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House Varlock - House History: House Varlock was presumably founded during the Dark Age of Technology, like other Knight Houses. In the latter years of M41, the world of Cyprus Ultra came under attack by the vile Ork Warboss Gorgutz 'Ead 'Unter and his Orks. Though Imperial units waited in orbit, Inquisitor Holt forbade any deployment. Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos of the Blood Ravens, ignored this order however, and deployed from the Battle Barge Dauntless to assist the staunch defenders of House Varlock in battle.
House Varlock - Notable Campaigns: Defence of Cyprus Ultra (Unknown Date.M41) - House Varlock, with help of the Blood Ravens, defended their home world against an Ork invasion.
House Varlock - Notable Knights: Drakaina - Drakaina is the personal Knight Crusader of Lady Solaria, the head of House Varlock. She brought her foreboding Imperial Knight to support the forces of the Blood Ravens, unleashing a devastating barrage of unrelenting fire from her twin Avenger Gatling Cannons and Ironstorm Missiles, becoming the terror of all who would dare stand against the Space Marines.
House Varlock - Notable Personnel: Lady Solaria - Solaria sits at the head of House Varlock. Fierce and stubborn, she is an invaluable ally in the heat of battle, or a devastating enemy. Recently, she fought alongside the Blood Ravens Chapter in the defence of her homeworld of Cyprus Ultra.
House Varlock - House Colours: The colours of House Varlock are blue and white with golden trim.
House Varlock - House Arms: House Varlock's crest is the head of a golden sea-serpent centred upon a blue circlet, framed by an ancient, gold compass symbol.
House Velemestrin - House Velemestrin: House Velemestrin is a Loyalist Imperial Knight House of the Imperium. There is very little information in Imperial records about this Knight House, other than their valiant stand on their homeworld of Alaric Prime against the invasion of Ork Warlord Grukk and his Red WAAAGH! in 998.M41.
House Velemestrin - Notable Campaigns: Defence of Alaric Prime (443.998.M41) - In 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 Forgotten Knight, joins the conflict, tipping the war into a new phase of desperate battle.
House Velemestrin - Notable Knights: None listed in current Imperial records.
House Velemestrin - Notable Personnel: Gaulemort Velemestrin - Former High King of House Velemestrin, he dyed most foully during the initial battle with Warlord Grukk's greenskin horde.Gholo Velemestrin - A Noble of House Velemestrin who fought during the valiant defence of Alaric Prime from the savage greenskin hordes of Warlord Grukk.Rolundus Velemestrin - During the defence of Alaric Prime from the ravaging greenskin hordes of Warlord Grukk, Rolundus was ingloriously taken, murdered in his sleep by foul xenos infiltrators who slipped into his stronghold beneath the careless watch of his thrice-cursed servants and guards. Even bereft of his Knight, he laid low many of the aliens' number before succumbing to his wounds.Sylvost Velemestrin - A Noble of House Velemestrin who fought during the valiant defence of Alaric Prime from the savage greenskin hordes of Warlord Grukk. During during the initial battle with the Ork Warlord's forces, the charging Knights had burnt a great furrow into the Ork horde, but in their haste to prove themselves they had overextended themselves badly. The magnitude of their mistake only became clear when an Ork Stompa debarked from the flagship Wrath of Gork, guns blazing. When Lord Gaulemort's Knight found its cockpit being besieged by an Ork Warboss who had leapt over from the Stompa, Sylvost didn't heed his lord's orders to hold fire and took a shot. His battle cannon shell smashed into Gaulemort's cockpit with explosive force, sending his Knight reeling back as its ion shield dissipated. The Ork Warboss took advantage, using his massive power klaw to pluck the body of the sire of Velemestrin of his command throne, and cut it in two. In the final epic battle, Sylvost found himself similarly besieged, when a mob of Orks wielding sledgehammers capped with crude rockets, slammed them against his Knight, manually detonating their charges against the suit's weak spots. The walker flailed its arms wildly, blaring its war-horn in an appeal for help just as Lord Gaulemort Kestren had done moments before Sylvost had sealed his fate. Knights from several houses turned, but none of them did more than watch as Sylvost was taken apart limb by limb. The Degallio vox-net crackled with the chime of a bell. "Thus does the ghost of Gaulemort Kestren find his rest."
House Velemestrin - House Colours: The colours of House Velemestrin are not listed in current Imperial records.
House Velemestrin - House Arms: The arms of House Velemestrin are not listed in current Imperial records.
House Vextrix - House Vextrix: House Vextrix is a Renegade Knight House formerly of the Questor Mechanicus that repudiated its oath of loyalty to the ancient Mechanicum and the Imperium of Man during the Horus Heresy.Since being declared an Infernal house of Chaos Knights, the Knights of Vextrix have welcomed the corrupting influence of the Dark Mechanicum. The more warped a Knight becomes in service to the Dark Gods, the higher their status.Dread campaigns are frequently launched from the Fallen Knight World of Daxos Gemini to uncover repositories of knowledge that have remained hidden since the Age of Technology, and to acquire esoteric xenos machinery that the Tech-priests of Mars consider heretical.Daxos Gemini is covered in the sprawling forge metropolises of the Dark Mechanicum. Inside these vast factory-cities the Knights of House Vextrix continually augment their mechanical forms, warping their war engines into perfect embodiments of Chaos.
House Vextrix - House History: Hailing from Daxos Gemini, a Knight World located within the Segmentum Obscurus and discovered by Explorator fleets dispatched from Mars, the integration of House Vextrix into the Imperium proved a bloodless affair.Notably, the warriors of House Vextrix were eager students in the ways of the Cult Mechanicus, accepting ever-increasing numbers of emissaries from Mars as a sign of the household's devotion to the new order unto which they had now been accepted. In acknowledgement of the strong connection between Daxos Gemini and Mars, combined with a desire to facilitate rapid integration of House Vextrix into the expeditionary fleets of the Great Crusade, responsibility for tactical assignments of the household's strength was bequeathed to the Fabricator-General Kelbor-Hal.Accepted as honoured servants of the Omnissiah, House Vextrix were regularly sent forth across the galaxy alongside the Legio Mortis, who are known to many in the Imperium as the "Death's Heads." In this role, the warriors of Vextrix acted as enforcers of the fabricator-general's will with a particular focus on the retrieval and protection of any fragment of desirable knowledge held by rediscovered strands of Humanity throughout the galaxy.On occasion, those that served with distinction were assigned a place amongst the personal bodyguard of the fabricator-general of Mars himself. To be given such a role was perceived as a great honour amongst the ranks of House Vextrix and did much to secure the ascension of those chosen individuals to positions of authority within the household.So it came to be that, by the end of the Great Crusade, the ruling class was placed there as much by virtue of their association with Mars as they were by their skill-at-arms. It is perhaps safe to presume that those leaders of House Vextrix, so entangled with the fabricator-general, were the driving force behind the household's march down the path of treachery.
House Vextrix - Horus Heresy: As a sign of their commitment to the fabricator-general, the first act of House Vextrix during the Horus Heresy was to adorn the buttresses of their fortress upon Daxos Gemini with the corpses of the ruling Noble house whose loyalty to the Imperium proved unquestionable. After purging their world of dissenting elements, the warriors of House Vextrix took to the stars in service to the Warmaster Horus.Many were placed alongside the Legio Mortis, supporting the Titan Legion in some of the most pivotal conflicts of the Horus Heresy. In recognition of their devotion to the cause, the remaining numbers of House Vextrix were assigned tasks according to the whims of the fabricator-general himself, given leave to pursue such goals by whatever means they deemed fit. It was this role that led to several dozen warriors of House Vextrix being dispatched to the Belt of Iron, ordered to conquer all in the Warmaster's name.House Vextrix were amongst the Heretics who participated in the Battle of Beta-Garmon during the Horus Heresy, in which hundreds of Loyalist and Traitor Titans were obliterated. The Vextrix Knights also suffered staggering casualties, but this only served to stoke their hatred of the Imperium, and of those who continued to blindly serve the Omnissiah.
House Vextrix - Notable Knights: Fractured Angel (Questoris Knight Styrix) - A blessing from Mars, the Fractured Angel, depicted above, was one of the first Styrix Knight armours gifted to House Vextrix when they swore their oaths to the Red Planet. After the ancient Mechanicum was riven by betrayal and the Fabricator-General Kelbor-Hal sided with the Warmaster, House Vextrix honoured its ancient accords by using Knight armours like the Fractured Angel to wreak havoc in the name of the Dark Mechanicum. Throughout the Cataclysm of Iron, this particular Knight armour would be responsible for some of the greatest violent excesses of House Vextrix against Loyalist worlds.Steadfast Aegis (Cerastus Knight-Atrapos) - Steadfast Aegis, depicted below, was one of several House Vextrix Knights present on Mars during the Schism of Mars, assigned to the Red Planet as part of the fabricator-general's personal bodyguard. As the Horus Heresy proved, Atrapos Pattern Knights were considerably effective at felling god-engines, and thus Steadfast Aegis rarely stood in the presence of Kelbor-Hal himself. Instead, the Knight and its two companions, Valour's Duty and Spear of Daxos, were regularly assigned hunter-killer missions, combing the red sands of Mars for surviving groups of Loyalist Titans and armour. The honour banners of the three Knights displayed a considerable number of heavy armour, Knight and god-engine kills, proving the three Vextrix Atrapos earned their position of prominence by virtue of their consummate skill on the battlefield.Spear of Daxos (Cerastus Knight-Atrapos)Valour's Duty (Cerastus Knight-Atrapos)Anvil of Trevenek (Knight Rampager) - A Knight Rampager of House Vextrix.Drixia's Maul (Knight Desecrator) - The Knight Desecrator Drixia's Maul proved to be the most stubborn of the Knight suits of the Drixian Nobles, yet through unending mechanical tortures even it succumbed to the corruptions of Chaos.Saw of the Eastreach - Knight Rampager Saw of the Eastreach was named for the massacre it perpetrated during its first march.
House Vextrix - Notable Personnel: Trevenek LVI - The 56th Fallen Noble of the Trevenek line who has piloted the Knight Rampager Anvil of Trevenek for well over three Terran centuries.Virnet XI - The 11th Fallen Noble of the Virnet line and the pilot of the Knight Rampager Saw of the Eastreach.Xitra CDV - In millennia past, the Xitras were bondsmen of the Drixian line, at the beck and call of the more powerful Noble family. But when the Legio Mortis fell to Chaos, the Drixians were among the few to renounce their oaths to the Titan Legion, proclaiming that their first duty was to the Omnissiah. The Xitran line repaid this lack of loyalty by turning upon their bond-lieges. Before long, the dismembered corpse of the last Drixian was being mounted atop the spiked gate of Vyre Keep in the heartland of Daxos Gemini. Over long centuries the Knight suits of the Drixian Nobles were bent to the will of the Xitras. The current pilot of the Drixia's Maul is the 405th direct descendant of the Xitran line to man that Knight suit. Though she has been bonded to the Knight Rampager for scarcely more than a solar decade, she has already made a name for herself as a fearsome combatant and cunning tactician, as well as a loyal servant of the Legio Mortis.
House Vextrix - House Strength: Though House Vextrix stood amongst the smallest of Knight houses, capable of fielding an estimated 140 Knight armours at the onset of the Horus Heresy, thus marking it as a Tertius-grade house, its war vaults were well-stocked with rarer patterns. Indeed, a quarter of House Vextrix's strength consisted of Knight Magaera, Knight Styrix and Knight Asterius armours, a rarity amongst any household, let alone one of House Vextrix's size and lineage.This discrepancy can be attributed to Daxos Gemini's close ties to Mars, with shipment records highlighting the frequent supply convoys leaving the Red Planet destined for the Knight World. House Vextrix's rarer armours saw frequent use in service to the fabricator-general, primarily as part of his honour detail.As the Horus Heresy progressed, it was these Knight armours that underwent the most radical changes within House Vextrix, welcoming any modifications blessed by the Traitor fabricator-general and proudly displaying their allegiance.
House Vextrix - Traitor Titan Legios: Legio Mortis
House Vextrix - House Colours: The colours of House Vextrix are green and black with silver trim.
House Vextrix - Pre-Heresy: The heraldry of House Vextrix prior to their fall to Chaos took the form of a large sword bisecing a cog symbol, indicating their bond with the ancient Mechanicum. The sword was centred between two smaller symbols; a cracked skull on the right and the symbol of the great Forge World of Mars on its left.Alternatively, after House Vextrix declared for the Warmaster during the Horus Heresy, they would often display the sword bisecting the Eye of Horus, indicating their loyalty to the Warmaster's cause. This central symbol was centred above a half-cog icon, which indicated this Knight household's loyalty to the Dark Mechanicum.
House Vextrix - Post-Heresy: Following their subsequent retreat to the Eye of Terror following the end of the Siege of Terra, the heraldry of the Iconoclast Knight House morphed into a large black sword bisecting a black skull centred within a white corrupted Opus Machina icon of the Dark Mechanicum.
House Vextrix - Sources: Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Titandeath (Specialty Game), pg. 95Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Traitor Legios (Specialty Game), pp. 104-107Codex: Chaos Knights (8th Edition), pp. 20-21, 29-30
House von Valancius - House von Valancius: House von Valancius is one of the three largest Rogue Trader dynasties operating within the Koronus Expanse of the Segmentum Obscurus, where it maintains a trade-oriented pocket empire stretching across several worlds. Its primary competitors include the Rogue Traders Calligos Winterscale and Incendia Bastaal-Chorda and their respective dynasties.House von Valancius was led until her recent murder by Theodora von Valancius, who was greatly aided in her tasks by the house's loyal seneschal, the former Navis Imperialis officer Abelard Werserian.Among the several worlds in the von Valancius trade empire is the jungle-covered Agri-world of Janus and the Adeptus Mechanicus-managed Industrial World of Kiava Gamma. The capital of the von Valancius Protectorate in the Koronus Expanse is the Civilised World of Dargonus.
House von Valancius - Notable Members and Associates: Theodora von ValanciusAbelard WerserianCassia OrsellioArgentaHeinrix van CaloxIdira TlassJae HedariJanris DanrokKibellahKunrad VoigtvirMarazhai AezyrraeshMaster Helmsman RavorPasqal HaneumannUlfarVistenza VyattVox Master VigdisXavier CalcazarYrliet LanaevyssNocturne of Oblivion
House Vornherr - House Vornherr: House Vornherr, known also by the cognomens the "Luhnborg Uhlanii" and the "Bloody Dukes" before the Battle of Calth and the "Black Lancers" afterwards, was an Imperial Knight house of the Questor Imperialis that had direct ties of allegiance to the Imperium of Man.This Knight house hailed from the Feudal World of Luhnborg-IX, located in the Ultima Segmentum, and were known to be an honourable company of warriors with a record of distinction within the Great Crusade and had, by fortune of war, sworn to Roboute Guilliman, primarch of the Ultramarines Legion, a binding oath. This was a promise which saw the majority of the house muster in the Veridia System for the auspicious Calth Conjunction in preparation for the Imperial assault by the Ultramarines and Word Bearers Legions against the Orks of the Ghaslakh Xeno-hold, and what ultimately led to the house's terrible losses in the Battle of Calth.When the Warmaster Horus ordered the Calth Conjunction, the Knights of House Vornherr did not hesitate to answer. Though a small contingent remained to secure their holdings within Luhnborg, the majority mustered at Calth, several hundred Knight armours marching in answer to the primarch's call.Such loyalty was to be unjustly rewarded, for the betrayal enacted upon Calth dealt a severe blow to House Vornherr, reducing their numbers to fewer than half a centuria of Nobles. With their numbers scattered across the galaxy on secondments to other warfronts, the household issued a call for withdrawal stating their oaths to fight until death fulfilled.Those that remained obscured their bold colours with black and set themselves upon a path of vengeance and eventual destruction. Only a few aging barons remained upon their homeworld, setting aside choleric humours for pragmatism to ensure their legacy was rebuilt once more.House Vornherr are held as a pristine example of an honourable company of warriors, spoken of with reverence earned by a record of distinction within the Great Crusade. Wardens of the Luhnborg System, their house emerged as victors in a millennia-long conflict against rival Knight houses whose history was eradicated in the wake of Vornherr's ascension.Chronicles penned by the hands of House Vornherr claim such actions were necessary in the face of a terrible emerging evil, though the truth of such a claim is impossible to verify. The erasure of their foes from all records is perhaps the only black mark upon the reputation of House Vornherr.
House Vornherr - Legend of the Dark Messenger: Within the House of Vornherr, a particular legend pertains to the cataclysm at Calth which cannot be independently verified but is taken as sovereign truth by the Scions of the house. The tale recounts that upon the very eve of the Word Bearers' betrayal at what became the Battle of Calth, Duke Bhaevenwulf had completed a review of his entire house upon the landing field at Platia City and afterwards retired to his pavilion justly satisfied by the strength at his command.Gazing southward across the star-lit ocean, the duke is said to have sensed a presence behind him and turned. A robed stranger had entered the tent having slipped past the house's guards and stood leafing idly through the many scrolls, maps and data-slates heaped upon the large command table at its centre.Taking the measure of the stranger with a practised glance, the duke knew him for a messenger rather than an assassin, and demanded he be out with his missive and leave. That missive was a simple one, an offer delivered in a whisper from beneath a hooded cowl. The Warmaster Horus would bestow his favour upon the House of Vornherr in honour of its service to the Great Crusade and in recognition of its devotion to a higher ideal its forebears had shown when they had crushed the other six Knight houses of Luhnborg.The duke's pride swelled, but he sensed duplicity and the trap of hubris and so demanded to hear the price of the Warmaster's largesse. "No price but obedience," replied the messenger, but the offer would have to be accepted immediately and in doing so, the Knights of Vornherr would be provided the means to depart Calth before the dawn.Not a moment passed before the old duke gave his reply, dismissing the messenger with his words. Vornherr had bent the knee to Guilliman and would heed the call to war. The duke had sworn that his house would follow Ultramar, an oath it would maintain unto death.
House Vornherr - Notable House Vornherr Knights: Surcease of Sorrow - One of the oldest and most potent Knight armours in the service of House Vornherr, this Cerastus Knight-Acheron, depicted above, belonged to Duke Sorvak Bhaevenwulf himself who had inherited it from his father, Duke Khorvun. The amrour bears several key examples of Duke Sorvak's personal heraldry, of particular note the icon of the Legiones Astartes White Scars, which the Vornherr served alongside during the First Kolarne Circle Compliance. The wounds inflicted upon Surcease of Sorrow during the battle for Ithraca at the Battle of Calth were left untended and the armour itself displayed with prominence within the household’s fortress, a reminder of the vengeance owed to all Traitors.Nepenthes - Nepenthes, depicted above, was a Cerastus Knight-Castigator armour piloted by Knight-Scion Ulas Karn, a kinsman of Grand Master Duke Sorvak Bhaevenwulf of House Vornherr, and a senior member of the lord's elite Lifewatch phalanx. As befitting of its station, Nepenthes was rarely seen more than a dozen strides from Surcease of Sorrow, the duke's own Knight, and the remains of both were recovered in the aftermath of the battle for Ithraca during the Battle of Calth. As with many Knight suits recovered from Calth, it was painstakingly rebuilt by House Vornherr Sacristans and daubed in black in recognition of the doom visited upon the household.
House Vornherr - Notable House Vornherr Personnel: Duke Sorvak Bhaevenwulf (KIA) - Lord of the House of Vornherr and Grand Master of its Knightly Order who was slain at the Battle of Calth.Knight-Scion Ulas Karn - Kinsman of Duke Sorvak Bhaevenwulf and a senior member of the lord's elite Lifewatch phalanx. As such, Nepenthes was rarely more than a dozen strides from Surcease of Sorrow, and the remains of both were recovered in the aftermath of the battle for Ithraca city following the Battle of Calth.
House Vornherr - Loyalist Titan Legios: Legio AtarusLegio HonorumLegio MetalicaLegio OberonLegio Tempestus (Loyalist)
House Vornherr - Space Marine Legions: Ultramarines
House Vornherr - House Colours: House Vornherr's colours are bloody scarlet, sun-fire yellow and black.
House Vornherr - House Arms: The heraldry of House Vornherr is a skull-headed raptor.
House Vornherr - Livery and Honour Markings: The personal heraldry of House Vornherr Knights often utilised a number of motifs common across numerous Knight households, as well as several unique to Vornherr.Where the crimson fields are rendered with a jagged edge, this is commonly indicative of deliberate erasure of some facet of the household's history, most likely in reference to the six Knight houses the Vornherr defeated and absorbed during the Age of Strife.The dark blue check pattern is indicative that the bearer has inherited the mantle of power from an immediate forebear.The skull-headed raptor icon of House Vornherr was often prominently displayed on the Knight's shoulder armour or guardbrace as well as the Knight's personal banner.Other honours that were often displayed include a white band upon a red field, which indicated that a wound had been suffered, and sword symbols within the band recorded the fact that the wound was sustained in the course of the bearer's duty to the elite duke's Lifewatch.
House Vornherr - Sources: Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Rulebook (Specialty Game), pp. 48-49Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Shadow and Iron (Specialty Game), pp. 9-10, 14-15, 48, 52, 70-71Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Titandeath (Specialty Game), pg. 93Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Loyalist Legios (Specialty Game), pp. 78-83, 98-107The Horus Heresy Book Five: Tempest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 62, 122-131, 174Adeptus Titanicus Wik - Legio Atarus Transfer Sheet (with House Vornherr transfers)Warhammer Community - The Defence of Ryza: The Story (23 July 2020)Warhammer Community - Warhammer Fest UK 2019: Live Blog (10 May 2019)
House Vrachul - House Vrachul: House Vrachul is a Renegade Knight house of Chaos Knights and an Infernal house in service to the Dark Mechanicum.The house's Knights' belch acidic vapours from their vents and exhaust ports, causing a pall of chemical smog wreathed them in battle. This smog is toxic enough, that it can dissolve the flesh and armour of anything that strayed within bounds of House Vrachul's Knights.The Fallen Nobles of House Vrachul were known to favour the rush and crash of close combat with their Knights.Sometime after the Great Rift's creation during the Era Indomitus, Vrachul was among the the Chaos forces that invaded the Talledus System, precipitating the Talledus War.Due to pacts made with the Iron Warriors Warpsmith Etrogar, House Vrachul and the Chaos Knights of House Khomentis aided the Iron Warriors in their invasion of the Fortress World of Ghreddask in the Talledus System.
House Vrachul - Notable Campaigns: Talledus War (Unknown Date.M42) - The conflict that raged upon Ghreddask was dominated by the presence of super-heavy war machines and enormous armoured battalions. Striding through the hailstorm of shells and rocket barrages came the towering forms of Imperial Knights, as well as their dark mirror, the dreaded Chaos Knights. Both of these bitter enemies upheld ancient oaths to their liege lords with unwavering certainty. In the case of the corrupted houses, their refusal to break the bonds of honour had found them fighting on the wrong side of the Horus Heresy, supporting the traitorous forces of the Warmaster Horus as they made war upon the Imperium of Man. House Mortan provided the majority of the Loyalist war engines on Ghreddask, with no less than six Knights hailing from the dark world of Kimdaria. Veteran beast-hunters all, the Mortan Knights hailed from a world wreathed in perpetual darkness and ravaged by predatory behemoths, a harsh place that had forged iron-hard souls. They proved invaluable in the battle against the Daemon Engines of the Iron Warriors Soul Harvester Scarax Krond, corralling the twisted abominations with fleet Armigers before tearing them apart with Reaper Chainswords and Thunderstrike Gauntlets. Both houses favoured the rush and crash of close combat, a craving that the Loyalist Nobles of House Mortan were only too glad to accommodate. Ghreddask shook to the impact of Titan-killing weaponry as these two ancient foes duelled, prepared to fight to the bitter end. Though the Imperial forces managed to blunt the Chaos assault, the fate of Ghreddask still hangs in the balance.
House Vulker - House Vulker: House Vulker is an Imperial Knight house of the Questor Mechanicus which has sworn direct fealty to the Adeptus Mechanicus. Despite being one of the greater houses amongst those knightly households aligned to the Mechanicus, House Vulker is reckoned especially reclusive and mysterious. Their homeworld is Aurous IV, a mineral-rich planet nestled in a crowded star system.It was to exploit the planets of this system, and the surrounding asteroid belts, that the Forge World Bellus Prime was established nearby. The bonds between Aurous IV and Bellus Prime remain close, with the same golden-plated Servitor creatures working upon both worlds and the forces of each joining Mars Explorator fleets that ply the depths of the Segmentum Pacificus.The courts of House Vulker are singular places, full of Tech-priests and Servitors that speak in coded machine language and number sequences. They enact mechanical ceremonies that are, for the uninitiated, disturbing to look upon, their meanings unclear and vaguely sinister. The Nobles of House Vulker hide every inch of their flesh with robes, sometimes even wearing masks of gold. Outsiders are not welcome within their steel-clad fortresses.When called to war, the Knights of House Vulker leave behind their curious trappings, striding out to do battle with all the surety of their peers. They place a premium upon firepower and well-coordinated plans for both attack and defence, always engaging the enemy at the optimal distance by utilising carefully cogitated trajectories. This often results in Vulker's Knights waiting patiently for the enemy to draw close before annihilating them with searing barrages. It was they who first developed the Tripartite Lance, a formation later adopted by all other Knight Houses.
House Vulker - Notable House Vulker Knights: Guilded Conqueror - Knight Gallant of Baron VrothStrident - Knight Errant of Baron GolphytesUnalloyed Victory - Knight Warden of Sir Luxious
House Vulker - Notable House Vulker Personnel: Baron Vroth - The twin stripes upon his Knight's carapace mark Vroth as a Baron, and the pattern upon his tilting plate denotes his position within the Exalted Court as Master of Vox. The Master of Vox, sometimes known as a Broadhailer, bears the internal communications equipment that can network together all the fighting detachments of House Vulker's Knights as well as broadcast Vox hails to distant allies. In many Exalted Courts, the Master of Vox commands a rearguard position, focusing upon communications and lending supporting fire. Not so for Baron Vroth. In typical Knight Gallant fashion, Baron Vroth wades into the thickest of the fighting, crushing all before him. His Knight, the Gilded Conqueror, is one of House Vulker's eldest and most richly decorated suits. Only the most ancient of machines bear gilded armour burnished to a sheen, and the Gilded Conqueror boasts a full helm-plate made of precious metal.Baron Golphytes - Pilot of the Knight Errant Strident, and marked by his halved tilting plate, Golphytes is the Master of Lore, the keeper of sacred data, the Cogitator Prime.Lady Luxious - The display of bare adamantium armour plates is considered a deeply significant tribute by House Vulker. Lady Luxious earned this honour during fierce fighting on the Death World of Tasmadar II, after Tyranid bio-horrors ambushed Baron Dyrok's lance. Surging from the overgrown slopes of the valley known simply as the Gullet, a pair of huge serpentine beasts crippled the Baron's Knight and toppled Sir Ulrecht's Knight Gallant with a punishing body-blow. With icy calm, Luxious cogitated firing solutions and unleashed a punishing salvo of rockets and gatling fire that ripped one beast apart before it could finish Ulrecht's toppled steed. Her Knight Warden Unalloyed Victory went blade-to-chitinous-claw with the other Tyranid monster, sustaining heavy damage before finally bisecting the creature’s head with its roaring Reaper Chainsword. The Lady and her Knight stood guard over their damaged comrades for a further eight solar hours, seeing off predatory waves of bio-beasts before relief finally reached the Gullet. For this magnificent deed of valour, both Luxious and her steed were greatly honoured, their systems and panoply restored to full magnificence before the final push to liberate Tasmadar II.
House Vulker - House Colours: Like many Mechanicus-aligned knightly houses, House Vulker bears deep red which honours the ancient world of Mars and their formal alliance with the Adeptus Mechanicus. Often, the display of bare adamantium armour plates on a Knight suit is considered a deeply significant tribute by House Vulker. The stripes on a Knight's carapace mark the rank of the suit's pilot, while the tilting plate on the chest denotes their rank within the Preceptor's Exalted Court. The eldest Knight suits are richly decorated with precious metals. Only the most ancient of machines bear gilded armour burnished to a sheen.
House Vulker - House Arms: The gilded House Vulker crest proclaims their wealth. Beyond the central diadem with the cog-skull motif, none of the mysterious symbols are decipherable to any outside the learned, yet secretive servants of the Cult Mechanicus.
House Vulker - Sources: Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus (8th Edition), pp. 29, 57Codex: Imperial Knights (8th Edition), pp. 42-43Codex: Imperial Knights (7th Edition) (Digital Edition), pp. 56-57
House Vymar - House Vymar: House VymarImperial KnightAdeptus MechanicusImperialKnight World
House Vymar - Notable Campaigns: Second Aegisine Crusade (633.M39) - The Second Aegisine Crusade was launched by the Imperium of Man to reclaim the worlds of the dread Sub-sector Mandragora in 633.M39 after it had been lost from contact with the Imperium for centuries under a pall of Warp Storms. The Red Scorpions Space Marine Chapter gained high honour for their role in the later phases of the Crusade which re-conquered the worlds around the former Sub-sector capital world of Hecuba. These worlds had fallen under the tyranny of a heretical Mechanicus sect based on the once-proud Forge World of Shaehol. It was now a fetid world of chemical swamps and treacherous ash-wastes, its ecosystem wrecked by millennia of unrestrained industry. Shaehol was heavily defended by legions of insane, half-mechanoid servants loyal only to the Dark Magos who had created them. The paranoia of Shaehol's dark masters had invested the planet with innumerable layered defences made up of thousands of kilometres of living razor wire, clusters of hurricane mines and protected by labyrinthine fortress-mazes. The Red Scorpions spearheaded the orbital assault against Shaehol, conducting a concentrated attack by Drop Pod assault supported by Thunderhawks and Caestus Assault Rams which managed to force a beachhead on the heavily defended planet. For 19 murderous hours the Chapter was forced to defend the landing zone against phalanxes of corrupted Combat Servitors, waves of surgically mutilated labour helots and the vast and baleful war machines of Shaehol, but they would not break. Only through the Red Scorpions' resolute action did they enable the Battle Titans of the Legio Tempestor and the Knights of House Vymar to safely land on the surface and deploy, then push past their valiant protectors to take the war to the foe. It would take a further two standard years to fully re-conquer the fallen Forge World as the warped masters of Shaehol and their works were destroyed root and branch, but the Adeptus Mechanicus did not forget the Chapter's sacrifice. When at last the conquest was over after 2 standard years of brutal combat, and the Red Scorpions took their leave of the planet, the Mechanicus' lords of war did them homage, as towering Knights and Titans lined the route taken by the Red Scorpions as they marched to the landing zones, bowing to them in homage as they passed by.
House Vymar - Notable Knights: None listed in current Imperial records.
House Vymar - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
House Vymar - House Colours: The colours of House Vymar are not listed in current Imperial records.
House Vymar - House Arms: The arms of House Vymar are not listed in current Imperial records.
House Vyridion - House Vyridion: House Vyridion was a Household of Imperial Knights that existed at the foundation of the Imperium of Man. Through treachery and to their ever-lasting shame, House Vyridion was led to break its vows of fealty to the Imperium and join the forces of the rebellious Warmaster Horus Lupercal. Yet, after their first battle alongside the Traitors, House Vyridion recognised the error they had made and broke all ties with their former allies in order to travel to Terra and ask for the Emperor's Pardon. Imprisoned, but later pardoned, House Vyridion was called upon by the Emperor's own bodyguard, the Legio Custodes, to fight alongside them in defence of the Imperial Webway Project in the dungeons of the Imperial Palace.
House Vyridion - Notable Campaigns: The Battle of Mount Galheim (Unknown Date.M31) - Alongside the traitorous Emperor's Children, House Vyridion took to the field against the Iron Hands Legion and their allies in House Riathan and House Kells. House Vyridion slew or destroyed several hundred Iron Hands Astartes and vehicles as well as uncounted Imperial Army troops. During this battle, Baroness D'Arcus personally confronted and slew Baron Kells of House Riathan in single combat.War in the Webway - The Siege of the Impossible City (009.M31) - Fighting alongside the Legio Custodes, the Sisters of Silence, several Titans of the Legio Ignatum and countless maniples of the Martian Mechanicum's Skitarii, the reequipped House Vyridion entered the Eldar Webway and battled the uncounted hordes of daemons and Traitor Legiones Astartes assaulting the Emperor's Imperial Webway extension, especially the bloodthirsty butchers of the World Eaters. When the enemy reached Calastar, the Impossible City, the severely depleted Loyalists had lost all of their Titan-support, and it fell to House Vyridion to hold the line and cover the retreat of the remaining Imperial forces. Their ultimate fate is unknown. However, the Emperor left standing orders that anyone other than the Talons of the Emperor or the Mechanicum forces were to be executed upon their return to realspace.
House Vyridion - Notable Knights of House Vyridion: With the destruction of the Knight World of Highrock and the great vault that contained the House's valuable suits of Knight-armour, House Vyridion was requipped with those suits the Mechanicum was able to scavenge from the battlefields of the Imperium, many of them being barely battle-worthy. It takes a long time for a Scion and a Knight-suit to properly bond, a bond that becomes even more difficult to form if the Knight's Throne Mechanicum still reeks of the charred remains of its former pilot. It is a testimony to the skills and devotion of House Vyridion that they were operational within a solar week of receiving their "new" armours. With one notable exception, all Knights of House Vyridion deployed to the Eldar Webway had not been properly baptised by their new pilots.Aquila from the Ashes - The Cerastus Knight-Castigator given to Scion Devram Sevik was the only one to be properly named during the defence of the Imperial Webway Project. Scion Sevik himself painted the armorial shield as no Sacristans could be spared to do so. Aquila from the Ashes was destroyed and Sevik killed while confronting the daemonically-possessed Archimandrite.
House Vyridion - Notable Personnel: Jaya D'Arcus - Baroness of House Vyridion, Warden of Highrock and First Scion of the Envolius Reach, Jaya D'Arcus was the commander-in-chief of House Vyridion during the dark years of the Horus Heresy. At merely fifty-one Terran standard years of age, she was the youngest baroness House Vyridion ever had. Letting herself become embroiled in the bitter civil war that tore the Imperium apart, Baroness D'Arcus led her House alongside the Emperor's Children against those loyal to the Emperor. Seeing the error of her actions, she took it upon herself to travel to Terra and obtain forgiveness for her sins. Formally pardoned, she became one of the fiercest defenders of the Imperium, even succeeding in holding at bay and destroying the physical body of the daemonically-possessed Archimandrite. Although her life was saved by the Blood Angels Astartes Zephon of Baal, her ultimate fate following the defence of the Imperial Webway Project remains unknown.Devram Sevik - Scion of House Vyridion, Devram Sevik was incarcerated alongside Baroness D'Arcus on Terra before being released on the explicit orders of Malcador the Sigilite and requisitionned to defend the Imperial Webway Project. Scion Devram Sevik valiantly gave his life trying to defeat a powerful daemon known as Drach'nyen, the Echo of the First Murder or the End of Empires, which had possessed the physical body of the Archimandrite, a towering Mechanicum-construct that acted as the general of the Mechanicum-forces within the Imperial Webway.Illara Latharac - Scion of House Vyridion. Alongside her rightful ruler, Baroness D'Arcus, Illara Latharac was incarcerated on Terra before being called to fight again in defence of the Imperial Webway Project.Torolec - As Sacristan Apex to House Vyridion, Torolec was the oldest still-serving retainer of the D'Arcus family, a position that allowed him considerable leeway within the usual strongly conservative structures of a Knight Household. Throughout his career, and especially during the House's time on Terra, Torolec acted as a mentor to Jaya D'Arcus and a person to liaise between his mistress and other Imperial agencies. The bond of trust between Jaya and Torolec was such that he was the only Sacristan of House Vyridion to be allowed to accompany the Knights when they entered the Eldar Webway.
House Vyridion - House Colours: The official colours of House Vyridion were a flamboyant laurel-green and black.
House Vyridion - House Arms: The arms of House Vyridion depicted a rearing pegasus on a field of green and black.
House Vyronii - House Vyronii: House Vyronii, known by the cognomens "Wardens of Felweather" and the "God-eaters," is a Secundus-grade Imperial Knight house of the Questor Imperialis that has valiantly stood amongst the defenders of the Imperium of Man for millennia.House Vyronii is counted amongst the most venerable Knight houses of the entire Segmentum Obscurus, its Knights being famed for their tenacity and their uniquely sorrowful demeanour. Separated from the rest of Humanity's domains for millennia, House Vyronii nevertheless stood their ground against xenos incursions and the frightful megafauna of their home planet, Damaetus III/II.Severely depleted by the time it was rediscovered by advanced forces of the Great Crusade, House Vyronii joined the Emperor's forces in their conquest of the galaxy and gained much renown on scores of different battlefields. Almost destroyed in the first hours of the Horus Heresy, House Vyronii was saved by the actions of the legendary Gios Jakh, whose warnings roused the Knights of House Vyronii to war and whose leadership would prove paramount in the dark years to follow.
House Vyronii - Horus Heresy: Thus was House Vyronii unknowingly plunged into the fires of Horus' rebellion against the Emperor. The delegation from Cyclothrathe was not an emissary bearing gifts but a strike force, loyal not to Mars but the Warmaster, and if not for the desperate bravery of Gios, its surprise attack might have been overwhelming and unstoppable.Instead, now the Vyronii were roused to war. The battle that followed was brief, but amongst the most destructive and desperate ever fought by the Knights of Damaetus. It saw the death of the old grand master at the hands of a murderous storm-grey Cyclothrathine Knight Aucteller. In the end, the Taghmata landing force was driven off, but at a terrible cost, with nearly a quarter of the Vyronii fighting force shattered and broken.In the aftermath of his father's ignominious death, it would fall to the wounded Gios to lead House Vyronii, an oath he swore in addition to exact bitter vengeance upon his father's killer. But alone, the Vyronii had no chance to strike back against a sovereign Forge World, and when news of the attack reached Imperial authorities, it was met with spurious counter-claims, forestalling action, while the rising tide of fear and war soon drowned out the Vyronii's call for justice in an affair which to many seemed a bloody squabble between equally eccentric and partisan forces.Only on the Forge World of Mezoa did they find their outrage echoed and answered, and where an alliance with Cyclothrathe had been betrayed, a similar pact with Mezoa was hastily agreed in need and the thirst for vengeance, although the Vyronii would not give up their independence in formal feudal submission, even when faced with the very real threat of destruction.When the war came in earnest to the Cyclops Cluster, for the Vyronii the lines had already been drawn in blood long before. To the Emperor they owed a debt that could never be repaid; even though every life they had was laid down to meet it and His enemies were those of the Vyronii no matter the odds.That the hated magi of Cyclothrathe would soon openly declare for the Warmaster would only confirm to the Vyronii that theirs was the just cause, and the Knights of House Vyronii stood bloodied but resolute amongst the ranks of the Loyalists.
House Vyronii - Notable Campaigns: Battle of Hive Ilium (008.M31) - Caught on Manachea when the Warmaster Horus' invasion was launched in what became the broader campaign remembered as the Battle of the Coronid Deeps, a handful of House Vyronii Cerastus Knight-Lancers stood valiantly by the side of the Loyalist defenders as the Sons of Horus descended upon the planet. Although ultimately defeated, the valiant Knights succeeded in ambushing Traitor elements of the Legio Tempestus, most notoriously slaying the Reaver-class Titan Raxvalian at the ambush of Block Fortress 77-4.Battle of Beta-Garmon, "The Titandeath" (006-013.M31) - The Knight banners of House Vyronii, fighting alongside the Legio Gryphonicus, took part in the long and savage Beta-Garmon campaign, which included hundreds of war zones across dozens of worlds. Even before the greater armies of the Warmaster Horus reached the star cluster, the battle lines had long since been drawn, and fighting had been going on for many Terran years. It was a cauldron of battle that would consume millions of lives before its end and see the demise of entire Titan Legions, earning this campaign the dire moniker of the "Titandeath." The Beta-Garmon Cluster, also known as the gateway to the throneworld of Terra, was the last hurdle that the Warmaster Horus' forces had to overcome before they reached the Imperium's capital world. Heavily fortified by the Loyalists, Beta-Garmon would become one of the greatest and bloodiest battles of the Horus Heresy, as well as one of the longest-lasting.
House Vyronii - Titan Legios: Legio AstorumLegio DefensorLegio GryphonicusLegio OberonLegio Solaria
House Vyronii - Space Marine Legions: Blood AngelsEmperor's Children (Loyalist)