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===Overview===
These are [[Artificer]]s that are inducted from [[Knight Worlds]]. Whenever a cargo ship arrives from a [[forge world]] to collect food and resources, it will also take a small party of apprentices from the Knight world. These apprentices are drawn from all levels of society and could be the third son of a [[Noble]], or the offspring of a lowly farmer. Over the course of their decade-long apprenticeship on the forge world, they are trained in the skills needed to maintain suits of Knight armour and then returned to their planet of origin as a fully trained Sacristan. Unbeknownst to the Imperial Knights, however, the trainees are also indoctrinated into the [[Cult Mechanicus]], providing a network of agents who can further the interests of the Tech-Priests.{{Fn|1}}
Sacristans are not true tech-priests, in a sense, they do not delvers or researchers. They aren't educated in the deeper mysteries of the Machine God, like a tech-priest. Instead, they are primarily trained in repairs and maintenance. They are forbidden from investigating the workings of the Knights they care for. Doing so would be a terrible insult to the ancient creators, and a violation of the ancestors spirits within.{{Fn|3b}} Sacristans will sometimes pilot Knights for short distances to fulfill their maintenance duties. They do so with the manual controls of a Knight, not entirely dissimilar from piloting a [[Sentinel]], but note they do not take on the [[Ritual of Becoming]] to perform these simply tasks.{{Fn|3c}}
The local artificers that maintained the Knight armour during the Age of Strife had already established themselves as a vitally important part of each knightly house, and the training they have received from the Adeptus Mechanicus has only served to increase their status. From their first foundation, the Sacristans quickly styled themselves as a priesthood for the half-forgotten mysteries of the technology that they knew, and as their power grew, the relationship between them and the knightly houses shifted and changed. Where in the past, the technicians were seen as mere subjects or vassals, the Sacristans soon began to speak with one voice, and by threatening to remove their services from any house that would not heed their advice, they soon became almost as influential in knightly society as the Nobles themselves.{{Fn|1}}
*[[Gregor Ormond]] - Formerly in service to [[House Cadmus]] and trained on [[Gryphonne IV]]. After the Fall of Gryphonne IV, fall he joined [[Explorator]] [[Talin Sherax|Sherax]]'s crew aboard the ''[[Peregrinus]]''. Gregor continues to serve House Cadmus in service to the disgraced Cadmus knight [[Edgar Lorristan]] and his new steed the former Cadmus [[Knight Armiger]] ''[[Vortigern]]''. All three would be brought together during Gryphonne IV's fall, bound to the Gryphonnen diaspora by chance.
*[[Lucius Irynblud]] - Formerly in service to [[House Drakkus]] until their destruction at the hands of a large [[Khorne]] warband. Shortly afterwards he would go into service of the last remaining member of the House, now turned [[Freeblade]], [[Vortigan]].
*[[Tannah Gwynne]] - Freeblade sacristan to the Knight Armiger ''[[Jester]]''.{{Fn|3a}}
===Vehicles===
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Imperial Knights (6th Edition)]], pgs. 16-17
*{{Endn|2}}: [https://www.games-workshop.com/en-FI/Sector-Mechanicus-Sacristan-Forgeshrine-new Games Workshop Sacristan Forgeshrine] (last accessed 6/4/2021)
*3: [[Assassinorum: Kingmaker (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|3a}}: Prologue
**{{Endn|3b}}: Chapter 15
**{{Endn|3c}}: Chapter 17
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