House Terryn rules from the world of Voltoris, a temperate realm of rolling plains and mountain fastnesses where the pounding of Knight footfalls has echoed since before the Imperium's founding. The house is bound by ancient tradition to the aggressive spirit of the Code Chivalric, and its scions are taught from childhood that hesitation is the truest form of cowardice.
When Terryn answers the call to war, its Knights do not creep or skirmish. They advance in a thunderous line, ion shields blazing, and hurl themselves against the strongest point of the enemy formation. The house holds that a foe defeated at range is merely killed, while a foe crushed beneath one's own footfalls is truly conquered. This doctrine has cost Terryn dearly across the centuries, yet it has also won the house a reputation as one of the Imperium's most dependable shock forces.
Terryn maintains close ties with the Astra Militarum and has ridden to war on countless worlds, its banners marked with the honours of campaigns beyond counting. The house colours of deep blue and burnished gold blaze across its machines as a promise of the charge to come.
Order of battle
The House Terryn 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 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.
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