The Vengeance of Zygmunt Molotch

Having read the Ravenor and Eisenhorn trilogies multiple times over 20 years.

The end of Ravenor has always bothered me.. something was missing.

Ravenor caught up with him several fields away, near a small wood. The trees in the wood had been stripped of their leaves by the aftershock.

Molotch had come to a halt, leaning against the bars of a broken gate. He was breathing hard and clutching his ribs. His face was drawn and bloodless. He looked up as Ravenor glided towards him, and laughed sadly. Laughing made him wince. ‘I can’t run any more,’ he said, pain colouring his voice. ‘That’s good. I’m tired of chasing you.’ Molotch nodded.

‘This is the inevitable bit we were talking about, isn’t it?’ ‘It is,’ said Ravenor, and reached out into Molotch’s mind.

Zygmunt Molotch did not put up a fight. When the others caught up with them, Molotch was lying on the ground beside the gate.

Ravenor felt Kys approaching, with Kara close behind her. Behind them, a little further off, Nayl was limping across the stubbled field. They drew close and halted, staring at the corpse beside the gate.

In death, Molotch seemed a pathetic and insignificant thing, not at all the sort of being that should have required decades of devotion, sacrifice and effort to bring down. +I told you closure was overrated.+

Could molotch have body swapped, mind melded?

But a few weeks ago I remembered Molotch was according to himself the best of the Best. And knowing his end was nigh, he would have had an exquisite revenge planned. One he had accomplished would have come easily to mind.

In the radiance of the old sacristy, the Diadochoi played his hands over the lexicon, declaiming the un-words of power, the anti-language that was Enuncia.

He paused and reached up to take off his public guise. The mask of Oska Ludolf Barazan flopped down to the floor of the dais.

The burned, scarred, true face of the Diadochoi was revealed, a vile mass of seared tissue, raw flesh and lipless teeth.

He fanned his hands out, fluttering the spinning metal pages of the lexicon again and read out the words so revealed. A halo surrounded him. Piece by piece, his body was restored, flesh reknitting and recreating, gloving his hands in skin, sweeping across his raw skull to resculpt a face. Meat, skin, hair, all reformed, bright and new.

‘Oh Holy Throne!’ Kara cried. ‘What?’ asked Plyton. ‘What is it?’ ‘It’s Molotch,’ said Carl Thonius. ‘It’s Zygmunt bastard Molotch.’

What if Molotch restored Ravenor body and mind with Enuncia, made Gideons body perfectand essentially Immortal as well able to read retain and speak Enuncia. His mind now alpha???

However because of his association with Eisenhorn and the raising of a Major chaos demon, he is unable to reveal the miracle. Revelation would have him investigated and burned for heresy.

So we have Gideon Ravenor perfected and yet hidden, this was meant to break him.

Tldr What if Ravenor was restored body mind and soul by Molotch as a final act of vengeance. Knowing Ravenor could not reveal his health or be burned for heresy.

What do you think?