Empire Knightly Order creation thread

Rolled 70 (1d100)

rolling for hochland

Wissenland

No Hochland for you!

>Which knightly virtue does the order hold highest? (1d100)

Rolled 71 (1d100)

Can't wait to flavor these guys

Temperance: Never let your passions or desires get the better of you, lest the door be left open for chaos and corruption

>What are the order’s favored battle tactics and military doctrines? (1d100)

Rolled 86 (1d100)

Maybe something to do with expelling or other defensive tactics to symbolize our resistance of chaos' grip

Rolled 1 (1d100)

Footsloggin’: The order’s knights are not so proud as to think that all warfare can be conducted from the saddle, and have become just as proficient on foot. This allows them to fight better on the decks of ships, the walls of castles, and a myriad of other places

>Who was the order’s greatest hero? (1d100)

Rolled 79 (1d100)

These guys seem less like Knights and more like a bunch of roving warpriests.

A noble preceptor who led the knights under his command to victory against overwhelming odds

I think you may be onto something here

>How far afield has the order ever traveled for war? (1d100)

They're like war-priests, but without the political restraints of them

Or at least they have different restraints

Actually, their knightly virtue doesn't mean they seek out corruption to purge, just that they make it a point to resist being corrupted

Rolled 1 (1d100)

Maybe they lost all their horses. What if beastmen ate them?

Rolled 97 (1d100)

fuggin beastmen

can't even do shit to walls, man who do they think they are eatin our horses

take this one, please

The order has never fought in any great numbers outside the Empire

This result on the other hand The order was invited to Lothern, the capital of Ulthuan, to defend it from some great threat

But, we'll stick with the first one, since it fits the general theme of the order.
Anyway, moving on

>Who is the order's most trusted ally? (1d100)

Rolled 83 (1d100)

Just a thought, being from Wissenland, the center of Imperial gunsmithing, maybe they are mainly on foot because they prefer guns over swords.

Dammit. Was hoping for elf-prince, to reinforce

A Dwarf lord

Maybe our Wissenland blood has made us good friends with a dwarf Lord?

>Who is the order's most hated enemy? (1d100)

Maybe our strong and impressive shield walls have made an impression on a dwarf lord who now counts us as one of his allies

Rolled 59 (1d100)

Rolled 64 (1d100)

We are one of the few knightly orders that hasn't embarrassed him by eating all his food and drinking all his mead when we are invited over as a sign of honour. Making us the lucky few not to have been written into his book of grudges

ah

that's why the dwarf lord likes us

A Wood Elf highborn

Those pesky wood-knife-ears-wheterver, ya call them!

>To whom, or what, has the order’s grandmaster pledged its service? (1d100)

Rolled 50 (1d100)

The head of his own noble family

>How does the order appear in the eyes of others within the Empire? (1d100)

Rolled 88 (1d100)

Grand Reputation: The order’s fame runs before it almost everywhere, to the point that people are awestruck and a little intimidated when meeting a knight in person

Make way for the brave knights from Wissenland!

>How wealthy is the order? (1d100)

Rolled 16 (1d100)

loaded from dwarf allies?

makes sense actually if temperance is our virtue, don't want to get too greedy

They probably just spend all the money they have on armor and weapons, then wander around on foot everywhere.

Humble: The order’s coffers are full enough to allow its members to do their job and live in relative comfort, but little else beyond that

Fits our theme perfectly!

>How prevalent are monstrous mounts (such as demigryphs) within the order? (1d100)

They're just really bad at managing money and forgot to buy horses

Rolled 98 (1d100)

Hold on, I know this says re-roll if the Order is larger than Small, but why don't we just say that all the Knights that do have mounts have monstrous mounts. Everyone else has no mount at all. So it's still true that every knight with a mount has a demigryph or what have you, but it's also true that there isn't too many of them for the setting to handle.

Shall we re-roll?

I'm up for having a small order composed of monstrous cavalry

I mean, it's kinda weird because their specialty is apparently footslogging. So they wouldn't even be using the mounts most of the time. Though, it uses demigryphs as the example but not the be all end all. Would something like steamtanks count?

But this order doesn't use mounts of any kind, they are only on foot

Just think,

A dwarfen hold under siege by horrid greenskins, their number are in the thousands

The dwarfs charge, meeting the orks axe to axe, steel to steel but their number are too few compared to the horde of vile greenskins before them

Then, from behind the greenskin lines, a mighty charge of demi-gryphs breaks the greenskin formation as the entirety of the Order comes down on the orks

The disgusting creatures break and route

Ah fuck I forgot, sorry

Got too excited by demi-gryphs

It sounds cool and all, but it still doesn't any mounts at all

I still think gun-knights with steamtanks would be dope. They might get some advanced shit from the dwarves. Champions of industry who fight against the hippies who try to stop the advancement of the Empire.

Like an armor division that behaves politically like a knightly order?

Actually, way I see it, the Order is spread out across the whole region roaming around right? So they roam around in groups of about 12-20 with maybe one or two steamtanks as their little mobile bases. They live relatively humble lives, literally living out of their tanks and just spending the day to day maintaining their gear and protecting the people of the region from threats.

Oh fuck that would explain why there are only like 4 in any one place, its the whole tank crew

They just wander around in their tank getting fuel and fighting their order's enemies

Are we going with steam tanks?

If so I would like to continue the creation tables:

>What is the most venerated relic in the order’s possession? (1d100)

I like both of these, which one should we go with?

Rolled 99 (1d100)

Probably with a couple guys outside to protect it's flanks with rifles and swords to satisfy the footslogging angle.

Damn. I was kinda hoping we would get a high ninety for the last table. But this is good too.

Rolled 70 (1d100)

Is there a published table somewhere that this is being based off of?

Rolled 17 (1d100)

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>1d4chan.org/wiki/Empire_Knightly_Order_Creation_Tables

I say this instead of because that one is too much like

Reliquary could be one of our tanks,
I got nothing for this one

Looks like we got:

>An intricately sealed reliquary said to house “the very spirit of the order”

>A totem or icon of great religious significance

Alright, neato. Onto the next table:
>With which heraldic sigil does the order represent itself? (1d100)

Haha, testimonial of high es-STEAM

get it? cause of the steam tanks?

Rolled 99 (1d100)

I was thinking the reliquary would actually be a bomb.

The Dragon is true, awful power. Fearsome, yet regal. Enigmatic, yet brilliant

Lot's of high numbers here at the end. Well folks, that was the entire table! Now let's give this order a name and start fleshing it out!

fucking creed, replacing our reliquary with a fucking bomb god dammit

The Steel Dragons? The Iron Dragons? The Metal Wyrms? The Black Powder Pounders?

>>A totem or icon of great religious significance

The holy hand grenade of Sigmar!

Black Powder Drakes?

THE TRIPS DEMAND IT!

I like this, any other suggestions?

I can get behind that. It kinda sounds more like the name of a mercenary group than an order of knights though.

What should we name the Noble leading the knights?

Black Powder Drakes sounds like the nickname some people might give them, they could just be called the Order of the Black Drake officially. Maybe their first action was shooting one down when it was threatening a Dwarf hold.

We're plenty unorthodox as it is though

I guess we could be The Drakesalt Order

We have a myth that black powder originated from Dragons

I like this, though I'm not sure about killing a dragon. Mainly because I also kinda like the idea here that they associate firearms with dragons. They could go a step further and associate both with Sigmar. Cannons and guns are just modern hammers, and the comet that preceded Sigmar's birth was actually a giant dragon in the heavens.

That said, nothing we rolled actually says we're that eccentric or out there in our beliefs, and in fact says we're pretty well respected by the wider Empire. So I don't think we'd be that divergent.

We could be eccentric but have done important stuff and have important family in high places related to the grandmaster that allow us some leeway where other orders wouldn't

Perhaps the dragon is just symbolic then - like the curls of smoke from a cannon reminding of a dragon, or the smoke from a dragon's maw. The focus as a whole is on dutiful Sigmarite worship.

Yeah, by myth I didn't mean that they have to worship dragons or anything, they just think they're neat

it also just makes black powder sound more noble

also steamtank pics

Alright, what all else is there to flesh out

We had a bad-ass preceptor, right? what all did he end up doing? What impossible odds did he end up beating?

How about the guy and his detachment single-handedly held off some horde of enemies that were gonna sack a town. Like Fury, except they survive and the Nazis are actually wood elves.

Well, what does Wissenland have to fight? Orcs, I suppose. If he's fighting against Orcs, large numbers might be seen as impossible odds. But he ends up beating them with discipline and firepower. They couldn't fight on horseback for whatever reason and had to meet the Orcs on foot, and the only way to beat their brutality and strength was being more effective with each blow.

I thought they just weren't hung up about "muh horse" and were pretty comfy to fight on foot when the situation called for it

de-horsed in the middle of a horde of greenskins, Horst Wittich, our noble preceptor, used merely the strength of his arms and his trusted sword to fight back a tide of orks single-handedly

It was with his victory here that preserved the town of Pfeildorf and diverted the Waagh headed for Karak Hirn

With this victory, The Drakesalt Order cemented its friendship with the Dwarf Lord of Hirn

Better idea, with discipline, faith in Sigmar and large amounts of gunpowder, Horst Wittich lead a team of gunners in repelling a greenskin horde

Firing near constantly, the gunners' firing practices were impeccable, and were just fast enough to break the greenskins before they could reach the gunners