Alace Glaw

Alace Glaw is a noblewoman of House Glaw, a Bonaventure dynasty of the Scarus Sector later implicated in the Chaos corruption known as the Helican heresy.

House Glaw figures in Dan Abnett’s Eisenhorn sequence (Xenos, Malleus, Hereticus) as an old mercantile and landed family whose fortunes and reputation collapsed once Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn’s investigation exposed generations of dealing in proscribed xenos artefacts and Chaos-tainted heirlooms, a line of corruption most closely associated with the forebear Pontius Glaw. Alace Glaw is recorded as a member of this wider kin-network, drawn into the scrutiny that fell upon the house as Eisenhorn’s inquiry traced the family’s obligations, retainers, and inheritance through the Scarus Sector.

Her standing in the narrative is chiefly as one of the named members of House Glaw whose fortunes were bound to the family’s downfall, illustrating how deeply proscribed knowledge had penetrated an established Imperial noble line. The exposure of House Glaw forms part of the broader sequence of events later termed the Helican heresy, which shaped the subsequent course of Eisenhorn’s career within the Inquisition.