Brother Heinrich Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Anyone know which Knight Houses were known affiliates/served alongside the Night Lords? Just curious since Knight Household history is kind of a blank spot for me. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
depthcharge12 Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Anyone know which Knight Houses were known affiliates/served alongside the Night Lords? Just curious since Knight Household history is kind of a blank spot for me. House Dracula and House Wayne :P Just kidding of course, I really haven’t heard of any ally crazy enough to fight alongside them. NLs seem to be the legion to press gang mortal forces into helping them, and Knight houses would be above that. However, we have a resident expert on NLs on this forum (his name is AD something, maybe B? :D) who could probably help with that. Though house Wayne sounds cool. Quixus and DarKnight 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5024338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
helterskelter Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 That had titans from Ulricon(sp?) With them, whether or not they had an attached knight household is something different and as Angelus is delayed even more we may not know for a little bit longer unless ADB has anything. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5024350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memento Of Prospero Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Ulricon is indeed the prevalent associated Titan Legion. Their career highlight is that they lost 90% of their strength to the void in the Dark Angel teleport ambush at the end of the Tramas Crusade. Aeternus 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5024378 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1ncarnadine Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 House Orhlacc. They're mentioned as having served alongside the VIIIth during the Great Crusade in Conquest. The majority of the House are loyalists, but there's definitely a lot of room for a Rogue Scion of the House or two. Especially considering that they're secretly avid cannibals whose metabolisms have adapted to an all-human diet (and maybe exotic mushrooms? but that's probably a lie). I think that might be a solid angle to work from. Their color scheme meshes with the Night Lord's incredibly well, too. Their icon is the manticore... "The Manticore myth was of Persian origin, where its name was "man-eater" (from early Middle Persian مارتیا mardya "man" (as in human) and خوار khowr- "to eat")" - from wikipedia. Unfortunately there are no transfers out for them and may never be, though :( Huggtand and Hungry Nostraman Lizard 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5024512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1soul Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 Very cool fluff available about House Orhlacc... I don't think the ability to consume and extract nutrients from Dark Haven's poisonous fungal lifeforms is a lie...but it's definitely supplemented by a taste for human flesh. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5024555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Heinrich Posted March 5, 2018 Author Share Posted March 5, 2018 House Orhlacc. They're mentioned as having served alongside the VIIIth during the Great Crusade in Conquest. The majority of the House are loyalists, but there's definitely a lot of room for a Rogue Scion of the House or two. Especially considering that they're secretly avid cannibals whose metabolisms have adapted to an all-human diet (and maybe exotic mushrooms? but that's probably a lie). I think that might be a solid angle to work from. Their color scheme meshes with the Night Lord's incredibly well, too. Their icon is the manticore... "The Manticore myth was of Persian origin, where its name was "man-eater" (from early Middle Persian مارتیا mardya "man" (as in human) and خوار khowr- "to eat")" - from wikipedia. Unfortunately there are no transfers out for them and may never be, though Hooooly ish. This is why I knew coming here and asking would be productive. That rules. Also no worries on transfers, I'll just freehand that stuff. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5025437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rendingon1+ Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 (edited) House Orhlacc. They're mentioned as having served alongside the VIIIth during the Great Crusade in Conquest. The majority of the House are loyalists, but there's definitely a lot of room for a Rogue Scion of the House or two. Especially considering that they're secretly avid cannibals whose metabolisms have adapted to an all-human diet (and maybe exotic mushrooms? but that's probably a lie). I think that might be a solid angle to work from. Their color scheme meshes with the Night Lord's incredibly well, too. Their icon is the manticore... "The Manticore myth was of Persian origin, where its name was "man-eater" (from early Middle Persian مارتیا mardya "man" (as in human) and خوار khowr- "to eat")" - from wikipedia. Unfortunately there are no transfers out for them and may never be, though :( Orhlacc knight world was discovered by the 1st Legion and rather DA allies, though they fought with VIII during GC they are as you mentioned loyalists. Edited March 5, 2018 by rendingon1+ Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5025528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 House Ærthegn are hardcore too. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5027988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Heinrich Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 House Ærthegn are hardcore too. Did they fight with the VIII Legion? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5028237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1ncarnadine Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 Not officially, but nothing's stopping you.They're a savage reaver House with no home world. Horus encountered a band of Ærthegn late in the Great Crusade (post-Ullanor), defeated one solo, and then went on to make most of the other warbands of the House swear loyalty to him. So they mostly fought alongside the Sons of Horus, but because of the nature of the house, they're still very fractious. There are loyalist Ærthegn scions, and others that don't take any side and raid indiscriminately. Lots of cool directions to take that. There could be brutal members of the House that refused to bend knee to Horus or the Emperor and found the cynical company of the VIIIth welcoming. Or maybe Horus ordered a force of them to fight alongside the Night Lords in the Thramas Crusade... Possibly as a genuine gesture of good will, or perhaps the Warmaster wanted some of his own clandestine agents present to ensure things went according to plan? Brother Heinrich 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5028298 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughingman Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 Legio Ulricon (or more precisely the forge world that created them) may have had oathbound or retained knight houses as was common practice circa M30-M31. Might be worth developing your own fluff and heraldry around a knight house from that angle. Personally, when developing my own fluff I take inspiration from military and political history across the ages. For example maybe a fractious knight house inspired by historical wallachian boyars politicking, or something to that effect... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5028395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 House Bolton as Knights would work so well. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5028440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 House Bolton as Knights would work so well. That’s pretty much just Orlacc and Ærthegn. The game of thrones houses as knight houses is way too easy to spot when creating fluff and will come across as derivative or knock the reader out of the universe. It may be worth it for Heinrich to take a known 40k house and flesh out its pre-40k origins. It’s perfectly believable that a house from the 41st millennium might’ve been born in flayed skin and tortured prisoners. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5028490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hungry Nostraman Lizard Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 I too, want to know the answer to this! As well as sources, and if there were any attached color schemes? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5028615 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 House Bolton as Knights would work so well.That’s pretty much just Orlacc and Ærthegn. The game of thrones houses as knight houses is way too easy to spot when creating fluff and will come across as derivative or knock the reader out of the universe. It may be worth it for Heinrich to take a known 40k house and flesh out its pre-40k origins. It’s perfectly believable that a house from the 41st millennium might’ve been born in flayed skin and tortured prisoners. Fair points Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5028636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 House Bolton as Knights would work so well.That’s pretty much just Orlacc and Ærthegn. The game of thrones houses as knight houses is way too easy to spot when creating fluff and will come across as derivative or knock the reader out of the universe. It may be worth it for Heinrich to take a known 40k house and flesh out its pre-40k origins. It’s perfectly believable that a house from the 41st millennium might’ve been born in flayed skin and tortured prisoners. Fair points Its just my personal preference, but I enjoy little homages to my favorites in other universes. Like a flayed man on an honor marking, or a white wolfs head on a space wolf would be my speed. 1ncarnadine and Brother Heinrich 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5028692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Heinrich Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 Whoa. I think I'm sold on Ærthegn. "Striking unannounced and with overwhelming force, the stark black machines of these border reavers hunted with brutal efficiency first for their own ends, and later under the authority of the Warmaster's command, placing no value on honour duels or other Knightly ideals which have been for so many centuries the cornerstone of a Knight World's Culture." 1ncarnadine and Kizzdougs 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5028981 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1ncarnadine Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Rad. Honestly, all of the houses in Conquest are pretty great. It's hard to go wrong, but also hard to choose! For what it's worth, most of the Ærthegn names are taken from Old English. There are some handy tools out there if you want to name anything that way. Brother Heinrich 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/344954-night-lord-affiliated-knight-houses/#findComment-5028987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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