The Officio Assassinorum is the Imperium's most secret order of state-sanctioned killers, a hidden institution that removes the enemies of mankind through precise and deniable murder. Standing among the most feared of all Imperial Agents, it dispatches a single perfect assassin to end a threat that armies would be too slow or too blunt to touch.
The Officio is divided into specialised temples, each producing killers honed for a particular method, from the master of disguise to the unstoppable cyborg juggernaut to the psychic hunter. Its operations are authorised only at the highest levels of Imperial power, answerable to a select few among the High Lords of Terra. For the full account of its shadowed temples and their deadly arts, see the complete entry on the Officio Assassinorum.