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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope
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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Done [[UpToEleven as only 40K can do it]]. The first chapter has Eisenhorn hunting a traitor with ''thousands'' of murders on his record, not to mention innumerably more acts of smuggling, sabotage, and theft, who is nevertheless only a tiny cog in the grand scheme. It gets much bigger from there.
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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Done [[UpToEleven as only 40K can do it]].it. The first chapter has Eisenhorn hunting a traitor with ''thousands'' of murders on his record, not to mention innumerably more acts of smuggling, sabotage, and theft, who is nevertheless only a tiny cog in the grand scheme. It gets much bigger from there.
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* CoolOldGuy: Eisenhorn himself. He is in his 40's when first introduced, and by the end of the third book he is still active at over 180 years old. By the time of the Eisenhorn vs. Ravenor he is nearly 300 years old and, though physically a wreck, more dangerous than ever.
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* CoolOldGuy: Eisenhorn himself. He is in his 40's when first introduced, which is still late for the average human but no age at all for resourced Imperial citizens and by servants, who have access to Juvenat treatments which can extend the lifespan to several centuries. By the end of the third book he is still active at over 180 years old. By the time of the Eisenhorn vs. Ravenor he is nearly 300 years old and, though physically a wreck, more dangerous than ever.
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* CanonWelding: With the release of ''The Magos'' collection, a number of elements from unrelated stories by the same author was hammered into the Eisenhorn canon, culminating in the eponymous novel which turned the Eisenhorn trilogy into a tetralogy. Most notable was the Magos Dusher short stories, which was described by Abnett as "CSI: 40k." Indeed, if Drusher isn't the outright protagonist of the ''The Magos'' novel, then he's the {{Deuteragonist}} and main observer of Eisenhorn as the NonPOVProtagonist of that story.
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* ClearMyName: Pretty much the entire plot of ''Malleus''.
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* ClearMyName: Pretty much the entire plot of ''Malleus''. [[spoiler: Eisenhorn is (perhaps reasonably} finds himself declared a radical, though finds himself imprisoned and interrogated by the Lord Inquisitor Osma and his minions. Under the circumstances (unreasonably) Osma is willing to face the embarrassment and censure if Gregor, being a still fairly Puritan and innocent inquisitor, is found to be the mastermind behind the Thracian atrocity.]]
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* EmpathicWeapon: Eisenhorn's force sword, Barbarisater.
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* EmpathicWeapon: Eisenhorn's force sword, Barbarisater. Not to mention that it's technically stolen from the home of his acolyte Arianhrod's homeworld, it's a mastercrafted weapon reforged into a force sword with hexagrammatic runes, and it has a limited will of its own, encouraging Gregor to use certain moves and seemingly controlling itself at certain points, but he also uses it as an effective dousing rod to sniff out Chaotic taint. Gregor thinks it allowed itself to be broken to end a life-or-death duel at one point, necessitating it to be repaired from a longsword into a rapier weapon.
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* CoolOldLady: Inquisitor-General Neve, the commander of the Ordos Cadia in ''Malleus''. She's a blunt, [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior cantankerous]] woman in her late 110s, and generally highly unwelcoming to Eisenhorn and his team - especially when she thinks they're investigating an inconsequential case while she [[BeleagueredBureaucrat "has a hundred active cults to subdue every month!"]]. But, she's an [[HandicappedBadass active fighter despite her crippling limp]], has a [[SwordCane grenade launcher built into her cane]], and is [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure willing to listen]] when Eisenhorn shows her evidence about how serious his investigation is.
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** Though strangely, even though [[spoiler: he smiles at the end of The Magos]], in ''Pariah'' (which chronologically takes place after The Magos) [[spoiler: Beta distinctly notes and comments on the fact that Eisenhorn's face shows no emotion at all, not even micro-expressions]], and he agrees with her. In a few occasions in ''Penitent'', [[spoiler: Eisenhorn does make some expressions, a call back to ''The Magos''.]]
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** Though strangely, even though [[spoiler: he smiles at the end of The Magos]], in ''Pariah'' (which chronologically takes place after The Magos) [[spoiler: Beta distinctly notes and comments on the fact that Eisenhorn's face shows no emotion at all, not even micro-expressions]], and he agrees with her. In a few occasions in ''Penitent'', [[spoiler: Eisenhorn does make some expressions, a call back to ''The Magos''.]]]] Justifiable in that [[spoiler:after decades of not being able to make ''any'' expressions, the muscles need to be retrained]].
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Eisenhorn is only facially crippled around his mouth. The rest of his face can still show emotion.
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** A couple of times throughout the trilogy, Eisenhorn makes an off-hand reference to someone 'seeing his expression of disbelief' or similar occasions. Even Dan Abnett sometimes forgets that Eisenhorn has no facial expressions, due to the result of torture that was described in detail in the first book.
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* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In ''Mallus'', when Eisenhorn is at his wits end trying to figure out how his enemies could be operating on [[CitadelCity Cadia]], [[TheDandy Tobias Maxmilla]] surprises him by sneaking onto the fortress-world with no-one the wiser. When questioned, Tobias smugly reveals that [[spoiler:he just borrowed Eisenhorn's credentials, since nobody would dare interfere with the Inquisition]]. This leads Eisenhorn to realize that [[spoiler:the suspicious flights he had written off as the business of Inquisitor Neve were actually the villains, using her stolen credentials to mask their activities]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Pontius Glaw's apocalyptic plan is foiled, but only after most of Eisenhorn's friends have been killed in the process and his entire network has been dismantled. Eisenhorn himself just barely manages to avoid being declared a heretic and keep the existence of Cherubael under wraps, but is also left physically crippled by the injuries he sustained on his journey. Without his friends to act as his moral compass any longer, whether or not he'll manage to keep from falling further in to corruption is anyone's guess.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Pontius Glaw's apocalyptic plan is foiled, but only after most of Eisenhorn's friends have been killed in the process and his entire network has been dismantled. Eisenhorn himself just barely manages to avoid being declared a heretic and keep the existence of Cherubael under wraps, but is also left physically crippled by the injuries he sustained on his journey. Without his friends to act as his moral compass any longer, whether Whether or not he'll manage to keep from falling further in to corruption without his friends to act as his moral compass any longer is anyone's guess.]]
