Ryan Lee

Inquisitor Ryan Lee, Ordo Xenos
“Why in the name of the Golden Throne do I keep getting sent the most useless garbage psychic messages?  Is my profession so difficult to notice?  Once an Astropath, always an Astropath, I get that, but come now…”

While all Astropaths travel to Terra to be reforged in the scorching heat of the Emperor’s radiance, not all react the same way.  Most lose their eyesight, but not all.  Most lose a measure of sanity, but not all; some become depressed as they are exposed to the full sight of the Immaterium and the scale of the Emperor’s decay.  Ryan Lee did not.  His eyes are gone, his sanity has abraded slightly, but he emerged from the experience an empowered man.  Astropath Lee saw his new role in life as a source of calming, benevolent synchronicity with the universe, as perhaps the next step in the evolution of psychic power itself.
Upon the completion of his Sanctioning with the Emperor, Lee dispatched to the Cloudburst Sector.  He was assigned by the Scholastica Psykana to the Imperial Navy ship Glorious Speed.  While there, he was almost immediately pulled away from his task to serve in the retinue of Inquisitor Choi, a member of the Ordo Xenos who requisitioned the ship for a mission.  The mission in question involved destroying a Glasian ship that had been decrewed by radiation bombs launched at it by the Adeptus Mechanicus during the Sixth Glasian Migration, but had been boarded by alien pirates in the interim.
While in the Inquisitor’s retinue, Lee was forced into battle as Warp-maddened alien pirates swarmed the docking tubes between the derelict and the Glorious Speed.  In the end, Inquisitor Choi was forced to destroy both ships with melta bombs, only barely escaping with his life and the lives of his retinue in a shuttle.
When the shuttle was rescued, Choi had already died of his injuries, and Astropath Lee was freshly unemployed.  The Inquisitorial Rosette on Choi’s person was enough to guarantee that the shuttle was quickly dispatched to Maskos, where the survivors could tell their tale.  Lee attached himself to the small pool of permanent staff of the Inquisition in the Palace of Maskos, where he was taken under the wing of Inquisitor Prang of the Ordo Xenos.  After studying the ways and anatomies of the alien for many years, Lee was awarded his own Rosette and became a full Inquisitor himself, and has since become the leader of the Cabal Procursatio.

Lee rarely leaves the Palace, being a thinker more than a fighter.  When he does leave, it is rarely to depart the system outright, and usually does so to perform meetings with other Inquisitors and their associates who have performed research into the nature of the Glasians on their ships, or have brought findings for him to examine.  A potent and experienced psyker, he often receives fragments of Astropathic messages intended for others, which annoys him intensely, but such is the cost of staying in an Inquisitorial Palace with its own Astropathic Choir.  Lee has not allowed his own skills at Warpcraft to atrophy, and is quite capable of communicating with his small retinue of psychic servants directly, at a distance of many dozens of light-years.
The Cabal Procursatio leadership role has sat well on his shoulders, but he is annoyed at how the various members of it have developed the unhelpful trait of letting their rivalries and personal disagreements about the role of the Cabal to influence their work.
Lee carries a displacer field projector and twin slug pistols, on the unbelievably slight chance he would ever have to enter battle.