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This article is comprised of a complete list of all the fanon Imperial Knights Houses listed here on the WH40K Homebrew Wiki. Along with a brief synopsis of each Houses, this list also serves as a visual reference. Included in this list are Expanded Universe Houses. This list does not include Imperial Knights Houses that fall into the humour category. This is an ongoing project, and as such, additional Houses will be added or removed accordingly. For those Houses that are missing from the list, please feel free to edit this article and add it, or if the Houses article has been deleted, feel free to remove it.
House Acheron is a Questor Imperialis Knight House of the Kaladin System located in the Segmentum Ultima. They hold sovereignty over the planet of Ardialan and the Kaladin System though the planets of Axiom and Veron are controlled by the Kaladin Mechanicus. They have a long and illustrious history of defending Kaladin from Chaos forces. As a result, House Acheron has become proficient in fighting against the Traitor Astartes Legions, Knight Houses, and Titan Legions. Though House Acheron is considered young by most other Knight Houses, they have been fighting since their inception.
House Alaricum is a noble House of the Questor Imperialis that took root upon the Shrine World of Cuznov. Dating back to the Age of Strife and the Great Crusade, the House abandoned their homeworld for many millennia after the Scouring. They spent most of that time constantly Questing, prosecuting an unending crusade against the Emperor’s foes. Plagued by shame and disunity during the Age of Apostasy, they underwent a period of decline that was reversed by their cooperation with the Forge World of Ferrata. They served as staunch allies to that world until its fall near the end of the 41st Millennium. Afterwards, they completed a great pilgrimage back to Cuznov, reclaiming their old home and once more becoming a significant player in the Zylos Sector.
House Azer is a Loyalist Imperial Knight House of the Questor Imperialis that has continuously served the Imperium of Man since the Great Crusade. Formed from the group of humans that so long ago journeyed to find new homes in the stars during the Dark Age. During the Age of Strife they engaged in witch hunts of the new psykers that kept showing up, afraid of what they could do to them with their "magical powers". These witch hunts continued until they were found by the imperium during the great crusade and joined for promises of Glory and Prestige. With this, they would fight on the side of the Imperium for the rest of the Great Crusade and throughout the Horus Heresy, forming a rivalry with a Knight house from the same planet that joined Chaos. Managing to kick the Chaos house off of their planet, they would continue to serve the Imperium for the next twelve thousand years.
House Bagration is a noble Questor Imperialis hailed from the Mountainous Feudal World of Didgori Tertius. A Feudal world where blue sky, clear rivers and lakes as well as snowy mountains and old fortress wall the local called 'Tsikhe' stretch across the mountains. House Bagration is one of the few Knight Houses that still believe in the old Catheric Faith although mixed with their own unique believes. Stoic and practical, House Bagration favours guerilla and quick warfare utilizing Armiger Warglaives, Helverins, and close quarter combat type Questoris class Knights equipped with ancient technology known MileRotor, an STC only found in Didgori Tertius that enables their knights and armigers to move faster and show quick reflexes more than usual knight. This knight house is also possess a strong rivalry since the end of Horus Heresy with Knight House Melkonian.
Once stalwart Knights in the service of the Adeptus Mechanicus, House Balor was slowly and carefully corrupted over generations by the machinations of a Heretic Astartes Warlord. Casting aside their honourable old oaths for a new faith of damnation, the traitor Nobles of the Balor line now go to war at the call of the Dagon, bringing horror and annihilation to their former masters.
House Blackmaw is a Questor Imperialis Knight House from the planet Zhenesta, sallying forth from the great fortresses deep inside the titanic forests. Often viewed as barbaric by other knightly houses but they ignore these insults as few knights can match the violence and fury these tribals can bring upon the battlefield. With hatred in their eyes they charge through smoke and flames to crush the enemies of mankind into blackened scrap.
House Bellator is a Questor Traitoris Knight House from the planet Dias Domum. Once proud nobles gallantly piloting their knights against the fell tides of chaos, House Bellator began its road to damnation when the Cicatrix Maledictum opened, pouring murderous daemons onto Dias Domum. Despite turning the tide away, High Queen Elizabeth Sable was corrupted, leading her Knight House to turn away from the Imperium's Light and carve out their own name as traitors in a forsaken planet.
House Bellemere is a loyalist house of Imperial Knights founded during the Age of Strife, having rejoined the Imperium after the rediscovery of the Gurges Sector in M38. Since its discovery House Bellemere would go on to serve within honor through various campaigns, mostly focused within the Segmentum Pacificus. With the opening of the Great Rift however House Bellmere found itself divided as a third of the house was on campaign outside the Gurges Sector, causing them to be lost with no way back to their homeworld. Those that remained however would gather once more on Onkion III in en effort to defend their home from any threat that was to come. Alone they would stand until after a standard decade a joint fleet from the space marine chapter the Cobalt Leviathans and Forge World Vulmas would rediscover their long lost allies. Within another standard year the remnants of the Xanov 502nd and 275th Astra Militarum regiments would be found and added to their forming alliance, the Pacificus Shield.
House Drachen is a Questor Mechanicus Imperial Knight located in Segmentum Ultima and long allies of the Forge World Calces. Holding rulership of the world Sparta and the Gravin System, and due to their location, House Drachen has become sufficient in fighting Tyranids, Orks and even Tau forces, gaining great skills in battling the latter's many battlesuits. This old house holds many Imperial Knights Patterns thought lost, thanks to their relationship with Calces and the Zero Legion.
House Dragon (Not to be confused with the similarily named House Drogon) is an Imperial Knight household that has ties to both the Imperium of Man and the Adeptus Mechanicus because of their actions. House Dragon was founded on the planet of Pern, a world located in Segmentum Obscurus. House Dragon, thanks to their remoteness relative to the rest of the domains of mankind, have never really followed the directions of the larger Imperium. While they still are a part of the Imperium, they have far more ties with Legio Draco, a Titan Legion that hails from the planet Draconis Ignis in the same system as Pern.
House Drogon is a honourable Imperial Knight House of the Questor Imperialis allegiance. These knights are honourable and excellent mid- to close-ranged combatants. During battle they are cold-hearted and without mercy, but between battles they are surprisingly kind-hearted and chill. In battle, they are known for taking down cities and big strongholds. They excellent defenders and often work with the Iron Drakes Chapter, but they're at their best in sieges and frontal attacks. This makes them good allies with the Emperor's Legion.
House Fásacha is a Questor Imperialis Knight House, located on the world of Tarakon. They are a warrior house, where martial honor is regarded in high esteem. Each Lord Protector that is not a part of his Exalted Court is given a charge of furthering the known expanses of the Wilderness Space and to ensure they send their best men to Tarakon to join the Wardens. An ancient House that has always guarded the Wilderness Zone that was finally discovered by the Imperium when the Explorator Fleets of Mjorn and Incendius Lux first went beyond the Gate of Blood to colonize the first Frontier Worlds. Sámhach de Fásach, the heir apparent, has been given the charge that she shall complete a taking. With oaths to the Mechanicus of Mjorn, this house has learned to excel in their roles as protectors of the Eastern Fringe.
House Fenris is a noble House of the Questor Imperialis that is very respected, both amongst its peers and those who have fought alongside them. Outside their Knights they are calm, friendly and wise, giving political and tactical advise to those that need it. But on the battlefield that all changes. Brutal und berserker-like, they work in "packs" and hunt down their prey. They are often tasked with taking down enemy Reavers and Warlord Titans. In that way the enemy loses its biggest units and the Imperium's army can sweep up what's left.
House Ghrevax is a Traitor Knight House dedicated to the service of the Blood God, Khorne. Having long ago fallen to Chaos, the knights of House Ghrevax are now little more than animalistic savages, roaring in guttural tongues and slavering as they charge heedlessly at the foe, seeking nothing more than to tear their victim's limb from limb, feasting on the corpses of the dead and painting the holy symbols of Khorne in loyalist blood. Chainswords revving and claws crackling with unholy lightning, House Ghrevax fight less like warriors and more like feral, rabid beasts, barely capable of speech or communication in their constant unending bloodlust.
House Goetia is a once-proud Imperial Knight House that fell from grace during the tumultuous events of the Horus Heresy, ultimately swearing allegiance to the cause of Warmaster Horus Lupercal, and inevitably, the Ruinous Powers. House Goetia was renowned for its mastery of warfare and the deadly prowess of its towering Knight suits. However, as the galaxy was engulfed in the flames of betrayal, their loyalty wavered. Exposed to the corrupting influence of Chaos, the Knights of House Goetia became seduced by the promise of greater power, immortality, and freedom from the rigid strictures of Imperial dogma. Their war machines, once noble instruments of justice, became warped by the dark energies of the Warp, transforming into twisted, hellish constructs. In the latter stages of the Horus Heresy, House Goetia turned its weapons against the very Imperium they had once sworn to defend, fighting alongside the Traitor Legions in their bid to overthrow the Emperor.
House Immoren is a notable loyal Imperial Knight house hailing from the Knight World of Vulkorad. Hailing from the world of Vulkorad this stalwart Knight Household has continuously stood silent vigil over their homeworld. Uniquely amongst the Questoris Imeprialis, House Immoren has a particular obsession with the salvage and perservation of ancient technology from Mankind's past, thought to have been lost for all time. Since their discovery during the Great Crusade House Immoren has pledged its undying loyalty and fealty to the Emperor of Mankind and His ideals, and stood firm during the bloody galaxy-wide civil war known as the Horus Heresy. Since that bygone era, House Immoren has continuously fought on crusade across the width and breadth of the galaxy against the myriad of enemies that plague Mankind.
House Jehoiada is an ancient Knight House of the Questor Mechanicus alignment. It is an exceptionally small house given its substantial age, widely known for it's stubbornness, petulance, parochialism, insularity and ill-temper amongst all of the Knight Houses. House Jehoiada suffers some of the lowest prestige amongst the Knight Houses, for not only are they grumpy, but the bulk of their impressive host are lightly armoured and comparatively small. However, it's not how big it is...it's how you use it.
House Jennings stands as a bastion of honor and allegiance on the T'au world of Lub'grahl within the Farsight Enclaves, a stance that draws stark disapproval from their Imperial counterparts. Undeterred, House Jennings unwaveringly fights for the Greater Good, blending Imperial and Xenos technologies seamlessly into their arsenal.
The House Kamlott is a Questor Mechanicus House hailing from the Knight World of Brittoria in the Segmentum Obscurus, at the fringe with the Segmentum Solar. The House is not well-known without the borders of its system, being mainly the guardian of the nearby Forge World of Omnicor.
House Karanov is a Daemon Knight house that evokes extreme dread to all those who hear the name. It has echoed through the millennia, trapped in the deep confines of the warp until it was eventually released again into the galaxy, seeking what has been taken from them. They are, with their dark lord Vremyamir, a force that ever-consumes any world that would buckle before their fearsome might.
House Lanokast is a Questor Imperialis Knight House and the oldest and most venerable family of the former House Triumverate of Ardialan. They rose to power among the feudal lands decades before House Acheron and House Gondorant came to power. Through the centuries of isolation of Old Night, House Lanokast endured and protected its people from the hardships of life alone in the galaxy. During the 42nd Millennium they have become less active due to infighting across their history and the rejection of many Imperial Knights during their Rituals of Becoming.
The House Léokonis is a Questor Mechanicus Knight House originated from the world of Kullaris in the Megana Sub-Sector of the Lacuma Sector located in the Segmentum Obscurus. This House swore loyalty to the Adeptus Mechanicus through the Forge World of Isorag. The Forge World of Isorag never goes on expedition without a lance of the House Léokonis aboard their ships. Within the Lacuma Sector, the knights of Léokonis are famed as well for their political skill and their ballistic ability.
House Marrok is a Questor Imperialis Knight House, located on the pleasure world of Epirus in Segmentum Obscurus. They are an honor-bound house with strong cohesion to one another. Their unity and trust in each other makes them a vicious force on the battlefield, though each knight alone is a force to be feared. Known also as "the house of wolves", House Marrok is the Grand House ruling over a number of lesser houses that share their homeworld. While most knights remain on Epirus, groups of knights will venture into nearby sectors to earn battle honors and spread the house's influence.
House Melkonian is a noble Questor Mechanicus hailed from Karabakh. This Great plains and prairie world surrounded by Great Mountains and underground water caves serve as Feudal Worlds for House Melkonian. Unlike other Knight Houses that either believe in the Imperial Cult or Machine Cult, the Knight House Melkonian believed in the Apostolikos Faith. A mixture of old Terran Apostolic Faith and Church of the Machine God, Cult Mechanicus. Stubborn nature, bellicose temper, hungry for challenge, and masters of duel, House Melkonian favour dueling, and close combat warfare. They see long-ranged combat as a coward's tool thus favoring Knight Errants, Knight Gallants, and Knight Valiant in every battle.
House Mourne is primarily afleet-based Questor Imperialis Knight House operating within the Imperium Nihilus, near the Chalnath Expanse. Once vassals of the now-extinct House Velbrecht, they lost their homeworld to Tyranids and now crusade endlessly aboard a roaming warfleet. Bound by oath and sanctified tradition, House Mourne venerates their Knight suits as divine saints, the Tenfold Pantheon, each engine a sacred embodiment of the Emperor’s will. They strike with precision and fury, guided by memory, faith, and flame. Their newly established foothold on the overgrown world of Amissa Spe serves as both refuge and proving ground, but their war against the Tyranid threat is far from over. House Mourne endures.
House Orenstein is a Questor Imperialis Knight House from the Knight World of Zyon, a once verdant prairie green world that is reduced to an empty scarred wasteland due to the invasion of the Heretic Storm Zealots during the infamous Skabbian Heresy. House Orenstein held to honor, duty, self-sacrifice, and oath bonds with the highest esteem. This Knightly House is well known to swore ear allegiance with the Storm Zealots Space Marine Chapter from Jeras. House Orenstein origins are dated back to the Dark Age of Technology where the nobles from the Jerasian 12 tribes came to settle on a lush prairie planet.
House Quixote is a major fighting force and original inhabitant of the ocean world Creed. In the current years of the 42nd Millennium they follow the Renegade Chapter: The Creed's orders, as long as their section of the planet is untouched by their industrialization. Their royal members of the house protect the planet if the chapter can't do it themselves, and have many major encounters with the Tyranid and "Chaos" presence.
House Ravenspyre is a Chaos Knight house that roams the vast gulfs of the Ghoul Stars in the service of Khorne. Once based upon the Knight World of Tannys IV, they were conquered by the Night Lords during the Great Crusade, and they swore allegiance to Konrad Kurze in the early 30th Millennium. This oath of allegiance caused them no end of trouble, since they had already had a savage reputation, and allying with the Night Lords did not help them in this regard.
House Romaani is a loyal Questor Imperialis Knight House that stalwartly follows and champions the righteous intent of the Emperor of Mankind. Though they may not view him as a god and ultimately answer to him only out of morality and the oaths of allegiance they swore, this Knight House is nonetheless one of his greatest implements. Made in the glory of the Great Crusade, resilient through the fires of the Horus Heresy, and remade in the destruction of their homeworld and their migration to a new one, their story is filled with nothing but a string of tragedies. Yet true to the iron heart of their engines, and the cold will of their pilots, they march on, determined to bring retribution to any who would threaten the new system they call home.
House Salos was founded in M33 after a Warp Storm cut off the Lomek System from the rest of the Lomek Sector. The most famous Knight in the house is called the Perghast Ionos, the knight used by Phoebe Ionos’ Brother, Bren Ionos. During the Siege of Lomek, many of the Nobles fell to chaos, although many knights were destroyed. The loyalists were quickly killed, and the knight of Bren was stolen under Ionos’s direct order. Currently, the knights have been well-maintained utilizing mundane resources and sorcery alike. Notably, they have been able to be possessed by Saikos Prime, a greater Daemon of the Goddess Saikos. However, this possession will only last temporarily, resulting in the knight becoming inanimate once the Daemonic Essence leaves. Most of the knights have been corrupted by chaos over the years, most notably Slaanesh. However, some remain uncorrupted.
An infamous Chaos Knight House that fell during the bloody reign of Goge Vandire after millennia of faithful service to the Imperium, the once proud and glory seeking Nobles of House Tyrellian have turned to the worship of Slaanesh, and serve their patron with great fanaticism. The House largely acts independently, working as a mercenary force for the various warbands of the Emperor's Children scattered throughout the Eye of Terror, but ultimately they are devoted to the goal of bringing the Imperium under the sway of the Dark Prince, and to that end they have formed an alliance with the Warmaster of Chaos, Abaddon the Despoiler, serving alongside Slaaneshi Chaos Space Marines in the various Black Crusades.
Devoted to Tzeentch and the search for knowledge with a fervor almost unmatched in the 41st Millenium, the traitorous House Vakotba has been terrorising the Southern Segmentum Ultima since the Horus Heresy. Ever since the psyker Aheque Teghir plotted to bring his father to an early death and hence gain the crown of Sahlik Prime, the once-noble Questor Imperialis House has been on an ever-descending path, one often paved by good intentions; the desire to uncover all knowledge in the universe. Ever since fighting a troop of Harlequins in M34, the House's main goal has been to uncover the true location of the fabled Black Library. Fortunately for the galaxy, they have been unsuccessful.
House Valhalla is an extremely defensive Questor Imperialis Knight Household that rarely leaves the system of its home world, Valhalla IV. This house prefers to use, and is prominently comprised of, Dominus-class Knights and does not contain any knight preceptor suits. Each noble pilot has two Armiger pilots or moirax pilots under their command, as they see through their training into fully-fledged knight pilots.
House Vampes is a Questoris Imperialis Knight House from the world of Bresse a small World in the Leman Sector. Vampes allegiance belongs to the Imperium which contacted them fistst and offered them the Knights recovered from a fallen Knight House. Cooperation with the Adeptus Mechanicus is quite common, too common for some in the Sector Command, and military support for the local Forge Worlds is substancial. Depending on the High King can this tactic of partly split allegiance work resulting in more ressources from the courting sides or ignorance from both sides and in the worst cases even massive political pressure to remain in line.
House Worldscourer is a Questor Imperialis Knight House located on the infamous hive world of Armageddon. They are a warrior house that values martial prowess and power over tactics and cunning, which is shown in their reckless fighting styles and ruthlessness of the members of this Knight House. Knights who have fought in many campaigns will adorn themselves with the bones of their enemies, as well as their skinless corpses dangling from chains or cages. Due to their psychotic and savage ways, the Inquisition has investigated this knight house many a time to either return knowing that they fight for the Imperium of Man, or to end up as another trophy. This Knight House believes that the Emperor of Mankind is the greatest human fighter to ever have lived and try to live up to it with their savage and brutal fighting, using dirty tricks as well as head-on fights to win battles. They live, die and spill blood in the name of the Emperor.
