The Ulmist Inquisition

“Evil lurks everywhere. With our minds, we will unearth it, we will plumb its depths, and we will annihilate it.” With those words, the psychically gifted priest Ulmed founded the Ulmist Inquisition, an order of psionic inquisitors that seeks to discover the wickedness hiding in people’s souls. 1. Before he became the first Vampire, Strahd had a brother. His brother's name was Ulmed, a powerfully gifted psychic, and the two waged a war across Xeador intent on destroying all the Infernal creatures that rose there. Xeador was once the birthplace of Asmodeus, and was the first area that the Infernal creatures from Hell leaked into. When Strahd fell into darkness and became a Vampire, Ulmed was heartbroken, and founded the Ulmist Inquisitors. Their goal was to eradicate the seeds of evil that could corrupt a person as well as hunt monsters. The Inquisitors now exist in an Underground court, hiding from the Vampire Overlords while enacting their mission. a. Ulmed and his friends Cosima, Ansel, and Tristian organized the inquisition into three orders, with each one specializing in a type of psionic power. i. The Order of Cosima harnessed the Mind Fire—their name for the fire of thought that blazes within each person’s mind. They used that power to read thoughts, reshape memories, and dominate the recalcitrant. ii. The inquisitors in the Order of Ansel subjected themselves to harsh asceticism in an effort to use psionic energy to empower their own bodies. They succeeded and became the martial arm of the inquisition, represented by a sword. iii. Finally, the Order of Tristian endeavored to use intellect to alter the environment through telekinetic force, and the order’s members became the inquisition’s scholars, represented by a tome.