Storm Knights

Chapter History: The Storm Knights was founded in mid-M36, most of the records pertaining to the chapter’s founding has been purged from the Imperium, they served the emperor’s will for nearly a millennium until the chapter faced near extinction on the world of Sengor II. In the current millenium the Storm Knights have faced heavy combat of the system of Carrobract crusading against a never ending horde of cultists, traitor astartes and daemons.

Homeworld: The world of Stehlcia is an unforgiving world, the planet is cursed with eternal storms whether it be from brutal tsunamis to deadly dust storms, most of the planet is barren of most forms of life with only a few dwindling lakes. The planet is home to the ruins of dark age cities, its rusted skeletal remains having been scavenged and salvage to sell off-world for centuries. The local population live in nomadic tribes that are near constantly on the move to avoid the deadly storms of their world.

Fortress-Monasteries: Over the 6,000 years of the chapter’s existence they’ve acquired three total bases that they consider their Fortress Monasteries Chapter Beliefs:
 * The Lightning Castle: The Lightning Castle is considered to be the main fortress monastery of the chapter. It is well known that the higher the level on the Fortress the more ornate and beautiful it becomes. On the tallest peak of the planet’s mountains there lies the Lightning Castle. This fortress is home to all of the chapter’s remaining records and their most sacred of relics.
 * The Basilisk’s Horn: Horn is the chapter’s space station that orbits the homeworld’s moon of Khymeris. This station mysteriously showed up orbiting the planet and the chapter’s reaction was to make expeditions into the station using Khymerian pdf troops and their own neophytes to explore the station.
 * The Honor: This is the chapter’s mobile headquarters, this battle barge contains the spoils of war that the chapter has earned. Be it imperial,xeno, or other, with these spoils they trade with a few trusted forgeworlds.

Chapter Recruitment: The Storm Knights recruit from the nomadic tribes of Stehlcia, the Stehlcian tribes see the astartes enigmatic dust ghosts to be feared or respected.Tribes are unknowingly chosen for potential recruitment when chosen the chapter secretly herds the tribes using their own superstition into hostile zones, there these battles pick out the most capable of the tribes young warriors, after the warriors are picked out the astartes purge the threat and take the potential recruits to the planet’s Fortress Monastery. The first thing the recruits are trained into is swordsmanship with a bloody training regime, it is not rare for recruits to die from dueling wounds. After a time the recruits are sent into the ruined cities of their world and survive in any way possible such as working in teams or going alone there they must survive against mutant abominations that roam in the cities.

Chapter Fleet:

-The Honor:

-The Dust Spire:

Chapter Relics: 
 * The Shard: Within the chapter’s fortress monastery is an armor shard thought to be from the Lion, how this came into the chapter’s possession is unknown.
 * The Sword of Drekhanis: A sword passed down through the ages this ancient power sword is a testament to the chapter's will. Taken from the ruins of one of the dead cities of Stehlcia this blade melts armor as if it was cloth. This blade is currently wielded by Chapter Master Olendus.