First Character, critique would be appreciated.

[Torerador]

Inquisitor Tenvius Malgado

Tenvius was born on a small world, mostly oceans to the southeast of the Tau empire. While technically a part of the Imperium he grew up knowing nothing of the imperium beyond a basic belief in the powers of the emperor. The only offworlders were preachers and a small group of prospectors who came into the one tiny spaceport in the mountains of the only significantly sized landmass. When Tenvius was 19 his psyker powers began to manifest in the form of hearing the thoughts of others. When he confided this to his preacher the man put him in chains and took him to the space port where he paid to be taken to the nearest imperial world Pavonis, to be given to the black ships. However fate intervened. Where most would have been driven crazy by the voices inside of their head Tenvius learned to quiet them and was recognized as a powerful psyker. He was taken to an   Scholastica Psykana academy where he would begin the long process of learning the skills required to survive in this new world.

Tenvius was selected to become an acolyte of an inquisitor at age 26 after he had learned to use his pysker powers and his basic knowledge of the sword was expanded upon from the basics he learned on a ships decks at home. Despite his excellent education, first at the hands of the preachers at home, and then from the inquisition, he had a deep mistrust of technology he didn't understand and refused to us a gun beyond the black powder pistols he had used at home. So began his tutelage under Inquisitor Zulivich. Zulivich was not a scientific man, and had little interest in the subtleties' of rooting out heresy in the hearts and minds of imperial citizens. He was a man who felt at home on the battlefield and he gained minor renown for his discovery of a potential guard insurrection. Thus Tenvius spent slightly over 15 years touring the Imperium with Zulivich going to the worst of battlefields to purge the enemies of the Imperium one by one. It was hard life and he hated it. His own combats skils, while slightly better than that of a guardsman were nothing on the skills of battle brothers of the Dusk Knights (my DIY chapter) who went with the inquisitor. When he finally was promoted to full inquisitor at 47 he swore to himself to spend as little time on battlefields as he could, feeling that  his skills could better be used elsewhere. He took with him a healthy respect for space marines, an interesting guardsman named only Gavin who he had saved from execution, and his parting gift from his master a ship (not sure what type it would be, it's not large) The Carthagia. Thus he began his career as an Inquisitor in the Ordo Hereticus.

   Tenvius has so far spent his years as a full on inquisitor finding useful people to assist him and investigating the upper class and ecclestiary of worlds in the general area of his homeworld. The first thing he did when promoted to full inquisitor was to return there. However he found no family left alive. The island on which they lived had been hit by one of the worlds frequent earthquakes and had been abandoned.

Tenvius has not yet really found his niche in the massive ranks of the inquisition, not has he sided with any faction as of yet due to the fact that most of his life in the inquisition has been spent on battlefields. He does however hate battlefields, and has a general disdain both for people who feel for the urge to kill off significant portions of the populace to root out heresy, and those unwilling to use extreme violence when the situation calls for it.

WS  BS   S     T    I      WP    SG   NV   LD
75   40   55  55  60    80    60    60    85
Rationalization for stats: WS- 20 years fighting BS- hates guns S-fit, was essentially a soldier, T-same I- soldier WP-powerful pysker SG- a little over 10 years in an inquisitorial academy not sure if that's enough though. NV- He hates fighting LD-He IS an inquisitor and spent 20 convincing guardsman to fight humanities most terrifying enemies.
Special Rules/ psychic powers
Enforce will, Telepathy, Puppet Master
Black Powder: Tenvius hates shooting guns other than black powder, hence the bs of 40. However he is an excellent shot with black powder. When using black powder pistol his bs is 60 instead of 20. He will only use a non black powder weapon if he absolutely, life or death must. Furthermore since he has access to better technology (better powder, strictly speaking not black powder) his pistol does 2D6 instead of 2D3.
Don't see the need for anything else. Mabye Leader?
Equipment: 2 Black powder pistols, power weapon, two frag grenades, robes on arms, leg, and head, carapace armor on groin and torso. (He owns a full set of carapace armor but hates to use it), one vial generic pain causing potion (aids in interrogation), two vials of pain killer (gives bonus when healing, set by GM)
So this is the first inquisitor charecter I've made. So i'm sure theres some stuff that needs to be worked out. My biggest question is whether the stats seem appropriate, and about his pistol. I added his being better than an ormal black powder pistol partly because i doubt his master would allow him to use an inferior weapon for so long, and partly because of my own experienc with black powder weapons. Using the powder we make now, black powder rifles are far more powerful and accurate then they were. However that is certainly open to revision. However I do like giving in bs 20 on anything but black powder. Also, I need a name for his home planet.

[ScottM96]

One small critique about his wargear. If he hates using guns, then why does he carry a las-digiweapon? Also, surely if he's a good shot with a blackpowder pistol it would transfer to other types of pistol weapons? Perhaps raise his BS to 40 and give him a +20 bonus modifier for his pistol.

Otherwise, it's looking fantastic for your first character.

Scott.

[Zakkeg]

... Or just, y'know, give him a BS of 60 and RP the rest. But if you insist on using a special rule, then Scott's right - make his base BS 40 at minimum. (It's not like you hand him a bolter and suddenly he forgets which end to point at the enemy.)

Other points:

Inquisitorial academies don't really tend to, er, exist. It's very much an "on-the-job training" sort of vocation. And I think you're misapprehending the nature of Blackships; being put on one is hardly a death sentence. If he was deemed suitable for training by the AAT then that's exactly what would have happened - he'd be trained by the Scholastica Psykana. The Scholastica Psykana is also generally the first port of call for any Inquisitor who's in the market for a psyker, so there's your way in. (It baffles me how many people decide that their Inquisitor didn't go through the sanctioning process. It's sort of a combination of snowflakeism and a gross underestimation of the dangers presented by an unsanctioned psyker.)

You shouldn't feel the need to justify every stat point-by-point; we should get the idea mainly through his background. Speaking of, his Nerve could use a boost I reckon - by Inquisitorial standards he's downright cowardly. Besides which, it always strikes me as odd when a character's Nerve is substantially lower than their Leadership. Soiling one's trousers is hardly conducive to inspiring the troops. Initiative as well; 45 puts him at a rather indecisive Speed 3. I'd tend to give any character accustomed to combat at least Speed 4, barring extenuating circumstances.

Then there are his psychic powers. Nothing intrinsically wrong with his current set, except that he hasn't got anything allowing him to hear other people's thoughts, which seems a bit odd given that it's how he twigged he was psychic to begin with. So you may want to wedge Mind Scan in there.

Finally, the equipment. The black powder pistol thing I get, but he might do with a better sword. If he's got some objection to power/force weapons (which would fit his generally Luddite personality), at least make it master-crafted. Maybe mono-edged as well. As an Inquisitor he'd have both a need for high-end kit and the wherewithal to acquire it.

Reading back on all that it sounds a touch harsh. It isn't meant to be; for a first effort Malgado really isn't half bad.

Overall, it seems as though you're hedging to avoid being accused of creating an overpowered character. If I can give one truly useful bit of advice it's this: don't. Inquisitor was never built with balance in mind, and it only suffers when people try to inject it artificially. Just keep this rubric broadly in mind, give your characters whatever gear is appropriate to their role and station, and you won't go far wrong.

[Kaled]

I find it weird that 'Luddite' characters such as this one can adjust to use things like starships, cogitators, bionics, auspexes, grenades, digi-weapons and all the other technology of the Imperium, but still can't cope with guns.

How big do you want his ship to be? Warp-capable ships are big (the best part of a kilometre long at least) with thousands of crew. Alternatively he could have a smaller ship with no warp drive that 'hitches a ride' on a warp-capable ship that's heading in the right direction.

[DapperAnarchist]

Inquisitorial academies don't really tend to, er, exist. It's very much an "on-the-job training" sort of vocation.

Well, in my own subsector background I came up with the idea of a school, not for Inquisitors as such, but for agents of the Inquisition. Its not obligatory, but it is useful, for Inquisitors much as anyone. Better to have people already trained than them let you down in the field... Most of the students don't become Inquisitors, but agents of them in various forms. Indeed, a large number never graduate, dying in the training exercises. It would have the same position as the specialist Stormtrooper units kept by Inquisition fortresses.

[InquisitorHeidfeld]

A few things...

It may or may not be important to note that a planet which has only one landmass of significant size, with the rest of the planet covered by oceans, will have very significant weather. Swells will have about half of the planet's circumference to build in and storms will race across the oceans gathering huge amounts of energy as they come. We're talking very violent storms making landfall, huge rainfall...etc. Even up in the mountains he'll still have been surrounded by architechture which would have to be described as 'cyclopean', huge and monolithic, buttressed against the extreme climate. Any technology around him will have been similarly rugged and, in terms of weaponary, it's likely to be weapons which are effected as little as possible by water and high winds (probably laser TBH - you're certainly not going to want to try to load a black powder weapon in that sort of weather).

Sacrificing psykers to the Emperor is not (IIRC) something most people are aware of - the primary role of the Black Ships is to gather psykers for training or soul-binding and to protect the Imperium from the uncontrollable outbursts of the Alpha class psykers. To my mind at least the Emperor's diet is not publicised.
Among other things that means that (from my perspective at least) the Black Ships are far from sinister for most people.

[Torerador]

Excellent point on the digital weapon, it makes no sense for him to have it. I also added the power weapon, he's not much of an inquisitor if he's fighting with black powder and a glorified knife.

I've also modified the back-round some. I had the wrong organisation running the school, I was thinking of whatever the school a regular pysker would go to, so it's Scholastica Psykana now.

Also you have an excellent point Heidfeld, the weather would be quite significant. I was imagining it as covered in islands and reefs more than simply open ocean which would hopefully make the weather a little less extreme. It would certainly still be a significant part of planetary life though.