf is responsible for the policing of Subsector Tertius. Lord-Marshal Yusuf is a bluff, hearty man in his mid-fifties whose cheerful exterior belies a capacity for utter brutality when facing the enemies of the Lex. He made his name putting down a series of brushfire rebellions on Amenophis IV in the mid-80s.M41. He is popular among the Sector Arbites and a natural leader, but since settling in the Subsector Precinct-Fortress on Agrial III with his husband and two young children, he has adopted an altogether slower pace of life and seems to show little interest in higher office.

Planetary Marshal Teneros Virellian-Volkov is the Planetary Marshal of Nivalis, appointed by High Marshal Jabez in 597.M41. A noble of House Volkov by marriage, he is responsible for the "Virellian Doctrine" which proposes resolving conflicts with native Prosperitan ethnic groups with a minimum of violence.

Inquisitors of the Ordos Prosperitas

Lord-Inquisitor Hektor Aetós of the Ordo Malleus, a proud Terran monodominant Inquisitor who arrived in the Prosperitas Sector in 595.M41 to enforce the will of Terra on the Ordos Prosperitas. Little is known about the Lord-Inquisitor other than he has a reputation as a Hero of the Imperium and defended of the Throneworld.

Lady Inquisitor Halcyona Duplesis of the Ordo Xenos, an enigmatic woman who has served the Prosperitas Sector for many years. She is the senior Ordo Xenos representative within the Conclave and one of the only representatives of that Ordo in the sector.

Inquisitor Militant Corvinus of the Ordo Hereticus, the most well-known member of the Inquisitorial Conclave of the Prosperitas Sector and its official mouthpiece with Crusade High Command as the Inquisitor Miliant. Brusque and unforgiving, the Inquisitor unnerves those who try to meet with him, making him somewhat representative of the cold attitude in which the Conclave holds those who would question its authority.

Lord Inquisitor Darius Nasser of the Ordo Malleus, once a powerfully built Inquisitor known for wearing a suit of armour, since 593 the Lord Inquisitor has appeared wizened and wounded for some unknownable reason – never seen without his distinctive mask and green robes he has become more reclusive in recent years.

Inquisitor Innanah Zahid of the Ordo Hereticus, a potent intelligencer in their youth Inquisitor Zahid is now confined to a grav-assisted chair from which they are able to continue their duties as one of the most efficient hunters of heretics in the Sector. Inquisitor Zahid was responsible in part for the Ordos Prosperitas' successful campaign against the Heresiarch, Grulge.

Inquisitor Jean Luc Valtrois of the Ordo Astartes. A newcomer to the Sector as the result of mysterious sightings of Astartes-like individuals on Crusade fronts, Valtrois has a reputation as an affable and diplomatic individual.

Inquisitor Rilke Haslinger of the Ordo Malleus, an ancient woman heavily scarred by some forgotten fight, renowned for being a harsh voice in the Conclave and fairly universally disliked by her peers.

Servants of the Inquisition

Interrogator Argento Vern, Herald of the Conclave and responsible when no other Inquisitor is available for delivering the proclamations of the Conclave to various bodies of the Imperium in the Prosperitas Sector, as well as conveying its rulings to other Agents. While the role is a glorified messenger, it is one of great status for an Agent.

Magos Bring-the-Machine-Spirit-To-Rest-and-Then-Arouse-It-Once-More, senior Machine-Adept to the Inquisitiorial Conclave of the Prosperitas Sector and primary consultant on matters of the Machine Cult.

Foes of the Imperium

Ignatius Grulge, the former Cardinal of the Sector, declared apostate and heretic in 593.M41 when he was unmasked as a member of the heretical Temple of the Saviour Emperor. He fought a bloody sectarian war against Canoness Dinah and the orthodox Ecclesiarchy in the Sector until 597.M41, from his base on Nivalis, sending Fidelis Templar forces across Subsector Secundus to oppose both the Archenemy and Ecclesiarchy forces. He was arrested and officially executed in 597.M41.

Former-Inquisitor Alexandros Voss, the former Inquisitor-Militant of the Conclave, and previously renowned as a hero who had prevented Waaagh! Gazbag from ravaging the Eastern Prosperitas Sector by trapping them on Persephon IV. Voss was exposed as a traitor working for the Ruinous Powers in 593.M41, and declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the Prosperitas Conclave – in turn the rogue Inquisitor declared his colleagues Excommunicate Traitoris and a number of Inquisitorial Agents and Stormtroopers allied themselves with the renegade. Since then Voss has been a high-priority target, and a significant thorn in the side of the Inquisition.

Sharre Ajax is the leader of the Rising Flame. His background has been slowly pieced together over the years – over four decades ago, he was a talented and beloved Military Officer, a ethnic Annwfyn serving in the Defence Forces of his homeworld, Steela, in Subsector Tertius, a minor independent world that had largely escaped Imperial attention until 551.M41 when the Imperium invaded. Subjected to the full terrifying might of the Imperium of man, Ajax witnessed the worst terrors it was capable of, before his planet was shattered, its people shackled and forced to strip-mine their homeworld for Imperial greed under cruel masters.

Ajax survived only via sheer luck and the willing sacrifice of every other member of his unit to protect him. As far as is known, he is very likely the last free native of Steela. This fact has shaped a determination to demonstrate to the Imperium that his people will not go quietly into the night, and it didn’t take long for him to join up with the rebels in the Rising Flame. With a keen intellect, and a ruthlessness born of loss he quickly gained power and followers within the Flame, turning the movement to even more spectacular and grandiose acts of violence. Captured by the Imperium on Finisterra, Ajax would have likely been condemned to arco-flagellation, but after the siege of Polarnus in 593.M41 he was rumored to have escaped, and retaken control of his faction of the Rising Flame.

Herforingi (Black Speech.n: War Leaders) Arnkatla Tain and Greppur Tain are Archenemy warleaders from the blighted warp-wracked worlds of the Ættin Heima dedicated to the Ruinous Powers. The twins have led barbaric Archenemy warbands on multiple raids against the Imperium from Subsector Tenebris. Arnkatla is renowned as the more deadly of the pair, a martial leader of considerable skill and a deadly combatant whereas her brother is unimaginative and prone to wasting his forces in grinding attrition warfare. Arnkatla masterminded the capture of Polarnus Station in 592.M41 and likely would have used it as a foothold to strike deeper into the Sector had she not been foiled by Imperial forces and the agents of the Inquisition. Since loosing Polarnus the two turned their attention to Kelper Prime where their forces finally broke the Imperial defences of the world and took the planet.

Gazbag, Prophet of the Twin Sunz is a leader-beast of the greenskin Ork Waagh! that smashed into the Eastern Prosperitas Sector in 563.M41 and occupied Persephon. Unlike most Ork leader-beasts the ‘Prophet’ has not been seen in battle many times. Unlike many Ork leaders, the evasive ‘Prophet’ commands an almost-fanatical control over his servants that has never been seen in similar Ork forces, accompanied by the xeno-cultist ork-worshipping human ‘Konskripts’ that have joined the Waagh! as fanatically as his greenskin warriors. The reason for this was revealed in 594.M41 when an Ordo Xenos strike team discovered that the beast was in fact possessed by a Warp Entity. Said Warp Entity, seemingly unwilling to surrender its host, subsequently drew every Ork on Persephon into the Warp, to emerge who-knows-where.

Armelius Durovera [Missing– 586.M41] [Daemonic Imposter Banished - 594.M41], Head of House Durovera and Sector Governor. Never intended to inherit, he was thrust into the position in 569.M41 when his sister Hermione, the Heir, took the family’s Warrant of Trade and House Fleet but refused the Governorship. Initially dismissed as inept and unprepared for the position, Armelius’ fortunes appeared to change in 586.M41, when after surviving an assassination attempt, he successfully appealed to the High Lords of Terra for the position of Warmaster; he was confirmed in this position in 589.M41.

In truth, known only to agents of the Inquisition, Armelius went missing or was killed by a shape-changing warp entity in 586.M41. The entity proceeded to win favor amongst the common folk and anti-Crusade elements by promoting a ‘peace doctrine’ that has preserved lives and ensured the security of the Imperium for an unknown purpose. The creature exercised considerable control over the family’s Vassal Houses and was the de facto head of Crusade High Command until recently. It was officially banished from this realm of existence by members of the Ordo Malleus in 594.M41.