Night Lords
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| Battle Cry | "We have come for you!" or "Ave Dominus Nox!" | |
| Number | VIII | |
| Original Homeworld | Nostramo | |
| Current Homeworld | Unknown | |
| Primarch | Konrad Curze | |
| Champion | Krieg Acerbus (Daemon Prince) | |
| Strength | Unknown | |
| Specialty | Stealth and terror tactics | |
| Allegiance | Depends on the warband. | |
| Colours | Blue black | |
The Night Lords Space Marine Legion consists of some of the more batshit-crazy emos, kind of like the Chaos version of the Raven Guard. They get off to catching their enemies, skinning them alive and crucifying them, all the while recording it for later. Battle cries include "We have come for you!" or "Ave Dominus Nox".
History
Their Primarch called himself the Night Haunter (his IRL name was Konrad Curze). When Chaos abducted the infant Primarchs, they were scattered across the galaxy. Poor lil Konrad ended up on Nostramo, a world of perpetual darkness. And unlike the other Primarchs who were found by the inhabitants of that planet and taken care of, Konrad was left all alone to fend for himself, in a world where it's a dark, lawless land. So then when he grew up, he became like the Batman of the 41st millennium, where he punishes the corrupt and the evil. The only difference from Batman is that he does it in the most gruesome manner possible, such as by hanging the guilty person's disemboweled corpse for all to see or beating the person to literally an unrecognizable pulp, to the point the sewers were clogged with bodies. Strangely enough, this was actually considered an improvement. So yeah, he became a popular icon that the people of Nostramo basically fixed their shitty society as they fear that the "Night Haunter" will screw their asses to unimaginable levels, thus making him Vlad the Impaler IN SPACE!!!
They also have an unhealthy addiction to flying, lightning and Batman. Known to try to be some badass terrorist shit by scaring the hell out of civilians. They are also known for being giant fucking nutheads who are stupidly insane. Wherever the Night Lords strike, they leave corpses and signs of their assault on display and generally make it look like all the Segmentum's worst rock bands stayed in the area at the exact same time.
Despite being traitors they are not terribly fond of chaos and make little to no usage of daemons at all, so they're more of a renegade legion than a heretical one. Which makes them either very smart since they're less likely to go pants-on-head-retarded when accidentally possessed or extremely stupid since it's their only great advantage (other than experience from age, which they don't get since they don't hang out in the eye of terror so they'll still age normally) against the Imperium's slightly advancing technology. So whenever loyalists show up with assault cannons, stormbolters, cyclone missile launchers, land speeders, drop-pods, and hunter killer missiles they cry themselves to sleep. Or take it out by kicking the shit out of the local chapter of faggots. Accounts vary.
One day after looking at a planet for a bit, they decided to go fuck it up. They fucked up the communication centers, which sent out a tiny call of help order for pizza. They proceeded to send out copies of their earlier recorded cruxi-skinnin-fictions to everyone on the planet. They dropped bombs on the planets that made it constant night on the entire planet. It was so scary that 14% of the population died outright, a third killed themselves, and the rest were hunted down by the Night Lords. When the distress call finally got a response pizza finally arrived, the Night Lords were gone and it was still dark on the planet. Oh yeah, and not a single building had been damaged in the whole affair, which would not be the deal if those other guys were there.
Fun Facts
- It is believed they're linked to Scary Marines
- They are also the origins of the Raptor Units, the Chaos version of the Loyalist assault marines. Raptors are fail since Gav Thorpe decided that living longer than everyone else in the Eye of Terror meant that the only difference from loyalists is that renegade/heretics are not fearless The mere fact that you know that upon your death, your soul will be cockmongled by legions of daemons tend to make a few people less than willing to die, unlike the Imperium who thinks they'll just be chilling with the Emprah upon death.)
- They are one of the few Astartes legions who actually think ambushing is a good idea, rather than standing in front of a gunline and charging it.
- NANANANANANANANANANANANANA BATMAN!
- They stick bats in their helmets to help them fly.
- Aaron Dembski-Bowden (AKA the newest edition to the Bald Brotherhood of Awesome 40K Writers) has made them fucking GREAT. 10th Company GETS SHIT DONE!
- When the Word Bearers, Iron Warriors, the Alpha Legion, or Black Legion (the only four legions that really give two shits about Chaos Undivided, and even then the Iron Warriors aren't the biggest fans of it and the Alpha Legion are all closet loyalists) try to recruit them for their next great crusade for Chaos, the Night Lords tell them to piss off and send the messengers back in a box(or several).
- They're probably lucky that those other legions are typically too busy to deal with probably the least threatening of the Chaos Space Marine Legions. They don't get Daemons, they don't get immunity to age due to hanging in "physics? lolwut?" land, they don't get warp dickery, and they get none of the new stuff that the loyalists have developed.
- That's not to say that the Night Lords aren't pants shittingly terrifying. They know what they're good at, hit and run terrorist attacks, and they stick to it. They've had enough common sense to survive for so long despite having so many disadvantages compared to the other eight legions, so they're probably the most sensible bunch. Of course this is relative to chaos so by sensible we mean "will hang you with your small intestine to cause fear in the enemy" rather than "completely ignore the enemy army to attack a strategically worthless town to make sacrifices for the dark gods."
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