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Across the feudal Knight Worlds, not every noble line kept faith with the Emperor of Mankind. For every household that marches beneath the Imperial aquila there exists a darker reflection, a lineage that broke its oaths, turned upon its neighbours and fled into damnation. These are the Chaos Knights, the Fallen Nobility, and their god-machines are as ancient and as deadly as any that serve the Golden Throne. Where a loyal Knight is a monument to honour, a Chaos Knight is a monument to betrayal, its heraldry defaced, its hull scored with blasphemous sigils, its machine-spirit screaming with the corruption of the Dark Gods.
The manner of their fall is as varied as the houses themselves. Some turned traitor during the Horus Heresy and were never redeemed. Others were swallowed by the Great Rift, marooned amid the warp-storms of the Eye of Terror, where centuries of exposure to the immaterium leached the loyalty from their bloodlines. A few were seduced slowly, by ambition or grief or the whispering promises of daemons, until the day their oaths meant nothing at all. Once fallen, a house can never return, for the Imperium hunts the Traitoris with a special and unquenchable hatred.
The Long Fall
When a Knight House turns, corruption spreads through every rite and relic it possesses. The Sacristans who once tended the god-machines become Dark Sacristans, grafting daemon-engines and forbidden technologies onto the ancient frames. The Throne Mechanicum, that sacred seat which binds pilot to machine, becomes a conduit for something far worse than ancestral memory. The scions who ascend it are flooded not with the counsel of honoured forebears but with the ravings of the damned, and only the strongest emerge as masters rather than slaves. In time the machine itself changes, its armour weeping rust and ichor, its guns barking with unnatural malice.
Iconoclasts and Infernals
The Fallen Nobility follow one of two dread traditions. The Iconoclasts despise all masters, gods and Emperor alike; they are nihilists and destroyers who wage war to tear down every idol and topple every throne, trusting in their own wrath rather than the favour of daemons. The Infernals, by contrast, embrace the Dark Gods utterly, binding daemons into their war-suits and hulls until engine and entity become one damned whole. An Infernal Knight is a walking reliquary of the warp, its every step an affront to reality itself.
Dreadblades and Dread Households
Some Chaos Knights ride alone. These are the Dreadblades, exiles and oath-breakers who owe fealty to no lord, selling their ruinous strength to warbands and Dark Mechanicum cabals across the galaxy. Others march as entire Dread Households, whole fallen lineages that descend upon the Imperium in howling war-hosts of desecrated god-machines. Whether alone or in legion, the Chaos Knights fight with a ferocity born of grievance, hurling themselves at the works of the Emperor to grind ten thousand years of bitterness into the dust.
Order of battle
Units
Lords of War
VehicleKnight AbominantAn Infernal god-machine wholly given to the warp, its swollen hull fused with daemonic essence and crowned by a Volkite Combustor that reduces flesh and armour to ash.
VehicleKnight AcheronA Cerastus-class Knight wreathed in flame, wading into the foe with a colossal reaper chainfist and acid-flame cannon.
VehicleKnight DesecratorA Questoris-class god-machine reforged to slay the Imperium's greatest defenders, wielding a laser destructor of monstrous power and a reaper chainsword for the final reckoning.
VehicleKnight DespoilerThe most common of the fallen god-machines, a versatile war-suit mirroring the loyalist Knights, armed with a reaper battle cannon and a reaper chainsword.
VehicleKnight MagaeraA Questoris Mechanicum Knight sheathed in ion shielding, its lightning cannon and hekaton siege claw crackling with stolen power.
VehicleKnight RampagerA berserk engine of close-quarters slaughter, its reactor driven past all safe tolerance so it can hurl itself across the battlefield in a frenzy of grinding blades.
VehicleKnight StyrixThe Magaera's darker twin, a Questoris Mechanicum Knight that flays its prey with volkite and graviton weaponry.
VehicleKnight TyrantThe towering Dominus-class god-machine of the Chaos Knights, a fortress of daemon-touched iron bristling with apocalyptic guns.
Battleline
VehicleWar Dog BrigandA light god-machine configured for ranged devastation, the fire-support cousin of the Karnivore, stripping armour and cutting down infantry with avenger chaincannon and havoc missiles.
VehicleWar Dog ExecutionerA light War Dog Knight that hunts at range, its plasma decimator and daemonic guns picking apart armour from afar.
VehicleWar Dog HuntsmanA fast-moving War Dog that runs down fleeing prey, its harpoon and reaper claws dragging victims to a grisly end.
VehicleWar Dog KarnivoreA light, savage war-suit built for speed and slaughter, closing the distance at terrifying pace to shear apart its prey with reaper chaintalon and slaughterclaw.
VehicleWar Dog StalkerThe most numerous of the corrupted armigers, a balanced light war-suit that hunts in coordinated packs and can threaten armour, infantry and monsters alike.
Heroes & legends
Characters
KholvarisThe DamnedA lord of House Lucaris whose god-machine is bound to a bellowing greater daemon, the two so long conjoined that man and monster can no longer be told apart.
Sabbandra VexThe CrownlessAn Iconoclast warlord who cast down her own High King, renouncing every god and master to wage a cold war of ruin against all who cling to authority.
Vardan KreelThe Broken OathA fallen High King turned Dreadblade, a lord without a world who sells his ruinous might to any who will point him at the Imperium he blames for his damnation.
Chapters, dynasties & kin
Subfactions
House HerpetraxHouse Herpetrax is among the most feared of the Iconoclast households, a fallen lineage that renounced not only the Emperor but the Dark Gods as well, worshipping nothing but the annihilation it brings.
House LucarisHouse Lucaris is a wholly damned Infernal household whose god-machines have become reliquaries of the warp, each war-suit bound to a bellowing daemon that shares its pilot's flesh and fury.
House VardykHouse Vardyk is a corsair household of Infernal reavers who prize the hunt above all else and hold a special hatred for the loyal Knight houses from which they were cast out.
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