Gideon Ravenor

Gideon Ravenor was a ordo xenos inquisitor of some renown and one of the inquisitions most powerful psykers. During his time as an interrogator he was severely wounded from a terrorist attack. Thanks to the marvels of the adeptus mechanicus and Ravenors own unbending will he survived, but due to extensive tissue damage and burns he were doomed to spend the rest of his days in a life supporting force chair. The sensory deprivation and the chairs built in psy-boosters allowed Ravenor to continue in the Emperors service. As an inquisitor he won many great victories and at one point he actually help save the material universe all together.

Ironically Ravenor gained much greater fame among the imperial elite as a philosopher than he did as a warrior. His esoteric book “The Spheres of Longing” is generally considered to be his greatest work.

History
Gideon Ravenor was born 304. M41. His planet of origin is never stated. Due to the inquisitions high recruitment standards for psykers we can presume that Ravenor was indoctrinated in the Scholastia Psykana from childhood.

As a young man he was assigned as an interrogator for the (in)famous inqisitor Gregor Eisenhorn. In time Eisenhorn came to regard Ravenor as his foremost pupil and the ideal inquisitor. During his time as an interrogator Ravonor enjoyed a long relationship with the Carthaen swordswoman Arianrhod Esw Sweydyr. This love affair came to a swift halt when Arianrhod was slain by a dark eldar haemonculus from the kabal of the Fell Witch, during the cleansing of an xenophile cult on Lethe Eleven in 338.M41.

Shortly after this grave personal tragedy Ravenor participated alongside his master in a great triumph on Tharacian Primaris, to celebrate the success Ophidian crusade. Due to the machinations of the radical inquisitor Quixos the triumph ended in blood soaked chaos when the parade was attacked by traitor fighters and thirty-three alpha and alpha-plus psykers were freed from their holding tanks. Eisenhorn escaped unharmed, thanks to the demonical intervention of Cherubael but Ravenor suffered third degree burns on his whole body and had to be consigned to a force chair. Thanks to his psychic power Ravenor could still serve and after his health had stabilised he was promoted to full inquisitorial status.

As an inquisitor seem to subscribe to a Xeno Hybrical-Ocularian philosophy, ergo he cooperates with “worthy” aliens and tries to predict the future. Some years after the disaster on Tharacian Primaris Ravenor apprenticed himself to an unknown Eldar farseer to learn divination. The knowledge and allies he gained by this pact made it possible for him and Eisenhorn to defeat the arch traitor Pontius Glaw on the planet 5213X in 345.M41 and thereby, according to the farseer, save the galaxy from utter destruction.

Powers and abilities
Ravenor has on occasion been referred to as an alpha-plus psyker. This claim seem to have originated after the canonical introduction of the psyker assessment scale but before the levels got strictly defined. In the novel “Ravenor” the title character is said to be a high delta/low gamma psyker, a claim that corresponds well with his described abilities and the fact that Ravenor is weaker then the rogue gamma psyker Revoke.

Ravenors psychic abilities seems to be focused in three areas: telepathy, telekinesis and divination. He can mindskim whole hives in search for specific persons, crush individual enemies with his mind and, with great difficulty, see faint images of possible futures.

To strengthen his abilities Ravenor uses several psychic artefacts. His force chair is equipped with technological psy-boosters to lend him raw strenght. Some of Ravenors henchmen also wear wraithbone amulets that allow the inquisitor to easily contact or posses his servants.