Judicator

Judicators are a group of warriors and hunters, ritually transformed in service to the gods, based in Vasselheim.

Description
Judicators are the traditional order of warriors and hunters serving the temples of Vasselheim. During wartime, they are soldiers, but in peacetime, they often serve as bodyguards for the High Bearers, as prison wardens in the city, or in other guardianships.

Judicators are believed to be particularly pious individuals who volunteered everything of themselves, including individuality, in direct service to the Prime Deities. They are said undergo difficult rituals and secret blessing to become transformed and bound to their duties.

Judicators wear featureless, eyeless bronze masks carved with runes. The Judicator that Bells Hells encountered at the Aydinlan Seminary wore a sleeveless, gold-embossed robe and platinum bracers, and had tattoos.

Orym was able to determine that the individual was not mechanically a fighter, but was a powerful martial warrior of some sort.

A group of judicators flew into Marquet on a heavily fortified skyship with metallic armor and mounted with heavy, chained-based harpoons and cannons. It was also decorated with religious, as if it carried a temple.

Origins
Judicators are believed to have originated during the early Calamity. By 843 PD, they were very rarely seen outside of Vasselheim, and few people could encounter them in public; Judicators were unknown to most, and the few who did know of them believed them simply a frightening story told to strengthen the temples' reputations or something of ancient history that is no longer practiced.

Campaign 3: Bells Hells
Bells Hells saw a human Judicator when they first visited the Aydinlan Seminary in Sydenstar of 843 PD. The staff of the Seminary seemed someone frightened or worried about the Judicator's presence, and were unsure why they had come. Fearne was able to recognize them for what they were, and told the others. Before she did, Chetney approached the tall, red-haired Judicator, and greeted them. They did not respond, but Chetney was able to determine the bracers contained abjurative spells. According to Carolle, the human Judicator, paired with a half-giant Judicator companion, had arrived approximately a week prior to escort an "emissary from Vasselheim". Ebenold Kai suspected that they were searching for the texts that were in the possession of the Grim Verity.

Shortly before the Apogee Solstice in 843 PD, a skyship from Vasselheim flew to the Tishtan excavation site in an attempt to stop the Ruby Vanguard and its allies from completing their ritual to release Predathos. Their vessel was attacked with harpoons and crashed not too far from the site. All aboard the ship were killed and their heads and possessions displayed near the site as trophies and as an intimidating warning. Brumestone and artillery were scavenged from the skyship, Skyships from Vasselheim were among the forces that arrived at the site as Ludinus Da'leth activated the Malleus Key, and they began to crumble under the magical force of the beam created by the Key.