Order Of The armoured Heart Profile

Order Of The Armoured Heart

Homeworld: Pyraxis 1, Semi urbanised world, Feudal, maintains Fortress Cathedral at it’s center, Shipyards in orbit and semi regular orbit near an Asteroid Field makes it invaluable as a waypoint for transferring ore to transport ships.
Notable Members: Mother Superior Brunhilde, Canoness Alyysia, Canoness Octavia.
Relics: Twin Powers Swords, “His Claws”, used by the founder, Catherine Of Pyraxis, to kill a Hellbrute given to the the Chaos Cult that resulted in the creation of the Sororitas order to fight them.

Short History: The founder, lady Catherine, was born on the feudal world of Pyraxis 1, born a noble, she lived a life of pampered luxury, but found herself taking a great interest in the use of martial weaponry. When Catherine’s father fell to a chaos cult that rose up in the world’s capital city, she protected her mother and younger sisters cloaked in only a nightgown and with a ceremonial spear, after joining the defence and with the help of a newly arrived force from the Imperial outpost of the planet, killing it’s leader, she found, to her horror, that a hellbrute intended to be used as a secret weapon had murdered her family. Grasping the twin power swords used in ceremony she duelled the beast, and despite taking mortal wounds, crippled it and cut it’s pilot out with her remaining breath. After the Imperial priests of the planet declared her a martyr she asked with her dying breath than an order of Sororitas be established on her planet to prevent such a tragedy, and that they wield the swords in the Emperor’s name. Her last words were, “May they be...more stoic than I….so they might live to save their own…”.

Order Motto: Nos vero pugnabimus pro amore.

The Order is notable for it’s devotion to martial arts and melee weaponry, usually warriors eschew cumbersome power armour in favour of carapace armour under monk’s robes, and the use of a special metal that absorbs and redistributes kinetic energy to fight more armoured opponents, making even the youngest Sister capable of breaking bone and shattering armour. When fighting against large scale forces they equip both normal power armour as well as power swords and thick shields, the Mother Superior leading them wielding His Claws and directing her sister’s to absorb enemy fire. They do not eschew the use of flame weapons however, and many times a foolish general has tried to defeat them with an army of massed tanks, only for their quickness and use of melta grenades to cripple such attempts.

The Order has distinguished itself by proving able to both match the superhuman abilities of both Dark Eldar and Khornate warriors, earning both the respect and ire of some. They participated in the pacification of Italica when an arbites courthouse was infected by Chaos and began attacking civilians. They also exterminated a Genestealer cult on their home planet.


Notes: -The Sister’s Fortress Cathedral contains the only spaceport on Pyraxia, the order has sought approval for more in case evacuation is needed. -The Order was recently involved in a battle with a Wych Cult, resulting in it almost being wiped out, an unprecedented victory if only because of the sole use of melee weapons by both sides, the sisters did sustain heavy casualties however.