Some Inquisitors enlist Crusaders from the honour guard of the Cardinals Crimson - that most mysterious of all the Ecclesiarchy's many orders. Crusaders are recruited for their unflagging devotion to the Emperor. To be selected is a great honour, though it leads to a gruelling life of asceticism and martial perfection, but also inevitably to an unmourned death in battle. Nonetheless, such a calling guarantees the opportunity to test sword and shield against mankind's greatest enemies.