Innocence proves nothing.
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2026
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Innocence is just being guilty of wasting our time
Inquisitor Karamazov, I believe.
Honestly have to hand it to GW with that name, he's clearly meant to be the infamous Grand Inquisitor who arrested Christ himself but he's named for a guy who's arguably as much of a dickhead as he is.
Oh, I had no idea! Please, if you could, would you mind educating me a bit?
The character is a reference to Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, a book set in 19th century Russia which as the title suggests concerns a family called Karamazov and deals with a lot of questions of religion and free will. A famous part of it consists of a story within the story called the Grand Inquisitor where a member of the Spanish Inquisition, encountering Jesus returned to Earth, arrests him and argues that humanity prefers the bread and miracles offered by the Church over the freedom Christ himself offered. The idea of a literal Inquisitor arresting the very man they ostensibly serve is very on the nose for the character Fyodor Karamazov from 40k! Also it's a perfect mirror of 40k, if the Emperor got up off the throne the Inquisition (or at least the part of it represented by people like Karamazov) would be the first to declare him a heretic.
Also the father of the Karamazov family is also called Fyodor Karamazov and he's just a wanton and callous bastard much like the 40k character. A real OG 'this person is just the absolute worst'. He's just a multidisciplinary piece of crap.
Thank you!
That's a very specific game where it doesn't matter how you got corrupted and are killed anyway...
It's a widely applicable concept that could be attached to any fascist or authoritarian style faction or belief.
Does no one stock a Zone of Truth for this exact scenario?
Why waste a spell slot when hitting him is free*?
(* well, except for the low low cost of setting your alignment to evil...)
Scribe scroll is a very underutilized feature of the wizard's arsenal.
Probably because the rules for doing so are FUCKING ATROCIOUS!
Because the information you get isn't going to be true.
That's a clever way of finding out who to torture.
Zone of truth doesn't compell answers. "I won't tell you" is a true answer.
Which is where the fist-and-knife method comes in.
This is easy. PCs aren't allowed to torture.
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