Velum Sanctuarii - The Red Gas

Its official name is the Latin for “Holy Veil”, but everyone except the stuffiest Leopoldites calls it the Red Gas. The Order of St. Leopold keeps tight control of this experimental weapon, releasing it only for the highest-value targets: Princes, Primogen, and Elysiums or Conclaves. Nobody outside the highest ranks of the Order knows its true nature: some speculate it comes from the holiest possible matter such as the grave dust of St. Peter beneath the Vatican. Others believe it a purely theurgic weapon. Inquisitors deploy the Red Gas from sprayer tanks, either man-carried or dispersed from the back of a truck pulled up to the door of a sealed target. Blankbodies see the gas as red mist, hear horrific wailing and screaming, and their bodies begin to wither. Mortals experience no effects at all, although BOES troopers whisper that the gas looks redder to you the more sinful your nature. The Red Gas causes 2 levels of Aggravated damage to blankbodies in each turn of exposure. Most blankbodies don’t stay in an affected area long enough to die of the gas, but it’s certainly possible. More often, they flee into a waiting Gladius Dei strike team ready to escort them into Final Death.

Item type

Unique Artifact

Current Location

Federal Government Office Skyscraper

Current Holder

Inquisitor The Lady in Red

Owning Organization

The Second Inquisition