Editing House Castus (section)

=History=

==The Fall==

Once House Castus was an honorable force for good, they defended their planets and people with all their might. Their home world was dominated by large predators resembling  Komodo Dragons. These creatures were extremely vicious with sharp claws and venomous fangs, but their greatest strength was their skin. The skin was capable of resisting assaults from the Knights chain swords, while being considerably lighter then the war-machines own armor. As such when one of the beasts was killed the Knight that slew it would tear off a piece of the beasts skin and have it attached to his machine. Over the centuries this grew into the belief that the strength of the trophies became a part of the knights own, leading to them to actively seek out worthy opponents. When their forge world sent out a call for aid the house jumped at the opportunity for a full fledged war.  Unfortunately for House Castus, and the galaxy as a whole, the foes were not simple raiders; but a Khornate war band. Despite the blessings of their god and their vicious ferocity the war initially did not favor the forces of Chaos. Under their leader, Anatolia Tovarish, the knights outmaneuvered and out fought the Space Marine's and their legions of slaves at every turn. When their victory seemed certain the leader of the war band, a twisted creature known only as The Flayer, unleashed his trump card; a daemon prince of Khorne named Golgotha. The tide rapidly turned against the defenders, everywhere the demon appeared he slaughtered the Mechanicus forces wholesale.

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Eventually only one stronghold of the Machine Cult remained; a massive fortress carved into a mountain chain and defended by an innumerable horde of skitarii. The defenders had all lost hope, the Tech priests even began destroying their treasured secrets determined that the cultists would not defile them. Only one still had hope, Anatolia, she gathered together the remaining fifteen of her knights and explained her plan. She had observed the forces the enemy had arrayed against them and she had noticed something; there were almost no chaos space marines left alive. Even the Flayer had been slain by a knight in a previous battle, his chest piece now rested on that knights back. Anatolia explained that if Golgotha was slain then all they would have to face would be cultists, easily slain cultists. Her loyal soldiers easily pointed out the flaw in her plan; slaying Golgotha would be far easier said then done. She brushed off their concerns, simply telling them that glory awaited them.

The day of the battle Golgotha, his voice screaming threats and insults, charged ahead of his army slaughtering all who stood in his path. He smashed the great gate of the fortress and charged toward its heart. It was here, just outside of the Magos's last sanctuary that House Castus revealed it's plan. The ten greatest fighters of House Castus appeared and challenged him. The battle lasted for hours. In the end the only god-machine left standing was Anatolia's Baron, armed only with a power sword. Golgotha smashed Anatolia to the ground and then turned upon her fallen compatriots, slaughtering two of them while her knight struggled to get up. Then axe dripping
with the blood of her comrades and mocked her, claiming that she stood alone. With speeds beyond the limits of her Knight she chopped his arm off, replying "You blind monster, I have the hundreds of enemies that this machine has triumphed over fighting alongside me. You fight alongside no one." With these final words she chopped of his head and tore a massive swath of the daemons chest. Ending the battle but setting House Castus on the road to damnation.

==The Great Revenge==

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