soleran
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One idea I've been toying with is an Ecclesiarchy official controlling, or at least harboring, a death cult. In my scenario, he would use the cult to make the lives of his parishioners better (e.g. removing a cruel factory manager or sanctionary) and seek the help of the acolytes after he lost control. If you want the Ecclesiarchy to be the bad guys, my idea could be twisted so that the priest is using the cult to eliminate his competition and ensure his ascendancy in the church's ranks (the priest could be just power hungry or furthering a heretical agenda).
And like Aenno said, you can look to history for examples. Corruption, witch hunts, and wars of faith are all part of the 40k setting.
Ideas or fluff on ecclesiarchy organizations or groups to use against players.
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Joeker, any of those ideas are plausible in 40k. Five thousand years is a long time, and any actual knowledge of the individual's life could have given way to myth and legend even before his death.
If you want something along the lines of a 'true' history though, you could have two factions within the Ecclesiarchy debating over some point (doctrine, theology, history, etc) and looking to the objects in the tomb for the answer. Given how hotly believers can fight for what they believer is true, disinterring the tomb could easily result in an outbreak of violence for any number of reasons.