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| - The senior members of the Adeptus Ministorum are aware that there are unclean and unquiet spirits lurking within the Warp, seeking to devour the souls of the faithful. The senior clergy fear the influence of these beings, and rightly so, for they are the antithesis of all for which the God-Emperor's church stands. The Calixian Ministorum is not tasked with combating these entities: that is the role of the elite Daemonhunters of the Ordo Malleus. However, some within the Calixian Ministorum refuse to stand by and allow such evil to go unchallenged despite the political restrictions placed upon them. A few senior clergy of the Calixis Sector, with the permission of Sector Synod Arch-Cardinal Ignator, maintain a small and secretive order of specialist clerics devoted to the expelling of Warp
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| - The senior members of the Adeptus Ministorum are aware that there are unclean and unquiet spirits lurking within the Warp, seeking to devour the souls of the faithful. The senior clergy fear the influence of these beings, and rightly so, for they are the antithesis of all for which the God-Emperor's church stands. The Calixian Ministorum is not tasked with combating these entities: that is the role of the elite Daemonhunters of the Ordo Malleus. However, some within the Calixian Ministorum refuse to stand by and allow such evil to go unchallenged despite the political restrictions placed upon them. A few senior clergy of the Calixis Sector, with the permission of Sector Synod Arch-Cardinal Ignator, maintain a small and secretive order of specialist clerics devoted to the expelling of Warp fiends from the material realm. The Arch-Cardinal risks offending the powerful and secretive Inquisition for enacting such dangerous measures. He reasons, however, that in these dark days, command of a cadre of skilled and devout holy warriors sworn to destroy daemons is a treasure beyond measurable price. During the events on the world of Redemption when a daemonic assault erupted, this gamble paid off. Inquisitor Octus Enoch desperately fought to avoid invoking an Exterminatus on Redemption in the face of a daemonic incursion. Unable to procure Ordo Malleus resources due to the onset of a Warp Storm at the same time as the incursion, he petitioned the Ecclesiarchy to raise Frateris Militia regiments to combat the threat. Instead the local diocese sent three Arch Exorcists, who proved instrumental in defeating the daemonic assault. To this day, Inquisitor Enoch works closely with the Ecclesiarchy when pursuing daemonic threats and makes sure that Arch Exorcists are available to other members of the Ordo Malleus. When the Daemonhunters assist the Inquisitors of the Ordo Hereticus, Arch-Cardinal Ignator of the Calixis Sector and other Cardinals with Arch Exorcists among their staff often lend their services to Malleus Inquisitors seeking to strike down the enemies of the Imperium from within. The Arch Exorcists use faith itself as a weapon against a daemon. Their prayers and hymns madden and deafen the servants of the Archenemy, and their holy symbols and gestures bind them. They castigate and berate the possessed, driving the daemon forth before them and freeing the victim -- often with fatal consequences for both. Such is the fiery faith of these individuals that they are permitted to study the foul texts of the Archenemy in order to learn the wiles of the daemon. However, unlike the Radical Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus, they scorn using the methods of the Archenemy against him. They know better than anyone that using such methods are inherently corrupting, eventually turning the user into that which he hates most.
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