Hellknights

Hellknights

Type Fanatical military order
Leader Varies by order
Headquarters Citadel per order
Goals Varies by order, but primarily maintaining order
Scope Pact Worlds system
Structure Military hierarchy
Members Hellknights
The Hellknights are a collection of knightly orders with a unique focus on the promulgation of law by way of Hellish hierarchy. Though not inherently evil, Hellknights have few compunctions about killing and destroying others in the name of the law.
To ensure that only the steeliest people can become a Hellknight, recruits must each defeat a creature from Hell in single combat.

Major orders

There are seven major orders of Hellknights active in the Pact Worlds system, some of which date back to pre-Gap Golarion, and others from distant planets or planes called back to the Pact Worlds.

Pre-Gap orders

Order of the Chain, bounty hunters
Order of the Gate
Order of the Nail, which claims to “civilize” primitive races
Order of the Pike
Order of the Scourge
Other orders
Order of the Eclipse
Order of the Furnace
Each order has signature armor, weapons, fighting techniques, starships, and mobile citadel war stations.

Type

Military Order

Location

Pact Worlds System