When a Good Inquisitor Goes Bad: Eisenhorn's Descent feat. TheAmberKing

August 26, 2026

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When a Good Inquisitor Goes Bad: Eisenhorn's Descent feat. TheAmberKing

A century has passed since the events on 56 Ezar. Gregor Eisenhorn is no longer a junior inquisitor running a small operation. He now commands a staff of over a hundred people, including Elizabeth Bequin's elite kill-team of blanks called the Distaff, and has become a renowned—if controversial—figure in the Inquisition. But when we rejoin him on the planet Let 11, he is hours from death, poisoned by a xenos conspirator named Beldame Sadia. His crew races through a cathedral district during a planetary eclipse called the Dark Night, desperate to find an antidote before the poison finishes its work.

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1 Timestamped Outline: When a Good Inquisitor Goes Bad: Eisenhorn's Descent feat. TheAmberKing
2 (00:13) **Opening & Patreon Shilling** - Hosts DK and Bricky introduce the episode with TheAmberKing, promoting a new poster and Patreon perks
3 (03:33) **Episode Setup: Malleus Begins** - TheAmberKing introduces the second Eisenhorn novel, explaining the century-long time skip from Xenos
4 (05:38) **Opening Crisis: Eisenhorn Poisoned** - Beldame Sadia has secretly poisoned Eisenhorn, and his crew is racing against time to find an antidote
5 (12:56) **Near-Death & Rescue** - Eisenhorn is about to be executed by a witch hunter named Tantalid, but is saved by Medea Betancore
6 (16:44) **The Tantalid Problem** - A witch hunter of the Ecclesiarchy who has personal beef with Eisenhorn, not actual jurisdiction to kill him
7 (19:44) **Thracian Primaris & The Triumph** - The group travels to the capital of the Helicum subsector for a massive victory parade celebrating War Master Honorius's crusade

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