Editing Imperial Knight (section)

====Freeblades====
Sometimes individual Knights detach themselves from Noble Houses entirely. When a Knight is dishonored, shunned, decides to fuck off for personal reasons, or is otherwise made unable to continue life within the Household, they become Freeblades and ply the stars alone (dragging their large pool of retainers along to maintain the suit, naturally). These knights break out to either quest across the Imperium or settle down outside of the ritual of their Household and protect the citizens of whichever worlds they end up on.
*'''Amaranthine''' - Never ever speaks or leaves his suit. [[Inquisitor]]s chase him around trying to have a word about his loyalties.
*'''Auric Arachnus''' - Somehow connected to the [[Ultramarines]]; known for slaying a [[Dominatrix]] during the battle for [[Macragge]] during the First Tyrannic War. Exactly who they are and where they came from is unknown. The name itself roughly means "Golden Spider" - three guesses as to its colour and heraldry?
*'''Crimson Reaper''' - Freak who wears a red and black face mask; he's rumoured to be a [[Vampire|blood sucking mutant]]. Pilots a Knight-Errant with a reaper's scythe on one shoulder and the house heraldry blacked out. Is very prone to collateral damage, merrily trampling allied troops underfoot or [[Marines Malevolent|blowing them up along with the enemy.]]
*'''Living Litany''' - A grey, black, and orange Knight Gallant who constantly voxes droning sermons in High Gothic, only changing into loud chants when fighting. He was always a bit bonkers, and in retrospect his fall to becoming the [[Chaos Knight|Dreadblade]] '''Litany of Destruction''' was predictable.
*'''Gerantius ''The Forgotten Knight''''' - Maintains a secret mountain base on Alaric Prime, though his planet is shared by other lesser knight houses. Thought to be [[undead]] and [[Necromancer|in command of spirits]]. Days which he chooses to fight upon are regarded as ill-omens. Rules for him are in [[White Dwarf]], making him a Seneschal-level knight with ''It Will Not Die'' and the ability to both run & shoot in the same phase.
*'''Justice''' - A Freeblade connected to the [[Iron Hands]] who specialises in slaying traitor knights, once taking down seven of House Drakon's Knights in a single battle. The Iron Hands are real tight-lipped on where he came from or why he's with them, but [[Heresy|we can probably make an educated guess]].
*'''Obsidian Knight''' - Fought in the [[Damocles Crusade|Damocles campaign]] along with House Terryn on the planet Agrellan. - Has his own rules in Warzone: Damocles making him an absolute WS/BS 6 [[Awesome|badass]] who hates [[Tau]] with a passion.
*'''Mydos Almighty''' - Hails from a world that was done in by greed-driven civil wars between its Knight Houses, which it fled to actually fight. Rather hypocritically, this Knight is entirely bedecked in fucking GOLD.
*'''White Warden''' - The last man standing for House Degallio from the planet of [[Lawful Stupid|Alaric Prime]] ''(same as Gerantius)'', and subsequently made the scapegoat for the planet's losses against the Red WAAAGH!. Known for his cracking moustache and his willingness to stand up for ridiculous laws. Has recently fought alongside the Salamanders in the defence of Nocturne on several occasions.
*'''Tellurus''' - Only living member of a fallen house; refuses to be seen without armor. Tellurus fought alongside both House Cadmus and House Hawkshroud on Vondrak. ''"...towering and monstrous, a giant of adamantium and fury. With a booming cannon and a roaring chainblade for arms, it was clad in armour the colour of a winter’s sky. Blue and cold, chevroned with streaks of black and amber. A bright gonfalon streamed from its left shoulder. A rearing horse with a fluted horn at its forehead."'' - from ''Knights of the Imperium'' by Graham McNeill. [[Samus|Turns out to be a girl.]]
*'''Domeenito Ohashi''' - Imperial Knight who got stuck on a primitive world under attack by the Orks. [[Awesome|In spite of being sworn to go back to his world of origin, he decides to go Freeblade and fights back the Greenskins, becoming a hero to the population until receiving]] [[Imperial Guard]] reinforcements. [[Awesome|Since then he has wandered across the galaxy helping the Imperium to crush all kind of xenos raiders in the hopes of getting back home eventually.]]
*'''Dyros Kamata ''The Scorched Knight''''' - A Knight whose rider apparently severed all ties with his house and burned off all his livery by walking into a volcano. He eventually learned that his dad was a corrupt prick, so he killed the old man before going off again. Was later killed by Ork bombardment, which royally pissed off [[Ragnar Blackmane]].
*'''Sir Hekhtur''' - A Freeblade from Randoryn Alpha and the last loyal member of House Cereban, he was enslaved for a time by the [[Iron Warriors]] but escaped being corrupted with the rest of his captured household when his Knight Preceptor ''Canis Rex'' [[awesome|broke free of its confinement and blasted its way to its pilot under the influence of its machine spirit]]. He now fights to free any other Imperial citizens enslaved by Chaos as he was, earning him the epithet of "The Chainbreaker". Appears as the first true named character for the Imperial Knights. Like [[Antaro Chronus]], Sir Hekhtur can keep fighting even if his Knight is taken down thanks to his trusty archaeotech pistol.
*'''Kalena Maxus, The Stormwalker''' - A Dominus Knight Castellan, she was ordered to leave her House to die by the High King of Kamdor when it became clear they would be overrun by Chaos during the opening of the [[Great Rift]]. She now haunts the outer reaches of the Rift, making boots out of the asses of Chaos forces.
*'''Manifest Vengeance''' - An Armiger Knight Warglaive who is a [[space Wolves|renowned tracker]], also looks like a [[Harlequin]].
*'''Crimson Death''' - An odd Knight of indeterminate type, though it is described as being reminiscent of a Cerastus Knight Atropos, with a large shield generator mounted in a hump on it's back. Wears a bastardised version of House Krast's colors, and has a bunch of servitors mounted into the shield hump to perform battlefield repairs. It is piloted by the unprounouncably-named Sire J'madus Hw'ss, who has joined with other Freeblades to continue the Emperor's duty across the stars.
*'''Crucible of Wrath''' - Former member of a Mechanicum-aligned house; something he saw while assisting the [[Dark Angels]] on a mission rattled him to the point where he joined with their 5th Company afterwards. Usually seen fighting alongside two other Freeblade Knights, becoming part of a team known as ''The Three Witnesses''.
*'''Madrigal, "The Night's Watchman"''' - Last known survivor of a [[Daemon|daemonic]] incursion that turned his House's homeworld into a pseudo-Daemon World of permanent night, where the bodies of its murdered people sometimes rise up as undead. Patrols the remnants of its cities and forests, fighting against the Warp-risen undead and preventing any daemons from appearing. Totally not [[A Song of Ice and Fire|a one-man Night Watch in spess]].
*'''The Firebrand''' - Hot-blooded asshole who got most of his House killed due to his awful tactics and [[Khorne|excessive aggression]], then was forced into exile as a Freeblade by the few surviving members when they realized the losses taken had doomed them. Randomly shows up wherever the fighting is thickest to start kicking the shit out of enemy forces; whether he's doing this to atone over [[Meme|accidentally]] his house or hasn't learned a thing is [[Skub|a matter of debate]].
*'''Pale Reckoning''' - [[Awesome|Killed a fucking]] [[Daemon Prince]] [[Awesome|in single combat]]. Despite how epic that sounds, [[fail|we don't know how and they haven't been mentioned since]].
* '''Penitent Blade''' - Supposedly the last member of House Felcarn, who got corrupted by Chaos and were subsequently [[Blam|wiped out]] by the Inquisition. Has a [[RAGE|massive hateboner for Chaos as a result]]; they're best known for wiping out all the Chaos Cults responsible for their House going down the clogs, then taking to the stars to keep fucking up Chaos assholes.
* '''Retribution Incarnate''' - Knight Errant that's been around since the days of the [[Macharian Crusade]], at the earliest. Supposedly the last survivor of House Reinharn, who were ambushed and almost completely destroyed by the [[Alpha Legion]] during the last few years of the Crusade; really, ''really'' hates Chaos and the Alpha Legion in particular, to the point where it's almost exclusively seen hunting down [[Chaos Space Marines]].
* '''Luk Kar Chimaeros, "The Knight of Ashes"''' - Former firstborn son and expected successor to House Chimaeros. Got too chummy with High King Danial of the rival House Draconis, resulting in his own parents ordering his death when Chimaeros went traitor. Unsurprisingly [[Rage|very pissed off at his brethren's betrayal]], he helped fight them off then had his Knight Errant fixed up and renamed (even changing the livery to a Chimera being impaled by a sword - subtle, GW!) before beginning to hunt down the corrupted members of his House - starting with his mother, now revealed as a powerful [[Tzeentch]]-aligned witch.
* '''Vortigan Drakkus''' - Aforementioned last survivor of House Drakkus. More on him below.