Grey Knights Chapter composition and character listing

[Gentlemanloser]

Marvel rebooted, a few times, but everything is still Canon.

 

You can't decide that Logan wasn't part of the Weapon program, just becuase you'd prefer him to be a demi-god...

 

Edit: Most of the, more dramatic, reboots are Parallel universes, like the Ultimates universe, which is seperate to the original one.

 

40k has nothing like that.  It's all one setting.

 

Edit;

 

A few comments on Marvel Canon from a close mate of mine who's a massive comic fan (me not so much, but I did pick up Dark Crusade! :P)

 

 

Marvel still have canon, as I said EVERYTHING has canon, else it would be a mess!!!

But the problem is with consistency. With so many books on sale, it is hard to
maintain this. Jokes are constantly made about Wolverine and how many teams he
belongs to, as things don't make sense (he in space with the Avengers and also
in Savage Land with the X-Men!!!!)

A lot of this can be brushed under the carpet and blamed on the 'within a week'
mindset (that time moves slowly in comic world, and arcs that take 12 issues to
finish actually are done within a day or 2 of 'comic time' thus all stories
take place 'within a week' of each other'.)

But a few problems are when dead villains come back without reason as the author
didn't know they were killed in another book. rare, but does happen.

But marvel sticks (almost) 100% to canon. Example, all current books show
'modern' Cyclops as having broken powers. Times when this does happen is usual
highlighted in edit (events happen before X, for example)

Marvel has achieved this canon (excluding Ultimate, which is not set in the canon
universe) by having several 'key' writers work on several books at the same
time (Bendis, Hickman and Slott)

 

 

DC recently 'rebooked' its world, so all
old history is gone...

But it is still canon. It is unusual for
a setting not to be canon...

 

 

It's hard work keeping the canon of your setting consistent.  And it's something GW seem to have zero care achiveing.  Which to be be blunt, ruins the internal consistency and immersion of thier setting.

 

And GW should be ashamed of this.

 

[boreas]

@Thade: I can't say I'm "angry" about the lack of consistancy. I'm one of those who prefer the latest versions of 40k fluff (half-eldar Ultramarine, come on!). I think that, mostly, the fluff is moving in the right direction. But I think that GW could tidy up things and get rid of the cop out. The 40k universe is complex, yes, but not that much. A lot of things are a lot more complex, be it in fictionnal universe like Star Trek or the real world. And GW has a very thight grip on the whole thing (compared, say to DC or Marvel that had, over the years, tv shows, movies, books and of course comics owned but multiple companies and written by dozens of writers), which should make things easier.

[Gentlemanloser]

In the linked thread A-D-B mentions that the BL books go to 'loremasters' for proofing prior to printing.

 

This should be the check to keep the universe internally consistent (well for BL books, but if the check is there, it should be present in all divisions of GW).

 

It just needs to be, well, tighter than it currently is.

 

If the 'you choose' canon was desired, you wouldn't need this check anyway.

[Seahawk]

Agreed. While it does take some manpower to categorize, datestamp, and etc various events and details, once it's done there is a massive database that takes very little effort and time to check. Our Ultramarines timeline, for instance. Some day soon I'm going to send it in so they stop muffing things up over there. :lol:

[Gentlemanloser]

Especially in the days of Wiki's!

[Seahawk]

Well we all know that GW discovered the internet only last year.

Anyway, back on topic. I'd like to see a revised first post, as information is already getting a bit jumbled under wacky headers and messy sentences. For instance:

Chapter 666 Composition

The Chapter is led by the Supreme Grand Master; currently, this is Kaldor Draigo.

There are eight main brotherhoods in the Chapter, which represent the eight loyalists picked by Malcador the Sigilite.

- Each brotherhood is lead by a Grandmaster and Brother-Captain.

- Each brotherhood contains roughly 100 battle brothers, not including officers (such as Librarians, Chaplains, etc).
- Each brotherhood contains a mix of Terminator, Strike, and Purgation squads.

- Each brotherhood contains a small number of Paladins, taken from the ranks of the Terminator squads.

There is a separate demi-brotherhood that consists solely of Purifiers and is led by Castellan Crowe.

Brotherhood 1

Grandmaster: Vorth Mordrak

Brother-Captain:

Brotherhood Champion:

Other Officers:

Justicars:

Notable Units:

Brotherhood 2

Grandmaster:
Brother-Captain:
Brotherhood Champion:
Other Officers:
Justicars:

Notable Units:

etc

Deceased Heros of the Imperium

Brother-Captain Aurellian, died 444.M41 while banishing Angron in the 1st War for Armageddon.

[Gentlemanloser]

Best place to start is possibly;

 

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Known_Members_of_the_Grey_Knights#.Uk233hCupSU

 

And (sorry for incoming wall of text!)

 

Notable Grey Knights
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120605171845/warhammer40k/images/thumb/e/e2/Baroque_gk_termin_eupackardia.jpg/280px-Baroque_gk_termin_eupackardia.jpgLord Janus, the first Grey Knights Supreme Grand Master

 

• Supreme Grand Master Janus - During the dark days of the Horus Heresy the Emperor set plans in motion that would eventually win a wider victory against the Forces of Chaos
  from the bitter ashes of a most personal defeat. The Emperor had
  foreseen that the end of the Heresy would cost him greatly, so much so
  that he would no longer be able to take an active hand in Mankind's survival. Therefore, he chose his closest servant, Malcador the Sigillite,
  to scour the war-torn worlds of the Imperium for the men upon whose
  shoulders the burden of the future would be placed. By the time Malcador
  returned to his Emperor, Terra itself was under siege by the Traitor Legions of the Warmaster Horus.
  Only through the most artful of subterfuge were the Sigillite and his
  recruits able to pass unscathed through the battlelines and come
  unharmed and unseen before the Emperor. In stern silence the Emperor
  surveyed the robed figures that Malcador had brought before him, and he
  saw that his faithful servant had done well. Of the twelve who had been
  chosen, four were lords and administrators of the Imperium possessed of
  an inquisitive nature and an unyielding strength of mind. The other
  eight were Space Marines chosen from the Loyalist and Traitor Legions
  alike whose abilities were as peerless as was their dedication to the
  Emperor. Some hailed from Legions that had abandoned the Emperor's light
  in favour of Horus' dark promises, but these Battle-Brothers had never
  lost their loyalty and had fought the Heresy from within. Fulsome in his
  approval of the selection, the Emperor bade Malcador proceed with the
  next stage of his plan. So dismissed, Malcador and the twelve departed
  the embattled Imperial Palace as unremarked as they had arrived. The four lords left to lay the framework of what would become the Inquisition, while Malcador took the eight Space Marines to the moon of Saturn called Titan.
  Malcador oversaw the initial creation of the Grey Knights, but he could
  not remain to oversee their evolution, so he selected one of the eight
  to lead the Chapter in the years to come. Malcador's final act before
  returning to Terra was to appoint Janus as the first Supreme Grand
  Master of the Grey Knights, to guide the nascent Chapter through their
  first challenges. Legends of the Grey Knights' founding lord are as
  numerous as there are stars in the night sky—the champions he slew, the
  wars he won, the daemons he banished—and none alive now know how much
  they have been twisted through the centuries. Even their Chapter's
  records, meticulous as the Grey Knights liked to believe them, still
  suffered from human error when inscribed, and a great number of these
  records have been sequestered by the lords of the Grey Knights and their
  Inquisitorial overseers in the Ordo Malleus.

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• Supreme Grand Master Kaldor Draigo
  - During the daemonic incursion on the world of Acralem in 799.M41,
  then-Battle-Brother Draigo fought against M'kar the Reborn and his
  daemonic army. During a daring assault on the Daemon Prince's fortress,
  it was Draigo who dealt the deathblow to M'kar, and so cast the daemonic
  horde back into the Warp, but the Daemon clung to life just long enough
  to place a vengeful curse upon his slayer. Draigo was acclaimed to the
  rank of Justicar for his actions on Acralem. Through the next two
  centuries Draigo continued to serve his Chapter and Emperor with
  unfailing distinction - earning honours and glory unsurpassed - save
  perhaps by the Grey Knights first Supreme Grand Master, Janus. Two
  hundred years to the day since Draigo's victory the Grey Knights
  received an astropathic beacon bringing news to Titan that Acralem had
  once again been invaded by M'kar and his Daemon army. Forbidding his
  Chapter to involve themselves, Lord Draigo undertook the burden of
  facing M'kar himself. Upon the pinnacle of Shadow Peak, before the
  swirling Warp rift from which the Daemon Prince drew his unholy power,
  the two adversaries faced one another, once again. Draigo managed to
  deliver M'kar a fateful death blow with the broken blade of his Nemesis
  force weapon. But Draigo's ultimate victory was robbed from him as the
  Daemon Prince cast the Grey Knight into the collapsing Warp rift. Since
  that time, Draigo has been cursed to the hell of being doomed to walk
  within the Realm of Chaos, unable to escape. But when there is a
  Daemonic incursion in the material universe, and a Daemon Prince draws
  power from the Warp, Draigo is once again drawn back into the material
  realm. Reunited with his Chapter temporarily, Draigo fights alongside
  his fellow Grey Knights once again. But their victory is always a hollow
  one, as Lord Draigo is once again drawn back into the Warp. The
  fortitude of character that Draigo possesses to endure this half-life is
  unheard of, yet endures he does. He continues to walk the Realm of
  Chaos still, continuing his eternal battle against the Chaos Gods. But
  there is still hope, that while Draigo still lives, he will one day yet
  prevail and return to be reunited with his Chapter.
• Supreme Grand Master Geronitan - Lord Geronitan was the
  predecessor of Kaldor Draigo as the Supreme Grand Master of the Grey
  Knights. He was slain at the hands of the Daemon Primarch Mortarion
  at the Battle of Kornovin in 901.M41. Grand Master Kaldor Draigo was
  then elevated to the rank of Supreme Grand Master amidst the din of the
  battlefield and vowed vengeance on Mortarion. Alone and unaided, Draigo
  smashed his way through Mortarion's bodyguard of Plague Marines, struck the ancient Primarch to the ground and carved Geronitan's name on the Daemon Prince's
  diseased heart. Though Mortarion ultimately escaped, it was many long
  years before he could enter the mortal realm once more and this was an
  insult that the Primarch of the Death Guard vowed to avenge.
• Supreme Grand Master Orias - Lord Orias was brought low in the 39th Millennium by the Daemon Prince and Plague Lord Herperitus. Mortally wounded but still alive, Lord Orias was interred within a Dreadnought and continues to serve the Chapter to this day.
• Supreme Grand Master Aeneas - Lord Aeneas lead the Chapter for 55 standard years during the 37th Millennium before he was mortally wounded by the Chaos Sorcerer Ahriman of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion and was interred within a Dreadnought.
• Grand Master Mandulis - Mandulis led a force of three
  hundred Grey Knights on the Chaos-corrupted world of Khorion IX in an
  attempt to vanquish the daemon Ghargatuloth back into the Immaterium.
  His Nemesis weapon becomes a plot device in a sequence of events that
  come into play after he vanquishes the daemon into the Warp for one
  thousand years. The sacrifice of the three hundred Grey Knights results
  in the banishing of Ghargatuloth. None, save the body of Grand Master
  Mandulis and his Nemesis weapon, were recovered. His sword is thought to
  be the only weapon capable of destroying Ghargatuloth again.
• Grand Master Vorth Mordrak - The sole survivor of the attack upon the Fortress World of Mortain by the Renegade Space Marines of the Red Corsairs,
  Grand Master Vorth Mordrak has continued to be protected by the ghostly
  apparitions of his fallen comrades. Determined to finally lay the
  fallen to rest, Mordrak has sworn to end the despicable individual
  responsible for his Battle-Brothers' deaths, the powerful Chaos Lord Huron Blackheart.
• Castellan Garran Crowe
  - A noble exemplar of the Grey Knights, Castellan Crow is both head and
  Brotherhood Champion of the Chapter's Purifier Order. Crowe is charged
  with warding the powerful artefact known as the Blade of Antwyr, a
  daemonic sword that continuously puts Crowe in both physical and
  spiritual peril, as it eternally tempts him with promises of power if he
  will embrace Chaos or threatens to bind his will with its black
  sorceries.
• Brother-Captain Taremar Aurellian - Brother-Captain Taremar Aurellian
  of the 3rd Brotherhood -– called Taremar the Gold for his maddeningly
  long list of noble deeds -– Warden of the 3rd Brotherhood and master of
  the flagship. He had been chosen to lead the ad hoc force of Grey Knights known as the "Ragged Brotherhood" against the Daemon Primarch Angron of the World Eaters, who had besieged the world of Armageddon with his Traitor Legion and the Forces of Chaos in 444.M41. As Grand Master Vaurmand, overall Lord of the 3rd Brotherhood, was bound to remain in the Grey Knights' fortress-monastery back on Titan, Captain Aurellian was chosen to represent the Grand Master during the First War for Armageddon
  campaign. The Grey Knights force was composed of 109 Grey Knights. A
  mere 18 remained on Titan. The rest of the Chapter were engaged in their
  own battles elsewhere across the galaxy. When the call came, the Grey
  Knights teleported into the midst of the advancing Chaos horde,
  surrounding the gigantic Daemon Primarch. The Grey Knights also faced
  the Twelve—the Cruor Praetoria, the twelve strongest daemons of Khorne whose lives and deeds most pleased their wretched Blood God. Taking heavy losses from Angron's enormous, tainted weapon, the Black Blade,
  the Grey Knights inflicted their own punishment, and eventually some of
  their attacking squads managed to come within melee distance. After
  Angron mangled his squad, Brother Hyperion
  of Squad Castian was the only Grey Knight left standing. Trying to
  protect a still-surviving squad mate, in a tremendous display of faith,
  power, and effort, Hyperion used his psyker abilities to shatter the
  Primarch's blade—while he collapsed into unconsciousness from the
  effort. Brother-Captain Aurellian of the 3rd Brotherhood, master of the
  Ruler of the Black Skies and a Knight of Titan, then boldly confronted
  the bladeless Daemon Prince of Khorne and managed to banish him back to
  the Warp for one hundred Terran years, though at the cost of his own life.
• Brother-Captain Leodegarius - Seeking to return home to Ultramar after the completion of a Death Oath in the Eye of Terror, the Omphalos Daemonium (a daemon train that traverses the Warp to wherever its daemon master wills it) dumps Ultramarines Captain Uriel Ventris and his Sergeant, Pasanius Lysane,
  on the world of Salinas. While upon Salinas, the stranded Ultramarines
  send an astropathic message to the Ultramarines' fortress on the world
  of Macragge.
  A Grey Knights outpost intercepts the message, and learns of Uriel's
  and Pasanius' foray into the Eye of Terror. A squad is immediately
  dispatched to test their faith and flesh. While on Salinas, and after
  these tests, the Grey Knights aid Uriel and the Salinites in defeating
  the 'Unfleshed' and vengeful spirits of wrongly-murdered Salinites.
• Brother-Captain Arvann Stern - Brother-Captain Stern has served the Grey Knights for many long years and is a prominent Daemonhunter. His most famous act was the destruction of the Cult of the Red Talon and the banishment of its master, the Lord of Change M'kachen, back to the Warp
  for one hundred Terran years and a day. When the vengeful daemon
  finally returned to realspace, he vowed to slay Captain Stern no matter
  the cost. M'kachen appears on the battlefield to face Stern every chance
  he gets, and if unable to come personally, sends one of his most
  powerful daemonic servants to attempt the deed for him. Stern is
  approximately 400 standard years old and has battled M'kachen three
  times so far. Each time, the Brother-Captain has proven his ability to
  withstand the power of the Greater Daemon and he has defeated the
  creature and its minions.
• Chaplain Durendin - A venerable Grey Knights Chaplain
  that always wore an enormous suit of Terminator Armour when seeing to
  the Chapter's spiritual health. One arm was painted a glossy black to
  signify his office as Chaplain and the rest was the traditional gunmetal
  grey. Durendin wore the same pair of ornate lightning claws that had
  been passed down since the chapter's earliest days.
• Justicar Alaric - Justicar Alaric found himself and the Grey Knights strike force under his command hunting down the Daemon Prince of Tzeentch named Ghargatuloth, the Prince of a Thousand Faces. In the course of this hunt, Alaric discovered a number of hidden Chaos Cults along the Trail of St. Evisser, a sequence of Imperial worlds scattered across the far western edge of the Segmentum Solar, who were servants of the Daemon Prince. When his ally in the hunt, the Inquisitor
  Ligeia, found her mind being altered by the powers of the daemons, and
  was subsequently executed at the Inquisitorial prison located on Mimas,
  another of the moons of Saturn, Alaric was forced to decipher the
  secrets of the Trail himself. His quest finally lead him to Vulcanis
  Ultor, the Hive Superior (Hive World) of the Trail. It was on Vulcanis, after a brief battle with the confused Sisters of Battle of the Order of the Bloody Rose,
  that Alaric made his way into the Fallen Saint Evisser's tomb and faced
  off against the Chaos-corrupted body of the saint and its unimaginable
  strength. It is only when his fellow Grey Knight, the Terminator
  Justicar Tancred, smote the Chaos-corrupted Saint that Ghargatuloth was
  able to emerge into realspace.
  By saying the daemon's true name, Alaric brought the creature into the
  physical realm, where with the help of all the loyal Imperial forces
  nearby they banished the Daemon Prince back into the Warp
  for another one thousand Terran years. Mental qualities normally
  destroyed by the training of a Grey Knight such as imagination and
  creativity were still found in Alaric. Combined with the physical and
  psychic abilities of a Grey Knight, his sharp mind was the decisive
  factor that later allowed him to survive on the Daemon World
  of Drakaasi where he was captured and stripped of his armor. These same
  characteristics are sometimes deemed by his peers as an unwanted risk
  amongst Grey Knights and may ultimately prevent Alaric from attaining
  the rank of Captain within the Chapter. However, Inquisitor Nyxos seems
  to have special plans to better employ Alaric's skills within the Inquisition in the days to come.
• Justicar Tancred - Tancred is revered within the Chapter as the best swordsman Justicar Alaric has ever seen, second only to Brother-Captain Arvann Stern himself. Tancred himself could become a Grey Knights Captain
  in his own right, but chose the life of the elite soldier instead.
  Having never met his match in battle, nor finding an agent of Chaos strong enough to contend with him, Tancred finally met his death following the summoning of the Daemon Prince
  Ghargatuloth. The Grey Knight strike force sent to stop the rising of
  the daemon met the Herald of the Prince of a Thousand Faces, who was
  none other than the daemon-warped
  corpse of the Fallen Saint Evisser. Standing four times the height of a
  Grey Knight, the Saint fought the strike force and slaughtered any
  Astartes who strayed too near. Tancred, wounded and wielding the Sword of Mandulis,
  rose from the smoke and approached the Fallen Saint, saying the
  time-honoured Battle Prayer of a Martyred Grey Knight, "I am the Hammer.
  I am the sword in His hand. I am the Gauntlet about His fist. I am the
  Bane of His foes and the woes of the treacherous. I am the End." With
  two of his Battle-Brothers, Justicar Santoro and Justicar Alaric,
  Tancred beheaded the Fallen Saint, and allowed Ghargatuloth to be born
  into realspace once more, giving Alaric the opportunity he needed to say
  the daemon's true name. In doing so, Tancred gave his life, but brought
  about the banishment of the Prince of a Thousand Faces. Neither
  Tancred's body nor his armour were found in the aftermath of
  Ghargatuloth's banishment, which has left some to speculate that he may
  still be alive within the mind-altering eddies of the Warp.
• Justicar Anval Thawn - Destined to perform great deeds, Anval Thawn was found by the Grey Knights' Gatherers aboard one of the many Black Ships that continuously scour the galaxy to bring powerful psykers to Terra.
  The many notable deeds performed by this valiant Grey Knight earned
  Thawn the rank of Justicar, and he soon came to rival the Chapter's
  greatest and most honoured heroes. Thawn was eventually slain upon the
  unholy spear of a foul daemon. When he was to be interred within the holy crypts on the Grey Knights' homeworld of Titan,
  he was miraculously resurrected from death by unknown means. Since that
  time, Thawn has died several times, but on each occasion, he somehow
  returns to life, ready to continue to battle the enemies of Mankind.
  Some believe he is an agent of destiny, the promised immortal warrior of
  prophecy who, at the last, will die surrounded by enemies at the foot
  of the Golden Throne itself. Whether this prophecy will come to pass remains to be seen.
• Battle-Brother Majoris Dvorn - Dvorn is firmly wedded to
  his Nemesis Force Hammer, an unusual weapon choice for a Grey Knight
  but perfectly suited to his aggressive personality. He has survived
  three major encounters with the Forces of Chaos and after the Massacre of Sarthis, Majoris Dvorn has been granted his own suit of Tactical Dreadnought Armour and a place amongst Captain Stern's retinue of Terminators.

[Seahawk]

So, to carry on the theme:

 

Chapter 666 Composition
The Chapter is led by a Supreme Grand Master; currently, this is Kaldor Draigo.

There are eight main brotherhoods in the Chapter, which represent the eight loyalists picked by Malcador the Sigilite.

- Each brotherhood is lead by a Grandmaster and Brother-Captain.
- Each brotherhood contains roughly 100 battle brothers, not including officers (such as Librarians, Chaplains, etc).
- Each brotherhood contains a mix of Terminator, Strike, and Purgation squads.
- Each brotherhood contains a small number of Paladins, taken from the ranks of the Terminator squads.

There is a separate demi-brotherhood that consists solely of Purifiers.

 

 

Unknown Assignments:

Grand Master Vorth Mordrak

Brother-Captain Leodegarius

Brother-Captain Arvann Stern

Chaplain Durendin

Justicar Alaric

Justicar Santoro

Justicar Anval Thawn

Battle-Brother Majoris Dvorn

Brotherhood 1
Grandmaster:
Brother-Captain:
Brotherhood Champion:
Other Officers:
Justicars:
Notable Units:


Brotherhood 2
Grandmaster:
Brother-Captain:
Brotherhood Champion:
Other Officers:
Justicars:
Notable Units:

 

 

Brotherhood 3
Grandmaster:
Brother-Captain:
Brotherhood Champion:
Other Officers:
Justicars:

Notable Units:

 

 

Brotherhood 4
Grandmaster:
Brother-Captain:
Brotherhood Champion:
Other Officers:
Justicars:

Notable Units:

 

Brotherhood 5
Grandmaster:
Brother-Captain:
Brotherhood Champion:
Other Officers:
Justicars:

Notable Units:

 

 

Brotherhood 6
Grandmaster:
Brother-Captain:
Brotherhood Champion:
Other Officers:
Justicars:

Notable Units:

 

 

Brotherhood 7
Grandmaster:
Brother-Captain:
Brotherhood Champion:
Other Officers:
Justicars:

Notable Units:

 

 

Brotherhood 8
Grandmaster:
Brother-Captain:
Brotherhood Champion:
Other Officers:
Justicars:

Notable Units:

 

 

The Purifiers
Castellan and Brotherhood Champion: Garran Crowe
Other Officers:
Justicars:

Notable Units:

 

 

Dreadnoughts

Aeneas, a Supreme Grand Master laid low in M37.

Orias, a Supreme Grand Master laid low in M39.

 

 

Vehicles

 

 

Fleet Assets

 

 

Heroes of Legends Past

Supreme Grand Master Janus, the founding lord of the Grey Knights. 

Supreme Grand Master Geronitan, predecessor of Draigo. Slain by Mortarion on 901.M41.

Grand Master Mandulis, slain by Ghargatuloth even as he banished him for a thousand years.

Brother-Captain Taremar Aurellian, of the 3rd Brotherhood, slain by Angron even as he banished him for one hundred years in 444.M41.

Justicar Tancred, slain by Ghargatuloth as be assisted Justicar Alaric in the banishing for another thousand years.

[Gentlemanloser]

Don't forget the First GK, from 'Army of one'.

 

Nathaniel Garro, some Librarian, a World Eater and, er, Cerberus. ;)