Codex · Imperial Knights

Favours8

Roll	Favour	Patron
2	A Grudging Consignment. The lowest answer the oath compels. The liege-lords spare only what they can least afford: before your next battle you may restock a single crew consumable already spent — one grenade or one melta charge — and nothing further. The oath is honoured to the letter and no further; a Household that calls on its patrons too often finds the consignment grudging and small.	the Household's oath-bound liege-lords and the Sacristan artisans of its Forge World (a Knight answers no mercenary, only the oath and the machine-cult that maintains its engines)
4	The Armoury Answers. The Forge World's armoury opens, a little. The Sacristan artisans send up an arm-weapon or carapace mount from the Household's stores: before your next battle you may equip one war-engine with a weapon from its legal list at no cost, returned to the armoury when the battle ends. The engines are kept by the machine-cult, and now and then the machine-cult answers in kind.	the Household's oath-bound liege-lords and the Sacristan artisans of its Forge World (a Knight answers no mercenary, only the oath and the machine-cult that maintains its engines)
5	A Field Resupply. The supply-train reaches the front. The Household's patrons send forward a field-resupply: before your next battle, restock every crew consumable your gang spent in its last — its grenades, its melta charges, its las-cutter cells — all made good at no cost. A lance that keeps its oath is kept fed in turn.	the Household's oath-bound liege-lords and the Sacristan artisans of its Forge World (a Knight answers no mercenary, only the oath and the machine-cult that maintains its engines)
6	The Marshals Blessing. The Sacristan-Marshal himself attends the muster. The Household's chief artisan blesses your engines before battle: choose one war-engine; for the coming battle, you may re-roll the first Bondsman repair roll worked on that engine. The Marshal's hands are old and sure, and what he mends stays mended a while longer.	the Household's oath-bound liege-lords and the Sacristan artisans of its Forge World (a Knight answers no mercenary, only the oath and the machine-cult that maintains its engines)
7	A Lent Squire. A neighbouring Household lends a squire to the oath. For your next battle only, an allied Armiger walker joins your lance as a temporary war-engine, fielded from this House's own roster and returned when the battle ends. It takes no permanent slot and earns no advancement — a borrowed blade, marching under your banner for one fight before it strides home.	the Household's oath-bound liege-lords and the Sacristan artisans of its Forge World (a Knight answers no mercenary, only the oath and the machine-cult that maintains its engines)
8	A Fresh Core. The Forge World consigns a fresh reactor core. The Sacristan artisans send up a new machine-spirit core for a wounded engine: choose one war-engine on your roster that was crippled or taken Out of Action in your last battle, and shorten its recovery by one campaign-cycle. The oath binds both ways — the Household maintains the engines that keep the oath.	the Household's oath-bound liege-lords and the Sacristan artisans of its Forge World (a Knight answers no mercenary, only the oath and the machine-cult that maintains its engines)
10	The Banner Consecrated. The Household's standard is consecrated before the battle. A priest of the machine-cult sanctifies the banner your Preceptor or Seneschal bears: for the coming battle, the reach of Honour of the Household extends to 18" rather than 12", and its faithful gain a second re-rolled Ion Shield save. A consecrated banner is a rallying-point no swarm easily breaks.	the Household's oath-bound liege-lords and the Sacristan artisans of its Forge World (a Knight answers no mercenary, only the oath and the machine-cult that maintains its engines)
12	The Relic Walked. The oldest engine in the Household is walked to war. At the summit of the oath, the liege-lords release a relic hull from the ancestral hangar: for your next battle you may field a relic war-engine — its Ion Shield covering two adjacent arcs, its guns master-crafted — that has not broken in ten thousand years. When the battle ends it returns to the hangar, and the honour of having walked it remains with the Household.	the Household's oath-bound liege-lords and the Sacristan artisans of its Forge World (a Knight answers no mercenary, only the oath and the machine-cult that maintains its engines)