Inquisition/Grey Knights

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Grey Knights

"Our colour is grey, for it stands right between the light and darkness - and so do we."


"We are the hammer! The edge of the sword!"


"One unbreakable shield against the coming darkness,
One last blade forged in defiance of fate."


"Regard this function as your only duty:
you live only to purge the Daimon.
Take up your rod and staff,
your armour and sword,
and go forth."



The Inquisition has two primary objectives - purge daimons from this world and purge their heresy. Daimon Hunters, informally called the Grey Knights, are a faction within the Inquisition created specifically to deal with the former objective.




Remembrances



Roleplay from Maura Arnickles Renodin
Daimon Hunters:

Half-naked, blood-soaked woman entered the Offices of the Inquisition. Inquisitorial guardsmen hastily stopped her near the entrance and were about to toss her out when one of the higher officials recognized the woman.

"By Obeah's grace! Tis Inquisitor Maura Arnickles Renodin! Unhand her you fools. At once!" - the man said. He rushed to the woman and covered her with a cloak saying - "I will get a cart for you m'Lady and have you ferried to the Port of Four Cities, at once. I will send forth a messanger, so that when you arrive bath, meal and a healer await you, at once. Or you could enjoy amenities here, I am certain Lord Adolphus won't mind."

Maura just steadied man's eager hands and said that she has more pressing needs, she requested that fifteen very best men in the Inquisitorial Guard be fetched here for her. "At once, yes, at once m'Lady" - with blatant eagerness the man began tending to Inquisitor's wishes. Not an hour later she caught sight of the men she requested forming a single line before her - and marvelous sight it was - over a dozen shapes of huge, terror-inducing steel-clad beasts. Their full plate suits of armour were covered with long black tabards of the Inquisition. She'd been informed that all of them were from noble families, sworn to Obeah and the Inquisition they gave up on their convenient lives and trained for years to be worthy of serving the Veiled Goddess.

"Take it off" - Maura said pointing to the black tabbards worn-over their armours. The men complied and the implacable greyness of their steel overwhelmed the room. When asked about the unusual hint the captain of the men just said - "They have a special armourer - the Inquisition - one special armourer just for this. They say he used to be a scholar for the Heralds. Noone knows what he does but the steel is different."

Maura stood before them, there was no need for shushing the men, when they noticed she's about to speak the hall became so quiet one could almost hear the crescendo of heartbeats.

"You are not Inquisitorial Guardsmen now. You will not hunt down heretics now. You will not shackle apostates now. You will not burn defilers." - a half-restrained murmur of shock slithered across the hall as the Inquisitor said these words.

"You are mankind Guardsmen now. You will hunt down daimons. You will shackle the agents of the Netherworld. You will burn otherworldly threat!" - Maura looked around and pleased with their reaction she continued - "Beasts that plague these lands are among the least dangerous foes you will face. Imagine seas of undead so vast that you would have to ride entire day just to get to their rearguard. Imagine beasts that fly over your walls and toss bolts of pure force from outside the range of your finest archers. You will not survive. You gave your life with your oath and to your oath I shall hold you. You will perish either at the hands of those horrific beasts... or mine. One way or another I will see each and every one of you die." - she looked again and satisfied still she added - "Fear not, you will be trained and educated to fight those creatures, so that you don't die all too soon."

"You will be known as the Grey Knights now" - She knocked on the armour of the closest knight - "Your colour is grey, for it stands right between the light and darkness - and so do we."
Maura Arnickles Renodin




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Report from The General
On the cunning of Daimon kind and Tactics against them:

Oh frankly I have seen Akkan in person. I would recommend you never trust any Daimon you see and launch thousands of arrows in its chest before allowing it to gain a single shred of strength. As if you neglect doing that out of curiosity it ends up in the death of tens of thousands peasants in defence of a city bombarded by demonic firebombs.

...

The most successful tactic against daimons I have used is charging with as many people as possible straight into the daimons ranks, regardless if you have possession of walls or not, the only exception being if you have range 5 special forces, which can stay on top of walls. If you encounter daimonic animals not accompanied by daimons themselves then you can just slaughter them like you would do with cavalry, which is to allow them to throw themselves on fortifications.

The execution of daimons is best done on the battlefield and prevent them from gaining any magic scrolls, since they thrive off that magical energy and is known to cause resurrections of them.
The General



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