Valeria is a Radical Inquisitor through and through, for whom there is no line that cannot be crossed if she judges it necessary to her work. Her lifelong devotion to acquiring xenos lore and technology was to have culminated in the recovery of the ancient device known as the Dimensional Forge from beneath the Imperial world of Cavlock, until her Puritanical enemy Emil Darkhammer subjected the world to Exterminatus to deny her the prize. Valeria has excommunicated and condemned Darkhammer, and now pursues her vendetta against him across the Imperium, her higher calling collapsing into the simple desire for revenge