Editing Nobledark Imperium Notable People (section)

=== Master of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica, Astronomican, Schola Psykana and the Black Ships Lady Ina Kissa ===

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The current High Lady of the Psykana, Adeptus Astra Telepathica and The Black Ships is known by the name of Lady Ina Kissa. The woman herself stand at a little over five foot tall, though holds herself taller, her face is lined with age and her hair is closer to white than grey now. She might have been considered moderately pretty in her youth although distinctive would probably be more honest. Her eyes were orange or yellow as would betray a Prosperan heritage but such a thing is of historical records now centuries old, her eyes have long since greyed and dimmed into blindness. In truth she is not much more powerful than a Primaris Battle Psyker but she has in her long, long years mastered the use of her abilities and is feared by many creatures that should have no normal cause to fear her.
 
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She was born, many years ago, to an Old Earth family and she did enter the Scholar Psykana at the age of fifteen. Records of her life between this age and her service to the Imperial guard at age four hundred and twenty are sketchy at best. There was an incident at the time she would have been at the Scholar of someone trying to summon the Chaos Eldar of the Court of the Winter Touch and the attempted atrocity being violently aborted by the actions of a belligerent student with seemingly no sense of either fear or self-preservation. The identity of the student and indeed the (presumed) tutor summoning the thrice damned has never been confirmed.
 
The gap in the records is irretrievable but bears the authority of the Inquisition.
 
When the much older Ina Kissa returned to the light of society she was very much a different woman. Gone was any semblance of youth or innocence and in it’s place a hard won wisdom and a withering and severe attitude to the general state of her fellow psykers. Her reasons for leaving the service of the Inquisition have never been confirmed. It is suspected that her unknown master retired or possibly died although many secretly believe that she was just too much of an insufferable bitch to endure and she was “persuaded to seek purpose elsewhere”. What ever the reason she seems to bear no ill will to the Inquisition although she has never once given hint to either who her master was or what they did in those centuries.
 
What is known is that she cultivated a broad and deep wisdom of all things relating to warp-craft. Things that should be known and things that, the wise and the mad would both attest, should also be known but less happily. She knows of may true names of the never-born and the damned and the lore surrounding them. She knows and seems fluent in the black speech of the warp, the very tongue of the gods themselves, and has cursed out deamons and the damned in it. It is a speech that cuts through the air like silver knives, lacerating and burning the tongue and lips of mortals foolish enough to speak it and causes bleeding in the ears of those who hear it. How she became so proficient in it is known now only to her.
 
In centuries prior to her rise to prominence there was some attempts to “modernize” the Scholar Psykana. To move away from the master and apprentice systems of the past and give rise to schools and collages with formal curriculum and standardized teaching methods. In the years of her rule this has been strongly discouraged. The schools her predecessor set up stand now mostly empty as the would be students gather in covens and coteries, learning the old ways from old masters as the conscious drive to hold on to the old traditions is pushed. Her critics claim that she is a primitive and a regressive idolizing some romanticized time that never was but she does not despise new knowledge, it’s just that she holds it in no esteem only because it is new. Old fashioned as her promoted methods and policies are none can deny that they are effective no matter how much they might want to.
 
For all that she is a fairy tale witch (an image she may have intentionally cultivated) none can claim her jurisdiction is found wanting or her duties shirked. Her presence as a High Lady of the Imperium is both comforting and worrying though thankfully for the peace of mind for many she does not take a real interest in anything that doesn't interfere with her work or the running of her branch of society she don't much care but heaven help those that trespass on what she sees as hers.

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