The Sole Knight of Domantal

The hull was damaged, munitions mostly spent, and the pilot having a rather bad wound on the head from an impact in the battle. But this would not be the end for the pilot had just returned to the ship for repairs and recovery knowing well that the enemies faced on the planet below were completely destroyed. The pilot would be taken out and rushed to be healed by the hospitallers while those of the adeptus titanicus that were on the ship got to work on the repairs of the knight. The pilot would later wake up in a medical bed. The pilot was Kathrine of the Imperial Noble House Domantal. She had short but rich brown hair, her eyes green as a vibrant forest yet oddly enough seemed in someway unnatural, her build was average yet showed the progress of strength, and her Throne Mechanicum barely noticeable along with the few other cybernetics implanted on, or rather IN, her. She had awaken to the sight of her friend if not close ally Zorus Solus; rouge trader, captain of the ship, and recent ally to House Domantal.

Z: “Easy now Kat, you were about as beat up as your damn knight when they got ya to the hospitallers”

K: “For that I’m greatful they healed my wounds then Zorus, but why are you here? Shouldn’t you be reporting to Domantal?”

Z: “Well that’s the thing my fair lady, other than seeing if you were ok I come with a message that came from your house, they’re calling you home for some reason and it seems bloody urgent. I already have the ship enroute”

Katrina gave a low sigh for she knew what it was about. She wished it wouldn’t be this, but she knew what this sudden call to home was.

It was about HIM.

Zorus’ ship “The Winds of Fenris” would arrive to the feudal world that was the home to House Domantal and Katrina would go on her way but asked Zorus to accompany her. She needed someone to keep her spirits up and Zorus was very good at that. As they were escorted by the local militia scores of people would come out of their houses to gaze upon the return of Katrina who they called out and cheered as “The Great Knight of Nobles” and gave her praise for the deeds she had done for the Imperium. Katrina then began to look sad.

Z: “What’s wrong Kat? Usually I’d be one for praise like this, damn well anyone would if ya ask me.”

K: “That is because I don’t feel deserving of this Zorus…”

Z: “Come again?”

Katrina was silent for a bit as she looked at a statue of the knight she pilots, for the statue itself was old and it held a terrible secret. A fact that only few people knew about and chose to ignore while others simply do not know of it. Katrina would brake the silence to give her friend an answer. Zorus should know this given he now is allied to House Domantal, allied to her.

K: “I was not the only Knight of Domantal once… I had a dear brother who was the first Knight of house Domantal while I was still being trained to do so. He stood for all the noble things the Imperium stands for. He was an honorable and respectful person, a true knight. But… One day my brother would go after a supposed traitor of the Imperium, a noble, determined he would bring righteous fury and retribution. He would attack the traitor by taking the noble’s luxuries for himself, gorging on them to add insult to injury. My brother would eventually draw out the traitor and end him in a battle that would decimate the traitor’s forces. However in the aftermath the rest of the Imperium saw this as an act of betrayal and heresy for they did not know this noble was a heretic. Thus my family would pass judgement onto my brother deeming him a traitor himself not only for destruction of another noble house in cold blood but for th amounte excess he had achieved from the luxuries he had stolen. That day almost all of Domantal would call my brother out as a heretic”

Z: “So then why are you looking upset? What ya regret calling your brother a traitor?”

K: “No, I regret saying NOTHING. Few of us did not speak at all, we feared the judgment of our own blood should we defend my brother. Thus he be sentence to death, made an example of, but he would escape using his knight causing great damage to the forces of House Domantal but we eventually recovered the knight but in a very bad shape. It’s the one I use now”

Z: “So you feel sorry for your brother’s death the eh? Damn, sorry I brought that up then Katrina didn’t mean to”

K: “Don’t be”

Z: “Wot?”

K: “I said don’t be Zorus. Few know this so that our people do not live in fear. For my brother is very much alive. His knight was empty when we found it and the only reason we did not give pursuit was because my parents only cared for the knight, thinking my brother would just die off in the darkness of space maybe killed by xenos or some other group of heretics, they would be wrong”

They were at the steps to the manor of house Domantal when Katrina would look up at her home knowing what is to come

K: “It is why I was called here, I know it. In whatever shape or form my brother has resurfaced no doubt seeking revenge and now my family will pay the price but I will do what I have always done and defend my family”

While Katrina’s words were noble something just rung in Zorus’ head just wanting to be answered.

Z: “Pardon me if it’s alright to ask but you haven’t mentioned your brother’s name, what was it?”

Katrina would turn to tell him the name of her fallen brother, the name of a long dead man that the mention of the name gave her both guilt and dread.

“His name was Alexander”

((aaaannnddd here we are! The loyalist muse; Katrina of House Domantal. Pilot of a crusader type questoris knight, the stalwart defender of the nobility of her sector, and most of all sister to Alexander Domantal who is otherwise now known as our Pirate Prince Vince! Much is soon to happen that’s for sure! But yeah primarly I put this muse together for the more loyalist side of things and to have a so to speak antagonist if not foil/opposite of Vince to which I’m very much looking forward to what adventures will be made with Katrina))