Emotion Bomb: Keira experiences a multi-emotional one at the climax of the first novel.The Enemy Weapons Are Better: The pilot of Faxlignae's Tau gunship thinks its beyond anything Imperials ever came up with.Exterminatus was necessary in one large-scale infestation. The victims were actually inhabited by Enslavers, a distinct breed of Warp entity that also has the potential to threaten entire worlds. Demonic Possession: Exploding bodies, rogue psykers, and tentacled not-quite-physical monstrosities all seem to add up to a string of possessions.Just the one.įirst Watchman: Would that be one particulate indivisible, sir, or by way of a germane inquiry? Kyrlock: Not a problem, I'm not after any of the scholastical gentlemen. Second Watchman: You won't find many of the scholastical gentlemen there at this time of night, though. Across the causistry to your left, and you'll arraign at the fifty-second littorel, one down from your destitution. Deduct your steps to the temple yard, and you'll see Chrysoprase from the South Present. Fifty-third level, south terrace.įirst Watchman: Ah, that's alimentary from here. Kyrlock: I want directions to Lower Chrysoprase. If he uses a word with more than three syllables, it's the wrong one.įirst Watchman: Delegated to meet your acquiescence, your worship. Delusions of Eloquence: The older of the two watchmen Kyrlock chats with briefly in the lower levels of Hive Tarsus in Innocence Proves Nothing.The Knight Templar Kiera is awed at someone being brave enough to lie to the inquisition to escape her sinful life. After her ruse is discovered, she reveals that she was desperate to escape: as a Gatherer of Diversity, her duties are to whore herself out to passenger and get pregnant, so that her sons will be raised by other castes (to introduce new genes to the gene pool) and her daughters will become Gatherers, too, and she is pregnant and wants better for her daughter. Deliver Us from Evil: In Innocence Proves Nothing Jenie lies to inquistorial agents, claiming she can lead them into the tunnels.Deadpan Snarker: Tech-priest Vex, occasionally.Dark Action Girl: Keira, a Sociopathic Hero though she's growing out of it and trained assassin, who serves as The Big Guy of the team due to her expertise in close combat.Probably - from any other person, this would sound like a joke, but she isn't in the habit of joking about her faith. Keira, who always wears red because she considers red a holy colour, gets around this by buying red underwear. Color-Coded Patrician: Red is strictly reserved for royalty on Secunda.Chainsaw Good: Kyrlock's signature weapon is a chainaxe, which he wields with surprising dexterity.

The casualties' skills overlap almost perfectly with some of the Angelae.

Cast Speciation: The reason almost all of Quillem's team dies in the second book.

The fact that they were resourceful and skilled enough to survive the chaos got them picked up into the Angelae. They were on patrol when it was attacked by a mystery force which was well equipped, elite, and organized, and a mob of captive psykers got loose. The two quickly formed an Odd Friendship and were subsequently placed on guard detail for one of Sepheris's military facilities. Their world Sepheris Secundus was recruiting for a Guard Regiment, and Drake was an experienced member of the Royal Scourges who decided he would rather be seeing the wider galaxy, while Kyrlock was a woodsman who got pinched for tax dodging and given the choice between being hanged or military service.

Berserk Button: Keira's is impiety (usually in the form of Drake's off-color sense of humor), though most of the time circumstances force her to restrain herself when the button is pressed, rather than giving in to her murderous instincts.

The Emperor is all, the Emperor is pure, and every last trace of the sin that stains His galaxy will be swept away so that the righteous can bask in His radiance forever. He is blood and He is fire and He is vengeance incarnate.

Julia strophes dark heresy