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{{quote| ''I am the hammer! I am the hate! I am the woes of daemonkind!''}}

Series by 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.

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{{quote| I am the Hammer! I am the Hate! I am the woes of Daemonkind!}}

* [[Blade Onon a Stick]]: All Grey Knights are armed with Nemesis force weapons that are charged with their [[Psychic Powers|psychic energy]]. There are customised Nemeses, but the standard issue one is a force halberd <s>with a built-in [[BFG|boltgun]]</s> designed to complement the [[BFG|compact stormbolter]] [[Arm Cannon|worn on the other arm]].

* [[ColourColor-Coded for Your Convenience]]: They are called ''Grey'' Knights for a reason -- it's the color of unpainted ceramite of their armor, which they just polish to a high sheen to show off their [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|pureness]]. And to drive the point home they use ''a lot'' of [[Bling of War|gold trimmings]] and [[The Cape (trope)|snow-white cloaks]] as accessories.

* [[Demon Slaying]]: [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]] -- it's their job description. They slay various [[Eldritch Abomination|Daemons of the Warp]] for [[The Emperor]].

* [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys]]: Their new Codex allows you to field Jokaeros, super-intelligent (though strangely enough non-sapient, thereby circumventing the Imperium's anti-alien policies by being counted as livestock) orangutan-like aliens (bioengineered by the same [[Abusive Precursors]] who made the Orks and Eldar, incidentally) [[Lethal Joke Character|who wear special rings that shoot lasers, masers and]] ''[[Incendiary Exponent|fire]]''. In fact it's possible to take ''nothing but'' laser apes if you have Inquisitor Coteaz as your commander.

* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Basically their whole schtick. They're so incorruptible that ''not one'' of them ever fell to Chaos. Of course, the ''way'' they achieved such honor was... Well, [[Crapsack World|it's]] [[Warhammer 4000040,000|40K]] after all.

* [[Magic Knight]]: They are the only [[Super Soldier|Space Marines]] chapter to consist ''entirely'' of [[Psychic Powers|psykers]]. And in 40K that's basically ''bad'', as it makes you much more prone to [[The Corruption]]. However they are so [[Badass]], that it doesn't matter much to them, making them even more [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]] than any other psyker.

* [[Who You Gonna Call?]]: The first number you should remember when there's a Daemon in your backyard. Not that their arrival [[Crapsack World|would make things much better]], but at least you would have chance to [[Dying Asas Yourself|Die As Yourself]], instead of a terrible Chaos monstrosity.

{{quote| "We do not know what our chances of survival are, so we fight as if they were zero. We do not know what we are facing, so we fight as if it was the dark gods themselves. No one will remember us now and we may never be buried beneath Titan, so we will build our own memorial here. The Chapter might lose us and the Imperium might never know we existed, but the Enemy -- the Enemy will know. The Enemy will remember. We will hurt it so badly that it will never forget us until the stars burn out and the Emperor vanquishes it at the end of time. When Chaos is dying, its last thought will be of us. That is our memorial -- carved into the heart of Chaos. We cannot lose, Grey Knights. We have already won."}}

* [[Due to Thethe Dead]]: Alaric insists on going to where Ligeia died to pray for her soul.

* [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation]]: The Balurians from the first novel don't take seeing the tomb of St. Evisser well.

* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: Valinov does this by {{spoiler|killing Riggensen, who broke him, with the execution device meant for him originally.}}

* [[Off Withwith His Head]]: How Tancred kills {{spoiler|St. Evisser reanimated}}.

* [[War for Fun Andand Profit]]: {{spoiler|The Castigator claims that this is his motivation.}}