House Orhlacc

House Orhlacc is a Loyalist Imperial Knight House of the Adeptus Mechanicus that illustrated itself during the latter part of the Great Crusade and troughout the Horus Heresy. Although not amongst the most powerful Knight Houses, being only a Secundus GradeImperial Knight House, House Orhlacc neverless involved itself heavily throughout the Horus Heresy, particularly in the region of the Coronid Reach where their valliant effort contributed to the reconquest of the the Agri-world of Numinal which had fallen under traitorous dominion early on in the civil war. Although of sinister repute both within the forces of the Adeptus Mechanicus and those of the wider Imperium - albeit for very different reasons - House Orhlacc has always been famed for the technological skills both of its Sacristans and its Knights which vastly contributed to their strenght and ultimate survival through their millenia-long isolation. Reunified with the Imperium in late M.30 through the efforts of Lord Commander Suleiman Grimm of the Dark Angels Space Marine Legion, House Orhlacc became a respected ally, their courage and heroisme being rewarded by the attribution of a Memento Mori by the hands of the Emperor himself for their bold sacrifice during the Rangdha Outbreak. Due to its untennable strategic position, House Orhlacc is one of the few known houses to have willingly abandonned their original Homeworld of Dark Haven during the events of the Horus Heresy as to better relocate itself on the grim world of Wychval and fight on. Throughout the Heresy the house would remain on Wychval, whose dominion they had been granted by the leader of the loyalist war effort, the famed Ireton MaSade of Agathon.