Gideon Ravenor

Gideon Ravenor is a fictional character who appears in novels set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The character was created by Dan Abnett.

Ravenor was a member of the Imperial Inquisition and part of the Ordo Xenos, tasked with keeping humanity safe from unwanted alien influences. Ravenor's body was woefully crippled, whilst he was still an Interrogator, during the atrocity of the Holy Novena on Thracian Primaris. He suffered 100% burns to his body among other injuries and the only way that medicaes could insert life-support equipment was to slice a hole in Ravenor's flesh where his mouth should have been. Ravenor now exists within the cocoon of a force chair where his already powerful psychic abilities (which became stronger to compensate for his crippled body), further boosted by built-in psi-amplifiers, allow him to function as a full Inquisitor, providing him with the ability to mind-speak to his agents as well as temporarily take control of their bodies, usually at the cost of rather painful and dizzying after-effects. In "Ravenor", we learn that his Psychic capacity is between high-level delta and low-level gamma, this makes him one of the most potent psykers in the service of the Imperium. However, this is contradicted in "Ravenor Rogue" when Orfeo Culzean describes Ravenor as an "Alpha plus psyker". This may be a typing mistake or Orfeo exaggerating Ravenor's abilities. Although in Ravenor it is mentioned that Ravenors force chair amplifies his already formidable powers. He also is able to read most people's minds as well as defeat all but the strongest psykers in single combat. He was an apprentice of the infamous Gregor Eisenhorn, who sponsored his promotion in 346.M41

Ravenor has a dedicated coterie of associates who assist him in fulfilling his role as an Inquisitor of the Imperium of Man:

Besides these, like all Inquisitors, Ravenor has other allies that help him in times of need, some of whom also appeared in other works of Dan Abnett (such as short stories). The (in)famous Inquisitor Eisenhorn also made an (arguably) final appearance in the connecting story of Ravenor and Ravenor Returned. Ravenor also allied with a group of Eldar for some time, a highly unorthodox occurrence among the Ordo Xenos, if not outright heresy. According to the end of the last Eisenhorn series book Ravenor contiunes his work even after the events in the Ravenor series. But no further details have been mentioned thus far.

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