Confidential Report - Department of Paranormal Activity
Subject: Inquisitors
Classification Level: High Threat Entity
Date: [Redacted]
Overview:
The Inquisitors are a clandestine extremist organization dedicated to the identification, suppression, and eradication of sorcerers and all forms of magic-based influence across the planet. Available intelligence traces the group's origin to some time in the late 1960s, following a failed assassination attempt against Pope Paul VI by a confirmed sorcerer during a visit to the Cathedral of Barbastro in 1965. While the precise date of the organization's formal founding remains unknown, this incident is widely regarded as the catalytic event that precipitated its creation.
The Vatican has repeatedly and publicly denied any affiliation with the Inquisitors. Despite these denials, it is broadly accepted within paranormal intelligence circles that the Catholic Church provides covert financial and logistical support to the organization. This belief is reinforced by the organization's open use of Christian and Catholic iconography, as well as its frequent occupation of churches and cathedrals as operational hubs.
Ideological Profile:
The Inquisitors adhere to a rigid, absolutist interpretation of Christian doctrine. They view sorcery, magic, and all related occult practices (including paganism, necromancy, and enchanting) as heretical acts and direct rebellions against God. According to their belief system, practitioners of magic are not merely criminals but existential threats to humanity, described in internal rhetoric as "devils" corrupting the sanctity and purity of human society.
Their stated mission is the complete elimination of sorcerers and the systematic reduction of magic's influence on the wider world. This extends beyond individuals to include the destruction or suppression of magic-based technology, art, literature, and scientific advancements created by or derived from magic.
Nomenclature and Symbolism:
The organization deliberately adopted the name "Inquisitors" as a reference to the historical Catholic orders tasked with the eradication of heresy across Europe. Members commonly display Christian symbols on their persons, such as crosses, scripture excerpts, and iconography, on their bodies, clothing, and equipment. The group's predominant color scheme is black and red, symbolizing religious authority, martyrdom, and bloodshed in defense of faith.
Organizational Structure:
The internal hierarchy of the Inquisitors remains highly compartmentalized and poorly understood. Evidence suggests a strict, top-down command structure with clearly delineated ranks. Authority appears to be based on experience, combat effectiveness, and ideological devotion rather than gender or race. Both male and female members occupy high-ranking positions, and no systemic discrimination in accordance with Christian beliefs within the ranks has been observed.
Operational units typically consist of paired agents. Highly skilled operatives are authorized to act alone, while engagements involving particularly dangerous sorcerers may involve coordinated teams of up to ten Inquisitors at a time.
Leadership identities and command chains are closely guarded.
Recruitment:
Recruitment practices remain unconfirmed but are believed to focus on vulnerable populations, including orphans, juvenile criminals, and young monks or nuns under Church custody. There is also credible belief that the organization recruits internally from within Inquisitor families, grooming children from an early age for eventual induction into the organization.
While ideological conformity is assumed, exceptional physical capability and psychological malleability are believed to be key factors in terms of selection criteria. This belief is held due to the fact that most known members exhibit exceptional athleticism and combat readiness compared to normal humans.
Operational Footprint and Activities:
Inquisitors conduct targeted hunts, abductions, interrogations, and executions of suspected sorcerers whenever a potential target has been identified. Torture and the use of chemical and psychological drugs are commonly employed to extract intelligence from captured individuals. And collateral damage is considered to be acceptable if it serves their broader mission of suppressing magic and its influence.
The organization maintains a vast and well-funded logistical network, with significant financial resources at its disposal that enable rapid deployment, sustained operations, and access to advanced technology.
Geographic Influence:
Inquisitor activity is mostly concentrated in Europe and South America, regions with historically strong Catholic and Christian populations. However, confirmed operations have also occurred in North America, South Korea, Japan, South Africa, Central Asia, and Australia, indicating a global operational reach.
Equipment:
Inquisitors possess a highly advanced and specialized arsenal of weapons and technologies unavailable to the general public. Notable equipment includes:
-Combat Exoskeletons: Wearable systems that enhance strength, speed, mobility, and tactical capability.
-Mana Goggles: Specialized eyewear allowing non-sorcerers to perceive mana and magical creatures.
-Advanced Weaponry: Classified firearms and devices designed specifically for anti-sorcerer combat.
-Mercury Bullets: Signature ammunition that explodes on impact, dispersing mercury, a substance lethally toxic to sorcerers, within the target's body.
Members are also extensively trained in the use of swords, polearms, bows, and conventional firearms. Along with several forms of hand-to-hand combat designed for maximum lethality.
To compensate for the physiological advantages of sorcerers over normal humans, Inquisitors routinely engage in the use of performance-enhancing drugs, steroids, hormones, and stimulants to overcome the gap. These substances elevate operatives to near-Olympic caliber physical levels. However, prolonged use of these drugs has been known to result in severe health degradation and, in some cases, death.
Notable Members:
The identities of individual Inquisitors are heavily classified and compartmentalized. No confirmed names are available at this time. Several high-ranking operatives, both male and female, have been indirectly identified through past confrontations, but all personal data of active Inquisitors remains unverified.
-Mikael Schade: Inquisitor Interrogator. Killed in Munich, Germany, by Jonas Nuer, October 2010.
-Natalia Arias: Inquisitor Executioner. Killed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Yasmine Ferrerira, January 2001.
-Max Snowfield: Inquisitor Executioner. Killed in Villahermosa, Mexico, by Giovani Lozano, June 2016.
-Riley Snowfield: Inquisitor Interrogator. Killed in Villahermosa, Mexico, by Giovani Lozano, August 2016.
-Shin Hyo-joo: Inquisitor Consultor. Killed in New York, United States of America, by Kurt Blair-Alvarez, November 2020.
-Martin Pierce: Inquisitor Assassin. Last encountered in Nevada, United States of America, in September 2021.
Assessment:
The Inquisitors represent a highly motivated, well-resourced, and ideologically uncompromising threat to sorcerers and any institutions associated with magic. Their global reach, advanced technology, and willingness to employ extreme violence warrant continued monitoring and high-priority countermeasures when needed.