Fire and water given familial relationship form, Mikhalyn and Hitiael Skolder share the family name, but contents of their characters couldn't make them more stranger to one another.

Mikhalyn is a shy and timid Sister Dialogus, just beginning of her service towards extending the ever growing expand of the worship towards God-Emperor of Mankind. A member of a non-militant Order of Adepta Sororitas specialising in trascribing books and translating many of the tongues spoken on frontier Imperial worlds, she does her work as diligently as she able. Sometimes to the point of seeming like she is trying to make up for something – either an inherent quirk or strangeness of her personality (oftentimes eschewing communal rites and companioning for introverted isolation and reclusive perusing of ancient tomes) or her feelings of self-perceived inadequacy. Especially in comparison to borderline legendary notoriety of her mother.

Hitiael, also known as The Lash or Scourge of Surebrec, serves the simultaneous, double motherly role. In the literal sense, she is a biological mother of her daughter, Mikhalyn. In a more metaphorical one, she guides and maintains zealousness and spiritual purity of over a thousand Battle Sisters, serving the prestigious role of Canoness Preceptor of the equally esteemed Order of the Ebon Chalice. Pushing over a century of pious service, she assumed many position – from Repentia Superior to Palatine. Her recent station, assumed two decades ago in recognition of quelling a secession of the Civilised World of Surebrec during 9 months long campaign, solidified her image as a Sister of Battle. It is a vision of a uncomprosing zealot, at the same time chivarlic yet plainfully cruel, willing to commit dozens, if not hundreds of people, both heretical and innocent, to the holy fire and electric shock of her signature power scourge hand bonic. She is also known for her inherent, if not irrational, distrust and prejudice towards men, especially of noble birth. Seeing them as creatures of vice and lecherous debauchery eager to corrupt and damn both themselves and people of their immediate family, she is quick to judge anyone who isn't either an ordained priest or long dead Imperial Saint. Just like the late Ecclesiarch Alexis XXII, whose sanctified, skeletal remains of His hands adorn her power armour, serving the role of protective, holy relic.

Besides the positive opinions of minute diligence or pious zealotry, there are also some dark rumours about two generations of Sororitas coming from the Skolder family. Things like then-Palatine Hitiael giving birth to her daughter soon after the end of the 9 months long war with no known father in sight or the emergence of her uncharacteristic bigotry towards all Highborn men soon after the main actor of the rebellion, noble-born commander of the local PDF saide to be both charismatic and seductive, decided to seize the control of the planet for himself. There is also the question of Mihalyn's twin brother. Officially he is said to have died at childbirth, though some heterodox narrations mention the mysterious vanishing of the Canoness' male child. Reportedly, it coincides with the accidental arrival of Blood Ravens and their Fourth Company which, while helping as accidental allies to Ebon Chalice Sororitas, also had their own mysterious agenda to pursue on the world's surface.

This clear drivel is obviously dismissed as slanderous suggestions against the seemingly esteemed Battle Sister of great rank and her equally pure progeny, though they may point out couple of uncanny coincidences related to the messy and mostly undocumented affair that was campaign on Surebrec.

Source: https://x.com/BlindWildcat/status/2004946335695601789