Age and inquisitors

[korskarnkai]

I was reading the guide to creating an Inquisitor over at the conclave a while ago, and it mentioned that an Inquisitor is going to be at least 60 years old. Abnett writes Eisenhorn as getting his rosette at 24, whilst Zou has Roth get his at age 30.

Considering the responsibilities and powers of an Inquisitor are greater than any single public figure going around today, I would agree that these examples seem very, very young.

Is there any other fluff that points one way or another? Or is there a sort of hierarchy of Inquisitors, where new ones are on some sort of probation for a few decades?

[Ferran]

There are exceptions to any rule. I'm not sure what the canon says on the average age, if anything. Also I wouldn't look to Henry Zou for answers, the £1 I paid for Emperor's Mercy was too much (I believe it was his first BL book but given the quality of writing from most of the established BL authors I'm not inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt).

/edit ^ just re-read that last bit in brackets. For clarity, I think most of the BL authors aren't good and as such I expect Henry Zou's later novels aren't good either.

[MarcoSkoll]

In my opinion, you'd expect an Inquisitor to get their promotion after no less than about two decades of experience with their mentors, and Inquisitors are very unlikely to have anyone as part of their retinue until at least early adulthood. Inquisitors can do without having to deal with teenage mood swings - anyone younger would probably get shipped off to the Schola Progenium or similar for a few years.

As such, an Inquisitor getting promoted much less than about 40 would be very unusual (and probably mean that their promotion went through early for some reason).

In my opinion, Abnett had Eisenhorn promoted far too young. People wouldn't elect a 24 year old to become the Prime Minister/President (it's even part of US law that the President has to be at least 35), so it's rather ridiculous that someone that young would be put in an even more powerful position.

[korskarnkai]

I agree about Eisenhorn. He is 40 in the first book and probably should have been an exceptionally young, newly promoted Inquisitor.