Archmagos Hextrix of the Lathes

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Hextrix is a trained and anointed Magos of the Lathes, from the days before the place fell to Chaos and became corrupted. Barotta found him on a backwater planet in Calixis, and persuaded him to join him on his great quest.

He has served well - and risen high - and is by far the most important and competent of the (way too few) tech-priests serving the Jericho Sector. No wonder he commands the Mechanicus of the Sector and personally controls one of Argoth's three main hives. 

He's not above exploring dark sciences and Xenos tech, but takes a dim view of Dr. Xammeroon and her "old-fashioned and dangerous ways."

Arch-Prioress Tanith Baal

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The Arch-Prioress is an older (compared to the girls under her command at any rate) woman, stern and grey-haired (by choice, not old age). Her origin and her past are not known, but presumably, she saw service with the Daughters before there was a Coven of the Vile Huntress. Some of the others whisper that she has stood in the presence of the Prophet, and received his blessings.

With the rise of the Jericho Sector, her star is in the ascendant: of all Barotta's servants, she is the one in charge of overseeing the spread of the Word and the Will of the Prophet. She's performed admirably, save one slipup when she failed to keep the Chapter Master informed about the mutations affecting his men.

Who knows what magic she worked, what dark pacts she called upon to get out of that one...

Captain the Honorable Earl Jarex the Elder, First Minister of Commerce and Lord High Chancellor of the Guild Commerica (Vizier)

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Born on a voidship somewhere in Segmentum Obscurus, Jarex is a spacer born and bred. His true lineage is a big unknown, but by the time Barotta met him on Diamantina, he was a self-proclaimed Rogue Trader - without the Queen's Charter. 

His map to the Jericho Maw Warp gate proved most useful, and when Barotta found himself in need of a commercially inclined individual, he remembered Jarex, languishing under the Mad Queen's thumb. Truth be told, Jarex was the only trader he had really spoken to, so the shortlist was very short indeed.

Initially intended to traffic the future-past route to Vanity on his galleon, Jarex somehow ended up as the de facto head of all things commercial and trade-related. In fact, he has not visited the past even once and is unlikely to do so.

If you overlook his money-grubbing ways and lecherous attitude towards women, his constant lies and embellishments, and the childish need to award himself titles of all kinds, he's done - and is doing still - a tremendous job filling Barotta's coffers.

Dr. Lydia Xammeroon (Vizier)

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Dr. Lydia Xammeroon is a former geneering specialist turned Remembrancer. She's the grandchild of Hubert Xammeroon, the famous Remembrancer who follower the 1st Legion as they ventured into the Milky Way following the recovery of their Primarch.

By chance - or fate - she was assigned to the Night Lords fleet Barotta visited on the eve of the Heresy. And by chance - or fate - she was aboard one of the ships to cross back to M42. She was none too happy when she found out what had happened, but she took it in stride, and her entrepreneurial talents soon propelled her into a position of prominence and power.

She's a woman who believes in logic and science. She puts on a polite face and mumbles the prayers, but doesn't really believe. Many from the past do not. But her job is not to believe. It is to produce resources for the Jericho Sector. Let that be her sacrament to the Gods.

She's recently adopted a full-body cybernetic prosthesis of Tau manufacture. This hasn't sat too well with a number of people, Archmagos Hextrix included. But what can he do? His true master not only tolerates the Tau but trades with them and uses their technology for his own ends. And is it not she who fuels the forges of the Adeptus Mechanicus?