House Griffith - Notable House Griffith Personnel: Nathaniel Griffith - Founder of House Griffith, Nathaniel Griffith fought with valour in the Dragon Wars. Slaying the great and ancient dragon Alvirax, he was the first to master the dragonbone lance.Paladus Griffith - Grand Master of the Lance and High King of Dragon's End, Paladus Griffith took the oath of allegiance to the Emperor of Mankind in 981.M34, his Knight House joining the burgeoning human Imperium of Mankind as part of the Questor Imperialis. Dragon's End celebrated with a Grand Tournament that lasted a whole Terran year.Bryce - The Grand Master of the Lance, Bryce is the current High King of House Griffith, who embodies the bravery and valour of his forebears and has proven his right to lead countless times.Baron Rhodoks - Baron Rhodoks is the Kingsward to High King Bryce, the ruler of House Griffith. It is his duty to protect his liege lord at all times, whether armoured for war or at court. Not once during Rhodok's many years of service has Bryce ever been harmed, a clear sign of both his ward's skill at arms and his dedication. Like many Nobles of House Griffith, Rhodoks believes that war should be conducted up close and personal and that long-ranged firefights are not only dishonourable, but intensely dull. As such, he marches to battle in a Knight Gallant, a suit equipped almost exclusively for close-quarter engagements with a Thunderstrike Gauntlet on one arm and Reaper Chainsword on the other. Rhodok's only concession is the Stormspear Rocket Pod mounted atop his carapace, which he finds useful for "clearing away the chaff." Once a knightly vassal to another baronial lord of the house, Rhodoks earned his own title for his heroism and bold assaults. On Calagin III he single-handedly brought a Traitor Feral-class Scout Titan to its knees following a daring charge across open ground. While on the scrapworld of Lorix he claimed three Gorkanaut kills in a single battle. To his fellow Knights, Rhodoks is seen as a paragon of war. To the Departmento Munitorum he's a reckless, unpredictable logistical nightmare. They have to concede, though, he gets the job done.Draekos - Draekos was a Noble who grew to adulthood in a time when the first Knight combat walkers were at last taking to the field on Dragon's End. By this time, it was believed that the dragons were all gone, though this young House Griffith Noble would not accept this and dreamed of following in the footsteps of his forebears. The stories of Draekos among the warriors of House Griffith are many and varied, telling of his adventures as he wandered the wastes of Dragon's End. Eventually, Draekos came upon the last dragon, a vast and ancient beast that had survived for centuries far from human settlements, its growth unchecked by hunters or Knights. Draekos raised his blade and charged. Despite suffering horrific damage to his Knight the Noble did not falter, and at the last, he impaled the creature on his Reaper Chainblade. Victorious, Draekos carried the creature's skull back to his keep, where it still hangs to this day. Draekos' legacy was to be the "Dragon Lance," a cadre of elite Knights drawn from his descendants. Today his gene-son Draekos XXIII pilots his Knight, the Last Dragon Slayer, and leads this formation of Griffith Nobles in wars across the Imperium.Leaum Griffith - Leaum became the longest running champion of the Field of Adamantium in 531.M32, defeating all challengers for over twenty standard years in a row.Rarthanis - A notable House Griffith Knight, Rarthanis was a part of Rogue Trader Dragolos' expedition to Posidac IV, one of seven artificial worlds orbiting a captured star. While investigating an ancient sunken underwater city, Rarthanis encountered ancient and corroded metallic Automata that had slumbered, trapped long ago, since the Age of Strife. In the aftermath of the subsequent battle, Rarthanis helped Dragolos plunder the sunken city, and the Rogue Trader returned to the Imperium, his holds heavy with ancient technology.Tristor - Tristor was among a contingent of Knights from House Griffith that took part in the Siege of Ironmorn, a solar decade-long battle for the world of Erokan, fighting the Cythor Cult and their Iron Warriors overlords. The Cadian 1742nd Regiment had spent years cleansing Erokan of Heretic fortifications, as the Chaos Cult had transformed the planet into a maze of trenches and keeps. The greatest of the Traitor defences was the Ironmorn, a towering edifice built around the former Planetary Governor's palace and reinforced by the twisted artifice of the Iron Warriors. Tristor and his fellow Knights were assigned to break into the Ironmorn, and end the siege in a single bloody assault. It was Tristor who opened the way for the Imperial assault that would eventually take the fortress.Lady Karina Griffith - Karina Griffith is a renowned Knight pilot of the house.Lady Natanya - Lady Natanya pilots the immense Knight Valiant known as Bane of Iron, whose Machine Spirit is amongst the most aggressive of all House Griffith's hunting steeds. Natanya herself is strong-willed and courageous, the only Noble ever to fully break the unruly Bane of Iron to their command. Natanya has harnessed her war engine's natural ferocity and destructive power, and now specialises in providing devastating close-range fire support to her comrades in the field. Griffith's fine tradition of monster hunting has found a worthy proponent in Lady Natanya, who excels in obliterating the Daemon Engines of the Heretic Astartes. She was amongst the Knights seconded to Roboute Guilliman's Indomitus Crusade, and soon proved her valour by protecting her Ultramarines allies with her Knight's crackling Ion Shield while annihilating heretical war machines one after another with pinpoint fire. Natanya has shared an honour-bond with the sons of Ultramar ever since.Bondsman Edmane - An honoured Bondsman serving the famed Sir Tarthin, Edmane flushes his master's quarry from cover in his Armiger Helverin Hound Sinistor.Bondsman Saris - Bondsman Saris uses her Armiger Warglaive's firepower to scatter the foe in panic, the better for Sir Tarthin to hunt.