Cherubael, or the Cherub of Bael, was a daemonhost of immense power. Cherubael was formerly in the service of Inquisitor Quixos, a renegade Inquisitor killed by Gregor Eisenhorn. Although Eisenhorn despised Cherubael at first, he began to find a need for the daemonhost's extraordinary power which lead to Eisenhorn's slide into Radicalism. Cherubael is currently bound within Godwyn Fischig, a close friend and ally of Eisenhorn's.

HistoryEdit

Cherubael was once a Daemon Prince on the Feral World of Clanar II, where he dominated the primitive locals who came to worship him as a god. The Inquisitor Quixos defeated Cherubael and enslaved him in the body of one of the warriors of Clanar II. Cherubael served Quixos until the Inquisitor's death at the hands of Eisenhorn.

Service to EisenhornEdit

Cherubael was able to discern the future from the Warp, and saw that Eisenhorn, if allowed, would destroy his physical body and so set Cherubael free. For over a century, Cherubael manipulated and protected Eisenhorn so that Eisenhorn would start down the path of radicalism and so set in motion the events that would free Cherubael. Eisenhorn, aided by a Runestaff crafted by Magos Geard Bure of the Adeptus Mechanicus, finally destroyed Cherubael's host body on Farness Beta and banished him to the Immaterium. He also annihilated another deamonhost known as Prophaniti.

Following this Eisenhorn re-summoned Cherubael and imprisoned him in a host body, sealing him within a void-vault that he might suffer eternally, caged in flesh and trapped, for using him.

However, during his conflicts with the heretic Fayde Thuring and his Corrupted Titan, the Cruor Vult, Eisenhorn found himself sorely pressed and summoned Cherubael, whom he had bound into a new host after defeating and banishing it.

Eisenhorn came to rely heavily on Cherubael in the coming years, much to the dismay and anger of his staff and fellow Inquisitors. Notably he utilised the Daemonhost to defeat the Heretic Pontius Glaw, who utilised a daemonhost of his own, and against the daemonhosts of the Divine Fratery, whom Cherubael seemed to take pleasure in destroying. By this point the relationship between master and slave had grown so close as for Eisenhorn to refer to Cherubael as "he" rather than "it".

SourcesEdit

• Xenos (Novel) by Dan Abnett
• Malleus (Novel) by Dan Abnett
• Hereticus (Novel) by Dan Abnett
• What Price Victory (Anthology) edited by Christian Dunn and Marc Gascoigne, "Thorn Wishes Talon" by Dan Abnett
• Inquisitor Rulebook