"Let the power of your Knight flow through your veins. Let the ghosts of your throne whisper wisdom into your mind. Let steel be your sinews and fire be your fists. Become your Knight, as it becomes you, and through symbiosis ascend. So shall you become. So shall you protect your people and slaughter your foes."
—Sixth Canticle of the Ritual of Becoming
TheImperial Knights, orQuestor ImperialisinHigh Gothic, are piloted robotic combat walkers of small to medium size in the service of theImperiumand sometimes theAdeptus Mechanicus.
Each Knight is piloted by a singleHumanwarrior drawn from an ancient feudal aristocratic culture that stretches across thegalaxy.