014.M31 · The Siege of Terra · date approximate
Founding of the Grey Knights
Place: Saturn · Segmentum Solar
Loyalist victory Malcador raises eight Grand Masters and hides Titan in the warp itself.
In the last days of the Heresy Malcador found twelve worthy — four lords and eight Astartes psykers from the loyalist and traitor Legions, who had renounced their former oaths. The four lords laid the foundation of the Inquisition, and the eight warriors went with Malcador to Saturn’s moon Titan, where they became the first Grand Masters of the Grey Knights; Janus was named the first Supreme Grand Master. Malcador concealed Titan itself in the warp behind Geller macro-fields.
Sides
Loyalists
Commanders
Traitors
Participants not reconciled.
- Type
- Chronicle
- Scale
- 3 of 5
Significance
The birth of the Grey Knights and the seed of the Inquisition — humanity’s weapon against Chaos.
Disputed in the canon
- Malcador raises eight Grand Masters on Titan in the last days of the Heresy (c. 014.M31); the Order of the Knights-Errant was founded earlier (c. 005.M31), and Titan will reveal the 666th order c. 021.M31.
Sources
- Fandom: Grey Knights
- Fandom: Knights-Errant
- Atlas compilation · source check 2026
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