The RADICAL Factions of the INQUISITION | Warhammer 40,000 Lore

I really love that the radicals aren't just a monolith of "inquisitors who use chaos" but a wide range of conflicting ideologies, just likr sects in real life. It really adds so much more depth to what would otherwise be a pretty simple faction of religious zealots. The seculus attenuos in particular is super interesting: almost like the secular societies of the 19th century who, whilst still Christian, believed that government and religion should be separate entities

Oh I see my all-time fave Czevak in the thumbnail!

Wasn't there a faction that wants to kill the emperor so that he can be reborn? I seem to remember hearing about that somewhere...

Radical inquisitors are the perfect counter the IOM means.
For the love of TERRA please finish the King In Yellow storyline before i turn 65 GW!

On this episode of "Will it Badab" with Arbitor Ian ... a bunch of fraggin' heretics.

All Hail the You Tube Algorithm Gods

ian how about a deep dive into the end and the death ? hugs

The existance of Istvaanians is so dumb. As if the Imperium is short of enemies or warlike hatred for them.

To me a bunch of edgelord self-inserts who know the Imperial Norm is BS but somehow have unlimited power in it kills the setting for me. Having these people who are above it all is too fourth wall breaking. It casts every other character as an unimaginative fool who doesn't realise they are living in a satire.

I'm fine with Inquisitors going radical but all these formalised sects is insane. How did all these Inquisitors gain such trust and escape oversight?

"Inquisitors have sometimes come to blows" seems so weird. These factioms should be annihilating each other. A single inquisitor is much more dangerous than most other enemies. I don't get it.

Great stuff as usual.

Brother gets me through school helping to keep me sane.

Totally radical, dude! 🤘

Have you looked into the Ordo chronos. They are a minor ordo that deal with themporal anomalies that occur due to the interesting nature of warp travel. Dont know if thers much lore for them. But i always found them interesting

Radicals be like "it was a high-gothic salute"

It’s funny to note how some of these factions actually get some of the deepest truths of the 40K universe… but then manage to completely misinterpret the appropriate curse of action that should come from them!

Live your life as though your name was "Thaddeus Hack".

"The imperium is constantly at risk of BECOMING decrepit and corrupt"
Wow, truly, nothing gets past these guys, lol.

"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." -- The Third Man

I've always loved how "radicals" in 40k can either be "we must use demons to save humanity" or "actually it's not that good that the church runs everything".

Radical Sex.

I would love a video on XANA! ian! yes .. that mad planet :D

keep up the great work bud! ( shout out to maria and the gang also!")

Been a long time since I read the Eisenhorn trilogy but what category of Inquisitor did he fall under as I recall he went a bit shady.

If you ever wondered who the Imperium's greatest enemy is, it's not Chaos or Xenos, it's literally itself. The Inquisitorial institution is one of the major reasons, if not THE reason, why the Imperium is on a steady decline for the last 10K years.

I thought this title said The Radical FASHIONS of the Inquisition at first - a video about 40k fashion would be excellent though.

The most interesting thing about reading the Inquisitor stories in various books, is that while they are very obviously NOT good people, you often see flashes of the extraordinary person that they might have been had they not been born in the Imperium. Instead, their entire life and identity went into the appropriate machine, and was shaped to the Imperium's needs. I like inquisitors not because they are good people, but because they are often an interesting ruin of a person.

Dammit why is Ian so GOOD at this?!

This is another fine video addressing the gothicism of the 40K mythos. I'd really like to see something that dealt with the trend as a whole because I think it's central to the appeal of the hobby.

finally, the good inquisitors! blows up and turns into a daemon

Seeing Eisenhorn slowly dip into this faith was great reading.

Ohhhh didn't know about the Phaenonites I think I've found the perfect MacGuffin for why there's some sort of mad techno men on NOT Gorka Morka world I've been scheming up. 🪖😈

Are there Xenarites Inqusitors? I know that's more Cult Mechanicus than Ordo Xenos or the Inquisition, but I thought there would be a radical faction of the Inquisition that studies and uses xenos technology.

Recongregators, becoming the change you want to see in the Galaxy

Love it thank you

Are there any true 'old' Inquisitiors that aren't in some way radical?

I'm doing my part to please Algo

I keep asking for the story of ravner

Yay, another Ian video!

What were the reference books used for this video? Excellent summation of the major factions. Loving this series. ❤

The Seculos Attendous actually sound pretty reasonable.

And then there is the Cognitae, the ancient old organization some call shadow twin or counter-inquisition...

Damn, all these radical factions are toying with forces that nearly ended the galaxy once and could bring down Imperial rule across an entire sector if left unchecked, and then there’s the Seculos Attenduous. Who are literally just protestants.

Ordos Hydra?

Fantastic video. Very informative, learned a lot in this video. Always thought the Inquisition was just shallow deep-state police force. All the different factions add so much to the flavour of the universe and how they clash in places and during events like the Badab War. Looking forward to the next video. Keep up the good work.

Please bring back horrible heretics!

What book are you taken these text images from?

Thank you for the time and effort you put into making this video! It’s appreciated!

This video reminded me of my dark heresy group right when the rules for creating high level inquisitors and other similar characters came out. My group set up an all inquisitors game based around a large group of inquisitors of various ordos, factions, and methods forced to work together to deal with incredibly powerful threats. It was so cool watching the various belief systems bounce off each other. My character remains a favorite of mine a former noble woman turned interrogator then elevated to full inquisitor. She was a spymaster style inquisitor with allies, contact, and agents everywhere. All the while she often pretended to be a wealth incompetent and easily corruptible noblewoman with more gelt than brains. She was a ordo hereticus inquisitor of the polypsykana faction although she worked very hard to keep that secret.