House Worldscourer

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## House Worldscourer

House Worldscourer coat-of-arms.

House Worldscourer Armiger Warglaive.

## Knight House

### Warcry

"Spill blood for the Emperor and the arena!"

### High King

Highking Redeye, Lord Gladiator of the Arena

### Princeps

Princep Copernicus (deceased)Princep Sagitarus (Deceased)

Blood Warden Ersies (Deceased)

Scorpius, 1st loremaster and Psyker of the house (status Unknown)

### Founding

965.M41 (24 years after the Second War for Armageddon)

### Colours

Red base with bronze or silver trim, with skulls adorning the armour panels of legs

**House Worldscourer** is a Questor Imperialis Knight House located on the infamous hive world of Armageddon. They are a warrior house that values martial prowess and power over tactics and cunning, which is shown in their reckless fighting styles and ruthlessness of the members of this Knight House. The knights of this house are overpowered by the sheer will and mental strength of the pilots and submit to their will, going against the common symbiotic relationship between knight and pilot. Because of this, when the pilot leaves the knight, it will have left an imprint on the knight and cause them to hunger for battle and for combat, going so far as to attack other knights to satiate their dark desires.

Knights who have fought in many campaigns will adorn themselves with the bones of their enemies, as well as their skinless corpses dangling from chains or cages. Due to their psychotic and savage ways, the Inquisition has investigated this knight house many a time to either return knowing that they fight for the Imperium of Man, or to end up as another trophy. This Knight House believes that the Emperor of Mankind is the greatest human fighter to ever have lived and try to live up to it with their savage and brutal fighting, using dirty tricks as well as head-on fights to win battles. They live, die and spill blood in the name of the Emperor.

This Knight House also suffers from a blood temptation of Khorne, where if they give in to their bloodlust too heavily they will fall to the Blood God. Due to this, the Knight House often practices cleansing of the mind where they hold back their bloodlust, usually by killing enemies in the name of the Emperor.

## History

### Before founding

The aftermath of the Second War for Armageddon left the people of the effected warzones in turmoil and ruin, as savage tribes fought over the scraps of cities and to become the dominant tribe. Eventually a main tribe came on top calling themselves the world scourers. They used brutal and savage warfare to destroy their opponents, they killed their prisoners and adorned their skinned pelts as trophies of their wars. The Imperium at this time sought out worlds for suitable hosting of a new Questor house. A Rogue Trader was given the order to transport an Imperialis Questor ambassador as well as enough supplies to begin a new Knight house. The ambassador had become bored of the same nobility and rouge trader families to give knighthood to, so he decided to tour very dangerous worlds to bestow the knighthood upon a new kind of house. It would be a year of touring the imperium before the ambassador set his sights on the hiveworld Armageddon.

When he was dropped off to the designated site, he was kidnapped by members of the arena and taken to the arena. When the ambassador awoke he was confronted by the lord of the arena, redeye. a large built man, with battlescars all over and adorned in both scrap metal armor and skin clothing. The ambassador explained his situation and offered redeye to become a Highking and found a knight house. Redeye viewed himelf as lord of the ruins (areas affected by the Second War for Armageddon) and saw this as an oppertunity to expand his kingdom, so Redeye accepted and let the ambassador go. Within the next five years the knight house would come to fruition and the first walkers would be bestowed upon them. Redeye chose to pilot an Armiger Warglaive as they are sleeker, faster and better for melee combat, but armored it heavily and modified it to increase engine power and output to the legs, chainswords and arms.

### The Betrayal of House Worldscourer (975.M41)

Ten years had passed from the initial founding of the House Worldscourer, the inner circle of the knight house was comprised of 5 members. Highking Redeye, Princep Copernicus, Princep Sagitarus, Blood Warden Ersies and Scorpius, the first loremaster and Psyker of the Knight house. Around five years before this event, a minor daemon incursion occurred on Armageddon, where the teacher of Scorpius became a Warp conduit, but was killed swiftly so as to prevent a full scale invasion. Only five Daemons broke through and four of them were killed, with one managing to escape into the greater ruins of the city.

After months of hiding the Daemon revealed itself to Scorpius, offering him more power than his teacher possessed and the ability to imbue his comrades with Psychic buffs. Scorpius, being naïve to chaos and Daemons, accepted. Over the following months the Daemon would have him practice rituals to strengthen his connection to the warp as well as tainting his soul and mind while scorpius was in trance. When the time came, the Daemon had enough control over Scorpius that he was his puppet, and so ordered him to bring Copernicus to him. obeying his new master, Scorpius lured Copernicus to the daemon. When Copernicus arrived he was imprisoned in warp chains and the Daemon began a ritual to make Copernicus his new vessel. When the ritual was complete the soul of Copernicus was consumed by the daemon.

With Copernicus' status in the knight house, he slowly tainted their ranks and was ready to stage an incursion, all that was needed was to kill the Highking to ensure that there was no flaws tov his plan. When the day arrived, it was a meeting in the Grand house between the inner circle. When Copernicus entered he shouted outlandish claims such as the knight house belonging to Khorne and that no one would survive, then beginning to transform to accommodate his daemon host. As this was happening, Scorpius was creating a warp portal which was connected to a blood world of khorne. with the daemon now apparent and the portal forming, the three loyal inner circle members would begin their fight with them, Redeye ordered that Blood warden Ersies go and find Scorpius and kill him while he and Sagitarus fight the daemon.

### The death of Copernicus the Traitor

The fight saw the War room of the Grand house destroyed, exposing the buildings innards to the skies of Armageddon. The daemon form of Copernicus had sprouted wings to ascend to the high ground of the skies, where he would swoop down to slowly chip at Redeye and Sagitarus. eventually Sagitarus ascended one of the pillars to leap at the daemon to preform a killing blow, unfortunately the daemon would swoop to cut the pillar and cause sagitarus to fall to his death. however during the swoop Sagitarus grabbed onto the daemon and they began to fall.

elsewhere, Ersies was fighting off hordes of daemons coming from the portal that Scorpius created, eventually the horde would kill her, bleeding her of all her blood and splay her corpse in the position of a blood eagle.

During this, a mid fall fight was occurring between Sagitarus and the Daemon, the daemon could not escape as Sagitarus had cut the daemon's wings off. As they got closer to the ground the daemon became desperate and left the corpse of Copernicus to inhabit Sagitarus. as Redeye made it to the ground where Sagitarus and the daemon landed. Redeye saw the reverted corpse of Copernicus on the ground, now little more than skin and red paste, and Sagitarus limping towards Redeye. Redeye ran up to Sagitarus and beheaded him with his chainsword, causing the daemon to become banished back to the warp. Redeye now rallied up as many men as he could and retook the grand hall from the daemon horde after 3 days of sieging. the damage took many months of repairing to complete, and a new room was added to the arena, the hall of greats, where those who served the Knight house honorably and were high ranking members of the house would be honored in memory forever.

## Homeworld

### Armageddon

The hive world of Armageddon is a hive world and mining world famous for its many conflicts such as the war of the beast's climax, as well as the wars of Armageddon. the notable places of the Knight house on this world are the Arena and the Grand house. The arena is a massive colosseum style apocalyptic arena where the members of the knight house are drawn, only the winners of the arena are given the privilege to join the house. The grand house is a large building, reaching the skies where the members of the house stay, train, fight etc.

## House Traditions and Beliefs

The Knight house Worldscourer encompass the following traditions and beliefs:

### Honor is Earned in Battle

As demonstrated by the trial of the Arena, you must earn honor through battle. your rank is determined by the number of skulls adorned on your walker or the amount of kills you have. To record kills you have assigned to you a tally scribe who follows you into combat and tracks your kills and how the enemy is killed. and when you have more than 5 tally scribes, you are regarded as a notable member of the house. Within the house, honor dictates position, as Redeye earned his position in the arena and by killing his way through the opposition. to be successful you must be willing to die for your honor and kill for it.

### The Imperium Comes First

Though they are bloodthirsty savages with massive mechs, they value the lives of imperials and the wider Imperium as they see their potential. they see how a guardsman could risk his life to save his comissar and go on to shape worlds in his image. They see how an imperial slaver could rise a rebellion against a corrupt planetary governor and make the lives of the planet better. To them there is no greater honor than serving the Imperium of man and to kill in the name of the emperor.

### To Fall to Chaos is to Fall Beyond the Emperor's Will

Due to the blood tempt Khorne has placed on the members of the knight house, they must control their bloodlust to only the enemies of the imperium. they believe that if they fall to chaos, they are no longer worthy of honor, of to serve the emperor and must be killed swiftly and without mercy. as to kill for chaos is to kill without reason.

### In Death, Your Legacy Will Be Cemented

The life of a member of the Knight house worldscourer is long, filled with death, blood and carriage where you live for the rampage of heretics and xenos. For every member of the inner circle that falls in battle, every member will go on a pilgrimage of blood where they will join a black templar crusade or any major imperial war and kill as many as it takes to match the kill count of that member, ensuring that the strongest survive. After this blood crusade, they will return to Armageddon and place the members armor and weapons in the hall of greats.

## Notable Figures

### Highking Redeye, Lord gladiator of the Arena

High King Redeye is the leader and ruler of the Knight house and the grand arena. He was one of the first survivors of the second war of Armageddon to form a tribe and was the first to initiate war on another tribe. through his conquest he managed to subdue the tribes and absorb them into his own, managing to command them to construct a grand arena where they would fight for honour. The day the Ambassador arrived, he would assist Redeye with the development of the House and ensure that they had good equipment. since then, Redeye has initiated and completed 2 blood crusades, having his current kill count be 145 million, which is scored upon the skulls that adorn his personal Warglaive.

### Copernicus (The traitor)

Copernicus (Pre-daemon possession) was one of the 4 Princeps of the Knight house. he embodied honor and courage, he could rally many to battle with his speeches and poetry. He was friends with the other princeps and aspired to one day become the high king when Redeye had retired his throne, to lead the Knight house just as he did. unfortunately his soul was consumed by the khornite daemon Kash'ruba, and his body was left unrecoverable after the events of the betrayal of the house.

## House Appearance

### House Colors

The house adorn their armour and Walkers with a red base and bronze trim, filling the spaces left bare on their armour with skulls or other trophies taken from their enemies. Those of new rank usually have their bronze trim replaced by silver.

### House Arms

The house arms are usually depicted as a shield that is rounded on both sides that come to a point at the bottom, with the upper shield consisting of two spikes on either side and one central spike at the top middle, with a sawblade emerging from behind its respective half of the round part of the shield, a ram skull at the centre with curved horns. The shield is usually red, the sawblades silver and the ram skull black, with the trim of the shield being either silver or bronze (depending on rank).

## Unique units

Due to the nature of Knight house Worldscourer, they employ many foot troops as well as Knights, meaning that these troops need to be heavily armoured to compete with the Walkers, and so come into play 3 unique units that belong to the Knight House.

### Scorpio Division

the Scorpio division are a unit of Foot soldiers who are armed with augmented Inquisitor power armour, and use Power Lances, being able to slash from mid range and still be effective in combat. their helmet has the depiction of a Scorpion head, to mark their division.

### Phoenix Division

The Phoenix division are a unit of Foot soldiers who are armed with augmented Inquisitor power armour with a small jump pack attached, and are armed with chainswords, allowing them to swoop into battle, shredding their opponent. Their Helmet has the depiction of an eagle, to mark their division.

### Dire Wolf Division

The Dire Wolf division are a unit of Foot soldiers who are armed with augmented Inquisitor power armour, and are augmented with a teleport relay, allowing them to deepstrike into enemy lines. They are armed with Lightning claws, allowing them to hack and slash their enemies and teleport out. Their helmet has the depiction of a Wolf, to mark their division.

## Relations

### Allies

#### Imperium of Man

As with the title of Questor Imperialis, this knight house serves the Imperium almost religiously, believing that the Emperor was the greatest human fighter alive.

### Enemies

#### Chaos

Due to their allegiance to the Imperium, they have a deep rooted hatred for Chaos, especially Khorne due to the cure he has placed upon the members of the house as well as the incursion of their inner circle through Copernicus and Scorpius.