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Color scheme - Still working on. If you have any ideas go for it! Haha. I'm all ears.

Very General Fluff -

An Inquisitor, Inquistor Ajax Vanitas, is assigned the task of taking a small force of Grey Knights to the eastern fringes of the Eye of Terror to eliminate an infamous Slaaneshian Sorcerer, Keiros Dathraki. He then succeeds, but shortly after learns that he has been reincarnated and continues to wreak havoc around the galaxy. Ajax, who has now proven himself worthy as a leader, gathers even more Grey Knights, enough to form an entire Brotherhood, and continues his conquest around the galaxy. However, to save the innocent lives of the local Astra Militarium forces that aid them in combat, Ajax disguises his Brotherhood of Grey Knights as a normal Adeptus Astartes Chapter. He calls them The Emperor's Executioners and paints their army [in said colour scheme]. They take up home at a Fortress-Monastery on Arx, a small moon that orbits near the eastern portion of the Eye of Terror. To this day, Ajax still leads this small warband of Grey Knights. under the disguise of The Emperor's Executioners, with the sole purpose of once and for all slaying Keiros Dathraki.

All C&C welcomed and appreciated! Also, give me ideas for Color Schemes! (Pics would be a major bonus)

You say that they are disguised as regular SM, does this mean they would use the GK codex but use a SM modified kit?

It sounds similar for the back story of my GK army. It is lead by an Inquisitor of Ordo Malleus who is obsessed with destroying Chaos and he is of Puritan disposition specifically Amalathian. This has lead him not to use henchman at all but relies on a contingent of Grey Knights with him. The Inquisitor makes regular trips back to Titan to exchange out the Grey Knights but there is a Justicar that stays with him believing in the Inquisitors mission with the utmost faith and keeps the Inquisitor from going Radical. He is hesitant when the Inquisitor makes the contact he does with the Eldar of Ulthwe but realizes how valuable they have been in the destruction of Chaos.

The main problem I have with this is that Grey Knights are highly indoctrinated with their minds wiped and replanted to be a Grey Knight. That is how they do what they do so well. This makes Titan firmly implanted in their minds as their home, when they are not out on missions given divine purpose, they prefer to be back on Titan. Alaric from the GK omnibus even goes back to Titan in his mind when under mental distress in order to cope better with the situation. It happens in the third book and if you have read it, you will know what I am talking about, otherwise I don't want to spoil it. This is what bothers me when people want to make "splinter" factions of Grey Knights, IMO they would never do this with how much they are brain washed to be a GK. To say to them that they would be separated from Titan and their brothers to form this splinter group is something that I don't think a Grey Knight would do and would be highly resistant to. It's something that they would resist an Inquisitor from doing and take the time they need to take care of their own which is demonstrated in Mortarion's Heart when the Supreme Grand Master is slain and the remaining Grand Masters gather to do something about the leadership of the Grey Knights. Draigo basically tells the Inquisitor he can screw off until they are done.

Ultimately, it is your decision and you do have the spirit of a good story in the spirit of a good Inquisitorial story, I am just saying that it may not exactly jive with the Grey Knight canon. They just aren't like other SM chapters who go on to forge other Chapters because of differing ideologies or mission. It's why the GK only have Battle Brothers with the Inquisition and the Legion of the Damned, everyone else in the Imperium is Allies of Convience.

Unless your abadon or a primarch would they deploy a entire brotherhood of 100 grey knights to hunt down one figure?

Seem!s a lot of resources to deploy for one individual

@Envihon,

1) I would field them as Codex: Grey Knights.

2) I completely agree about them not wanting to leave Titan, but I assumed that an Inquisitor may have enough pull, so to speak, to be able to "borrow" some of his own Knights for a while

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I should note,
I don't really want to re-write the GK fluff here, I love most of it, my main objective is to come up with a semi-plausible reason to be able to paint my Grey Knights a color other than silver! I know, a lot of work just to be able to justify the color of my models, but I feel as if it is somewhat important. Also, I really get a 500% increase of enjoyment when my army feels like it has a purpose. Narrative campaigns are virtually the only way I play 40k, as it is what I see the most fun.
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@jhe90,

I completely agree. I suppose I didn't think about the plausibility of that until you mentioned it. Maybe I can make the Chaos Sorcerer lead an entire war band, whose threat to some of the outer Imperium planets is fairly large. Obviously, the Inquisition would want to be able to stop as many daemons and heretics possible, and this conquest would surely do that.

Well just make threat bigger, a extremely powerful chaos sourcer, maybe even a fallen eldar leading it, hugelky powerful boosted by dark gods.

A warbasnd who maybe possess a powerful chaosd articfact, somthing of value dead or captured.

Somthing worthy of the effect and rescorces deployed.


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Maybe bring in impirial assins or inquisition forces too, like there elite storm troopers,

@jhe90,

I love the idea of a Fallen Eldar leader being a co-leader of the warband. And I especially like the idea of the war band possessing a Chaos Artifact or something like that.

Just exaggerate it, 40k is always over the top, have some fun. With it :-)

Artifacts, deamonic weapons, maybe parts to a powerful artifact broken long ago, a artifact that greatly enhances power, anything you like :-)
Could be fallen eldar corsair, turned to chaos to escape sanesh, saw chaos as path to save people then just fell fully into darkness, lits of options!


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If your going full Ott, a artifact rurmoured to be from same source or type as what was built into golden trhone, aiciant xeno in origin, maybe that some more extreme types believe could heal emperor :-)

Interesting ideas, haha. But yes, I do believe that Over The Top and Warhammer 40,000 seem to go very well together.

Yeah, just have fun with it, its your fluff so you can just do what you like, update it if you manage to make it work, in intrigued now :-)

I believe the fluff points to Chaos Eldar being some of the most powerful of all the Chaos Minions. Imagine a Farseer, a mastery level 3 psyker, one of the most powerful psykers in the galaxy. All it takes is training, any and all Eldar can be a Farseer if they 'unlock' their psy-potential. Next imagine that these Farseers hold back their true power for fear of inviting Daemons. Finally, imagine an Eldar x10 that powerful, who has no fear of using their full potential because they are already one with the Daemons, taking in all the extra power gained from working with Daemons and being Slaanesh's favorite toy.

A Chaos Eldar would be shockingly powerful, Alpha + Level at least, this would easily justify any resources the Imperium has to put a stop to one. Any old Alpha Level psykers are the kind of Psykers that get every Grey Knight within a segmentum put on stand by, and they don't even know what they are doing!

Is that Justification enough for you

Now that's over the top, and perfect. 100 grey knights sounds small deployment to counter such threat.

@ALEXisAWESOME,
As what jhe90 said, that truly is over-the-top! Ha. I love it!

Honestly, if you want to paint them a different color, I say just do it and not worry about it. There are plenty of examples online of people coloring GK different colors because they want to. For me, I just really like the silver.

I did something similar with Eldar by making what I call a purity sect from Ulthwe because I really liked Ulthwe and their psykers but I wanted to have them be silver like my GK since they were going to be Allies so I made them the purity sect of Ulthwe and they symbolize this by painting their stuff silver everywhere normal Ulthwe has bonewhite. The effect is kind of cool.

It isn't just about the color, it is about having a background to my army for when I play Narrative Campaigns and such. I just really get more enjoyment out of having armies that have fun and interesting fluff to them.

its a big galaxy I say go for it

Big doesn't even begin to encompass it, eh?

Millions of worlds, trillions of people.

Not hard to justify somthing . :-)

I think it could work. SM are unknown enough for them to get away with it.

That is true even with how familiar we as players are with SM and things like the Inquisition and the GK, the regular Imperial citizen would see a SM and just be astonished about being something they thought was just a myth let alone a GK or an off shoot of a GK. I use this fact to justify why my Inquisitor can work so "openly" with a contingent of GK instead of henchman and that is because all a regular Imperial sees is an Astartes and that is enough for them. Its if and when they start asking questions that my Inquisitor would have to do something about it.

With that being said, what you plan to do is basically what I did with my Ulthwe off-shoot, you want the flavor of the parent canon but make it your own and that is what you are doing. In the giant machine that is the IoM even a 100 GK could easily be forgotten and absorbed with enough time. We forget that GK are as big as a regular chapter so 100 GK however substantial we think it is, is still small in the greater sense of everything. So go for it man, make it your own in every aspect you need. This is your enjoyment of the game.

Thanks for the support!

Thanks to whoever moved this to the right thread! Sorry, I'm a bit new to DakkaDakka. Won't happen again!

Hey guys,
Here is my general fluff I've been working on. All C&C appreciated!

Try this out. http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Exorcists#.U30qy3bb7zo

The Exorcists are a chapter founded with the gene-seed of the Grey Knights. I use Exorcists in my Coteaz list and run them with the Grey Knight rules.

I don't really like Exorcists, actually. The whole point of having my own fluff is to have something original, and ultimately more fun! (For me, at least)

I really like the narrative fluff you posted to support your army. A powerful artifact, a resurrecting baddie, and a cross galaxy man-hunt is a pretty gnarly way to start a GK alternate. My only suggestion would be to tweak Ajax's influence when Sokrates selects him. Having a fresh, un-proven face lead an army of elite daemon hunters on a quest to hunt down a powerful psyker to recover an inquisitorial heirloom and fulfill a prayer-vow to the Emperor seems a little far-fetched, even for 40k standards. No one would give up that kind of vendetta to someone else with so much potential to mess it up. Maybe have him recently returned from his first successful mission where he did exceptionally well against a foe that previously eluded other Inquisitors. Or an Inquisitor who had been personally trained by Sokrates, and given his first chance to prove himself. Just some ideas, I'm really enjoying the story so far (and hopefully more =D).

@Pyramarch,
I agree as well. I just couldn't figure out anything so I went with that. (Lame, I know.)
This is my first actual fluff that I've taken care and time into writing, but I'm glad you like it. I'll revise it for sure and then post it again!

Do you have any other ideas I could add to my fluff? I feel like it is a bit lacking, only being three pages long.

Maybe expand on what the Scepter of Sokrates does, and why it's loss is so important (more than just losing a family heirloom). Also expand on the Sons of Ulthunas a little more to give your primary antagonist some more background, giving him more weight in the story of your chapter. I think you have a solid start, and keeping a running fluff based on your more impressive and tide-turning games will really fill out your army in the long run. I'm working on starting up a custom chapter based on a vanilla marine/grey knight alliance of sorts, and I like your fluff approach better than I did mine lol. The pictures were a cool touch as well.

Thanks for the great ideas!
And yeah, I find that having pretty pictures and a nice format typically makes everything seem a lot nicer in the end. Google was most definitely my friend
Hmm.

I'd really like the community to be more involved in this, as it makes me feel like I can justify having my own fluff a bit more. ("Well Mr. Grumpy Opponent, this wasn't just my idea, I had the community help me out!") So, do any of you guys have any ideas as to what the Scepter of Sokrates could do? Or what the Sons of Ulthunas could have done? I really would love it! Pryamarch, you've been a great help so far, so I owe you my thanks. If you have any ideas I'd love to hear them! And if you want any help with your fluff, you know where to find me

I think as an inquisitorial artifact, having some ability to locate or hide psychic profiles would be a huge help to an inquisitor, and worth vast resources to reclaim if fallen into chaos hands. Would also have a cool fluff possibility in the hunt for his reincarnation. Maybe something that rends souls with the body, making it harder to come back feom the warp. Artifacts are always fun to come up w crazy and badass powers, especially when said artifact warrants a brotherhood to get it back!

If you wouldn't mind skimming over mine, your fluff approach could really help flesh out my backstory.

My fluff wip