House Walkur

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House Walkur
Household Grade	Secundus
Warden Domain	Tannhäuser
Cognomen	The Valkyries, The Queens of the Storm
Allegiance	Loyalist

Fall like rain; rise like fire.

House Walkur is an esteemed Imperial knight house comprised solely of women. The house is famous for its unorthodox style of deployment and the unique Valkyrie knights that permit it.

History

Foundation and the Age of Strife

As with all the knightly houses, House Walkur's roots date back to the Age of Technology. In an age where ghastly perils hid in the shadows of the worlds that fed humanity, warriors clad themselves in titanic battlesuits to fight off xenos and rebels alike, and formed highly traditional and militaristic feudal societies in their domains. This is the pattern House Walkur followed, with two notable peculiarities: the abnormal modifications of the house's knight suits for low-altitude air-drop; and the incompatibility of males with the thrones mechanicus of the house. This rapid strike capability, combined with an all-female force, led to House Walkur's adoption of the name "valkyrie."

Valkyries of House Walkur

The woman-warriors of House Walkur are no ordinary knights: they are valkyries who fly into battle bringing doom and lightning. The valkyries of House Walkur moved swiftly with assistance from the skald sky transport, deploying directly from ship to surface on top of the enemy. Entering combat immediately, the valkyries have much work to do: they must eliminate enemy anti-armor forces to ensure their own survival, then deal with the rest of the rabble to ensure their allies'.

No normal knight suit could take such a fall without its legs buckling under the force, so a special model, the Valkyrie Knight, is required. Using multiple rockets in the shoulders, the Valkyrie Knight can fall from upwards a kilometer's height. However, dropping into range of enemy antitank weaponry is dangerous no matter how fast you deploy, and so besides House Walkur's careful deployment, the valkyries also rely on the suites of secondary weaponry their knights are equipped with-lascannons, grenade launchers, flamers, melta bombs, multimeltas, or even missile racks-to destroy materiel before it destroys them.

Shield-Brothers

No warrior can stand on their own; even knights need men-at-arms to support them. Dropping alongside valkyries with grav-chutes are the shield-brothers of Tannhäuser. Whereas the valkyries are merely headstrong, the shield-brothers are truly insane, fighting against foes often beyond them with their lords, going where knights cannot reach to dislodge entrenched enemies in hand-to-hand combat.

Tannhäuser

Tannhäuser
Segmentum	Pacificus
Population	1,000,000,000
Temperature	Temperate

Tannhäuser, homeworld of House Walkur, is an agri-world in Subsector Nibelung.

Knights of the /tg/ Heresy
Imperial Knights
Households	House Accolon - Order of Bahri - House Goda - House Walkur
Characters	Arturia Eld - Lord of Bones
Chaos Knights
Households	House Castus
Characters	The Four