Hector Rex

Inquisitor Lord Hector Rex is a member of the Ordo Malleus daemon hunters of the Inquisition and a true hero of the Imperium of Man. He has dedicated his life to fighting the servants of Chaos in all its myriad forms, but has reserved his special loathing for the creatures of the Warp. He bears a number of titles and honourifics from his long and distinguished career, including; Proctor-General of the Conclave of Scarus, Master of the Thirty-Fourth Chamber-Practical and The Victor of Hellanus, Saviour of Vraks. Hector Rex also bears the honoured title Auditorii Imperator which means he has been granted a personal audience with the Emperor himself, having entered the Emperor's throne room and knelt before the Golden Throne to commune with the Emperor himself - one of a very few number of living men who has known such privilege. Many High Lords of Terra never gain such an honour.

History
A powerful Psyker, Rex was first selected for Imperial service after being screened for psychic potential by the Schola Psykana. His potency was such, that he easily excelled in all his training, outshining his classmates, most of whom were destined for service with the Imperial Guard. As he grew to adolescence, he was subjected to similar genetic enhancement by the Imperium's finest chirurgeons and gene-adepts, similar to that of an Adeptus Astartes, his physical body growing massively. Rex now towers eight feet tall, is heavily muscled and is in superb physical condition. Once his genetic enhancement was complete, Hector Rex was handed over to the Inquisition for more advanced training and placed as an Acolyte with Inquisitor Thor Malkin.

After long service across the galaxy, he rapidly advanced within the Inquisition's ranks to become a valued servant of the inner circle of the Ordo Malleus, privy to highly restricted information about the true nature of Daemons and how they were to be combated. Rex rose to become the leader of the Scarus Conclave, its Proctor-General, with many other Inquisitors and Acolytes as his servants. He had almost unlimited powers with which to deal with any Chaos threat in the sector.

Imparted with these formidable powers, Lord Rex has led armies, called upon the Grey Knights on numerous occasions and has access to the Imperium's full arsenal of weapons with which to protect Mankind from the threat of the daemonic possession and incursion. Lord Rex is a hard-line puritan in his beliefs, accepting no compromise when it comes to dealing with those that would (or have) trafficked with daemons. He personally tracked down and captured the renegade radical Inquisitor Galasek and Rex's own agents continue to seek the renegade's misguided acolytes across the Segmentum Obscurus.

One of Lord Rex's most famous campaign was the closing of a Warp portal on Hellanus III. There Lord Rex commanded a strike force of Grey Knights and fought hand-to-hand with a savage Greater Daemon of Khorne, casting its blasphemous form back into the Warp. In recognition of this deed he was honoured with the ancient sword Arias, a revered Nemesis Force Weapon forged at the dawn of the Imperium, reputedly blessed by the Emperor's own hand and only removed from stasis to be carried by the greatest heroes of the Ordo Malleus.

In his dangerous duties, Lord Hector Rex is assisted by a large retinue of henchmen, having many acolytes, sages, Servitors, scribes and menial servants to run his everyday affairs, but most of these do not generally follow him to the battlefield. One the field of battle he is accompanied by exorcists, priests trained to banish daemons using the power of their faith, along with many acolytes, familiars, veteran guardsmen, sages and mystics. As well as his retinue, he also has access to such dangerous weapons as Officio Assassinorum operatives and of course the fearsome Grey Knights.

Siege of Vraks
Lord Hex's most famous action occurred during the Siege of Vraks, the lamentable Imperial campaign to retake the Imperial Armoury World of Vraks Prime from the heretical Forces of Chaos led by the Apostate Cardinal Xaphan. Despite objections from the Ordo Hereticus, Lord Rex was elected the Proctor-General of the Conclave of Scarus, becoming the defacto leader of all the military forces arrayed against the legions of Chaos. The battle to save Vraks from daemonic incursion began in earnest, and so, Inquisitor Rex and his Grey Knights strike force, under the command of Brother-Captain Arvann Stern, took the fight to the Forces of Chaos. At the height of this conflict, Lord Rex faced the summoned the Lord of Bloodthirsters known as An'ggrath the Unbound.

The Bloodthirster and the Inquisitor fought, the blessing of the God-Emperor against insatiable battle lust and the strength of the Blood God. Bathed in holy light, Lord Rex fought like a man possessed, until both the Inquisitor and the Greater Daemon were wounded. Lord Rex knew the Bloodthirster's name and hurled the fell creature's name back at the fell creature like a physical blow, for the power of one's true name caused a denizen of the Warp to be repelled. As the two foes fought one another, blades leapt to and fro with blinding speed, until Lord Rex was able to focus the power of his mind upon his enemy, stabbing flashes of white lightning into his mighty blade, which impaled the daemon. From the tip of Arias a bolt of power leapt forth, causing the Bloodthirster to stagger, its legs suddenly buckling beneath it. Lord Rex continued to send more bolts of force towards the vile daemon, each bolt's touch clawed its flesh like fire.

As the fell creature called forth to its patron to lend it strength, Lord Rex plunged the Nemesis Force Sword deep into the beast's chest. A mighty halo of light exploded as Inquisitor Rex unleashed all his power, channelling it along the blade and into the black heart of the daemon. Gathering every last particle of his power, the Lord Inquisitor willed the creature dead, and thrusted his sword again, twisting the blade hard. Though he was sent sprawling to the ground with a bone-crushing blow, Arias was still hilt deep in the daemon's chest, its light burning ever brighter. The foul creature howled its frustration, for it knew that it had been defeated, the life-giving energies of the Warp severed from it, then in a flash of dark energy he was cast back screaming into the Warp from whence it came. The daemon-lord was nor more.

Though Vraks Prime was eventually reclaimed by the Imperium and brought back into the Imperial fold, it was all for naught. For the planet was forever tainted by the foul influences of both Khorne and Nurgle. Lord Rex placed the world under Ordo Malleus quarantine, declaring the planet Perdita, much to the chagrin of the rival Ordo Hereticus. In the years to come, the Ordo Malleus would conduct a long review of the what had occurred on Vraks, and it would be Lord Hextor Rex's conclusion that the Vraks System should be interdicted. Automated sentry warnings were to be positioned to warn ships away, and periodically Imperial Navy patrols would sweep through, making sure the system did not become a haven for pirates or aliens, but the planet and system would no longer be of any value to the Emperor.

Wargear & Equipment

 * Bolt Pistol - Master-crafted Bolt Pistol with Psycannon bolts.
 * Artificer Armour
 * Storm Shield
 * Arias - A master-crafted anointed force sword of antiquity said to have been blessed by the Emperor himself.
 * Grimoire of True Names
 * Emperor's Tarot
 * Sacred Incense