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| - If a Grey Knight wishes to prove himself worthy of a place amongst the Chapter's Paladins, bravery and skill are not enough -- he must complete eight quests to establish his character and cause. First, the Aspirant must spend a day and a night in the haunted caverns beneath Mount Anarch on Titan without losing sanity or purpose. Should he endure, he must match his will against the unsleeping evil of the dread tome Abbiallach, which lies chained in the Chapter fortress-monastery's Sanctum Sanctorum. His mental fortitude thus tested, the Aspirant will then be called upon to prove his strength at arms. He will make a pilgrimage to Lansel's Tomb on the doomed moon of Tethys, bearing no armour to preserve him from the Warp-spawned beasts trapped there. He must seek out and deliver a deathblow t
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| - If a Grey Knight wishes to prove himself worthy of a place amongst the Chapter's Paladins, bravery and skill are not enough -- he must complete eight quests to establish his character and cause. First, the Aspirant must spend a day and a night in the haunted caverns beneath Mount Anarch on Titan without losing sanity or purpose. Should he endure, he must match his will against the unsleeping evil of the dread tome Abbiallach, which lies chained in the Chapter fortress-monastery's Sanctum Sanctorum. His mental fortitude thus tested, the Aspirant will then be called upon to prove his strength at arms. He will make a pilgrimage to Lansel's Tomb on the doomed moon of Tethys, bearing no armour to preserve him from the Warp-spawned beasts trapped there. He must seek out and deliver a deathblow to each of the four types of Daemon Herald in service to the Chaos Gods, returning with a horn or tooth from each to prove his victory. Four more quests are there, each more gruelling than the last, with the final one being the most difficult of all. The candidate will hunt down and banish one of the six hundred and sixty-six most powerful daemons to ever manifest in the mortal realm, armed only with his Nemesis Force Sword and the beast's true name, gleaned from the pages of the Iron Grimoire. Only when this is done will the Aspirant have earned his ascension to the rank of Paladin. Given the perilous nature of these quests, it is little wonder that only the boldest Grey Knights become Paladins. Nevertheless, it is almost unheard of for an Aspirant to the rank to abandon his quests, as to do so is to incur grave dishonour. Whilst the cost of pursuing the Paladin's quests is high, it ensures that nowhere in the Imperium can so noble an assemblage of warriors be found as in Titan's Hall of Champions. Once his quests are complete, and the night of triumphant feasting that marks his ascension is over, the new Paladin leaves his Brotherhood and takes his seat in that hallowed hall. From the moment of his elevation, each Paladin is bound in service not only to his Chapter, but also to one of its Grand Masters for whom he will act as bodyguard, champion and advisor. Henceforth, his place upon the battlefield will forever after be at the fore, where it is the most perilous and vicious. On those occasions in which one of the Grey Knights' Apothecaries takes to the battlefield, his protection will be given over to a squad of Paladins. Few Battle-Brothers are as important to the Chapter's future as an Apothecary. It is his task to tend to fallen Battle-Brothers, healing them with his Narthecium, or reclaiming the Progenoid Glands -- and the precious gene-seed created from the genome of the Emperor Himself within them -- with his Reductor should the wounds be too severe. Without Apothecaries, the Grey Knights' genetic heritage would be lost amidst the ruin of battle, and the Chapter would cease to exist within a matter of decades. Thus the Apothecaries receive the foremost guardians the Chapter can provide.
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