Iron Templars

Iron Templars Armorial with Legion Iconography.

Iron Templars Tactical Legionary Cordala Allycin of the 4th Sisterhood.

## Space Marine Legion

### Battle Cry

*(Pre-Shattering)* "No evils shall stay our blades, for eternal is our crusade!"
 *(Post-Shattering)* "No daemon curses shall stay our blades, neither traitor-spawn, nor renegade, for eternal is our crusade!"

### Observed Strategic Tendancies

Mechanized Shock Assault, Close-Quarters Actions (Space Hulk Purgation, Boarding Operations, Line-Breaker Attacks, 'Forlorn Hope' Objective Assaults), Combined Arms Warfare, Fire Saturation, Void Warfare

### Alliegence

Loyalists
 *(Fedelitas Constantus)*

### Colors

Gray, Red, White

The **Iron Templars** are a Loyalist Space Marine Legion based out of the Feudal Paradise World of Tyui. Created as the 2nd Legion of the Space Marine Legions, the Iron Templars are the stalwart gene-daughters of their Primarch Alicia Greynight, the Silver Baroness. The Iron Templars, like their brother and sister legions, were forged for a singular purpose for the Great Crusade, that being the ability to shatter even the most stout defensive lines with overwhelming amounts of infantry backed by orbital support, armored vehicles, and firepower from both their heavily-armed warships and their heavily-armed devastator squads.

Stalwart, flexible, and vicious, the Iron Templars would contend with the later founded 12th Legion, known as the World Eaters, in terms of prowess in close-quarters combat. Created during the First Founding, the Iron Templars would be envisioned by the emperor to be a Legion of deadly maidens that would bring undiscovered worlds into imperial compliance with a combination of boots on the ground and fire from both the sky and the earth. They would be present during The Shattering, in which they, alongside the other loyalist Legions, would help bring it to a bloody close during the Siege of Terra.

During the great harrowing and the fracturing that came after it, the Iron Templars, along with their sister legions in the Pale Hounds, the Dawn Lords, and the Twilight Repentors would form a stable and beneficial friendship with each other that would protect the imperium that they served from the time of its inception onwards. Due to this friendship and alliance, the forces from all four of these legions can be often found working together to destroy their enemies and or assisting the independent Dark Angels in capturing their traitorous kin, who are known as the fallen.

## Origins

> "My second Legion shall act as my blade in any battle that will rain down fire from both the sky and the ground."
>
> The Emperor of Mankind when he created the Imperial Valkyries

The Iron Templars can trace their lineage back to the days of the Unification Wars, when they were founded as the II Legion of the Legiones Astartes. First equipped with rare jump packs derived from lost technology, the II Legion would be second legion put into use during the Unification Wars, as they were utilized as the Emperor's linebreakers. Taken first from the youngest and most beautiful daughters of the Europan nobility, they would later be drawn from the wider stock of Terran recruits drawn from all racial and geographic origins, especially the Albian Clans, Uratu, Ursh, and the Nordafrik Conclaves.

Due to their seemingly gravity-defying ability to drop out of the sky, the II Legion became known as the Imperial Valkyries, and their unmarked grey armor was changed with white pauldrons. Their symbol was changed from the Imperial Aquila to that of a golden upward-facing winged sword. This was a variant of the winged sword would be later used by the 1st Legion, the Angelus Mortis, which would later become known as the Dark Angels. Once Terra had been reunited, they were the third of the legions to be sent out during the Great Crusade to rediscover their primarch.

### The Silver Baroness of Tyui

The Iron Templars' primarch, Alicia Greynight, would land on the Feudal Paradise World and Knight World of Tyui. When her incubation pod washed up onto one of the picturesque beaches near the hive city of Serenity, she was found by and adopted by a noble family from one of Tyui's aristocrats, who raised her as if she was one of their own. While Tyui was a beautiful and technologically-blessed paradise world that survived the age of strife at first glance, down on the surface, it was anything but. Various houses of nobles fought each other for control of land and power, causing the planet to be embroiled in a civil war with itself.

Eventually, Alicia would rise to become a general and eventually the ruler of her noble house, one that would eventually unite the entire planet under her rule and end its long planetary civil war. While some houses supported her ideals, many others didn't and had to be conquered though force and rings of unyielding iron. It was through these battles in reuniting the planet under her rule in which Alicia would develop a semblance of what would eventually become the Iron Templars' combat doctrine, with line infantry being the vanguard of every attack, with them being supported by cadres of armored vehicles, including tanks, armored personnel carriers, mobile artillery platforms, armored cars, and knights following in their wake by providing walls of covering fire. Infantry fire support groups would also provide fire support by unleashing heavy covering fire on their enemies and targeting enemy strong points.

### Rediscovery

When the Emperor sensed another one of his children, his ship, the Imperator Somnium, would make Planetfall over the orbit of Tyui. When he set down onto the feudal paradise world, he was greeted by a verdant world that was analogous to Terra's early modern age. Having foreseen the arrival of the Emperor by one of her seers, Alicia welcomed the Emperor in a lavish ceremony, kneeling before him and pledging her service in 821.M30.

Seeing this, the Emperor took the newly discovered Alicia aboard the Imperator Somnium to be educated in the culture of the Imperium by Horus Lupercal, the Primarch of the Luna Wolves, and upon being educated by the first Primarch to be discovered by the Emperor, the Emperor then presented her with the new II Legion, the Imperial Valkyries. Seeing her new Legion and the daughters that were born from her gene seed, Alicia, inspired by the army of mechanized knights that she led into battle before meeting her father, would rename them to the Iron Templars, as they would be her sword that would cut through whatever came in their way.