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Death Knights===
Of all the users of Necromancy, the Death Knight is one of the rarest. While they are not actual Necromancers who have taken up the forbidden art, they have been known to be associated with Necromancers and can be just as powerful and if not more deadly. Death Knights are a rare breed, as mentioned before, and they do live up to their name quite literally. Death Knights have been known to raze whole towns in sick and twisted rituals just to bolster the ranks of their armies with the skeletal remains of their prey.
Death Knights all share one common bond and that is their sworn Oath to Hades. While the Greater Spirit of the Natural Cycle is neither inherently evil nor inherently good, his followers tend to sway towards the darkness more than the light. In this aspect they call on Hades to allow them a small measure of power over those who have passed on. The souls of the fallen all travel the cycle of rebirth, but the followers of the Dark One use the power granted them to make a mockery of the life the reincarnated soul once lived. So long as the cycle is maintained Hades cares not what happens to the flesh once the soul enters his domain.
Death Knights, in death serve Hades just as they did in life. When a Death Knight dies he is immediately put to work for Hades guiding the souls of the fallen to their next life and through the cycle of reincarnation, though the Death Knight will never reincarnate to a new life. He is bound to his Master and so the bond remains until Hades releases the soul to the Wheel. Should a Death Knight prove difficult to Hades in life, then upon that Death Knights arrival to the Underworld they will be given 'special' treatment and cast into the Pit of Oblivion where their soul is ripped asunder by the immaterium and destroyed, never to see the light of their next life.
Description
Death Knights come in all shapes, sizes, and races. Death Knights can come from all walks of life. Be it the rich and wealthy nobleman, the wanton harlot of the red lantern district, to even the common soldier of the local militia. Death Knights vary in appearance, from supple skin and pleasing features to rotting flesh and bleached bone. Death Knights have been known to have faces and figures exquisite or dreadful and everything in between. Many Death Knights choose to remain the portrait of youthful vigor, while a rare few allow themselves to become the living embodiment of death and decay. Regardless, one thing is certain, the more powerful the Death Knight the more beautiful or more disfiguring they appear.
Of those few Death Knights who are recorded in history only one is said to have become the rotting husk of a corpse when he reached the pinnacle of his power. It was said that one look from his cold dead eyes was enough to drain the very life blood from his victim. Many
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Famous Death Knights
Only a few Death Knights have had their names exalted in the tomes of history. Their exploits are the things of legends and stories told by the elders as reminders that even good men can fall from grace.
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