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(Basic) Officio Assassinorum – Novice

Officio assassins are far more than mere hired killers. They are trained from childhood, sometimes before they can even walk, to infiltrate, to use weapons, and to kill without pity, mercy or remorse. By the time of an assassin’s sixteenth birthday, the novice is far more capable of murder than the most experienced freelance hitman. Despite this, they are still not yet fully trained and need to learn the specific crafts of their Temple.

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Only humans may join the Officio Assassinorum. Most of these will be children, although a few adults are accepted for training.

Acute Hearing

Brawler

Concealment – Rural

Concealment – Urban

Excellent Vision

Fleet of Foot

Immunity to Disease

Immunity to Poison

Psychic Resistance

Scale Sheer Surface

Secret Language – Temple

Silent Move – Rural

Silent Move – Urban

Specialist Weapon – up to six types in total

Swim

Knife

Upon entering this career, the player must agree with the GM which Temple he is joining. This should in some way be appropriate to the character’s existing abilities and deeds.

Novices of the Culexus Temple will always have the Pariah ability. It is impossible to enter the Culexus Temple as a second or subsequent career if a character does not have the Pariah ability.

Officio Assassinorum – Callidus Adept

Officio Assassinorum – Culexus Adept

Officio Assassinorum – Eversor Adept

Officio Assassinorum – Vindicare Adept

Officio Assassinorum – Adept of any other Temple

Shootist – Hitman

Cultist – Death Fanatic

(Advanced) Officio Assassinorum – Callidus Adept

The Callidus Temple concentrates on stealth and infiltration. One of their most secret specialisations is to covertly assassinate and mimic targets. They do this by means of a drug called polymorphine, which allows the assassin to transform their shape into that of any other human. Abhumans, animals and aliens can also be imitated with the surgical implantation of certain modifications, activated by the polymorphine, that allow for the growth and control of extra arms, additional muscle growth, and so on.

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Callidus Adept

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Acrobatic

Blademaster

Brawler

Catfall

Charm

Contortionist

Cryptography

Daemon Lore

Disarm

Disguise

Dodge

Escapology

Feint

First Strike

Fleet Footed

Fearless

Heraldry

Jump Back

Leap

Lightning Reflexes

Literacy – Basic

Mimic

Pick Lock

Prepare Poison

Seduction

Specialist Weapon – Flamer

Use Polymorphine

Use Respirator

Xenology

Xenotechnology – C’tan

Neural shredder

C’tan phase sword

3 knives coated with Bloodfire

Garotte

Canister of heat resistant syn-skin (black, 10 doses)

Canister of synskin solvent (10 doses)

Detox gland (does not affect polymorphine)

Inplanted infra-vision

Injector with 6 doses of polymorphine

3 vials of liquid Bloodfire

Officio Assassinorum – Master of Assassins

Shootist – Hitman

Cultist – Death Fanatic

(Advanced) Officio Assassinorum – Culexus Adept

Culexus assassins are truly horrifying. If the reputation of the Officio Assassinorum was not enough, all members of the Culexus Temple are pariahs, anti-psykers to a far greater degree than mere untouchables, with a negative warp signature that leaves all close to them with a feeling of utter revulsion and dread. They are utterly immune to psychic powers and actually absorb psychic energy used against them. Because of this, their targets are usually psykers. Their favourite method of assassinating such a target is to take hold of them and leech their souls from their body via a form of vampirism.

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Culexus Adept

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Brawler

Contortionist

Cryptography

Daemon Lore

Dodge

Escapology

Fearless

Heraldry

Lightning Reflexes

Literacy – Basic

Marksman

Pick Lock

Psychic Awareness

Specialist Weapon – Animus Speculum

Specialist Weapon – Grenade

Use Respirator

Xenology

Animus Speculum

2 psyk-out grenades

Canister of heat-resistant syn-skin (black, 10 doses)

Canister of syn-skin solvent

Implanted infra-vision

Detox gland

Culexus Adepts develop the Etherium mutation D6 months after entering the career, as a result of the meditation rituals that make up the Temple’s training, enhancing their pariah curse until even the non-psychic have difficulty registering their presence. Etherium means that characters will only be aware of a Culexus Assassin’s presence (even if standing directly in front of them) if they first pass an Initiative test. Failed tests can be retaken the following round, although once characters have seen the Assassin, they remain aware of him or her until the end of the immediate encounter. Even when characters are unable to perceive the Assassin, they will still suffer the effects of the Culexus’s warp-negative presence.

Officio Assassinorum – Master of Assassins

Shootist – Hitman

(Advanced) Officio Assassinorum – Eversor Adept

Whereas most of the individual Temples are not known by name, every Imperial politician or military commander knows of Eversor. Where other Temples preach a doctrine of silent kills with little or no collateral damage, Eversor throws that rulebook out of the window. Witnesses of Eversor attacks are few, but the assassins make sure to always leave one survivor, to tell others of the carnage they have been a part of. Fuelled by vast quantities of damaging combat drugs, many Eversor assassins do not live beyond their early twenties, and when they do die, their corrupted metabolism breaks down with explosive results. The Master of Assassins for the Eversor Temple is a haggard shell of a man, barely able to breathe without aid, thanks to the damaging effects of his last-resort Barrage injector, used repeatedly on his final field mission, where he single-handedly wiped out the upper echelons of the Grey Tigers Space Marine Chapter, as punishment for their use of Daemon weapons.

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Eversor Adept

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Brawler

Combat Master

Contortionist

Cryptography

Daemon Lore

Dodge

Escapology

Fast Shot

Fearsome

First Strike

Fearless

Furious Assault

Heraldry

Hurl Opponent

Impetuous

Lightning Reflexes

Literacy – Basic

Pick Lock

Specialist Weapon – Grenade

Specialist Weapon – Shock

Step Aside

True Grit

Use Respirator

Xenology

Bolt pistol and needle pistol combi-weapon, with two clips of 12 bolts, two clips of 6 Bloodfire toxin needles and a power pack

Power sword with power pack

Neuro-gauntlet

3 melta bombs

Sentinel sensor array (combined bio-scanner, energy scanner and motion tracker, all with a 360º radius of 250 yards)

Canister of heat resistant syn-skin (black, 10 doses)

Canister of syn-skin solvent

Implanted infra-vision

Psychon gland

Spur gland

Detox gland

Injector with 3 doses of Barrage

D6 months into the career, Eversor Adepts gain the Poison Blood – Bloodfire mutation.

The body of an Eversor is a nightmarish, drug-fuelled, perversion of nature that barely keeps itself in check at the best of times. If the Eversor Adept is killed (either during or after his time in this career), then his body will explode with the effects of a plasma grenade. Additionally, every character within D6 yards is splashed on D6 locations with bloodfire poison.

Officio Assassinorum – Master of Assassins

Shootist – Hitman

Cultist – Death Fanatic

(Advanced) Officio Assassinorum – Vindicare Adept

Vindicare are snipers. They can lie undetected, unmoving, for weeks at a time, waiting for a target to appear. When they do, a single shot is all that is needed, their custom-built Exitus rifles firing exactly the right type of bullet for the job.

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Brawler

Contortionist

Cryptography

Daemon Lore

Deadeye Shot

Dodge

Escapology

Fast Draw

Fearless

Heraldry

Hibernate

Hipshooting

Lightning Reflexes

Literacy – Basic

Marksman

Pick Lock

Quickload

Rock Steady Aim

Use Respirator

Xenology

Exitus long rifle with 3 Exitus rounds, 1 turbo-penetrator round, 1 hellfire round and 1 shield breaker round, and fitted with a combined range-finder and motion predictor sight

Exitus handgun with four clips of 5 Exitus rounds and a laser sight

Advanced bionic lungs

Canister of heat resistant syn-skin (10 doses)

Spy mask (combines infra-goggles, food dispenser, bio-scanner auspex)

Detox gland

Officio Assassinorum – Master of Assassins

Shootist – Hitman

(Advanced) Officio Assassinorum – Master of Assassins

The highest-ranking assassins in each Temple are the Masters of Assassins. These men and women are experts at killing, possibly the most lethal individuals in the Imperium. They don’t normally go on missions, instead preferring to remain within the Temple, training novices in the Temple’s deadly arts. However, should the Temple be exposed to a difficult or prestigious target, Masters will often come out of their semi-retirement, even if just for the challenge.

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Master of Assassins

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Intimidate

Leader

Literacy – Advanced

Specialist Weapon – Digital

Teacher

As previous career, plus five digital weapons

Shootist – Hitman

Noble – Count / Countess