IA: Knights Templar

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CHAPTER NAME: ..............Knights Templar FOUNDING: .................. 18th founding [582.M35] CHAPTER WORLD: ............. Pristine FORTRESS MONASTERY: ........ Temple of solomon GENE-SEED (PREDECESSOR): ... (In progress) KNOWN DESCENDANTS: ......... (In progress) "And so I become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows!” ~Grand master Esmond

'And what remained of his loyal brothers stood around him, the grandest of his chapter, armed with the finest weaponry his chapter had to offer, his armour embelished with his heraldry, from when he was no astartes but a boy, a boy amomgst a thousand others in the startch fields of old yonder. He remembered the look on his fathers face as he was selected as on of the few by the strangest warriors from the sky. Astartes as they would come to be known. His brothers some in faith a few in blood, wore the same heraldry of their fathers, stupped in such glory at their finest hour. Few remained, the rest were in orbit, ordered to remain, and those that were not, stood before him, the renegade, the mutant, the heretic, all those he came to despise, the corruption abhorant, A mere 44 stored by his side. 300 brothers, no, no longer brothers, stood ready to lay him low. And their leader, corrupting so many of his finest brothers, now a warp spawned daemon, the traitor must die. He raised the templar sword, marshalling those around him, his first company brothers, knights of the order, warriors of the inner circle, some even, the house of locke, the monkhood of his chapter, and his finest, the brotherhood of solomon . All beside him, ready to uphold his chapters honour, to destroy the heretics that stood before him. To stop the incursion the warping of reality the summoning of daemons, all it took was the destruction of the renegade leader and his unholy incantations, over 500 off his brothers lay dead, and this was the time for revenge, for penence, for the emperor. "And so I bcome a knight of the kingdom of dreams and shadows!", he sallied forward roaring these words for the first time, his brothers followed him, his armour with a goldish glow, true sons of the emperor, damning the heretics to death' ~edict of Esmond at the re-founding of the knights of templar, enscribed into the book of Esmond.



The world of pristine is located in Segmentum Pacificus in the relative calm of the galaxy, located out the way of major combat or substantial combat frontations, a perfect hold for the Knights templar to maintain their secrecy and independance, the small world of pristine is an agri-world, the population mainly farmers, the working man, raised from birth to be hard working, and trained to defend its land from wild creatures such as wairbears, and ghnarlwolves, due to the many forests populating pristines surface. Closer to the eye of terror than prefered pristine, sees occasional widelife mutations, but mutation of the populas is minimal at worst. situated out the way of major trade routes and populace areas pristine sees little activity in the way of hostility. A world designed for living in peace.






The knights templar are grey in colour, with white shoulder pads sporting red trim, due to their orogins with the knightly orders it is mandatory to where robes or tabards at all times when not in private meditation chambers, removal of such garments will be immediate sanction and pennance, with sevear punishment.




The chapter is divided into 7 companies, from its reformation after the death of Esmond and the betrayal that was suffered, representing the severn major continants on pristine, along side the 7 major houses from the days of old.

The 7th company is the scout company, led by brother ++pending aproval++ it contains over the recommended number layed down in the codex astartes, but due to the lack of 3 other companies, no major action is taken.

The 6th company, led by brother ++pending approval++, is a reserve company and also trains all recruits in armour, weapon and light battlefield vehicle maintance, due to the large abundance of vehicles at the chapters disposal, this company also maintans over 100 battlebrothers, due to the large success of recruits at this stage.

The 5th company, led by brother ++pending approval++, is a reserve company, consisting of 120 battle brothers, divided into 3 sections, of 30 members, assault and devestator squads and 60 for tactical, this is so that replacements are easy and in large supply.

The 4th company, led by brother ++pending approval++, is the a line company and is made up of only tactical squads equiped with weaponry designed for all combat situatuations, mainly as the bulwark of a defensive force, making up the numbers in a large scale engagement, the 4th consists of 100 battle brothers, this company usually resides in the battlebarges alongside the main fleet acting as crew across the main astartes vessells.

The 3rd company, led by brother ++pending approval++ is a standard astartes codex battle company, with 60 tactical marines, 20 assault and devestator marines. is the typical engagement company used whenever the chapter is called upon for aid.

The 2nd company, led by brother ++pending approval++ is a fast attack company, this company is trained in the use of bikes and jump packs in large numbers, the former for engaging a foe in the field of battle, the latter for initial strike operations of for assaulting a heavily fortified foe, a large portion of the chapters assault resources and fast attack equipment is centered around this company, for its much needed use.

The first company, led by brother ++pending aproval++ is the inner circle company, only those battle brothers who have completed the required roles are allowed into this company, this also includes the warriormonk convent, and the brotherhood of solomon.

The warrior monk convent was created after the traitorous acts of ++clearence required++ to hunt down the 30 remaining members of the traitorous groups along with any famous chaos warlords in the sector. They spend weeks pouring over data records and scriptures to find any clue of remaining members of the chaos cohort. The group contains 11 members and any resources are given over to them upon finding a trace of the damned space marines. The 11th member is the head monk who is also a member of the brotherhood of solomon.

The brotherhood of solomon, was named after the founding member of the knights templar, it contains the 7th highest ranking members of the knights templar, from thh orgigonal mythology of pristine. It also forms the grand masters inner council and bodyguard, containing the heads of each major order within the templars. Containing the master apothecary, grand chaplain, head monk, epistolary,battle ancient, brother captain, and the grandmaster himself. Due to the little need for a computar in the chapter, the position was replaced by the battle ancient, who bears the chapter banner into combat and also deals with all forms of democracy, relations and negotiations, with other large groups within the imperium, he is always the oldest member (other then the grandmaster), and has the power to command any member of the chapter, even those within the brotherhood, except for the grandmaster.



Before the astartes came, the planet had a defence force of its own, the knightly orders, each realm was home to a holy monastary to the emperor where the knights resided pledged to keep the people safe from ork invaders encamped in the vast forests. Each year the 7 major continents of pristine held a grande banquet, followed by a swordsman combat beetween youngsters 13 years of age, the champions of these duels were inducted into the knightly orders and given a new life at each monastary to the emperor, where they would train to become a new knight to guard the people, and to help maintain society within each realm. But to earn your worth you had to do more then be able to fight. Each knight was trained in a special skill which they had talent for, but each talent could only accept one pupil. The smallest of these houses was the priesthood, the apothecaries of which would craft new medicine to cure diseases and aid in battle. The chaplains of old, who would hold sermons and bless those in the holy name of the emperor. The monks, would write scriptures, long tailes of old detailing the history of pristine as it untailed, in each grand librariam held in each of the holy monastaries. The house of the grand librarium, those who showed powerful minds were tasked with looking after the libraries and to learn as much knowledge from them as could be pertained. The bookeepers, those who controlled the currencies of the land, set taxes and kept account of all wealth in the monastaries. The ancients, those who were raised at teachers, learning in the ways of the master to one day come to raise an era of their own. The final skill offered to one indoctered student every year was the swordsmen, who spent all waking moments training in the art of the blade, where other members hafted lances, great axes, and maces, the swordsman viewed the blade as an extenction of hiself, the ultimate warrior, able to strike in any situation and land a telling blow.

To advance to the higher levels in the knights templar, you had to in your spare time learn of a second skill, this granted you the rank of sergeant, but there could only be one sergeant for each group of aspirants, so of the severn knights first blood combat entailed to see who would gain the position. This was also true of the higher up positions, only so many could be helled and challenges must be met for a position to be gained, and a new skill had to be learned before you could advance. To become one of the fabled grand masters, all skills must be known and a member of the knights inner circle was required.

For those esteemed members, masters of their respective rights the induction into the brotherhood was offered, an honour to all knights, the brootherhood containted the 7 grandmasters of the order, master apothecary, grand chaplain, head monk, epistolary, high computar, brother captain, and the rulling grandmaster. All 7 formed the head of the knights templar, and resided in the largest monastary on pristine. Responsible for the entire order and a higher rank than any other member. The rulling grandmaster had the head position, and decided on all final amendments and rullings other than when all 6 brotherhood members overrulled him.

When the astartes of the ++record lost++ came to the planet the knightly orders were instantly engulffed and used to train new recruits, perfect for astartes training, as induction into the orders started at 13, so all aspirants would have a year of training with which to expand their combat skills. Those of the house of the apothecarion became the legion apothecaries. along with the initial members of the librarium who usually showed latent psychic potential, the chaplains were carried though also. Many of the other aspects were disolved. But the major inclusion was that of the monkhood and inner circle. With the creation of the first company, came the honour of being part of the inner circle. Along side this came the brotherhood and the monkhood. The monkhood was a grand roll, chosen with accouting the legions battles and scriptures from those who participated, creating a grand tomb with which the history of the templars was contained. The brother hood consisted of 5 of the chapters finest members and performed the honour guard to the grandmaster.