Captain:High Inquisitor Arsac

"She's damn crazy at times, and probably as zealous in her role as those psycic rats, but when it comes to dismantling a cult there is none finer" -- Inquisitor Reccos

Arsac (Formerly Arsac Irianos) is the current High Inquisitor and the highest authority of the and is a veteren of nearly three centuries of combat. Over these centuries she has gained a reputation for rutheless effectiveness and a list of broken cults many miles long. Due to her high status, information on her life is kept highly classified outside of public knowledge. She is a fierce and determined individual known to take extreme risks and sacrifices in the name of both her order and the people she has sworn to defend.

Appearence and Personality
Arsac has always been intimidating, her body is marked with many scars from her high-risk lifestyle. She frequently wears armour and carries weapons even in diplomatic solutions. Her scales are a pale blue and her eyes are a deep hazel. Her hair is kept short and she seems to prefer practicality over looking nice; This is exemplified in the cybernetics she bears over her left eye. Originally an injury she made the unorthadox decision to replace it with cybernetics, stating that it helps to better pick out heretics and sinners through the various visual spectrums.

Her organic eye constantly darts about and she speaks with a deep, throaty voice. She has been known to chant phrases and read a book strapped to her side when under pressure. When she gets angry she would rest her hand on a holster or scabbard (depending on the situation) and shows little patience for ego or incompetence. Preferring efficciency above all else. She is generally highly focused: She has an agends and will not rest until it is done. Her passion for the inquisition's work borders on the fanatical and her taste for battle only adds to her reputation as a fearsome fighter.

Since late in the Gyronic Shard Crisis she has experienced subtle periods of eccentricity or irrationality (moreso than her usual displays) which have been slowly growing more frequent. WHen in the presence of large concentrations of entropic energy she has experienced headaches which can, dependingo nthe intensity, impede her comabt ability.

Abilities
With over three centuries of field experience, Arsac posesses formidabile skills with both range and close-combat, particularly the use of energized claws. Her training has boosted her abilities to superdraconid levels. As a result she is much tougher, resillient and agile than a normal draconis.

She has a noticeable proficiency with which she primarily uses to enchance her own body allong with a latent ability to manipulate heat energy which she can influence to combust, heat up or redirect. She posesses a nigh-indomitable will, making her difficult to compromise or influence. Under consentration she can take on a form of battle-focus, uniting both mind and body to pull of incredible feats of strength and dexterity for a brief period of time. When under this focus she will appear trance-like.

Early life
Much of her life is shrouded in mystery. What is known is that she was born a houseless - a draconis that was born to parents without the consent of an elder - and spent the first five years of her life in an unknown metropolis. She was found by inquisitor Thanus (A man who would bercome her mentor) who took her in and, after caring for her for a week, brought her to the monastery of Drakon on Avassi prime. As she grew older she adopted the monastery as her home and its clerics as the closest thing she had to parnets.

Upon reaching the age of thirty - be it fate or chance - she was assigned to her discoverer Thanus and would spend the next fifty years under his wing. The two of them shared a bond of not just mentor and student but father and daughter as they carried out their duties. When she was sixty she was granted the title of inquisitor and requested to remain with Thanus as her pertner, the cardinals accepted this request and the two would spend the next twenty years hunting.

Twist of fate
When she was eighty she and Thanos were tasked with hunting down a group of extremists from the Isunian collective (a minor protectorate of the Balas-5 sector). The two of them stormed a hideout of the cult and cut down every extremist who dared draw a blade or gun to them. As they reached the grand hall the Isunian cult's leader was waiting for them; to show he meant business he fired at Thanus in the shoulder before pointing the laser at Arsac, smiling.

He muttered to her "Your false god is nothing compared to the might of the true holy ones!" and, furious over her fallen comrade's injury, she screamed before plunging a pike right in his chest. As he laughed maniacally she drew her fusion pistol and dischared four shots at point-blank. After the cultst's body hit the ground she ran to collpase at Thanus' body. She began to cry and in his final breath he told her that only the now matters, and that he was proud of what she had become. Over the next century she would grow bitter particularly towards the cult that weare responsible for his mentor's death, this bitternes grew to zeal as she became nothing less than a ruthless killer of all cults and dissidents.

Arsac lost her left eye in ID.219385 when she was investigating a a cult in the Sarendic protectorate. While investigating an abandoned house she was beset by cultists as she entered, furiously slaying each one who came close. While exploring a third room the cult's leader - desperate to end the inquisitor's life - came at her wit a knife. Swinging his knife he slashed her eye shortly before she grabbed his throat and began choking him, shouting at him to repent his actions before his last breath. While recovering in hospital she insisted on having cybernetics - something unorthadox in her culture - rather than having a replacement eye grown from stem cells.

Later years
When she was 203 she was granted the title of senior inquisitor, quickly shifting from frontline to commander and mentor. She longed for the days when she would charge into cult strongholds and reveled in their executions. As she remenisced she realised that her enjoyment could be tearing her apart and shifted to a focus on meditation in her downtime. For the next fifty years she would command raid after raid after raid with little casualties. She would vent her rage on captured cultists, slowly learning that the extremists were not a small cult of a few dozen but a group of based out of the collective. When she was 245 she told the then-high inquisitor Alvoros of what she discovered. Over the next five years the inquisition devoted itself to uncovering the base of the congregation's operations within imperial space.

In ID.219453 over thirty inquisitors, along with two Talon fleets, Arsac and Alvoros (depite his advanced age) stormed a fortress deep in the Tovarian nebula. Encountering hundereds of fanatical cultists they had only one order and one intention:

Kill all sinners

Arsac was at the forefront, leading the charge as they cut their way through wave after wave of enemies. Over 18 inquisitors lost their lives on the assault before reaching their leader - A Terratrix by the name of ascendant Rhahz'Khot. He let out a deafaning screech before plunging himself into an entire team of inquisitors. It was unknown if his fury was fueled by a zealous frenzy or demonic empowerment, he took his chance and tore the high inquisitor to pieces. As he stared over the broken body Arsac looked down before looking with anger at the insane alien before she muttered the words "Althamis ta solak-kham sivor kel orthosk" (Dracid: Death and eternal night await you sinner) before decapitating him with her energy blade.

The survivng inquisitors gathered around her. As they looked at Alvoros' broken corpse they quickly decided - it would not be the end for their encounters with the cult and they needed someone with experience. That someone was Arsac and she gladly accepted the mantle, claiming that the cult would not threaten the empire so long as she stood in their way. She was proclaimed high inquisitor four days later.

Andromeda War
Upon hearing of the existence of a psycic leading the Legion of Badmanz in the Twilight Sector she immediately called for the inquisition to focus it's efforts in the region. It wasn't until she was informed of the attack on Solvani III that she would lead the inquisition's efforts in the region personally. Joining several other high-ranking officials she dedicated herself to investigating the warlike Brood of War. When she discovered their warlike ways were their way of honoring of a diety (Umbrux) she quickly branded them a cult deserving of the Inquisition's judgement.

It wasn't until the battle of Crepusculum that she realised just how sinister Brood was. Along with one other inquisitor she is one of the only draconis to so-far witness, first hand, Tyraz' and Iovera's ethereal forms and was quick to brand Tyraz as a demon. The incident also made her highly distrustful of Clericarch Iovera (Inquisition philosophy clearly states that diplomacy with non-corporeal/godlike beings leads only to the benefit of the being in question. Any benefits they may provide, no matter how tempting, always outweigh the cost.), she was also insistent that Uriel discard any efforts at relations with the Divinarium out of a firm belief that in helping them the Imperium would fall prone to weakness. She was proven wrong after the battle for Alcanti when the bonds between the two powers (along with the Brood of War) grew stronger than before, making the Divinarium one of the Imperium's closest allies. Learning of 's heroism she offered him an official pardon and promised to stop sending inquisitors to deal with him.

Red Snake Rising
Tyraz was grateful for the pardon and a few months after the battle for Alcanti he presented her with one of the horns Tyraz had pulled from, thanking her and the two fostrred a deep connection. A month later Arsac approached Tyraz for help after learning of khaxvis re-emergencei n the mid-rim. What was to be a sting operation ended up becoming a horrible discoery of Volakrus' newfound intentions and power on one of the system's outer planets. After she and Tyraz managed to escape the planet she contemplated and decided to reform the Inqusition to accept all spacies form all backgrounds and had asked Tyraz if he could provide her with soem recruits.

Arsac was tested naot long later when Volakrus (who had ressurected as a clone) attacked the Selenopolis of Araveene. Under the pressures of the situation, Arsac triggered the release of energies she has only jut been fostering. Wth this power Arsac managed to burn off Volkarus' face and seared his scale, but not before he abosrbed a part of Tyraz's power. She recovered before Tyraz did and when he regianed consciousness she was there to support him. She later offered to personalyl train him to foster his potential using inquisition methods as a gesture of gratitude both for his gifts to her and for the good that she believed was inside of him. For the next few months she was his personal instructor in the ways of meditation and mental discipline.

Borealis
When word reached that the and the  were causing chaos in Borealis, Arsac was sent with a cadre of inquisitors to asses the sitation. She dueled and defeated the champion, causing his body to explode.

Discovering the extent of the Corruptus, Arsac led the newly-formed on a crusade to decimate the Chosen's ranks. Along the way She found herself haunted by in her dreams and survived an encounter with, destroying the fleet she was a part of in the process.

Arsac would return to fight the Devourer's Chosen once again, this time helping out the forces of Order to vanquish and. She later learned from the consul of Executive Admiral Terella Vex of the situation that subsequently unfolded.

Arsac continued working in Borealis as chaos unfolded. Concerned for the sudden silence from the Devourer's Chosen, she had assigned Inquisitor to assist in the mission to investigate and recover the Gyronic shards scattered across the galaxy while she stayed vigilant for Chosen activity. She was stationed on the Draconid Imperium planet of Praetoria when it was attacked by forces led by Capastrus the Emotionless. She personally led the defence alongside soldiers of the planetary garrison and with the support of several allies including Baptarion Light and Hachiman. With her allies she helped ot defeat Capastrus and engaged a mental battle to save a corrupted and executed the killing blow on Capastrus's champion form by firing a fusion pistol pulse at his head.

Arsac later told Tyraz of her nightmare that had been influenced by Shu'ytrogarva. Not knowing of the creature's existence, her dream was mistaken for subconscious feelings of fear by Tyraz which strained their relationship. She managed to calm him down after telling him she kept him in the dark for his own protection. Afterwards she requested to spend time guiding Tyraz back onto the right path. A little time after fighting the Chosen assault on the Kicath Remnant's provincial capital in Borealis, Arsac joined Tyraz in meditation which led ot a journey through Tyraz's mind. She discovered that his anger and sense of instinct had developed into a semi-split personality. Desiring control after years of rejection, Arsac attemtped tot talk it down and showed it that it did nto have to contro ltyraz to get what it wanted. When she returned to the physical world she agreed to help Tyraz, now aware what his problem was.

She was partially-present whaen assaulted the 's provincial capital in Borealis. She discovered that, alongside Baptarion and Hachiman, a mysterious entity known as "The Herald" had an interest in her.While she did not learn the reason why she helped defeat the acolyte i nhis ascended champion form. After the invasion was repelled she insisted that the Chosen in the Corrupted sector had to be attacked but an all-out assault was suicide. When they day of the assault came, Arsac personally led several legions of Talon Ground Legions to force theri way though the Chosen's forces on their homeworld. Her trust began to wane, however when she saw Inquisitor for what he had become. Branding him a hipocrit for acepting the gifts of supernaturals, she completely alienated him thereafter and Tyra had tried to intervene to stop her from further harming Sarec.

Unfortunately, this disdain got the better of her. After helping to defeat Geltastra, she continued ot act aggressively towards Sarec and declared he was no longer an inquisitor. She was unaware that on the day the TNSS Elumitan was destroyed, Emperor Marigrax had secretly imprinted Arsac and in the final conflict she succomed to his entropic corruption. She turned on her former allies and as they struggled against her empowered state, Marigrax was finally destroyed.

With his death, and from the overwhelming levels of dream energy she was exposed to, Arsac was cleansed of corruption. Weathered and abttered, she collapsed and spent several days in an intensive care unit as she recovered.

Friends
"You have the respect of both me and the holy inquisition"


 * - A good man, even if I am still doubtful of his deals with gods.
 * - You are stronger than you think. Persevere and one day I am sure you will emerge triumphant.
 * - You and I... We have something in common.

Neutral
"I advise you to stay at arm's reach from me. People tend to get burned."


 * - Somehow his relation with the human-thing reminds me of me and my own mentor.
 * - You have great potential. But there is more to life thn women, learn that.
 * - I am still cautious of you. But take no offence in it; beings like you ennerve me.
 * - There is conflict and pain within you, you must either fight it or you will be lost to it.
 * - You had better calm down, your ideals put you at risk of the Inquisition's hand.
 * - Can you forgive me...?

Enemies
"Repent or die!"


 * - You dare call yourself 'draconis'?
 * Emperor Kies - Varkeos died because of the peril within your deal? Too bad for you.
 * - Enjoy oblivion, abomination.
 * - I hope you are dead this time.

Quotes
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Herself
"Cruelty and ego often go hand-in-hand"

"You look upon an inquisitor of the Cult of Drakon, we are a reflection of death to all sinners!"

"I do not fear death for I am righteousness itself"

"By the Lifefather's great arse, why do so many people join these things?"

Others
"So much arrogance from such a little girl. I shall enjoy breaking you before the end."

- Angazhar

"Bring me her head on a pole!"

"AHAHA YOU ARE PRETTY AHAHAHA YOU DIE AHAHA AHAHAHA!"

"A fine woman, she is an inspiration, and one of my best allies....Or rather, friends."

- of the

"Life-father is false. The grox are the only truth in this universe."

- Prophet of Honour