Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20161106170321

"The Universe belongs to the gods and to us their children. Any who dare defy such events must be crushed with inconceivable force and ferocity for that is the man date set down by the Knights Teutonicus!"

- The beginning of the Black Crusades.

The Knights Teutonicus where formed with the advent of the organizations like the templar popping up across the known universe and the empire preaching the words of false gods and spreading the seeds of dissidence. The emperor, blessed is his name deemed a new legion to be formed. One that would no adhere to anyone but the emperor and the Gods. One that would destroy the heretical forces in the universe that dare threaten the empire. Thus was born the Knights Teutonicus.

They have set down within days of their creation a mighty crusade to destroy these heathens after a few short years it has become one of the most successful crusades to date (Excluding the Great Crusade of course)

As a legion they report to the Emperor and the Emperor alone with the basic legionary of this legion outranking most if not all of the governments legions members. They have been given exclusive rights that no other legion wields including imperium and the ability to order an exterminus.

As a legion they are set at triple strength and are given a substantial sized fleet split into 3 chapters each ruled over by a Chapter master. The order as a whole is ruled over by the Grand Master.

They are also allowed to make up their own organization within the legion leading to special ranks in no other legion like Knight, Knight Apparent, Paladin, and Paladin Baron.

They are a military force while also being a relegious one meaning each legionary hold equal power in both the Militum and the Ecclestum.

They are lead by Betrix the Bloody Handed, master of the order and one of the empire's finest warriors.

Now finally they have one exclusive member that outranks everyone in the empire (Save the emperor of course) He/She is the Champion of the Empire and out of all the Empire's warriors they are the finest. They are strong in martial strength but they also have the unique ability of the strength of all the gods (Through a cyrus crystal of course without that the champion is without his more spiritual powers. (The Champion is not actually tied to this legion they just have the honor of having the champion picked from their ranks) 