Editing House Accolon (section)

==Matériel Strength==

At the outbreak of the Heresy Household records have that there were two hundred and thirty seven tested Line Knights split over three dozen different Household Detachments across the Imperium serving with a dozen expeditionary forces, with another nineteen newly raised Aspirants and an unknown number of former Freeblades scattered among that number. Of all those Knights, only three would survive the Heresy to return to Cattegirn. Losses were compounded by the fact that the moment one world was secured by the Loyalists, the Knights would move on to confront the nearest traitors to their current position, and refused to stop this cycle of moving and fighting until all the Knights were destroyed. Additionally, several detachments serving alongside traitor forces were brought down before they knew the extent of the treachery going on around them.

The Knights of Accolon used every type and make of Knight with no preference, each Knight choosing his make of mount based on his own temperament. It is known that numbers of the Mechanicum Knights, the Maegaera and Stryx were comparatively rare compared to Cerastus and Questoris Knights. Additionally the Household had a large number of Transport vessels for moving the Household detachments around, which would come in great use when the Heresy broke out.

===Ranks of Accolon===

* '''Dux Bellorum''': The head of the Knights of Accolon. The name translates roughly to ‘Duke of Battles’ or ‘Duke of Dukes’. As per tradition, there will be no King until the end times and the return of Arturia.

* '''Thegn''': The Seneschal equivalent within the Household, Thegns are the most veteran and seasoned of all the Knights.

* '''Dux''': A Line Knight of the Household, equivalent to the Scion rank used elsewhere.

* '''Gedriht''': Veteran Knights who have yet to advance to the rank of Thegn, Gedriht are the solid heart and the forlorn hope of the Accolon Households.

* '''Geoguth''': roughly translating to the Knights Dolorous or Uhlan of other Households, Geoguth are characterised as 'up for it,' comprising the younger and braver Knights ready to prove their prowess.

* '''Guguth''': The ‘Destroyers’ of the Household, Guguth are the ones tasked with destroying tanks, buildings and smashing all before them. They are a humourless lot with none of the flash of the Geoguth or the tempered steel of the Gedriht.

==='The Oortlanders'===

House Accolon was built on the backs of former enemies of the King that upon defeat swore allegiance to her and became part of her Household. And so a tradition of allowing outsiders who had proven themselves to join with the Knights of Accolon, don the blue, white and silver and become one with their new brothers was born, one which would continue down the ages. Hundreds of Freeblades would be drawn to the Household and would set aside their masterless lives to join with the sons of Cattegirn. Most famous of all of these was [[Abdul Al-Sherar]], but many others such as Lucius Hybernius, Vonnaghut and Uzhankov Yaroslavich were also sons of other Households who willingly took up the marks of Accolon for their own.