Knights of the Throne

The Knights of the Throne, known in High Gothic as the Thronus Equites, were once a noble if somewhat younger Chapter of the Blood. Originating from the Feudal World known as Arel, the Knights of the Throne were deeply influenced by the chivalric culture of their home-world, in particular by the planets ancient cult of the Emperor as the Grail Giver. However, the genetic heritage of their genetic shire, the Primarch Sanguinius, proved to be their downfall. Gifted (or perhaps more truly cursed) with an even higher degree of their Primarch's prophetic abilities, the Chapter Masters of the Knights of the Throne were in turns tormented by discordant visions of their Chapter falling to the thirst on the one hand, and on the other beguiled with false hopes by equally unclear dreams of an angelic being promising salvation in the form of a sacred chalice, overflowing with blood. As generation after generation of the Thronus Equites fell deeper in a mire of mysticism and apocalyptic despair, they ever more desperately put aside wider responsibilities to the Imperium to instead desperately seek the mysterious grail that haunted their dreams. This path would eventually lead to their damnation, and their rebirth as the renegade "Angels of the Voracious Chalice."