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Vaniria Setser
"We are the warriors of the Grey Knights, armoured in faith, shielded by devotion and armed with purity of purpose. But greater even than these, we carry the light of the divine Emperor of Mankind into the dark places to purge the Daemonic wherever it may be found."
Grey KnightsWarcry"We are the hammer!" or "I am the hammer, I am the right hand of the Emperor, the instrument of His will, the gauntlet about His fist, the tip of His spear, the edge of His sword!"FoundingSecond Founding (Official designation; actually founded during the Horus Heresy)
(Early 31st Millennium)Successors ofNoneSuccessor ChaptersNoneNumber666 (Chapter Designation)
Approx. 1,183 Astartes in the Chapter along with 32 neophytes and 1,005 recruits in 999.M41PrimarchNone; Created from gene-seed crafted from the genome of the Emperor of Mankind HimselfChapter MasterKaldor Draigo, Supreme Grand Master of the Grey KnightsHomeworldTitanFortress-MonasteryCitadel of TitanAllegianceImperium of ManColoursSteel grey and red
Wh40k Grey Knights Codex Pdf Download
The Grey Knights are a secret and mysterious Chapter of Space Marines specifically tasked with combating the dangerous Daemonic entities of the Warp and all those mortals who wield the corrupt power of the Chaos Gods. They were created by the Emperor with the aid of Malcador the Sigillite at the time of the Horus Heresy to serve as Humanity's greatest weapon against the threat posed by the existence of Chaos. They have the honour of being implanted with gene-seed engineered directly from the genome of the Emperor Himself.
The Grey Knights act as the military arm or "Chamber Militant" of the Ordo Malleus, the Daemonhunters who form the oldest branch of the virtually omnipotent Inquisition. The Grey Knights' fortress-monastery, the Citadel of Titan, is based on Titan, the largest of the moons of the gas giant Saturn in the Sol System. It is kept as a private preserve of the Inquisition.
The existence of the highly secretive Chapter is virtually unknown outside of the Inquisition and the highest echelons of the Imperial adepta, and is a well-guarded secret enforced by mind-wipes and even assassination of Imperial citizens if necessary.
Unlike other Astartes, every Grey Knight is a potent psyker. Yet, in the 10,000 standard years of Imperial history, no Grey Knight has ever been corrupted by the Ruinous Powers of Chaos. Additionally, the Grey Knights do not follow the tenets of the Codex Astartes in the matter of force organisation.
Due to the unique manner in which the Grey Knights are recruited and trained, each warrior progresses through a series of pre-ordained ranks and will operate in a particular squad led by an individual of higher rank, rather than being assigned to a particular Battle Company. These squads may be called upon to act independently from the main body of the Grey Knight force, and have to operate at full efficiency even when light years away from the rest of their Chapter.
"One unbreakable shield against the coming darkness, one last blade forged in defiance of fate, let them be my legacy to the galaxy I conquered, and my final gift to the species I failed."
A light against the darkness, the Grey Knights stand against the greatest threat Mankind has ever faced. They are the champions of reason, order and righteousness, holding back Daemons and the scions of the Dark Gods.
They are the Imperium's mightiest weapon against the Warp, transhuman Space Marine psykers, and its single enduring hope for salvation. There is no greater threat to the galaxy than the denizens of the Warp and the Ruinous Powers that rule them.
Daemons and gods, these otherworldly horrors tear at the veil between the Realm of Chaos and reality, hungry for the souls of Humanity and the ruin of worlds. If left unchecked and unopposed, Daemons would claim the universe for their own, pulling down the pillars of creation and fashioning a never-ending nightmare where once the galaxy had been.
Daemons are unlike any other foe the Imperium faces, and against their unnatural horror men and women can find themselves powerless. The Emperor's armies are vast and numerous, from the void-borne fleets of the Imperial Navy and the endless ranks of the Astra Militarum to the superhuman Space Marines and the unimaginably powerful Titan Legions. Mortal foes cannot stand against the Imperium when it is roused to war, but the Daemon is not mortal.
History has proven that all people can be corrupted and even the mighty Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes are not immune to the unholy temptations of the Dark Gods. In His infinite wisdom the Emperor foresaw that even should He prevail against Horus, the threat of Chaos would remain to forever after threaten Humanity.
He knew that of all the Imperium's many foes, the daemonic was the greatest threat, and so He created a brotherhood of incorruptible warriors to fight Daemons. These were the Grey Knights, and they would stand as the Emperor's ultimate weapon against the gods of Chaos.
The Grey Knights are the most mysterious of all the Imperium's warriors. Their creation was the culmination of a plan conceived in the dying days of the Horus Heresy, hidden from even the Emperor's armies lest it be uncovered by His foes. Even now few in the Imperium of the 41st Millennium know of their existence, and those that do possess only fragments of the truth. Legends and myths surround the Grey Knights, and those tales told about them are filled with broad misconceptions and fanciful lies.
The vast hordes of Humanity know nothing of the Grey Knights, and the handful of Imperial citizens that have heard the name uttered assume them to be an arm of the much-feared Inquisition or a Chapter of the mythical, transhuman Space Marines. Some of the stories and fables taught by the Adeptus Ministorum hold the barest hints of the existence of the Grey Knights, but they are portrayed as silver-armoured angels, ghostly manifestations of the God-Emperor or shimmering reflections of the saints themselves as often as not.
Those Imperial soldiers that have fought alongside the Grey Knights and retained both their lives and their minds recall them only as Astartes of an unknown Space Marine Chapter, their unique weapons and psychic powers attributed to forgotten technology and tactical doctrine. Other Space Marines know better should they see a Grey Knight in battle, but are wise enough not to dwell long in thought about these mysterious warriors.
Legend has it that the Grey Knights were founded on the order of the Emperor Himself, in the final bloody days of the Horus Heresy, just before the start of the Siege of Terra. The Emperor knew that the time was coming when He would have to face His traitorous son Horus and that He might well not survive. However, He foresaw that, even if Horus and his armies were defeated, the power of Chaos would remain an ever-present and constant threat to Humankind.
His greatest warriors, the Space Marines, had proven unfortunately corruptible to the temptations of the Dark Gods and so the Emperor set out to create a new transhuman soldier in His bid to continue to protect Mankind, even from His own gravest mistakes. This new breed of Space Marine would be far stronger of will than their brothers, and unwavering in their loyalty to Humanity, able to stand naked before the power of the Warp and survive unscathed.
In this dark time the Emperor turned to Malcador the Sigillite -- His most trusted servant and the first High Lord of Terra and Imperial Regent. Malcador was a powerful psyker, lore-keeper of the fledgling Imperium, and had stood at the Emperor's side since before the start of the Unification Wars. He was charged by the Emperor immediately after news had reached Terra of the Warmaster Horus' betrayal during the massacre of the Loyalist Astartes on Isstvan III, to gather a group of dedicated Imperial servants whose loyalty, courage, and strength of mind was unquestioned.
As the Emperor prepared for the final battle with Horus, Malcador crossed the divided Imperium, searching corpse-choked battlefields and worlds drowning in blood for those the Emperor sought. No other person save the Emperor Himself could have been given such a task and hope to complete it. However, Malcador returned to the Imperial Palace just before Horus' forces laid siege to Terra. Only the Sigillite's psychic mastery and knowledge of the hidden ways into the palace allowed him to slip through the Traitors' growing blockade around the Sol System to reach the Emperor's side.
When the Master of Mankind looked upon those Malcador had brought before him He knew that there was yet hope for Humanity. Twelve in all had been gathered, four noble lords and governors of the highest order, complemented by eight Space Marines, though each group met the Emperor separately at different times in the final days before the Siege of Terra began.
These eight selected Space Marines all possessed paranormal skills as psykers that had been kept dormant as required by the edicts of the Council of Nikaea -- the council had ruled during the Great Crusade that the use of psychic powers was forbidden to Space Marines because of the dangers innate to manipulation of the Empyrean. These warriors had all willingly cast aside their former loyalties to their given Space Marine Legions and primarchs, either because of the corruption of these Legions by Chaos, or because they realised that loyalty to the Emperor required them to sacrifice all ties to their former battle-brothers.
All had served for a time with the Knights-Errant, Malcador's cadre of independent Space Marines that had served as his special agents throughout the course of the Horus Heresy. That some of these battle-brothers came from Legions that had turned Traitor proved the depth of their loyalty to the Emperor, for there can be no greater challenge for a Space Marine than to defy the word of his primarch.
After meeting the candidates, the Emperor is believed to have responded, "Malcador, you have judged well. These eight Space Marines do indeed have a vital role to play in the future of the Imperium, though veiled in secrecy will they be." Content that His plans could proceed, the Emperor bade Malcador and his charges leave for Titan, the moon of Saturn.
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