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Knight House

A generalised “Knight House” faction for events involving an anonymous or unattributed Knight House. Knight Houses are the fighting households of Knight-armour pilots (Questor Imperialis or Questor Mechanicus), which split in the Heresy between loyalists and traitors. For specific houses see the named factions.

Category
Knight House
Side
Split ranks
Key events
2 events
Forces
The Knight House as a generic type of fighting formation of Knight-armour pilots in events where a specific house is not named.

Fate

Fates vary by house — from loyal defenders of the Imperium to the Chaos Knights of the Eye of Terror.

Disputed in the canon

  • A generalised entry for a Knight House whose exact allegiance in an event is not named; specific houses (House Devine, House Taranis and others) are entered separately, and the collective institution is the Knight Houses (Questoris Familia).

Key events

Sources

  1. WH40k Fandom: Imperial Knights
  2. Atlas compilation · source check 2026
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