play_arrow Stories: Inquisitorial Cooperation

play_arrow The Price of Prejudice

play_arrow Inquisitor Marcus Valen arrived aboard the "Fang of Retribution" with all the righteous fury of the Ordo Hereticus burning in his heart. A chapter with an abnormally high concentration of psykers? It reeked of corruption. He demanded to witness their blood rituals firsthand, certain he would find evidence of taint.

play_arrow What he found instead was discipline unlike anything he'd seen before. During his first week aboard, he witnessed three battle brothers voluntarily submit themselves to execution after their war beasts detected emotional instability in them. The brothers faced their end without protest, grateful that their sacrifice would protect their pack from corruption.

play_arrow His turning point came during a joint operation against a Chaos cult. The Blood Wolves' psykers detected a hidden curse that would have triggered when his own retinue breached the cult's inner sanctum. Instead of dismissing his concerns, they saved his life while asking nothing in return. "Perhaps," he wrote in his final report, "there are different ways to remain pure in His service."

play_arrow The Blank Observer

play_arrow When Inquisitor Helena Frost sent her prized blank, Operative Echo, to monitor the Blood Wolves' psychic activities, she expected reports of dangerous warp manipulation and barely contained power. Instead, Echo's reports spoke of restraint and safety protocols that exceeded even the Scholastica Psykana's standards.

play_arrow Echo observed their daily rituals, noting how every psychic activity was conducted under the watchful eyes of both Chaplains and war beasts. She witnessed their "Blood Bond" rituals, expecting to find warp sorcery but discovering instead a practice that somehow strengthened the participants' resistance to warp influence.

play_arrow The definitive moment came when Echo's null aura accidentally disrupted a critical ritual. Rather than showing anger, the Blood Wolves simply adapted their protocols to account for her presence. "They treat their powers not as weapons to be unleashed," she reported, "but as dangers to be constantly guarded against."

play_arrow The Machine's Truth

play_arrow Magos Biologis Theta-9 approached his assignment to study the Blood Wolves' gene-seed with the cold logic of the Mechanicus. His initial hypothesis suggested their high psyker rate indicated mutation requiring purging. Each test he ran, however, showed gene-seed purity that defied his expectations.

play_arrow The Magos observed their Artimus Gland implementation, expecting to find tech-heresy. Instead, he discovered carefully preserved Imperial technology from the Great Crusade era, maintained with a reverence that matched the Mechanicus' own devotion to ancient tech.

play_arrow His perspective shifted completely when a Blood Wolves Smith detected and repaired a corruption in his own cognitive arrays that would have eventually driven him to tech-heresy. In his final report, he noted: "Their mutations are not flaws but features, preserved with a precision that honors the Omnissiah's work."

play_arrow The Grey Knight's Witness

play_arrow Brother-Captain Artemis of the Grey Knights came to the Blood Wolves expecting to find a chapter teetering on the edge of damnation. His presence was unofficial, a personal investigation prompted by reports of their unusual practices. As a specialist in combating daemonic corruption, he was certain their blood rituals would show signs of Chaos influence.

play_arrow nstead, he found warfare against Chaos that mirrored his own chapter's dedication. During a joint operation against a daemon incursion, he witnessed firsthand how their blood bonds actually strengthened their resistance to Chaos influence. Their war beasts detected daemonic presence with an accuracy that rivaled his own psychic senses.

play_arrow The mission culminated in a desperate battle where Blood Wolves volunteered for sacrifice, using their own blood to seal a warp rift. "Their methods differ," Artemis later reported to his superiors, "but their dedication to humanity's protection equals our own."

play_arrow The Scholar's Discovery

play_arrow Inquisitor Wei Chen of the Ordo Malleus approached her investigation of the Blood Wolves as an academic exercise. Her specialty was cataloging variations in Space Marine chapters' anti-Chaos protocols, and she expected to find yet another example of doctrine straying from the Codex Astartes.

play_arrow What she discovered was an intricate system of checks and balances. The blood rituals she initially viewed with suspicion proved to be part of a complex support structure that helped psyker marines maintain their humanity. The war beasts provided an early warning system for corruption that was more reliable than any mechanical device she'd encountered.

play_arrow Her conclusion came after witnessing the chapter's response to detecting Chaos influence in one of their own. The infected battle brother had hidden his condition, but his blood brothers sensed his corruption through their bond and immediately reported him. The speed and efficiency with which they handled the threat proved their ultimate loyalty to the Emperor. "In their blood flows not corruption," she wrote, "but the Emperor's own determination to protect humanity from the Warp's influence."