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'''House Helmawr''' was the ruling [[Noble House]] of the planet [[Necromunda (planet)|Necromunda]] until their recent [[Fallen House|fall]] to [[House Aranthus]] at the end of the 41st MilleniumMillennium.
Also called the Ruling House, [[Imperial House]], Royal House of Necromunda, Guardians of all Necromunda or Lords of the Spire, they used a hereditary system of succession, with the leader of the house (styled Imperial Commander Lord Helmawr, Adeptus of the Imperium of Man, and Guardian of Necromunda in the Holy Name of the [[Emperor of Mankind|Undying Emperor]]) serving as the [[Planetary Governor]] of the planet, in effect personifying Necromunda to the Imperium and representing the Imperium to the inhabitants of Necromunda. Occupying the very top of the feudal Necromundan hierarchy, the [[Adeptus Terra]] left him to do as he pleased so long as he fulfilled his feudal obligations to the Imperium and maintained the planet's production capacity.{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|2a}}{{Fn|2b}}{{Fn|3}}{{Fn|4}}
This was proven true for [[Gerontius Helmawr]]'s Trueborn, when the [[Great Darkness]] began on the [[Hive World]]. By the end of the upheaval, only eight of Gerontius' thirty Trueborn heirs survived and one was his daughter [[Haera Helmawr|Haera]]{{Fn|10c}}, who succeeded her Father as [[Planetary Governor]]. This was after she [[Haera's Bloody Banquet|killed]] several of her siblings, in order to secure the title for herself.{{Fn|11}}
The territory and assets of rival [[House Aranthus]] were dissolved by Annyr Helmawr himself several centuries ago after a plague swept through their population making them so vulnerable and under resourced that their spiraling debts effectively led to their destruction.{{Fn|5}} This act would be reversed in kind during the 42nd MilleniumMillennium, when [[Ozostium Aranthus]] escaped custody to take hold of Necromunda in the wake of severe infighting between Gerontius's successors. As a result, House Helmawr is now considered a Fallen House themselves. {{Fn|14}}
==Imperial Obligations==
