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Character Name: Torrin Vey
Character Canon: Warhammer 40,000
Canon Point: End of chapter 30 of Oaths of Damnation
Age: Probably about 700 (We know he oversaw Anu and Anu's rite was 660 years ago)

Crime: Torrin's chapter's initiation rite requires them to be offered up in the Immaterium and possessed by daemons, which they must fight off by sheer will alone. As a result of this battle, Exorcists have very little soul left (the daemon eats it, basically). A Librarian such as Torrin comes in to finish expelling the daemon. He has done this hundreds of times, to innocent Neophytes who do not know the terrible cost this will take on them, including his former friends. Even in canon, he feels awful about it. Their chapter motto is 'damnation comes for us all' because at the end of their lives, the daemon comes and torments the remaining fragments of their soul for all eternity. There is no hope or salvation.

This is his crime: knowingly offering up his brothers to this.

To make it worse, for him, it is a list of every Brother whose initiation he has presided over. It's a very long list.  The font is very small. 


Background:
Here are generic wiki links to understand what Torrin is:
the incredibly unuseful wiki of the novel and Torrin's own mostly useless link
info on the Exorcists chapter
Librarians in general
Astartes in general 

if that's TLDR, he's a transhuman supersoldier who is also a sorcerer, whose specialty is fighting daemons.  
In his canon, he discovers that a great daemon, Caedus, has escaped imprisonment.  He takes a unit of Exorcist Astartes, the Hexbreakers, including his friend Daggan Zaidu, to Fidem IV where they fight to stop Caedus from opening a gate of Chaos.  Torrin realizes very early on that there's one way that it will end and it is...very bad for him.  But what do you do? Your duty. 

Personality:


Torrin started out like any other person from Banish--incredibly superstitious, except it's not superstition because the daemons and psychic creeps on Banish are very real.  We can infer that he was once very excited to become an Astartes--going off world, fighting for the Emperor, living beyond the age of like...20. 

All of that enthusiasm goes away with the initiation rite. Not only does he he have to survive the Astartes process, he has to survive the exorcism ritual, by which you allow a daemon to possess you, and fight it off by willpower alone and along the way, most of your soul gets chopped out; but he also had to survive the Librarius.  See, psychically gifted people (psykers) have it really bad in Warhammer, because they basically glow like big bright lights on the astral plane as something tasty for daemons to eat, every time they use their powers. Many die in Librarius training because of that.  So he's seen a lot of fellow candidates die. 

And then, he becomes, as a Librarian, the one who oversees the possession rites on others, including Daggan Zaidu, who he considered a sort of friend. Oof.  Watching his once enthusiastic, optimistic friend turn into the wrath-focused remnant of a man really affects him to this day. 

He's pessimistic. The motto of his chapter is "Damnation comes for us all" and there's no happy endings for his kind.  What do you do with that kind of nihilism? Make your life count, trying to go down fighting even if it takes everything. Giving up is for cowards and humans. 

He's self-aware, probably the most self-aware of the Exorcists. If you don't mind an excerpt from the novel "Vey had seen the possession rits a hundred times over, and had played his part in most, cutting and burning with blades both physical and mental as he battled to remove the stain of the warp from the souls of his brothers.....by the end of it there were only ragged remnants, charred scraps where once there had been a mind full of purpose. ow there was no purpose, no meaning, and precious little feeling. All of the secret societies, shared ceremonies and invented hierarchies in the galaxy wouldn't b able to change that, wouldn't be able to give back to the Exorcists what they had sacrificed. None of it could fill that empty place." (121)  Torrin sees that the rite removes a lot of what makes us human, such as the ability to connect with others (but not the desire to connect), the ability find meaning and emotional satisfaction.  He understands where it comes from and he accepts it more than the others do...or tries to.  

The fact that he sacrifices himself at the end of the novel suggests he's choosing that out of a combination of guilt (for what he's done to his brothers, the very 'crime' he has here) and, well, loneliness, because unlike his brothers, he can't fool himself that the Orisons and Brotherhoods are actually a replacement for what they lost.  So while he's very powerful (see below) he does not hold his life as worth very much. He's an empty shell that can kill things. 

He's resourceful, utilizing both his own skills, the abilities of his brothers, and outside weaknesses of enemies, to get answers he needs.  He can work solo or in groups.  

While not a natural leader, he has a tactical mind and can plan clearly around many angles and plan for a number of contingencies. He also does not hang back and let others do the work, but takes the lead himself, which even the Hexbreakers comment on is unusual for a Librarian.  

He's superstitious.  Everything is daemons, okay?  The warp runs thick in him and his prognostications are almost never wrong, and it's always best to be on guard and wary.  Part of his wariness is also his knowledge of the Chaos gods, particularly Khorne (anger and violence), Slaanesh (extreme experiences, perfectionism) and Tzeentch (hubris and knowledge).  It's part of his job to make sure his charges and himself do not fall further into the influence of these gods.  For example, he chides Zaidu, who had been possessed by Caedus, a general of Khorne, for getting angry during the mission, because anger and frustration could possible start a sort of psychic avalanche where his anger becomes uncontrollable.  It's hinted that his own former daemon, Amazarak, was of Tzeentch, so he constantly monitors his own curiosity and pursuit of knowledge. 


Abilities:
Librarian
Besting the daemon Amazarak, Torrin gets the name the Lie Eater, because he can taste sweetness when someone lies to him. Unlike Anu, his sniper, who hears his Neverbrother speak, Torrin does not hear Amazarak, only this one lasting trace.

In canon, we see him use tarot cards for divination (here's a link to the tarot he uses).  He is a known prognosticator, so his divination is very good (this would obviously require coordination with other players).  

He is also telepathic, able to read minds, perform psychic assaults, and implant thoughts into the minds of others.  Anyone sensitive to any magic or psychic abilities will be able to sense this because he is, uh, not subtle.  However, before you think he's going to gamebreak with this, using his abilities is taxing on him--hard or sustained effort causes warpsickness--bruising to appear over his body and blood to run from his eyes, and it hurts.  He's not going to do anything unless it's necessary.  

The Librarian link includes the other abilities your standard Librarian has, including force lightning.  

Astartes
Here are his canon abilities as a Space Marine.  Think of Space Marines like a bunch of 12 year old boys got together and tried to decide what the coolest stuff EVER!! would be to give to a space marine. These are the abilities per canon: you mods know your game best, as to what might be worldbreaking or metaplot breaking or not and I will abide by your decision. 

I've tried to divide his abilities into sensible categories, for your sanity 

Things that make him hard to kill:


Larraman's Organ--this is like 'super healing'. It does not regenerate lost limbs, but it can stop bleeding and even heal broken bones within minutes.  

Oolitic kidney--this filters out any poisons or toxins he may consume. He will slide into a temporary coma like state if it is used. It's also why he can't get drunk. 

Things that are just weird:

Lyman's Ear--he can focus his hearing on one exchange, and also track people, say, through walls, with his hearing. 

Multilung--he has a third lung! Yay!  This helps him breathe underwater and in toxic environments. 

Betcher's Glands--who thought acid venom spit was a good idea? Amar Astartes herself, that's who.  He can trigger the glands in his mouth. It's gross. And stupid. 

Praeomnor--this is like a pre-stomach stomach, which, in combination with the Betcher's Glands, allow him to eat just about anything. Including rocks.  

Omophagos--the 'remembrancer'. If he eats flesh of an animal or person, or drinks their blood (he's no son of Sanguinius but that's where their mutation comes from) he can 'learn' what they know.  This can be anything from vague impressions to exact things like codes  to something in canon. That's ridiculous so maybe just 'general impression'. 

Neuroglottis--can track through taste

Things that don't do much except keep him alive:

Secondary heart and Haemastamen: a larger pump and more blood supply for the big boy body.  Similarly the biscopea and ossmodula are there to boost his muscle and bone strength. 

Occulobe: good distance vision, also he can be hypnoindoctrinated through this

Sus-an and Catalepsean nodes--he can put himself into suspended animation and he can stay up for long periods of time (IIRC in Warhammer canon the longest is a month) without degrading awareness/abilities, by putting different parts of his brain to sleep. 

Mucranoid and melachromic organs: a protective waxy layer on his skin that protects from chemicals, etc, also, he can tan. 

Black Carapace--this implant allows him to interface with his armor directly. 

Here is a great Reddit thread breaking it down in exhausting detail. 
OVERALL: he is a big, heavy, human tank of a transhuman.  He can run faster than humans, lift more, and take more damage.  He has been training in live combat scenarios with all his weapons so he is more than competent at them. 

There's no clear evidence if he's a Firstborn or one of the newer and even more OverPowered Primaris Astartes, so I figure he's a Firstborn, so he's a little shorter (8 feet or so) and lacking the Belisarian Furnace and Sinew Coils.

He's also quite handy with a knife and channels warp energy through his sword.  He's familiar with firearms as well, but let's be honest, he's HUGE compared to most humans so his hands wouldn't be able to fit into a trigger guard. He's also an Astartes (see link above), which makes him bigger, faster, stronger, and a host of other dumb things (can breathe underwater/survive in outerspace, spit acid venom, and the like. 


I will accept of course any nerfing of his powers. In previous games where I have played Astartes, they often nerf the omophagos (the organ that when you eat something you can learn the thoughts and memories of it) as possibly game breaking, for example. Since this place seems pretty 'warp'y, he would notice it but easily accept that whatever brought them here is messing with his abilities. He won't be happy about it, but it would absolutely make sense IC so nerf what you will. 

Inventory: 
His incantation bowl--a crystal/metal bowl (it's used like a singing bowl) that is covered in glyphs and incantations of warding) and a small combat knife.  (Not Kerubim his special relic sword, and not his tarot deck--hopefully those are later regains). 

Ignore his icons, he will not be arriving in power armor, but in robes of the Librarius. 

Samples: 
One  and Two

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