Death Knights Codex (Ongoing)

Space Marine Chapter - Death Knights

Speciality - Assault and Close Combat

Foundation Chapter- Unknown rumoured to be the successor of Deathwatch as a second founding for most of there best melee fighters.

Home Planet
Onyx is 1 time the size of Fenris and the Home Planet of the Death Knights Chapter as a Feral World.The planet has 3 continents and it's terrain has a number of mountain ranges forests, plains, 1 volcanic waist lands, 3 main oceans, and is mostly cold threw the year with. like Fenris but twice as cold and such. The planet is also habitat by fierce predators beasts of land and sky but homes to a large Yeti like creature that is 3 times as big of a normal human man but they use this creature to challenge there Veterans. This creature is also know as Goliath and I vary hard to kill even for a space marine.

The inhabitants of Onyx live a Iron age of Clans/tribes and a knightly orders. All are fierce, cunning, dedicated, and determined warriors and hunters. A number of the tribes are in good relations with one another but others are at each others throats and have a great amount of honorable battles with one another and wars ,but they all have a cretin amount of respect of one another and value honor. They know of the Imperium of Man and respected the Emperor himself even before the Horus Hearsay now serve as a recruiting planet for death knights to serve in he's name to repay him for saving there planet from a xenos invasion two millenium's back

Fortress - Monastery
Knights Chapel is the base of operations for the Death Knight Chapter and is located near 2 large valleys and a large mountain on the largest continent in the Southern region of the planet, and is surrounded by valleys and fierce winds and beasts. The tribesman know not to trespass on there lands for they know only chosen recruits can go in there lands as well as other marines from there chapter.

Battle Cry
"We shell not fear no evil! ,"Suffer Not The Alien to Live",

Foundation
Unknown

Number
Unknown said to be between 5,000 to 11,000.

Gene-seed
The Death Knight gene-seed is some what stable but gives the Chapter members an increase on morale and strength. And gives the marine fading blue glowing eyes with pale skins like a dead man and the marine gets a increase of there health preventing them to die as easy of that a normal space marine good against fighting orks and chaos.

Recruitment

Death knights take children at the when they are at there teen years