House Khymere

House Khymere is a Renegade Knight House of Chaos Knights. For ten thousand years the Knights of House Khymere had fought ferociously for the glory of the Imperium. The cracked and burning surface of their world, Surtr’s Wake, was dotted with monolithic statues of the Emperor, towards which the faithful serf classes of the planet prayed for hours every day. Many times did the Nobles answer the summons to join a gathering crusade, and when desperate pleas for aid came from nearby systems, the Knights of Khymere marched with burning wrath against the enemies of Mankind.

House History
When the Cicatrix Maledictum tore across the stars, the Knights of House Khymere were amongst the nightmarish warriors who burst from the Great Rift to prey upon the worlds of the Imperium. Many of these once-valiant engines were hideously twisted, the corruption that had evidently taken hold of them expressed in their grotesque forms and rampant cruelty. In an edict that caused great anguish to those they had once served, the Knights of House Khymere were declared Iconoclast, and Surtr’s Wake -- now shrouded within the Imperium Nihilus -- was marked for destruction.

When the Indomitus Crusade reached Surtr’s Wake, Adeptus Astartes strike forces of the Ultramarines and White Scars Chapters were tasked with launching an execution assault against the planet. But the warriors of House Khymere offered no resistance to the Imperial attack; the nobility -- seemingly untouched by Chaos taint -- could not fathom that they had been deemed traitors, nor could they bring themselves to raise their weapons against those to whom they had sworn loyalty. Instead, the entire household withdrew from the planet. They marched their Knights onto vast fleets of mass conveyance barges and fled from judgement by disappearing into the roiling tumult of the Great Rift.

Lances of Khymere Knights continue to burst into reality along the length of the Great Rift. Where they appear, their wrath is quickly turned upon the defenders of the Imperium. Attempts to treat with them have been met with silence or maddened ramblings, for what nobility once existed in the household is now long gone.

Notable Knights

 * The Burning Sky - The Burning Sky is piloted by Lady Brinhild.
 * Mantle of Ashe - The Mantle of Ashe is piloted by Gelki
 * Scorched Fury - The Scorched Fury is piloted by Uthren.

Notable Personnel

 * Lady Brinhild - Brynhild was present on Surtr’s Wake when the Space Marines attacked without warning. With the rest of her household she had fled into the Cicatrix Maledictum rather than face the shame of fighting those to whom she had sworn loyalty. But after passing into the mass of warp storms, time lost all meaning. For an indeterminable period of time, Brynhild and her Knight, the Burning Sky, fought an endless deluge of nameless, faceless entities wrought of madness and nightmare. Within her own mind she heard the constant screams of her forebears contained inside her Throne Mechanicum, tortured as they were by the overload of empyric energy. With every Chaos being she cut down, her hatred grew further. Eventually, all that remained in both pilot and Knight was a desire for revenge against those they had once served. When at last they emerged from the warp, they set themselves to their murderous task, completely unaware that they and the remainder of their household had been displaced in time by the Great Rift.
 * Gelki - Like most War Dogs of Khymere, Mantle of Ash and its pilot, Gelki, willingly accept their position as subservient thralls, so long as they are driven by their masters to slaughter the Adeptus Astartes Chapters that attacked their household.
 * Uthren - Time and again Uthren and Scorched Fury have demonstrated their remarkable resilience. They are frequently sent charging through raging firestorms or fields of acidic geysers to attack from the angle their enemies least expect.

House Colours
House Khymere's Knights sports Red and Yellow house colours.

House Arms
The arms of House Khymere are a black beast which breathes fire.