Editing Nobledark Imperium Notable People (section)

== Inquisitor Helynna Valeria ==

EDITOR'S NOTE: Incomplete, in progress

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Inquisitor Helynna Valeria was born a little over three centuries ago to the prominent and most noble branch of the House Valeria of Hive Tylwærdreað, Praetoria. Her family, the rambling old thing that it was, could trace it's origins to not only one of the founding families of the Praetoria but further still to one of the nobility of Gredbritton that had founded the expedition and may even have had some small part in the overthrow of Unspeakable Tyrant in the days before the Imperium. A claim unproven, unprovable and unbelieved by anyone outside the family. In her youth the House Valeria was once again in ascendancy and she grew up in luxury and wanted for nothing. As she grew it became clear to her tutors that she was a more than bright student, at least in subjects that she found engaging; sports, marksmanship, music and especially stories of ancient times when heroes did mighty deeds and the gods walked among their people. The library of her families fortified mansion had an extensive library of such chronicles both real and imagined and those that were somewhat of either. As she grew older it became evident that she was or would be strikingly beautiful though all advances were politely rebuffed, much to her family's annoyance. As one of the nobility she would live for many centuries and there would be time for courtships and marriage and such family obligations later. There was a whole galaxy out there to experience and explore and she would not be placed in some gilded cage with nothing more exciting to look forward to than polite parties and the rigid events of Praetorian high society. She traveled much as a young woman, even as far as bustling Ultramar much as Queen Eadið many centuries before though without mind for claiming the crown upon her return.

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Her return was not a joyous occasion. Unbeknownst to her and her immediate family and friends her families recent good fortune was not of honest origin and she was detained the moment she stepped into the orbital docks. She would never know the full extent of her family's transgressions, not for over a century. She was at that point unburdened by the exact details of the horrors, the bargains struck with wretched men, of the contracts signed in blood and sacrifices offered to things best left unnamed. Only by the actions of her father had she and her immediate family and associates been spared. Her father, Lord Rikaard Valeria, had written a full confession detailing everything he had known and suspected and named every member of his extended family he knew to be corrupted. He had enclosed access codes to the family mansion and the details of the Valeria finances and known assets and handed it over to the Inquisition, he answered many questions until light was glittering in the dawn on the glass and sand but those old eyes saw nothing of it as he had ingested a military issue suicide capsule.
 
Inquisitor "Grey" Windell had been satisfied with the late lord's evidence and his information sped up the investigation to an uncommon degree bar a very few loose ends. It seemed that the old patriarch had been suspicious for some time of the conduct of his brothers and was attempting to solve the problem internally, quietly and discretely. Maybe if he had been given more time but horrors beyond imagining could have occurred in those times.
 
The young Helynna Valeria was deemed free of any taint or suspicion of taint although it was extremely clear that she couldn't stay on her homeworld. Many in what was left of her recovering family would want her dead for the misery the Inquisition had inflicted on them. Misery they blamed her father for and as her father was no longer a viable target she would substitute. Perhaps out of pity or out of a sense of debt to her father's helpfulness and uncommon sense of duty to the Imperium Inquisitor "Grey" Windell took Helynna Valeria on as a member of his retinue. Much as her tutors he found her to be of sharp intellect and with training she learned much of the inquisition's work. She became proficient in various forms of firearms and passable in unarmed and knife fighting with surprisingly few scars or bruises, even becoming good friends with the hulking nova-ogryn (Terrible Tod) under whose less than tender care she was taught. In her time as an underling of the Inquisition she became interested (many would claim obsessed) with the unimaginably ancient. Her childhood passion for the stories and lore of ancient days was reignited. No matter how ancient the story, no matter how primordial the events she uncovered they always had hints and references to older things. Maybe after what happened to her family it was a means of finding the truth of things. To find the point where it all began, the moment everything went wrong, the reason behind all the mistakes. To locate the initial imbalance and then try and set things right. Maybe that was how it started, who can know? But whatever the case she quickely became one of the foremost human experts on older incarnations of the Eldar Empire and it's heroes and villains and the tantalizing hints of things that could still be out there remaining of them. Her knowledge even extended, though not extensively, to the War in Heaven and the lore of the Necron Star Empire.
 
In a scant 30 years she went from charity case to agent to apprentice of the aging Windell, a man she had in those years learned to respect if not love. Love required too much trust and trust typically doesn't come quickly to old Inquisitors and Windell was very old. He sponsored her appointment to the rank of full Inquisitor and on the day she was presented with the signet ring and Inquisitorial Rosette he named her his successor, signed over his resources to her and retired. Two months later he slipped into a last and dreamless sleep.

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