| rdfs:comment | - House Griffith is a Loyalist Imperial Knight House aligned with the Imperium of Man. The Knights of House Griffith are consummate warriors, having earned their bloody reputation across battlefields uncounted. Deadly with blade and cannon, they are amongst the boldest ever to sit the Throne Mechanicum, each striving to maintain their legacy of martial excellence. The Knights of House Griffith are a fierce and proud warrior caste who value courage and skill at arms above all else. Duels of honour are commonplace amongst Griffith's hot-headed Knights. A regular jousting tourney, the Field of Adamantium, dictates the standings of each family in society; a Knight can be preeminent one day, but overshadowed the next should one of his rivals emerge triumphant. The ancient forefathers of House Gri
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| abstract | - House Griffith is a Loyalist Imperial Knight House aligned with the Imperium of Man. The Knights of House Griffith are consummate warriors, having earned their bloody reputation across battlefields uncounted. Deadly with blade and cannon, they are amongst the boldest ever to sit the Throne Mechanicum, each striving to maintain their legacy of martial excellence. The Knights of House Griffith are a fierce and proud warrior caste who value courage and skill at arms above all else. Duels of honour are commonplace amongst Griffith's hot-headed Knights. A regular jousting tourney, the Field of Adamantium, dictates the standings of each family in society; a Knight can be preeminent one day, but overshadowed the next should one of his rivals emerge triumphant. The ancient forefathers of House Griffith were the colonists that founded their home world, the volcanic planet of Dragon's End. The planet was named for its apex predator -- winged drakes known as dragons. As the legends go, before the STC Knight suits could be completed, the settlers were forced to fight the scaly beasts from horseback, clad in baroque armour crafted from locally-quarried obsidian. Against such terrible creatures, the colonists were forced to become great warriors or die. The mightiest of their number was Nathaniel Griffith. Using a dragonbone lance, Nathaniel slew three dragons, eventually becoming the inaugural ruler of the newfound knightly house. The Knight suits enabled the Nobles to overcome the dragons at last, and eventually to eradicate them altogether. They never forgot the skills they had mastered however, and passed them down to each successive generation. No knightly house has more stringent training, and some rare surviving Thrones Mechanicum still hold memories from the earliest times of the House, filled with the ghostly whispers of long dead dragon slayers. The Knights of House Griffith use Knight Errant armour almost exclusively, as the exo-suit's powerful Thermal Cannon befits them as close-range combat specialists. Such is their aggressive nature, however, that many of Griffith's Knights eschew the use of ranged weaponry in battle unless absolutely necessary, preferring instead to charge forwards and strike down their foes with Reaper Chainswords in glorious combat.
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