Black Grail Knights

A Black Grail Knight on his undead steed.

The 'Black Grail Knights' are an evil undead counterpart of Bretonnia's holy Grail Knights created by the Dread King using the Black Grail artifact.

They appear in the videogame Warhammer: Dark Omen as bosses and as the most powerful cavalry of the Undead faction.

Story

The Grail Knights are considered some of the most powerful human warriors in the Old World, revered throughout Bretonnia and beyond reproach for their purity and honor. If they fall in battle, they are given grand funerals and their souls belong to the Lady of the Lake, the patron goddess of Bretonnia.

This process meant that normally, Grail Knights were one of the few beings who could not be brought into undeath. Some, however, particularly those whose corpses lay in the cursed province of Mousillon, were vulnerable. Even in the tainted lands of Mousillon, only a being of immense power could hope to disrupt the natural order of the Lady. That being was the ancient lich necromancer known as the Dread King.

Taking up their fortress in the haunted Castle Mousillon, the Black Grail Knights would become the most infamous of the Dread King's minions. A blasphemous creation, warped into a dark mockery of their former heroic selves, they were extremely powerful warriors who fought relentlessly against the living. Mounted atop the animated remains of their once noble horses, they could not be slowed by difficult terrain and would never retreat from combat. An aura of fear surrounded them at all times, causing enemies to panic and flee in their wake.

The Black Grail Knights were eventually destroyed by an army comprised of living Grail Knights and the mercenary army of the Grudgebringers led by Commander Morgan Bernhardt. With the Black Grail destroyed, these former heroes of Bretonnia could finally return to their rest.

Trivia

• The Black Grail Knights have only appeared in the Dark Omen videogame and never on the tabletop game of Warhammer Fantasy Battles.