House Khomentis

House Khomentis is a Renegade Knight house of Chaos Knights and an Infernal house in service to the Dark Mechanicum. Though once loyal to the Imperium, the house's homeworld of Matarakh was struck by a daemonic invasion in the 33rd Millennium.

During this time House Khomentis was turned to the service of Chaos and the Dark Mechanicum. Its Fallen Nobles are most famous for actively seeking out daemons in the hope of becoming possessed and further corrupting their Knight to the service of the Dark Gods.

House History
House Khomentis arose on the Desert World of Matarakh, and developed a culture in which the predatory creatures that stalked the mountainous dunes were revered as hunting companions. Nobles trained for their Ritual of Becoming by setting out into the sandy wastes without food, water or weapons in pursuit of a Matarakhi beast.

Only after subduing one of these creatures, such as a savage vharrat or winged vultris, would they return to the safety of their keeps. The Nobles believed these animals served as eternal spiritual guides, and so the nature of the beast an aspirant captured determined the nature of the Knight suit to which they would be bonded.

When Matarakh was discovered by the Imperium during the Great Crusade, its indigenous fauna was quickly wiped out. Vast Mechanicum strip mines were constructed to extract the mineral wealth that lay beneath the sands, while towering processing hive cities belched toxins into the atmosphere, rendering the surface of the world inimical to all but the hardiest life forms.

Despite this, the Khomentis Knights pledged themselves to the Omnissiah, and fought boldly for the Imperium throughout the Horus Heresy.

It was not until the 33rd Millennium, when Matarakh was engulfed by a daemonic incursion, that House Khomentis turned to Chaos. No Imperial record exists of the nightmares that befell the world, but the Khomentis Knights now fight for the Dark Mechanicum.

With lances that can spread across an entire continent they close in around their enemy's position, encircling their prey and cutting off all routes of escape.

In place of predatory animals, the Fallen Nobles now seek out daemons as a rite of passage, allowing themselves to become possessed so that the Warp entities can intermingle with their Thrones Mechanicum and the Machine Spirits of their Knight suits.

Over long Terran years these daemons eat away at their hosts, twisting their flesh, mutilating their minds and devouring their souls. The fate of all such pilots is to be pulled from their Thrones at the point that their body collapses into a fleeting Warp fissure.

During this nightmarish implosion, more Chaos entities are loosed into reality, and these too are hunted by new aspirants. Thus is the grotesque cycle of possession allowed to eternally propagate.

Notable Knights
constantly. So strong is its violent appetite that it has been known to consume its own pilot when no other quarry can be found, tearing apart and absorbing the flesh of the enthroned Noble to slake its thirst for death. The gheist of that pilot remains in the Throne Mechanicum, eternally locked in the instant of their own gruesome demise. Their perpetual anguish serves as the perfect inducement for the next warrior who dares bond with the Knight.
 * Prey Seeker - Prey Seeker is a Knight Rampager piloted by Kyoptis. Prey Seeker hunts
 * Tenacious Blade - Tenacious Blade is a Knight Desecrator whose Reaper Chainsword whirs incessantly due to the daemons infesting its pilot Dinatis.
 * Killing Oath - The Killing Oath is a Knight Tyrant piloted by Abesh.

Notable Personnel
She leads her lances to attack in multiple successive waves, hitting the enemy position from all sides. Kyoptis coordinates these assaults in such a way that the bulk of the opposing army is funnelled directly towards her, allowing Prey Seeker to revel in the greater part of the slaughter.
 * Kyoptis - Kyoptis is the most recent pilot of Prey Seeker. Kyoptis has employed all her predatory cunning to provide the Knight Rampager with an unending supply of victims, thereby ensuring that she herself is not devoured.
 * Dinatis - Dinatis is the daemon-possessed pilot of the Tenacious Blade whose inner conflicts causes his Knight Desecrator's Reaper Chainblade to never stop whirring.
 * Abesh - Masters of the persistent hunt, Abesh and the massive Knight Tyrant he pilots, the Killing Oath, will wade through entire war zones in pursuit of their marked target.

House Colours
House Khomentis' Knights sport a red house colour with yellow trim.

House Arms
House Khomentis' heraldry is a daemon head, halved black and white, holding a blank, black-and-white Cog Mechanicum in its mouth.