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'''House Goliath''', also known as the '''House of Chains'''{{Fn|5d}}, is one of the six houses whom make their home in the "Hive City" part of [[Hive Primus]], the capital of [[Necromunda]]. The Goliath's domains are situated unfavourably in the Hive City, occupying the lowest and harshest areas, close to the Underhive. As a result, most Goliaths are notoriously tough and robust by necessity, and they view everybody else as soft and weak.{{Fn|1}}

==History==

House Goliath was originally created in early [[M40]] by the rulers of Necromunda as a slave race meant to toil in the refineries and forges of of the world. It fell to [[House Van Saar]] and [[House Escher]] to attempt and manipulate a new strain of Humanity for this task. Meant to work in areas where standard humans could not survive, they are nearly [[Abhuman]] in their size and strength yet still mercilessly cunning and resourceful. Their Van Saar and Escher creators believed them to be docile, but in 519.M40 they launched an uprising after the death of Necromunda's ruler [[Alberoth Helmawr]]. The new ruler of Necromunda Lady [[Jeuns Helmawr]] considered a slave race to be inefficient and antiquated and thus the authorities stayed out of the Goliath revolt. In the Hundred Cycle War of Hive Primus, House Van Saar established an alliance with House Goliath and the two worked against House Escher and their allies. It would be several centuries before all Goliaths were free. Even after the Goliaths of Hive Primus established themselves as an independent power, the violence continued. By the middle centuries of the 40th Millennium the Goliaths had taken their place among the Clan Houses, even if many of their peers did not yet fully accept them{{Fn|5a}}

==Images==

Goliath-Leader.jpg|Goliath Leader from the cover art of the 1995' [[Necromunda Rulebook]]

HouseGoliath.jpg|2017 gangers

==Sources==

*{{Endn|1}}: [[Necromunda Rulebook]], pg. 63

*{{Endn|3}}: [https://necromunda.com/gangs/ Necromunda site, 2017] ''(last accessed 6 January 2018)''

*5: [[Necromunda: House of Chains]]:

**{{Endn|5a}}: pgs. 6-11

**{{Endn|5d}}: pgs. 92-97

**{{endn|5e}}: pg. 122

*{{Endn|6}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/07/09/apocrypha-necromundus-the-fist/ Warhammer Community: Apocrypha Necromundus: The Fist (Posted on 09/06/2020)] (Last accessed on 9 July 2020)

*{{Endn|7}}: [[Necromunda: Gangs of the Underhive]], pg. 98 — ''Hangers-on and Brutes''