Freeblade - Notable Deeds: Defence of Tarnis (Unknown Date) - The Freeblade Vortigan, sole survivor of House Drakkus, fights alongside the Dark Angels Chapter of Space Marines to free his homeworld Tarnis of Ork taint and the machinations of Chaos Space Marines in thrall to the Blood God Khorne.Long-Awaited Return (784.M34) - After more than a Terran century of self-imposed exile as a Freeblade household detachment, the Agaron brothers return to the Knight World of Silverdawn after the death of their father. The siblings are welcomed back as heroes after the disastrous reign of their sire. Basilio, the eldest of the three, re-establishes trade with the nearby Forge Worlds of Estaban III and VII.Justice (986.M38) - More than a thousand standard years after betraying their oaths of loyalty to the Imperium, the Chaos Knights of House Drakon re-emerge at the head of a twisted host of Daemon Engines created by the Dark Mechanicum. The Warp-forged monstrosities are finally defeated amid the desecrated ruins of the Forge World Solemnium, after the Space Marines of the Iron Hands Chapter brings them to battle. However, it is the actions of a single Freeblade Knight that travels with the Space Marines that determine the course of the war. Known only as Justice, the Freeblade displays an incredible aptitude for destroying the Chaos Knights, earning seven confirmed kills during the course of the war. Rumours abound in the wake of the conflict of quite how the lone Knight achieved such a mastery of combat against others of his kind. Of their enigmatic ally's past, however, the Iron Hands would not speak. Despite some of House Drakon's Knights escaping Imperial reprisal, their strength is now greatly diminished.Red Harvest of Dalanthe (888.M39) - When a harvest moon hangs in the skies above Dalanthe, the agri-workers put the children's stories of the Gorehaunter to the back of their minds. Though many citizens deride him for it, the Freeblade known as Vigilantus stood on silent guard at Dalanthe's High Templus for three long solar months. When a Warp breach opened during a riot in Executioner's Square, a goliath of brass and bone rampaged out through the populace. It was met in battle by Vigilantus. Though the Knight is torn limb from limb, his last act is to decapitate the raging Lord of Skulls with a blast from his Thermal Cannon, banishing it back to the Warp for another thousand Terran years.Duels of the Crimson Glaives (178.M41) - Craftworld Aeldari assault the Agri-moon of Tarvel III, destroying hab-complexes in the search for ancient artefacts of their people. Three Freeblades band together to defend the beleaguered citizens and become known as the Crimson Glaives. As soon as the last Aeldari raider is driven from the moon, the Knights vanish without trace.Crushing the Mecha-WAAAGH! (572.M41) - Led by House Raven, five different knightly houses, along with no less than a dozen Freeblades, halt the mechanised hordes of WAAAGH! Gluttok. Across several star systems, the Imperial Knights are able to counter the armoured columns of Battlewagons and looted Imperial tanks employed by the wily Gluttok. It is on the factory planet of Blastoom that the Warboss' Stompa Mob is at last brought to final battle. Leading his Exalted Court into the thick of the fighting, Grevan, the Iron Duke, smashes into a wall of Ork walkers and uses his Reaper Chainblade to rip apart Gluttok's Stompa. It is later said that the Stompa's head was taken for display in the Keep Inviolate.The Redeemer's Quest (998.M41) - In 988.M41, Xander Krast murdered a fellow Knight following a quarrel over a noblewoman's hand. With ritual execution looming, Xander is freed by an unknown benefactor and flees his ancestral home of Chrysis. Xander's brothers, tainted by familial association, take ship after him. The pursuit rages across a dozen star systems, but Xander -- now fighting as the Freeblade Iron Redeemer -- eventually trades his freedom for his brothers' assistance in defending the Agri-world of Tekara from WAAAGH! Garshok. Working together, the brothers stall the Greenskin invasion long enough for a strike force from the Iron Hands' Clan Raukaan to arrive. During the climactic Battle of Devil's Gorge, Xander performs a suicide run against the Stompa Mork Wantz Ya! and is presumed slain when the Ork walker's reactor undergoes a devastating chain reaction. Many of Clan Raukaan's battle-brothers are slain in the explosion, and the survivors vengefully pursue the beaten remnants of WAAAGH! Garshok across the Deinora Sector. Scattered and harried, the Orks leave the Exodite World of Selesti -- the planet that would have been their next target -- wholly unmolested. Watching from deep within the Webway, the Shadowseer Sylandri Veilwalker sees her plan come to fruition, and allows herself a brief moment of satisfaction before turning her attention to other matters. The surviving brothers return to Chrysis, and report that Xander's crime has been washed away in blood. Xander's name is struck from the annals of House Krast, though the brothers are careful to make no mention of the Iron Redeemer.The Red WAAAGH! (443.998.M41) - Warlord Grukk of the Red WAAAGH! ploughs into the densely populated Sanctus Reach, his crusade's juggernaut momentum smashing past the Space Marine homeworld of Obstiria to plunder the planets beyond. The Imperium prepares to make a stand upon Alaric Prime, a Feudal World of linked archipelagos and crumbling gaols. When a flotilla of Ork rust-ships make planetfall, the knightly houses of Alaric lead their Cadian allies in a worldwide counterattack. Warlord Grukk's bullish tactics take a heavy toll on the Human defenders before the legendary Freeblade known as Gerantius, the Green Knight, joins the conflict, tipping the war into a new phase of desperate battle.Battle of Mu'gulath Bay (757.999.M41) - The T'au Empire strikes the Hive World of Agrellan. The Imperial defenders are hard-pressed to counter the tactics of Commander Shadowsun, but the timely arrival of several detachments of Knights from House Terryn stems the tide. A number of Freeblades also distinguish themselves in the fierce fighting that follows, though Agrellan is still lost to the Emperor and renamed Mu'guluath Bay by the T'au.