Uber Aemos



Uber Aemos was a member of Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn's retinue, the longest serving member, until his death. Aemos was not a young man and died after successfully containing the daemonhost Cherubael. Before serving Eisenhorn as a "savant" he had also served Inquisitor Hapshant in the same capacity.

A savant is an investigator whose

Uber Aemos was a human male who was the longest-serving Acolyte in the Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn's retinue and had also served Eisenhorn's own mentor, the Inquisitor Hapshant. Aemos was a Savant, an investigator whose brain had been augmented with increased mental processing power, data storage and memory recall abilities. A Savant's special talents were used to help an Inquisitor with various tasks related to investigatuon that required a rapid utilisation of information, such ascalculating various mathetimatical probabilities, communicating in rare languages and dialects with indigenous populations and translating ancient texts.

Aemos was obsessed with collecting information and then analyzing it. Any information was grist to Aemos' mill, it was all aborbed by his eidetic memory and used in his analyses for Hapshan and, later, Eisenhorn. This obsessive behaviour was the result of his being infected with a "meme virus" in early middle age.

Like his final master, Eisenhorn, he made use of prosthetics & augmetic implants and it was these augmentations which allowed him to make use of the information he was compelled to collect. He also resembled Eisenhorn in that his augmetic implants compelled him to shave his head.

Aemos can probably be seen as a "mad professor" type, his characteristic phrase when puzzled was "most perturbatory".

His death came about whilst deciphering text from Promody about the history of Ghül; the problems he encountered led to him using a book belonging to Eisenhorn, the Malus Codicium. The deamonhost Cherubael used this book to communicate with Aemos promising him the information he wanted in exchange for his (its?) own release. Eisenhorn and Aemos were travelling on the Essene, a rogue trader ship when Eisenhorn discovered this plan but the Essene was boarded by Grandmaster Osma and Inquisitor Heldane who were intent on catching them both. Aemos, for reasons that escape me, summoned Cherubael and installed it into an atropath serving on the Essene. Cherubael severely damaged the Essene until Aemos could temporarily contain the deamonhost inside his own body; this was a stressful undertaking. Eisenhorn, wounded in the boarding, created a a more suitable host from the dead body and a man called Godwin Fischig.

This came too late for Aemos and whilst accellerating away from the Essene on a shuttle with Eisenhorn he succumbed to the damage done whilst containing Cherubael and died. His last words were "most perturbatory".