Ignace hails from the feudal world of Fervious (located in the Drusus Marches), where he made a career as bodyguard/duelist before making a career off-world. He is tall and well muscled, but in a sinewy rather than hulking fashion. He has tanned skin, a shaved head, and dark almond eyes. Years of living on the edge has made him a little jumpy, and he can be a little quick to draw his weapons. Ignace (and Odessa) have both been with Xerza for half a year now after being picked up on Iocanthus, and although he has yet to be granted a seance with Tancred he feels that he's part of the Inquisition.

Ignace is an excellent shot, honed first by years of fighting with relatively inaccurate muzzle-loaders, and later by extensive training with his paired Gunmetallicus autopistols. He is also a fairly skilled sword-fighter; his lover Odessa has trained him well. He is also decent enough when it comes to things like infiltration and tech-use (security/demolitions mostly).

Ignace is, like so many of Tancred's cadre, psyker. His talents run towards psychoportation, which so far has randomly manifested itself during various gunfights, enabling Ingace to make amazingly accurate shots with his pistols; he used to call this being 'in the zone', a state of mind where he would know exactly where he shots would go. Of course, Xerza has explained how it really works, and has been training him to be able to call upon it at will – so far with little success.

In addition to being a low-level psyker Ignace is also a mutant thanks to the insidious corruption caused by his unconscious use of the Warp – he no longer has any body hair and when stressed long quills (like those of a porcupine) will sprout from his skin, primarily on his head, upper back, and lower arms. Yeah, that's right, he's a freaking mutant.