House Irostus Xo
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| Name: | House Irostus Xo |
| Affiliation: | Imperium (Adeptus Mechanicus)[1] |
| Knight World: | Wrath's Fall[1] |
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House Irostus Xo was a Questor Mechanicus Knight House of the Imperium.[1]
History
It was the most prominent Knight House on Wrath's Fall and Irostus Xo's Knights were considered to be a mailed gauntlet of the Omnissiah's will. The House's position was also reinforced by ancient technologies Irostus Xo had protected within its citadel, before the Age of Strife began. These included weapon systems, cogitator arrays, neuroempathic circuitry and other devices whose functions were not known. It was because of these treasures that the House was granted the presence of Tech-Priests from the Forge World of Mars, whose numbers increased as time wore on. Their prime conduit to access Irostus Xo's technologies were through the House's Forge Master; the title was held by Baroness Prime Klydia Irosta when disaster struck Wrath's Fall.[1]
It was in the wake of the Great Rift's creation that the Knight World was invaded by an armada of heretics and mutants. Though all of Wrath's Fall's Knight Houses fought gallantly, they could not defeat the invaders and Irostus Xo sent out a request for help. However, the Great Rift's birth had left the Imperium besieged by numerous foes and the House's pleas for aid would not be answered in time to save Wrath's Fall. With their world now doomed and Irostus Xo's technologies at risk of being lost to the Imperium, the House's Princeps agreed to the MArtian Tech-Priests' desperate plan to save its most valuable artefacts. This resulted in the Tech-Priests and Irostus Xo's Sacristans installing Klydia's Knight Defender with numerous devices, while the House's remaining Knights and serf soldier companies held back the advancing invaders. The priests worked as fast as their sacred tenets allowed them to, but soon Irostus Xo's citadel began to be overrun. Before it fell though, Klydia escaped aboard the Tech-Priests' Orbital Conveyor to Mars, along with the most senior members of its priesthood on Wrath's Fall, the Baroness Prime's Sacristan cabals and a company of her House's serf soldiers. Shortly afterwards though, Wrath's Fall was lost to the Imperium and all of its Knight Houses were destroyed by the invaders.[1]
While Klydia later successfully arrived on Mars, its Tech-Priests discovered that Irostus Xo's technologies could not be removed from her Knight. They had fully embedded themselves into it and had greatly increased the suit's power. This also impacted the Knight's Throne Mechanicum and the former Baroness Prime's desire to fulfil her Princeps' last protocol of defending Irostus Xo's artefacts was reinforced every time she used the Knight suit. Klydia now serves the Adeptus Mechanicus as a Freeblade and has become a guardian of not only her House's surviving technologies, but also to every artefact that the Mechanicus reveres.[1]
Known Knight Suits
- Aereus - Knight Defender piloted by Klydia, which was formally called the Opus Gatekeeper[1]
Known Members
- Klydia Irosta - Former Baroness Prime and Forge Master[1]
See also
Sources
- 1: White Dwarf 523, pg. 12 — A Tapestry of Honour
