The Tapeinosi are a small extremist order of siblings of the Church of Humanity Repentant who take the Repentant mission of the Church to the extreme. Separated by their practice of self mortification (in the forms of strict vows of poverty, fasting, and self-inflicted pain), these siblings offer themselves and their bodies as atonement for the sins of humanity. Marked by scars and simple burlap clothes, these siblings stand apart and are often driven to such extreme forms of repentance by their own guilt. Most of these siblings come from backgrounds of violence or other sins. Prominent member Brother Morphos abandoned the house he served, house Aquila, after serving as a captain leading strikes against the alien species of the sector. He now serves the CHR by preaching on planets and worlds that are in desperate need of repentance.
Many Siblings of the Tapeinosi serve as Demagogues or Zealots for the CHR, both preaching and sacrificing themselves in order to bring repentance to the sector. After a day of preaching it is common for these siblings to mortify themselves for the sins of those they preached to.
A darker side of the Tapeinosi, only known to those who have been a part for many years, is that they may extend their own mortifications to those they deem most in need of repentance. After years of enduring their own suffering and pain, these siblings have become experts on inflicting pain on others while still maintaining the dignity of their consciousness and life. Sometimes used as a sort of inquisition, these siblings excel at getting confessions from sinners all across the sector.