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I just bought an Imperial Knight, I love the fluff and I love things like the Imperial Knight, the Dreadknight and the Dreadnought so this was inevitable. I was originally just going to do a Freeblade Knight that allied itself with the Inquisition so that it would make sense that he was working with the Grey Knights and just use him for my Imperial Fists since he was a Freeblade but after reading through the Codex and reading about House Hawkshroud, the fit was a little too perfect. Not only have they been sworn to the Imperial Fists before but they have the Oathsworn that almost acts like a Freeblade but they still belong to Hawkshroud. It makes it so that I can use my Knight with both armies interchangeably but then I came across this thought: What happens to the Imperial Knight now that he has seen the Grey Knights? Most normal humans are killed outright but the skills of the Imperial Knight would mean that I would think that they would be hesitant to just kill him and then have to explain to the other Nobles why they were returning an empty suit of armor. They could mind wipe him as well and send him on his way but the other thing I thought of is with the Hawkshroud Oathsworn that he would be permanently attached to the GK through an Oath, a risk he took when he agreed to help out the Inquisition. What do you guys think?

I agree with the mind wipe because in the GK fluff it says that space marines have their mind wiped while entire regiments of guard are simply executed

Taking the codex fluff as gospel, he would probably be mindwiped.
But then again we get told at pretty much any point in the books that we should just forgett the fluff if we have a cool idea.


Seeing how the Greyknights have access to all sorts of technowizardry, that other chapters don't, maybe they have 1 or 2 knights lying arround themselves?


Or you could say that the knight is accompanying a particular group of greyknights who hunt a specific demon, even knowing that he'll likely be killed by his allies once the demon is slain (wooohoooo grimdark!).


Or he is an Knight-noble, who just so happens to be an inquisitor, or an inquisitor who "requisitioned" an imperial knight as his personal hot tub carrier.

Depends how much resources go into Knights.
If it's not many he's executed.
If it's a lot probably a mind wipe.
Although he could be lucky and just be kept supervised.

thank god no one mentioned the nemesis dreadknight

it could go however you want it to,

maybe its a knight from a planet allied with the GK just for the purposes of fighting demons or somthing, so they dont get mind wiped,

maybe they pull a apace wolves and just bug out without being wiped,

maybe the get wiped.


maybe they get thrown in the trash and have some other meat suit control the knight suit.


personally, I wonder which is more unknown in the IOM, the kngiht, or the GK"s?

The Grey Knight mind wipe makes no sense to me anyways. If they just wiped guard regiments and the local populace to keep knowledge of daemons spreading it would make sense, but wiping Astartes who already knew about daemons makes no sense. Exactly what is the point of it?

The point is they dont want anyone who they cant keep a tabs on at all times knowing about them.

Would be pretty lax on their part to let some random scrub tac marine bump into a greater daemon at some point and spill the beans on Titan or where they were last seen.

 easysauce wrote:
it could go however you want it to,

maybe its a knight from a planet allied with the GK just for the purposes of fighting demons or somthing, so they dont get mind wiped,

maybe they pull a apace wolves and just bug out without being wiped,

maybe the get wiped.


maybe they get thrown in the trash and have some other meat suit control the knight suit.


personally, I wonder which is more unknown in the IOM, the kngiht, or the GK"s?

From the fluff provided in the Imperial Knight codex, Imperial Knights are common place and known quite frequently while the GKs are deliberately hid from the rest of the IoM so I would say that the Imperial Knight is more well known.

I was originally going to have a Knight allied with the Inquisition therefore was allowed to have knowledge of the GKs because he would never leave their service. It was going to be a Freeblade Knight since there are no Houses that are directly allied with the Inquisition until I read about House Hawkshroud and their Oathsworn. Their paint scheme (Basically a giant Imperial Fist) and their fluff is something that highly interests me because they have a high sense of honor which is how they worked with the Imperial Fists. It fit perfectly allowing me to give a fluff reason to have my Imperial Knight be with my Imperial Fists but can also say that he is an Oathsworn who sore an Oath to serve a particular Inquisitor. I guess what I could do is say that the Inquisitor told him that by swearing this oath he vowed to stay with the Inquisitor until the end and give up ever returning to House Hawkshroud. The Oathsworn serve with whoever they swore an oath until that oath is fullfilled and this particular oath could of been binding until the end.

As far as whehter mind wiped or killed, there is a lot of resources and training that goes into becoming an Imperial Knight, also since the Houses are only allied with the Imperium and Ad Mech, not under the jusrisdiction of the Imperium technically, I could see them getting quite pissed if they found out one of their Knights had been executed by the Inquisition. It does highly favor the Knight getting mind wiped.