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A Warhammer 40,000 series by author Ben Counter about the titular Grey Knights chapter of Space Marines. It follows the exploits of Justicar Alaric and his squad battling various daemonic and chaotic enemies of the Imperium.The series encompasses the novels Grey Knights, Dark Adeptus, and Hammer of Daemons, which have since been collected into The Grey Knights Omnibus. The short story "Sacrifice" (a prequel to Hammer of Daemons) was also published in the anthology Victories of the Space Marines, and has since been published as an individual eShort.Note: Examples on this page should only cover tropes from the Ben Counter’s Grey Knights novel series, not events from other Black Library novels that feature Grey Knights, or information from the game’s sourcebooks. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Even "veterans" like Haulvarn can get killed off. | |
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Faceless Goons | |
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Faceless Goons: Shows up sometimes, with the Mechanicus tech-guard in Dark Adeptus receiving a Lampshade Hanging. | |
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Multi-Armed and Dangerous | |
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Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Various Techpriests in Dark Adeptus, Skarhaddoth and other Chaos beasties in Hammer of Daemons. | |
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Red Right Hand | |
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Red Right Hand: Inverted in the first novel, where the Allking of Sophano Secundus and his retainers pass for normal at first and only reveal their Chaos taint after they are rumbled. | |
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Guile Hero | |
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Guile Hero: Alaric ascends to this after his plan to defeat the Chaos Lords of Drakaasi succeeds. | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
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He Who Fights Monsters: Alaric expresses this concern to Nyxos after his escape from Drakaasi. | |
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Out of the Inferno | |
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Out of the Inferno: The Knights did this against burning fuel in the first novel, while Lord Ebondrake's Ophidian Guard do this thanks to their armour being proof against his Breath Weapon. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Alaric spouts stolid Knight Templar dogmatisms from time to time to remind us that he's not a "pure white" hero. | |
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Wishplosion | |
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Wishplosion: When Raezazel tries to convince Alaric to be possessed, he claims that he'll make any wish come true. The wish he gets to try and fulfill? | |
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Body Surf | |
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Body Surf: Magos Antigonus manages to do this thanks to some Lost Technology. | |
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Ancestral Weapon | |
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Ancestral Weapon: Grand Master Mandulis's sword. Interesting in that it turns out that the sword was needed to revive a daemon and was subsequently destroyed. | |
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Dual Wielding | |
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Dual Wielding: Alaric briefly wields both an axe and a hammer simultaneously in Hammer of Daemons, though he's not the only one. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine: The first novel briefly mentions the underhive gangs of Volcanis Ultor uniting to fight a gang of Chaos followers. | |
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War for Fun and Profit | |
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War for Fun and Profit: The Castigator claims that this is his motivation. | |
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Lost Technology | |
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Lost Technology: How Magos Antigonus survives, as well as the Father of Titans. | |
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Losing Your Head | |
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Losing Your Head: Happens to Thalassa. | |
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Battle in the Center of the Mind | |
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Battle in the Center of the Mind: In Hammer of Daemons Alaric fights against a daemon that tries to possess him. He finally wins by the way of Taking You With Me, but survives. | |
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Gladiator Games | |
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Gladiator Games: In Hammer of Daemons, Alaric and a fellow captive Grey Knight are forced in fight in Gladiator Games to celebrate the putting down of a Gladiator Revolt. | |
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Breath Weapon | |
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Breath Weapon: Lord Ebondrake, taking the form of a large dragon, can breathe black flame. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Survival is not Enough." | |
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Badass Creed | |
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Badass Creed: As Justicar Alaric said: | |
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Go Mad from the Revelation | |
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Go Mad from the Revelation: The Balurians from the first novel don't take seeing the tomb of St. Evisser well. This is also the reason for Legeia's Face–Heel Turn. | |
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Bloody Murder | |
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Bloody Murder: Duke Venalitor can weaponise shed blood as prehensile tendrils. | |
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Gambit Roulette | |
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Gambit Roulette: Ligeia's Face–Heel Turn was a painful risk to learn Ghargatuloth's true name and hope that Alaric would trust her enough to not discount the supposed gibberish she kept saying when she was questioned, and then to use that name to weaken the Daemon Prince enough to be able to kill him. You'll be able to guess that she never really turned on them if you remember how Ligeia described her death cultists' beliefs and devotions. | |
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Taking the Bullet | |
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Taking the Bullet: One of Ligeia's death cultists takes a plasma blast for Valinov. Earlier in the same book, another of them does this for Ligeia herself. | |
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Healing Factor | |
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Healing Factor: The Grey Knights have better-than-human regeneration, though severe stuff still needs an apothecary. The Father of Titans from Dark Adeptus has a self-repair mechanism too. | |
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Due to the Dead | |
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Due to the Dead: Alaric insists on going to where Ligeia died to pray for her soul. | |
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Convection, Schmonvection | |
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Convection, Schmonvection: Averted in Dark Adeptus, where a villain holds Alaric a distance from an active fusion reactor, causing him to start toasting. | |
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Shrouded in Myth | |
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Shrouded in Myth: The Grey Knights are secretive and unknown even by the standards of other Space Marines, which Valinov from the first novel uses against them. | |
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Neck Lift | |
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Neck Lift: The Chaos Marine Urkrathos does this to Rear Admiral Horstgeld in Dark Adeptus. The former explicitly circles the latter's neck with his fingers. Duke Venalitor also does this. | |
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Let's You and Him Fight | |
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Let's You and Him Fight: The end result of Valinov's taking advantage of the Grey Knights' secrecy and unknown status in order to paint them as Chaos Marines. | |
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Space Is Noisy | |
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Space Is Noisy: The prologue for the first novel takes place on a daemon world whose surface is covered with so many mutilated cultists that their screams are audible from orbit. | |
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Gladiator Revolt | |
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Gladiator Revolt: In Hammer of Daemons, Alaric and a fellow captive Grey Knight are forced in fight in Gladiator Games to celebrate the putting down of a Gladiator Revolt. The other Grey Knight dies. To avenge his friend, Alaric instigates another gladiator revolt as part of instigating a full blown Enemy Civil War, thereby destroying an entire Khorne Daemon World and sabotaging a Black Crusade. Do not annoy Alaric! | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Valinov does this by killing Riggensen, who broke him, with the execution device meant for him originally. | |
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I Know Your True Name | |
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I Know Your True Name: Ligeia babbles Ghargatuloth's True Name, which is picked up and used by Alaric. | |
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Right Hand Versus Left Hand | |
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Right Hand Versus Left Hand: The secrecy of the Grey Knights is used to rouse other Imperial troops against them by Valinov. | |
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The Blacksmith | |
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The Blacksmith: There's one of these in Hammer of Daemons, implied to be ex-Salamander. | |
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Lightning Bruiser | |
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Lightning Bruiser: The Grey Knights, though they're far from the only ones. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: Some Guardsmen are mentioned as having "finally lost the will" when they think Alaric has fallen to Chaos. | |
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Five Rounds Rapid | |
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Five Rounds Rapid: Alaric is aware that even bolter shells aren't much good against St. Evisser reanimated. Before him, there was Grand Master Mandulis, who recognised the futility of using his storm bolter against Ghargatuloth's physical body. | |
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Never Found the Body | |
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Never Found the Body: Defied in Grey Knights, where the Inquisition lands the GK redemptor force on Khorion IX specifically because they need eyes on the ground to see Ghargatuloth die. | |
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Enemy Civil War | |
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Enemy Civil War: Alaric incites this between the Draakasi Chaos lords in Hammer of Daemons. | |
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Licking the Blade | |
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Licking the Blade: Mentioned in passing as done by some priests of Khorne. | |
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