abstract
| - Grey Knights Battle-Brothers are fearsome warriors trained for a single deadly purpose: the eradication of daemons and other Warp-spawn. Unlike other Astartes, a Grey Knight has been completely removed from normal life and has had his entire former personality and identity washed away by a mind-wipe, years of psychological conditioning and genetic enhancement using the unusually pure gene-seed of the Grey Knights which has been engineered from the sacred genome of the Emperor of Mankind Himself. A Grey Knight exists to vanquish his foes and only ever leaves the towering walls of the Chapter's fortress-monastery on Titan to answer the call to arms. Of course, Grey Knights Battle-Brothers are more than mere killing machines; they are also cunning and intelligent, schooled in millennia of lore and secrets about their foes and able to carefully consider threats and act with meticulous planning. All of these traits make them a favoured tool of the Inquisition's Ordo Malleus and the warriors of choice when it comes to combating the greatest and most fearsome threats the Warp has to offer. On Titan, unlike on other Space Marine Chapter homeworlds, there is no initial training for a Grey Knights Initiate as a Scout Marine as in other Chapters. There is only an unyielding and brutal regimen whose success at turning raw recruits into the finest human warriors in the galaxy has been honed over the course of centuries. Only a fraction of the youths who enter the fortress-monastery on Titan as Grey Knights Neophytes survive the gruelling trials set before them. Those who finally emerge do so armoured with a superhuman physique, unyielding will, razor-sharp battle skills and an all-encompassing knowledge of daemonic lore and psychic sorcery. In short, from the moment a Grey Knight Initiate's training is complete, he is to be counted amongst the mightiest of Space Marines -- and his abilities will only improve once he is tested in battle. Only on Titan can recruits be trained so completely -- and so fast -- but only there is it so necessary. The life of a Grey Knight is one of sacrifice and duty as he faces the worst horrors of the Warp and sends them screaming back to their foul masters. He will never know peace or respite and he will never know mercy from his enemies, not that a Grey Knight would ever hope for such things. For a Grey Knight, life only has meaning in service to the Emperor of Mankind and deeds only carry weight when undertaken in His name. Should he live long enough, however, and survive the countless trials and struggles against his daemonic foes, he can hope to rise up within the Chapter and take on another mantle, such as that of a Paladin or a Purifier, and be counted as an elite warrior among the Emperor’s elite.
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