Lazaron

Lazaron is a feudal world that serves as the Chapter home world of the Adamantine Knights, a Loyalist Dark Angels Successor Chapter.

Background
The Adamantine Knights make their home on and draw the bulk of their recruits from the feudal world of Lazaron. However Lazaron is not a typical Feudal World, for technologically it is post industrial with factories, electricity, running water, and other commodities readily available for the upper and middle classes but in the structure of its society the it is very feudalistic. Before the coming of the Knights it was ruled by a council of dukes, who have since lost their power of governance to the Astartes as each Captain is nominally a duke of one of the ten duchies. Below them is the traders, craftsmen, and factory owners. At the bottom are the peasantry, who work the factories and make up the PDF forces of the planet. The geography of Lazaron is heavily forested with a few mountains here and there like the one Mount Leonis is located on. These woods are occupied by all manner of dangerous and sometimes monstrous creatures, made such by the proximity of the planet to the dreaded Eye of Terror. Often Aspirants are sent on hunts for these beasts and required to present some trophy to gain entrance to the Knights. The climate is on the colder end of temperate, with the average summer temperature around ten degrees Celsius.

Fortress Monastery
'Mount Leonis', or the Lion's Mountain, is the Fortress-Monastery of the Adamantine Knights. It is a gargantuan structure built into the highest peak of Lazaron with a fortified gatehouse at the base of the mountain. Within is a network of tunnels that lead into pre-prepared defensive positions, pitfalls, booby traps, or other nasty surprises for the unwelcome guest. Only on the summit is the proper monastery located, which is a pentagonal structure with each point on the outer edge a massive bastion keep studded with gun turrets. In the center is the main compound which houses the armory, quarters, mess hall, chapel, training yard, mausoleum, and hangar. Throughout the existence of Mount Leonis it has weathered numerous assaults and emerged unbroken, no doubt due to the extensive fortifications present. More than a safe haven for the chapter however Mount Leonis is the seat from which the Knights rule the Lazaron sub sector and deploy strikeforcers across the Segmentum.