Scarlet Winter, born 965.M41, is an Inquisitor Acolyte of the Imperial Inquisition's Ordo Malleus. She and her mentor, Inquisitor Gaelen Reed , are presently assigned as Inquisition liaisons to the Stonehides Chapter Space Marines, located in the Damocles Gulf. Winter was born to a comfortably situated family of minor up-hive nobles. As such, her family was able to afford minor corrective surgeries, allowing Scarlet to venture outside without needing specially tinted goggles.