House Griffith hails from a windswept agri-world where vast estates are worked by commoner serfs beneath the watchful gaze of the noble houses. Unlike the headlong Terryn, the scions of Griffith are schooled in the arts of coordinated warfare, taught to see the battlefield as a whole rather than as a stage for personal heroics. This does not make them cautious, for a Griffith Knight will charge as readily as any, but they choose their moment with care.
The house has forged an enduring bond with the regiments of the Imperial Guard, and Griffith Knights are frequently seen anchoring the lines of massed infantry, their towering forms lending courage to the mortal soldiers who fight in their shadow. Griffith's Sacristans are noted for their conservatism, preserving their machines with meticulous devotion and rarely committing more than duty demands to a single engagement.
Griffith holds to the Code Chivalric, but interprets it through a lens of collective duty. Honour, its lords teach, is best served by victory, and victory is best won through discipline. The house has weathered ten thousand years by remembering that even the mightiest god-machine can fall, and that pride poorly placed is the ruin of noble bloodlines.
Order of battle
The House Griffith 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 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 KrastHouse Krast is a fervently loyal Questor Mechanicus house defined by its relentless, unforgiving prosecution of war and its particular hatred of the Chaos-corrupted Traitor houses. Krast follows the austere Code Martial, subordinating individual glory entirely to the cause of the Emperor. Its scions are grim, uncompromising warriors who show no mercy and expect none.
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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