"I shall whip you and brand you and castigate your flesh until there is nothing left but scars, within and without! Only then will you know what it means to be Stigmartus!"
- —Commandant Faustaff Keel of the Bolgran Terrors
A Stigmartus Officer-Bishop is an officer of the Stigmartus Chaos Cult that seeks to conquer the Jericho Reach.
An officer-bishop's duties include commanding the militaristic cult's hordes of the Lost and the Damned, including the troops of the Stigmartus Infantry, initiating new recruits into the cult, and imparting the tactics and doctrine of Elak Sarda to those troops who will carry it out.
Equal parts general and priest, the Stigmartus officer-bishops are almost all former warlords of Khazant and their descendants, as the blood of a thousand tyrants flows through their veins.
In general, a given officer-bishop is armed with a Samech Pattern Chainsword, a compact laspistol, and a Stigmartus officer's lash. Though primitive, this lash is three metres long, flexible and meant for tearing the flesh of its victims.
Wearing a xenoleather officer's coat, the officer-bishop commonly carries a Data-slate, a personal encrypted comm-link, and ritual scarification implements intended for use during the initiation ceremonies of new recruits.
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- Deathwatch: The Achilus Assault (RPG), pg. 72