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Ciaphas Cain

Series: Notes from the Inquisitorial Archives

I could have perhaps given these more descriptive titles, but you have to understand that I was writing these with the fury of a man posessed starting in the deeply distressing year of our emperor 2020. Loosely connected series inspired by various adventures throughout the Cain series, shipping him with anyone and everyone but primarily Amberley.

Note from the Inquisitorial Archives #1 (1335 words)
  • Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail, Ciaphas Cain/Ferik Jurgen (mentioned)
  • Rated T
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsNon-Explicit Sex, Smoking, Threats of Violence

Excerpt from the personal documents of Inquisitor Amberley Vail

Note from the Inquisitorial Archives #2 (1579 words)
  • Ciaphas Cain/Ferik Jurgen, Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail (mentioned)
  • Rated M
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsNon-Explicit Sex, Light BDSM

Archival documents relating to the relationship between Commissar Ciaphas Cain and his personal aide, shortly after their defense of the planet Adumbria

Note from the Inquisitorial Archives #3 (2140 words)
  • Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail, Ciaphas Cain/Ferik Jurgen, Ferik Jurgen/Amberley Vail, Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail/Ferik Jurgen
  • Rated M
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsNon-Explicit Sex, Threesome - F/M/M, Group Sex, Oral Sex

Ciaphas Cain's personal aide picks an inopportune moment to enter his bedroom and serve breakfast; fortunately, Amberley Vail doesn't seem to mind

Note from the Inquisitorial Archives #4 (1519 words)
  • Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail
  • Rated M
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsNon-Explicit Sex, Light Bondage, Blindfolds, Light BDSM, Romance

Ciaphas Cain reflects on the early days of his relationship with Amberley Vail

Note from the Inquisitorial Archives #5 (5660 words)
  • Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail, Ciaphas Cain/Felicia Tayber, Amberley Vail/Felicia Tayber, Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail/Felicia Tayber
  • Rated M
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsThreesome - F/F/M, Non-Explicit Sex, Light Bondage, Open Relationships

When Ciaphas Cain runs into an old friend, Amberley Vail becomes determined to find out the details of their past together

Note from the Inquisitorial Archives #6 (2978 words)
  • Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail (mentioned)
  • Rated G
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsFunny, Alcohol

Ciaphas Cain attempts to recount some hazy recollections of exceedingly silly events following his escape from the hijacked Wavecrest

Note from the Inquisitorial Archives #7 (2007 words)
  • Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail
  • Rated M
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsBDSM, Roleplay, Bondage, Safewords, Face Slapping, Alcohol

Another unpublished document from the memoirs of Commissar Ciaphas Cain regarding his relationship with Inquisitor Amberley Vail, likely held back from wider circulation due to its personal and somewhat salacious nature

Note from the Inquisitorial Archives #8 (2310 words)
  • Ciaphas Cain/Drumon, Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail (mentioned)
  • Rated M
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsNon-Explicit Sex, Biting, Space Marines

Unpublished excerpts from the memoirs of Commissar Ciaphas Cain regarding his time aboard the Space Marine strike cruiser Revenant

Note from the Inquisitorial Archives #9 (2921 words)
  • Ciaphas Cain/Jenit Sulla, Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail (mentioned)
  • Rated M
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsNon-Explicit Sex, Funny, Power Imbalance

Amberley Vail questions the veracity of an unexpectedly personal passage of Jenit Sulla's autobiography

Note from the Inquisitorial Archives #10 (1574 words)
  • Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail
  • Rated E
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsLong-Distance Relationship, Established Relationship, Masturbation, Cybersex

Further insights into the relationship between Ciaphas Cain and Amberley Vail, including the revelation of highly inappropriate use of Guard- and Inquisition-issued technology

Note from the Inquisitorial Archives #11 (2236 words)
  • Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail
  • Rated M
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsPolyamory, Polyamory Negotiations, Open Relationships, Light BDSM, Roleplay, Bisexuality

A document establishing some background to the somewhat unconventional relationship between Commissar Cain and Inquisitor Vail, as already exemplified in previous excerpts.

Note from the Inquisitorial Archives #12 (1418 words)
  • Ciaphas Cain/Kerin (Ciaphas Cain series), Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail (mentioned)
  • Rated T
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsNon-Explicit Sex, Alcohol, Smoking

Documents pertaining to an evening Ciaphas Cain spent with the governor of the planet Traego, shortly after the tyranid incursion that interrupted a comparatively easy assignment.

Note from the Inquisitorial Archives #13 (1474 words)
  • iaphas Cain/Ferik Jurgen, Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail (mentioned)
  • Rated T
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsNon-Explicit Sex, Power Imbalance

Documents pertaining to the beginning of the occasionally intimate relationship between the commissar and his personal aide

Note from the Inquisitorial Archives #14 (900 words)
  • Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail
  • Rated T
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsHaircuts, Established Relationship, Implied Sexual Content

"Ciaphas, darling, what in the million worlds of the Imperium has happened to your hair?"

One-Shots

Divine Providence (1527 words)
  • Ciaphas Cain/Amberley Vail
  • Rated M
  • Warning: Major Character Death
  • Click for additional tagsNon-Explicit Sex, Romance

A Living Saint makes the most of his limited time on the material plane.

The above was inspired by "A Sinner And A Saint" by Attalander.

Other Warhammer

At time of writing I think I may be the only person to have posted fic inspired by Bannick's very brief and very homoerotic duel with an unnamed chaos marine in the book Shadowsword.

No Greater Thrill Than Chasing A Close Call (1623 words)
  • Colaron Lo Bannick/Unnamed Chaos Marin
  • Rated M
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsViolence, Blood and Violence, Rough Sex, Non-Explicit Sex, Violent Sex

Bannick runs into a chaos marine that he recognizes

I also have one featuring Commissar Yarrick!

Keep Each Other Safe When We Risk It All (667 words)
  • Sebastian Yarrick/Dominic Seroff
  • Rated M
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsBlood and Violence, Non-Explicit Sex, Trauma

A few stolen moments between Commissars Yarrick & Seroff after their first battle on the planet Mistral

And finally, one crack fic inspired by the many hours I spent playing Vermintide 2 and joking around with my friends:

Franz Lohner's Chronicle: A Bangup Job (1493 words)
  • Kerillian (WHF)/Victor Saltzpyre, Kerillian (WHF)/Bardin Goreksson, Kerillian (WHF)/Markus Kruber, Kerillian (WHF)/Sienna Fuegonasus
  • Rated M
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Click for additional tagsCrack, Funny, Light BDSM, Alcohol, Non-Explicit Sex

Franz Lohner details a series of mostly ill-fated intimate encounters around Taal's Horn Keep

Other

For a long time, my avatar on Ao3 was this fantastic art of Cain in front of a bi pride flag, which I commissioned from rowscara on tumblr.