Turning Grey Knights into KAYOSS!

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**Selym**

Rihgu wrote:
Well, I might as well share my own Grey Knights (of Malice!!) fluff. And to be fair, I came up with this idea before I had heard of anything like it (and originally used it to troll) not sure if that makes me a progenitor or if me/all the people I told just hadn't heard of it yet.

Basically, if you read the section on the Chambers of Purity, it is pretty clear that something BIG and NASTY is down there, something that only the most incorruptible of the incorruptible Grey Knights are allowed to know about and are responsible with keeping locked away.
For me, that THING is Malal. After being summoned by the Sons of Malice, he was eventually defeated by the Grey Knights. Being a Chaos God, even a minor one, meant he was unslayable, so the Grey Knights did the next best thing - they locked him away in one of the most protected places in the Universe.
Normally that would be the end of it. Sealed away, forgotten, blablabla, but... he extended a deal to the Grey Knights. He hated Chaos just as much as they did... and they were very pragmatic... so he gave the Purifiers his blessing in exchange for their services. He makes them good at killing Chaos, they kill Chaos, and, whenever possible, Imperials (ie, the purgings)

I didn't go so far as to make them "fallen", but they do help Malal in exchange for his goodies. They still keep him locked away and bound, and kill his worshipers when they find him (which brings him more glee anyways), but they don't deny his gifts.
I also enforce this fluff by not bringing any non-Purifiers (they don't like working with the other brotherhoods, lest their activities on the battlefield seem suspicious) or things that could reasonably be Purifers, like Paladins(gotta have a Purifier-Apothecary) and Dreadnoughts/dreadknights.

I need to make another army if I want to use interceptors/normal terminators :(

I like that idea quite a bit, nice one!

**Purifier**

Rihgu wrote:
Well, I might as well share my own Grey Knights (of Malice!!) fluff. And to be fair, I came up with this idea before I had heard of anything like it (and originally used it to troll) not sure if that makes me a progenitor or if me/all the people I told just hadn't heard of it yet.

Basically, if you read the section on the Chambers of Purity, it is pretty clear that something BIG and NASTY is down there, something that only the most incorruptible of the incorruptible Grey Knights are allowed to know about and are responsible with keeping locked away.
For me, that THING is Malal. After being summoned by the Sons of Malice, he was eventually defeated by the Grey Knights. Being a Chaos God, even a minor one, meant he was unslayable, so the Grey Knights did the next best thing - they locked him away in one of the most protected places in the Universe.
Normally that would be the end of it. Sealed away, forgotten, blablabla, but... he extended a deal to the Grey Knights. He hated Chaos just as much as they did... and they were very pragmatic... so he gave the Purifiers his blessing in exchange for their services. He makes them good at killing Chaos, they kill Chaos, and, whenever possible, Imperials (ie, the purgings)

I didn't go so far as to make them "fallen", but they do help Malal in exchange for his goodies. They still keep him locked away and bound, and kill his worshipers when they find him (which brings him more glee anyways), but they don't deny his gifts.
I also enforce this fluff by not bringing any non-Purifiers (they don't like working with the other brotherhoods, lest their activities on the battlefield seem suspicious) or things that could reasonably be Purifers, like Paladins(gotta have a Purifier-Apothecary) and Dreadnoughts/dreadknights.

I need to make another army if I want to use interceptors/normal terminators :(

I'm not...abhorred by the idea. And purifiers don't necessarily need to be toting a flamer. I think it'd be fair to take normal termies painted to your purifier theme.

**blood reaper**

Rihgu wrote:
Well, I might as well share my own Grey Knights (of Malice!!) fluff. And to be fair, I came up with this idea before I had heard of anything like it (and originally used it to troll) not sure if that makes me a progenitor or if me/all the people I told just hadn't heard of it yet.

Basically, if you read the section on the Chambers of Purity, it is pretty clear that something BIG and NASTY is down there, something that only the most incorruptible of the incorruptible Grey Knights are allowed to know about and are responsible with keeping locked away.
For me, that THING is Malal. After being summoned by the Sons of Malice, he was eventually defeated by the Grey Knights. Being a Chaos God, even a minor one, meant he was unslayable, so the Grey Knights did the next best thing - they locked him away in one of the most protected places in the Universe.
Normally that would be the end of it. Sealed away, forgotten, blablabla, but... he extended a deal to the Grey Knights. He hated Chaos just as much as they did... and they were very pragmatic... so he gave the Purifiers his blessing in exchange for their services. He makes them good at killing Chaos, they kill Chaos, and, whenever possible, Imperials (ie, the purgings)

I didn't go so far as to make them "fallen", but they do help Malal in exchange for his goodies. They still keep him locked away and bound, and kill his worshipers when they find him (which brings him more glee anyways), but they don't deny his gifts.
I also enforce this fluff by not bringing any non-Purifiers (they don't like working with the other brotherhoods, lest their activities on the battlefield seem suspicious) or things that could reasonably be Purifers, like Paladins(gotta have a Purifier-Apothecary) and Dreadnoughts/dreadknights.

I need to make another army if I want to use interceptors/normal terminators :(

It works well without breaking any fluff form. They aren't corrupted, and the way it works makes sense.

**Rihgu**

Phew! I'm glad people aren't repulsed by it. I actually spent a lot of time working on the fluff (and color scheme. It's basic, but it took a lot of time and patience to figure out how to get black and white to work, and to design the 'heraldry' for each model) and my biggest fear is getting denied a game because my army "destroys fluff" or "doesn't make sense".
Realistically, I shouldn't have let this whole idea get this out of hand, though, and left it as a 'troll' topic

**monkeypuzzle**

@ Makutsu