Editing Order of the Ermine Mantle (section)

===General Information===

The Order of the Ermine Mantle has their origin as the protectors of important members of the Ordo Famulus. While they would grow into a full military force, they still tend to excel at operations that require precise application of force and often tact. Quick strikes, bodyguard missions and urban operations they all excel at. Compared to other Ordos, they tend to be much more reasonable and worldly, which helps them work better with local nobility and population. Their colors are grey and silver, and ermine frills, scarves and capes are very common. According to Canoness Konstanzia their reasonableness puts them at odds with the Mechanicus as apparently putting some ballistic glass in front of the hapless cunts driving their Penitent Engines is "potential tech heresy" for which they "hate her guts".

The Shrine World of the Order is known as Tomis. It is, apart from being a headquarters of the Ecclesiarchy in its sector, a breadbasket world noted for its extensive forests and farmlands, making it a popular place for nobility to set up operations - which suits the Order well. Contrary to this, the capital, Kerys, is a massive metropolis. It is located on one of the more colder, barren areas of the planet so its pollution does not unduly effect the areas of the nobility. The large population of animals, particularly imported mammalians, means that there is a brisk trade in hunting tourism and the fur trade. A healthy agricultural sector also makes it a prime producer of expensive foodstuffs and particularly alcoholic beverages. Much of the planets surface is in fact organized as nature preserves. Some of these are used to house species from planets that have died out elsewhere in the Imperium due to their planets suffering Exterminatus. Some are used as the hunting preserves of the nobility. The hunting preserves with the most dangerous game are reserved for usage by the Order of the Ermine mantle for training, after many sisters were lost in a particularly grueling campaign against the Tyranids, and it was determined that the Order needed to heavily drill against large monstrous targets.

The Order has working relationships with the Order of the Black Sepulcher and the Order of the Golden Dawn, two other Orders Militant. They also have a good relationship with the Red Templars Space Marines.