House Krast rules a harsh, resource-scarred world whose brutal environment has forged one of the most implacable of all the Knightly houses. Sworn to Mars as Questor Mechanicus, Krast holds fast to the Code Martial, the sternest of the chivalric traditions, which teaches that the individual is nothing and the destruction of the Emperor's enemies is everything.
Krast's warriors are famed above all for their hatred of the Traitor houses, those fallen Knights who turned to the ruinous powers of Chaos in ages past. This hatred is not mere sentiment but doctrine, drilled into every scion and encoded in the house's ancient records. When Krast marches against the corrupt god-machines of the enemy, its Knights fight with a cold, methodical fury that admits neither hesitation nor quarter.
The house maintains an extensive archive of the Traitor houses' capabilities, studying its foes across the centuries so that no fallen Knight may face Krast with an advantage of surprise. Its Sacristans are relentless in their pursuit of forbidden knowledge from the battlefield, salvaging the wreckage of defeated enemies to strengthen the house's own machines. Beneath banners of stark red and white, Krast wages an eternal war against the enemies of Mankind.
Order of battle
The House Krast field the units of the Imperial Knights, a detachment from the roster:
Other Imperial Knights formations
House CadmusJungle-lord Nobles of mutant-haunted Raisa, whose annual ritual hunt, the Cull, hones them into peerless slayers of the Imperium's foes.
House GriffithHouse Griffith is a proud and ancient loyalist house whose scions temper valour with cunning, favouring measured warfare over heedless aggression. Long allied with the Astra Militarum, Griffith's Knights are famed for their discipline on the battlefield and their willingness to fight as part of a wider host rather than seeking solitary glory. Their tacticians are studied and respected throughout the Imperium's war colleges.
House HawkshroudA Questor Imperialis household bound by an unbreakable code of honour, whose Knights answer every call to arms and are therefore forever scattered across a thousand distant war zones.
House MortanThe grim Dolorous Knights of the night-world Kimdaria, a household forged by twenty millennia of lonely war against the horrors that stalk its sunless forests.
House RavenHouse Raven is a loyalist house that swears its oaths to Mars rather than Terra, ranking among the foremost Questor Mechanicus houses. Its scions are known for their close and sometimes uneasy relationship with the Adeptus Mechanicus, and for fielding some of the largest concentrations of Knight suits in the Imperium. Raven's warriors combine chivalric tradition with the cold discipline of the Machine Cult.
House TaranisThe First House, most ancient of all knightly lineages, forged upon Mars alongside the Knight suit itself and sworn in undying fealty to the Machine God.
House TerrynHouse Terryn is among the most storied and populous of the loyalist Knightly houses, renowned for its fierce cavalry doctrine and its reverence for the purest ideals of the Code Chivalric. Its scions favour the headlong charge, closing with the foe to win glory in the crucible of close combat. Terryn's warriors are famed for their bravery bordering on recklessness, a trait celebrated in the ballads of their homeworld.
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