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House Orhlacc is a Loyalist Imperial Knight House of the Adept

us 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.

House History

Perhaps surprisingly so, the history of House Orhlacc, or 'The Dread and Wise House of Orhlacc' to give it its full title, is one well accounted for. At the very least it is well-documented, most record and archives having been preserved having beien preserved by the House's Sacristans and remaining Lexmmechanics. The Chronicles of Founding of House Orhlacc relates the tale of how explorators originating from Lucius Forge World set out for the Cyclops Cluster in their tireless quest for ressources and mineral wealth. Having discovered both in the nearby system as well as a live-sustaining world close-by, decisions were made to protect those valuable ressources by establishing the newly discovered world as a Knight World. Isolated, covered in shadows an teeming both with vegetation and mega-fauna the world was aptly named Dark Haven and soon became home to dozens of Knight Households.

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