Hi

I'm going to start a new campaign soon and wanted to start of with house of dust and ash. My Question is, this Inquisitor Marr, is he described in more detail in any book, any pictures of him? I think I recognize his name from somewhere, but I cannot find anything about in the books I've looked through.

Thanks

Silar Marr!

Do not utter his name, and if you must, do so in hushed tones.

He makes an appearance in House of Dust and Ash and is the acolytes’ Inquisitor in the Haarlock Legacy trilogy. He is also mentioned in the Radical’s Handbook and then linked to the mysterious and vanished Ordo Chronos. In the fluff he is portrayed as someone who is either called Lord by other Inquisitors and at the same time considered not worthy of respect by others. He is an outsider, no doubt a Radical, with a dark reputation.

Oh, smeg.

Now i need to go back and hit my Radicals book, I missed the link to Chronos. Hrm...

The Laughing God said:

I missed the link too. The only place I've ever seen the Ordo Chronos mentioned was in the Ascension book which ... I just noticed links it to Jericho reach!

What book/page links Marr to the ordo Chronos?

There is no definitive link, as Marr guards his secrets extremely well.

The specific info mentioning Marr is on page 109, bottom right corner "The Legacy of Blood".

It actually links him to the Ordo Sicarius...which is the Ordo supposedly in charge of controlling and overseeing the Assassin Temples. I don't recall where the Ordo Chronos is mentioned or what their exact purview is, although the name would suggest they deal with time somehow...which is appropriate since Calixis supposedly has these odd little "time slips".

On a more personal note though, my players actually have Silas Marr as their Inquisitor. So it was very important to me that his personality, appearance and behavior were absolutely clear. I guess the easiest way to describe him is to say that in my game he's basically Clint Eastwood. Old and white haired, usually seated with some musty furs across his knees. But bone hard, dreadfully intelligent and with an almost malicious bite to the way he speaks. When he talks, he doesn't look at the players so much as he stares at them as though his gaze is enough to flay the skin off of them. He speaks very clearly, and with a brutal directness that doesn't tolerate wasting his time with petty boot licking, excessive politeness or minor courtesies. Basically he's an Inquisitor who's lived a VERY long time and he's all business.

My players knew right away that he was a guy not to be messed with, but now as they are gaining Marr's trust they are beginning to realize just how deeply connected Marr really is...and just how much trouble they are in...

In my campaign he sits in a servitor carried chair, old and fragile. Coughing up blood which his secretary wipes off and he has eyes that looks old and glazed. This obvious display of weakness immediately earned respect from the players.

The fact that Silas is positioned on Solomon in the grey Chancellery Court and never leaves does hint that he is part of some power structure that reaches out from Terra and hence why he stays out of Calixian jurisdiction and inside Terran jurisdiction (The Court is not in the sector lord's domain).

Alox said:

how do you know the Court sits outside of Calixian jurisdiction? is this canon?

I recall reading that even the Lord Sector is subject to the ruling's of the Courts on Solomon so he may be right.

The planet is also tithed to the Munitorum, so I'm not sure how that affects any jurisdictional disputes but it does seem plausable.

The Laughing God said:

According to the info box on p. 167 in Disciples of the Dark Gods.

Very nice indeed. I had forgotten most of that, so its a nice refresher.

That does open the lines for some interesting speculation about Marr.