Knights of the Empty Throne

The Knights of the Empty Throne are the Varanguard made into a legion: the Everchosen's own household cavalry, and by common dread the deadliest mortal horsemen in all the realms. Each was once a champion great enough to have carved out a destiny of his own, yet each surrendered that destiny utterly to carry Archaon's instead, and in the surrender found a purpose colder and more absolute than any private ambition.

They ride in silent, disciplined circles of terrible martial perfection, mounted on daemonic steeds and armoured in fate-forged plate, and where they charge, battle-lines do not bend but shatter. There is nothing of the reckless glory-seeker in them; they fight with the patience of those who have already made the only choice that mattered, and need prove nothing to anyone but their master. Their very name is a doctrine: above the Everchosen they hold a throne no god may claim: a seat kept deliberately empty against the day Archaon reveals which of the Dark Gods he has truly served, or whether he has played a longer game than any of them. Until then the Knights guard that vacant throne and the terrible question it poses, certain only that when the answer comes, every war they have fought will prove to have been, from the first, a single war.