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<blockquote data-quote="TheVengefulKoala" data-source="post: 5450460" data-attributes="member: 99681"><p><u><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Crux Impetuosa</strong> </span></u></p><p> </p><p><em>"Wanna know what's worse than having a werewolf pissed at you? Having a Knight pissed at you. Wanna know what's worse than that? Having werewolf who's a Knight pissed at you. So unless you've got a death wish, don't piss me off."</em> -1st Lt. James Avant, Crux Impetuosa.</p><p> </p><p>In the New Papal States, registered therianthropes are welcome to do as they please with their lives. Many join the Knights of the Silver Cross, in order to use their conditions for "constructive" purposes. Many such Knights, while accepted by their comrades, still feel somewhat alienated, especially during "their time of the month".</p><p> </p><p>Many such were-Knights are eventually recruited into a division of the Knight's know as the Crux Impetuosa, or "The Frenzied Cross". Roughly 7,500 strong, the Frenzied Cross is divied into two regiments, commanded by Knight-Colonel Virgil Garou, a werewolf originally from New Orleans.</p><p> </p><p>Unlike the Crux Cruenta, the Crux Impetuosa isn't a state secret; it's one of the more infamous groups in the Knights of the Silver Cross, and is hailed by many therianthropes as an excellent example of how the natural anger of werecreatures can be a positive thing. Also unlike the secret undead Knights, the were-Knights of the Crux Impetuosa aren't a small Covert-Ops group. The word that best describes the group, as a whole, is "berserkers". Werecreatures naturally have anger-management issues. But the Knights of the Frenzied Cross have a tendency to rage, even for therianthropes. It's easy to see why their motto is "Semper Iratus", Latin for "Always Angry".</p><p> </p><p>The group specializes in melee combat, demolitions, and heavy weaponry, using their shapeshifting abilities to effectively fill these roles. To better facilitate combat in their hybrid forms, the Knights of the Crux Impetuosa enter combat without armor, wearing only BDUs and silver-dyed longcoats. According to the few survivors they tend to leave behind after battles, this doesn't make them any less deadly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>So there we have it. Also, a major inspiration I had for the Crux Impetuosa were the Angry Marines.</p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.vertigo.ripvanfish.com/umad/src/1287289421073.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheVengefulKoala, post: 5450460, member: 99681"] [U][SIZE=4][B]Crux Impetuosa[/B] [/SIZE][/U] [SIZE=2][/SIZE] [I]"Wanna know what's worse than having a werewolf pissed at you? Having a Knight pissed at you. Wanna know what's worse than that? Having werewolf who's a Knight pissed at you. So unless you've got a death wish, don't piss me off."[/I] -1st Lt. James Avant, Crux Impetuosa. In the New Papal States, registered therianthropes are welcome to do as they please with their lives. Many join the Knights of the Silver Cross, in order to use their conditions for "constructive" purposes. Many such Knights, while accepted by their comrades, still feel somewhat alienated, especially during "their time of the month". Many such were-Knights are eventually recruited into a division of the Knight's know as the Crux Impetuosa, or "The Frenzied Cross". Roughly 7,500 strong, the Frenzied Cross is divied into two regiments, commanded by Knight-Colonel Virgil Garou, a werewolf originally from New Orleans. Unlike the Crux Cruenta, the Crux Impetuosa isn't a state secret; it's one of the more infamous groups in the Knights of the Silver Cross, and is hailed by many therianthropes as an excellent example of how the natural anger of werecreatures can be a positive thing. Also unlike the secret undead Knights, the were-Knights of the Crux Impetuosa aren't a small Covert-Ops group. The word that best describes the group, as a whole, is "berserkers". Werecreatures naturally have anger-management issues. But the Knights of the Frenzied Cross have a tendency to rage, even for therianthropes. It's easy to see why their motto is "Semper Iratus", Latin for "Always Angry". The group specializes in melee combat, demolitions, and heavy weaponry, using their shapeshifting abilities to effectively fill these roles. To better facilitate combat in their hybrid forms, the Knights of the Crux Impetuosa enter combat without armor, wearing only BDUs and silver-dyed longcoats. According to the few survivors they tend to leave behind after battles, this doesn't make them any less deadly. So there we have it. Also, a major inspiration I had for the Crux Impetuosa were the Angry Marines. [IMG]http://www.vertigo.ripvanfish.com/umad/src/1287289421073.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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