THE BLADE DENIED

The Blade Denied is an elder Wych House that specialises in the art of using their foes' weapons against themselves. The irony of seeing a warrior impaled upon his own blade is always a favourite of this cult, for it shows that even a weapon cannot be trusted. A perennial favourite in the Blade Denied's Helix arena is the sight of an unarmed Wych, seemingly at the mercy of a heavily-armed opponent and sometimes even tightly bound beforehand, slip the noose and gradually turn the tables from victim to persecutor by systematically disarming and then stealing the weapons of her opponent before the showy (and invariably messy) finale. The tendency for using the enemy's strength against them is magnified whenever the Cult of the Blade Denied mounts a realspace raid. The cult deliberately puts itself at a disadvantage against its enemies, taking on superior numbers in heavily armed emplacements with little more than well-sharpened knives, haywire grenades, and the Raiders that bear them planetside. When the killing begins, however, the Wyches will improvise, turning the technologies of their foes against them, crippling the largest of targets with well-placed haywire attacks, and digging out the fleshy bounty inside with the care of an epicure savouring every nuance of his carefully prepared meal.