Torquemada Coteaz

The Lord Inquisitor

Torquemada Coteaz is an Inquisitor Lord of the Ordo Malleus. He is famous for his zeal as well as his belief that, to be able to better battle the enemies of the Imperium, one must be able to command the vast resources and personnel required to do so.

Biography

Not a lot is known of his early life, or how he joined the Inquisition in the first place. He first rose to prominence during the Conclave of Varoth, where his brazen but ultimately well-founded castigation of fellow Inquisitor Laredian gave him the title of the High Protector of Formosa, and the all the power and influence over the eponymous sector that entailed...and honestly, even more than that - . He has tirelessly pursued the forces of the Great Enemy since then, and has purged Chaos cults and other threats to the sector and further afield.

Alas he is growing old, and is worried that for all his success, without a clear or worthy successor, all of his work will be for naught. Recently he has been discreetly pursuing research into cloning and other life-extending methods, but has stopped short of consorting with warpcraft to do so, as he knows that road leads straight to damnation.

During the 13th Black Crusade, he was seen leading a strike force of Grey Knights in the Agripinaa sector, as well battling Chaos forces at Kasr Holn and Xersia.

He's obviously named after Tomás de Torquemada, a Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. Like Coteaz, Tomás was a real zealous sumbitch and Tomás' reign eventually led to complaints to the Pope over his cruelty while there are indications he was a bit too powerful to just reprimand. In spite of this, his organization wrote down enough for them to have still gone down (well, in eyes of actual law historians at least) as a pretty-decent-start to fair legal procedures compared to the countless probably-arbitrary legal judgements made by secular courts all over the world in history beforehand, so as bad as he might have been, the Spanish Inquisition toned down the Lawful Stupid immensely in their 356 years of service.

On the Tabletop

Inquisitor Coteaz is equipped with Artificer Armor, a Bolt Pistol, a master-crafted Nemesis Daemon Hammer, and a Psyber Eagle. He is also a Psyker, and is capable of using Smite plus an additional power from the Telesthesia discipline.