Order of Bahri
| The Thrall-Knights of the Order of Bahri | ||
|---|---|---|
| Household Grade | Primus | |
| Warden Domain | Iteru (primaris rights, Maryannu Brotherhood recognised as peers) | |
| Cognomen | The Slave Knights of Iteru | |
| Allied Legions/Forge Worlds | Bound in servitude to Al-Sherar, terms of service led to co-operation with Legio Antsar and Fifth Legion | |
| Allegiance | Fedelitas Constantus | |
This page details people, events, and organisations from the /tg/ Heresy, a fan re-working of the Warhammer 40,000 Universe. See the /tg/ Heresy Timeline and Galaxy pages for more information on the Alternate Universe.
The Order of Bahri was a powerful Knight Household forced to serve the Alim of the Forge World Al-Sherar. The Order was best-known as the original home of the mighty Freeblade, "Lord of Bones".
History
Before the coming of the Great Crusade, the Knight World Iteru had been ruled for thousands of years by the Alim, the tech-priests of Al-Sherar. Their local potentate, accorded the rank of Kazi-alkudar, enforced the loyalty of the Scions of the Order of Bahri through sinister augmentations. What libraries remain on Iteru are kept by the "Mahars" of the Maryannu Brotherhood, a lesser Household kept under looser controls.
The Mahar chronicles indicate that Iteru was settled during the Age of Technology, perhaps ten thousand years before the Great Crusade. The Knight World had certainly been colonized long enough to build up a substantial population and local industry before the emergence of the Knightly Orders in late M.23, as is evident from at least twelve different Houses being named in the early Mahar chronicles.
But the Alim have their own histories. Contrary to the tales of the Maryannu Brotherhood, who hold that their fraternity escaped slavery through fierceness, Al-Sherar's records show that the Mahars submitted without a fight and were given the most lenient of terms.
Matériel Strength
Assured of the loyalty of the Order, the Alim were unsparing in their material support. Even before Al-Sherar's industrial might was swollen by the shackling of lesser Forge Worlds and Industrial Worlds, the Order of Bahri possessed hundreds of Knight Armours.