Why DO People like The Night Lords so much???

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[@leovaeg]

the only downside of wearing an Imperial Aquila, is that it looks a LOT like another symbol of hatred.... great ring, unfortunate circumstances

[@Uzzgub]

As an 8th Legion Fan from the first chaos codex, I would have to agree that we are weird, but some of us can be hard to spot... 😂

[@MA-zj2vv]

Women of the Night Lords author MA7 here, lurking in the comments in the dark, like a bat, watching you. The Night Lords are the funnest chaos marines to write because they just don’t give a f and are just doing things in the most pragmatic way possible and having fun in the process. Sure they might skin the occasional baby, but sometimes you just gotta skin a baby or two if you’re a mentally ill psychotic.

[@aSkymne]

Because the part of our brain that liked shadow the hedgehog never truly went away

[@joshuasalcedo7864]

Same

[@BilboniousBagODonuts]

I don't live on the edge, I AM the edge.

[@PERSONII3331PERSONIIEVER]

@@BilboniousBagODonuts totally agree

[@codycurtin2295]

I'm getting this tattooed on my body

[@xenolithic9691]

Based

[@theodoremccarthy4438]

“‘They’re in the walls’ energy” is the best description of the Night Lords I’ve ever heard.

[@S_047]

Konrad on the Lion's Flagship : 😄

[@carna-9501]

I wish I could post memes here because I have a perfect one for this

[@kevinmccalister4602]

Could you post a link? I think that might be allowed. I could be wrong but worth a try right?

[@Eleven217]

Because of their jetpack oriented combat, openly unapologetic dirty fighting and uncontained goblin energy. Also Sevatar surfed _a fucking Starfighter_ and dove through a window into a ship's bridge from said Starfighter. Like come on, not even the Khan did that kind of shit.

[@daverage4729]

'Goblin Energy!' LMAO!!!!! Love it!

[@andreykuzmin4317]

I work at the gas station... Night Lords have that crackhead courage and Kevins' attitude with strength to back it up.

[@monkeyswithshoes308]

what book was that? i can't remember

[@Eleven217]

@@monkeyswithshoes308 Prince of Crows

[@Eleven217]

@@monkeyswithshoes308 also I doublechecked, it wasn't a Thunderhawk, it was a Starfighter. Still...

[@supremeone9524]

necron flayed one: *nice drip* 🤖 night lord: *thanks u too* 😈

[@jamesf3871]

Night Lords are indeed all about that Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to their captives. Just ask Septimus and Octavia.

[@robertemerson1087]

The Slave on the ship with Konrad too.

[@Solidsnake856]

​@@robertemerson1087 I wish konrad would've made that guy a permanent slave. I was sad that he let his sons torture him after arriving on tsagualsa after all that guy did for him

[@VinnyPTAstartes]

In their defense, Talos was WAY nicer to them than what is expected from a night lord

[@joeblack2809]

@@VinnyPTAstartesyea he didn’t openly flay then slay him in front of everyone after hearing he was the one sowing minor seeds of dissent amongst his ranks.

[@spid3rmike117]

@joeblack2809 By sowing seeds, you mean Septimus knocking up Octavia right? lol

[@sarnicholas4053]

"I wanted to be a hero. Look how that turned out."

[@Thalanox]

One of the best scenes I've ever read.

[@meris8486]

So good. The Night Lords trilogy is goated

[@Thalanox]

@@meris8486 Do read Lord Of The Night as well,

[@wahbegan]

Ah yes, the Night Lords fan. You often smell this creature before you see him. The faint scent of ammonia and Hot Topic is unmistakable

[@WiseguyThreeOne]

My wife, who I mention in my comment, DID work at Hot Topic on Saturdays just for the employee discount. She supervised a hospital lab for her day job.

[@DarkKnightroolz]

.... as a nightlords fangirl I cannot deny this hot topic accusation

[@jasoninthehood9726]

Night Lords fans are the Cleveland Browns fans of 40K.

[@aguywithalotofopinions412]

Just pictured Bricky with guy-liner

[@barlotardy]

Night Lords are interesting because they kind of really suck at the actual job of being a space marine. Like, the way they operate, why even bother making most of them supersoldiers? Except Sevatar; It's almost like 95% of the legion's actual martial skill got crammed into him and him alone.

[@Mikazuchireborn]

Definitely a combination of Night Lord battle doctrine, Gendor Skraivok deliberately recruiting kids who have no business becoming Space Marines, and Konrad inability/unwillingness to fix things. If Night Lords were fighting the kind of battles the others legions were doing at the time (massive wars against mighty empires), I feel a lot of those inferior Marines would have been filtered out. You don't need to be superhuman in order to brutalize a bunch of terrified human civvies, but it definitely helps.

[@Mkrause762]

Isn’t it said that most night lords are just criminals there’s barely any that are actual soldiers

[@UndaLupus]

I disagree the night lords had a role to play, they make amazing enforcers one of the only legions that made worlds comply from just the word they were entering the system

[@Mkrause762]

@@UndaLupus I would give up if I saw any legion of space marines heading to my planet

[@clovisursa497]

@@Mkrause762yes but plenty of planets were willing to fight the legions. No world wanted to fight the Night Lords. Their name alone would make worlds surrender.

[@Biotear]

I like the Night Lords for the same reason I like Frank Horrigan. In an era where a lot of popular IPs are obsessed with trying to make sympathetic villains, it's cathartic to see unrepentant war criminals instead. Also, like you said, they don't fight like space marines and, funny enough, despite being the most brutal chapter, they probably killed the least. Instead of warring with entire planets, they scare planets into compliance. In other words, them being evil doesn't unskin your wife and kids.

[@Professional_idiot98]

"Time to die mortal"

[@madzistropudzitto3229]

As a wise man once said Warhammer 40k fanbase can be devided into 2 1. Night Lords fans 2. Those who didnt read ADB's Night Lords trilogy

[@thomascullinan6319]

I read ADB's Night Lords trilogy. Great Books with interesting characters. And I still fucking hate the Night Lords. A character that is interesting and engaging doesn't make them any less despicable when they get off on torturing people to death. (Yes, I include Talos in that category. "Lesson" my ass.)

[@DoomStarRequiem]

I'm an asshole and I love them, adb wrote them and it reminded me of me and my friends sometimes. Not the genocide and murder, but the dark humor and rough housing. Also when we played online games we always tried to find an edge over our opponents even if it meant getting the ban hammer.

[@justicar5]

​​@@thomascullinan6319your right,.they are despicable, which makes them awesome (in a fictional setting ofc) they are in a grimdark setting and revel in that. I still like the Word Bearers more (except Erebus because f that guy)

[@Seoul_Soldier]

Great books. Fuck the Night Lords.

[@Seoul_Soldier]

@@justicar5 The World Eaters revel in the grimdark setting. Hell, a lot of chapters do, even some of the loyalist ones. The Night Lords are just flat-out fucking gross and there is absolutely nothing awesome about them.

[@mistadangerzone8362]

Because we know we’re assholes and we don’t pretend we’re not

[@prometheuscastles]

Ave Dominus Nox brother!

[@nate742]

No wonder Arch likes them. 😂

[@nobleman9393]

I'm bad and I love it.

[@topcat59]

Hey at least they’re honest unlike some other legions.🐱

[@theodoremccarthy4438]

Other legions claim they have virtues like courage, honor, strength, and dignity. The Night Lords have integrity and that’s all they need.

[@Cousin_Uli]

One of my favorite things about the night lords is that they have an ego about themselves or at least some weird sense of honor. Like in First Heretic when they see the Gal Vorbak for the first time they're openly revulsed by them. Like "we play at being monsters, but you sick freaks actually became monsters"

[@SeanCrosser]

Night Lords is proof of how propaganda works when it's done well, and humanises the subject, even when it's about people who flay skin and torture people Eldar are what happens when that propaganda sucks

[@Thalanox]

I really wonder if there are any good Eldar books. They're really under-used, except as plot devices in other factions' stories.

[@WiseguyThreeOne]

My wife was asked by a GW rep over from Nottingham for DragonCon, "Why Night Lords?" She was towering over him, 5'10 before the six inch heels, spilling out of a black leather corset. She wanted a VIII Legion t-shirt and they were out. She leaned over, stared him in the eye, and sneered, "Because Konrad Curze was an unappreciated genius who did nothing wrong." The poor guy nearly passed out.

[@michaelblevins1651]

This dude Won life I’m convinced

[@thepurplebandit3859]

r/thathappened

[@shmillbe3390]

Shut up or make up a story less pathetic

[@IronWarriorBarrak]

For me its for two reasons. 1. They're aesthetically awesome with the vamperic/slavic look, along with the lightning accents. 2. They are just fucked up in so many ways, particularly in being the 'masters of fear' yet are probably the biggest cowards of all space marines. Possibly of any faction even (like the Drukari). Basically I love them for being baby bitch edge lords. Theyre a great Grimdark faction for such heinous crimes but have real character in sadness and wanted honour.

[@Stannyboyyyyyy]

Night lord: BAAGH fear me mortal- Gets sprayed by water Night lord: sssssshhhhh

[@InfiniteGatsu]

I like how human they really are. You can see glimpses of how they could’ve been heroes with talos and sevatar. Also despite being cowards they produce some of the best fighters out there

[@barlotardy]

Last time I was this early, Magnus hadn't done anything wrong yet.

[@jurj97]

And both eyes

[@beefyblom]

That could be anywhen

[@justsomeguywhowantsamust-iw1yj]

I like Magnus, but he did EVERYTHING wrong.

[@yaelz6043]

That could be any point in time.

[@kyleplotsky1726]

I turned traitor after reading the Night Lords book and some of the Night Lords HH short stories. It's also refreshing having a Traitor Legion that is not totally turbo fucked by Chaos corruption, and have some understandable (albeit not entirely agreeable) motives for turning traitor

[@richardtaillon1616]

In my dirt-brain opinion, it's the characters and how well they've been written that draw the fans in to the Night Lords. And it's ironic in that those characters are often telling them, "We kinda suck.' But about two seconds after a self-hatred fueled soliloquy they prove your underdog point and do something badass and you just can't help but *like* them. Absolutely digged the video, as always, and keep up the great work. P.S. Your primach series is tier 1 stuff. I've shown your Dorn video as almost an essay on character study to a few different people

[@joshuasalcedo7864]

I appreciate night lords for being one the most interesting traitor legions, they were in a way the first traitor by destroying nostramo. As well as the fact that there the only legion with a primarch showing a mental illness/ mental decay

[@geraU.6040]

Man, you saying that Konrad is the only primarch mentally ill? Like, Mortarion, Perturabo, Angron, Lorgar, Fulgrim, Lion and Ferrus?

[@punec]

I mean it's easier to name the primarchs that don't have glaring mental issues tbh.

[@CrashCanuck537]

In the words of Jeff Foxworthy "you can only make fun of them if you are one, and I are one"

[@theodorehodbor5080]

Personally I feel like part of the reason Night Lords are liked so much is because I feel like either consciousnessly or subconsciously a lot of people realize that if Space Marines ever became real they would most likely be like the Night Lords. Like just think, if you took a child that was forced through barbaric trials by combat that kill 99% of grown men and gave them literal superhuman abilities and conditioning to where they basically only fully understand combat you're likely not gonna get the philosophical Blood Angels, reasonable Ultramarines, or caring Salamanders, you're probably gonna end up with the opportunistic, violence-driven, and power-obsessed Night Lords.

[@EmonWBKstudios]

"Listen to you. 'The masters of fear'. You are cowards, like all cruel men." - Raldoran of the Blood Angels, wasting his breath on some Night lord curr, after said Night Lord was pissing his pants when faced with an actual challenge and not some defenseless innocent.

[@YourStylesGeneric321]

Raldoran got lucky the Painted Counts demon blade stripped itself of its boons.

[@cr1ms0n64]

Everyone hates the painted count, even other nightlords.

[@EmonWBKstudios]

@@cr1ms0n64 Only because he represents what they truly are and they cannot stand to look into the mirror.

[@pestilentanger]

the night lords sword who i think gave the bearer fighting prowess deactivated and fucked the night lord over because it respected raldo

[@Seoul_Soldier]

@@YourStylesGeneric321 Yeah, because the demon blade recognized an actual warrior instead of the pathetic coward that held it.

[@dr.stronk9857]

“What happened during your upbringing to cause you to turn out this way?” “Nothing, I’m just evil.” - Nightlords probably

[@VinnyPTAstartes]

"Death is nothing compared to vindication"

[@Nostroman_Praetor]

I was moved by Talos's conviction, and impressed by both their effectiveness during The Crusade, as well as their underdog status as a traitor legion. For this reason I play them on the tabletop. Edit: The Night Lords Chaos Lord in the Morvenn Vahl book is named Kol Rakul, The Death of Saints. His name in Nostroman likely means Cold and Cruel. It is also worth noting that titles among The Night Lords are either self-imposed, or ironic, so either Kol gave himself the title as he has some history with The Argent Shroud, or he has ran from every battle against The Sororitas lol.

[@jackbaxter2223]

Honestly, I just love the sardonic sense of humour the Night Lords have.

[@FirstNameLastName-fe2tu]

I can say...because they are oddly one of the most human space marine legions. We can thank the trilogy really. It does give us a legion where we have a tragic nature to it. As we can look on Konrad, who just needed a hug. The other legions needed daemons and gods to turn them evil, Night Lords just are. They were practically raised to be so. Yet, they are self-aware of it. They do not lie to themselves of their nature. And again, because of the trilogy, we can see that they are more than this. Be it Talos, Uzas, or even the warsage...there is simply humanity still within them that can be seen through the flayed skin and general horror, they are just large children that want to be loved by their mentally ill father.

[@dinoXAs2]

It was heartbreaking when emperor said to kurze that he did farsee things in the future, but always CHOSED the bad paths... Kurze always saw only bad future for him and thought it was inevitable future to him..

[@auntiechrist3531]

I love my silly little bat boys and their silly little war crimes

[@punec]

If you guys haven't listened to the Night Lords omnibus audiobook version read by Andrew Wincott you should give it a listen. He gets the slavic accent of our beloved skitzo batboys just right. Oh and Talos' speech in the third book *chefs kiss*. Also apart from the Tenth company boys I love Kheron Ophion. That idea of the single brave soul in a legion of cowards hits home with me

[@potatosoup9536]

Because we never grew out of our Batman hyperfixation

[@arcreaper6098]

I think punisher more than batman.

[@BilboniousBagODonuts]

Obligatory "I heard the sound of bolter fire!!"

[@YourStylesGeneric321]

"Bolters barked"

[@breedingpitmetal]

Probably the best two lines of dialogue in all of 40k: Talos: "Because that would be a fair fight." Cyrion: "And wen tend to lose those."

[@BilboniousBagODonuts]

New Night Lord's vid from guy that got me to read the trilogy? PREYSIGHT ACTIVATED

[@timbrown4928]

"Some blackened pride still burns inside this bloody shell of treason." Great vid! Subbed!

[@Tere225]

Kurze got the short end of the stick on nearly everything. But he's also nuts

[@greldikvaskupalah2009]

Ethics and moral are the luxury of the victorious.

[@irishwristwatch2487]

For me personally, its because I also grew up toasted in the head, so finding one that had a sense of justice, even if an incredibly borked one (shoutout to CPTSD fight mode! A truly universal solution!) And yeah..... even the fact that he had an ideal he worked so hard for only to be fucked over by the Nostroman elite... Well, the crazy bastard is very relatable

[@AmorphisBob]

"The Night Lords are easily startled, but they'll be back... and in greater numbers." Commissar Kenobi

[@harrydonnellan2538]

I'm not a huge night lords fan per say, but they do interest me. Blood Angels were my first army so there is bias in what i say. But the thing I came to love about the Blood Angels is how they choose to rise above their lesser instincts. To choose to struggle against the temptation to give in, and to win through force of will. The night lords interest me as they feel like an opposite, where they blood angels are optimistic the night lords are pessimistic. How Konrad and Sanguinis viewed their foresight shows is most succinctly. Their contrast is far more interesting to me compared to say the world eaters / angron and the blood angels / Sanguinis.

[@kingleech16]

Neat point. I do hate that it seems that Blood Angels often get used as “generic dickhead marines who get cacked” in a lot of non Blood Angel stories since they are an interesting chapter to me.

[@Mistheart101]

4:30 Listen man I look at The Wrath cannibalize the remnants of a battlefield, using the corpse bits for all kinds of things, and I go "Hell yeah I love these living blenders."

[@nobleman9393]

Night Lords are our little meow meow.

[@commanderrepublic7914]

Is this a LRR CH reference?

[@helmetsandhandgrenades5636]

We're the same people who like Postal we love our sociopaths

[@kingleech16]

Please tell me you’re talking about the games, not the movie…

[@krodmandoon3479]

​@@kingleech16Who the *fuck* would bring up an Uwe Boll film in a positive light and expect people to agree?

[@GreatAukEntertainment]

Arthur roasts the night lords fan base for 10 or so minutes

[@levidavidson2362]

Night Lord's Paintscheme designed to torture you the painter. Metaterrorism.

[@tebTheChristanWargamer]

I ain't ever been this early what the fuck

[@SeanCrosser]

Yeah bro dang

[@slippyfruit8538]

Dang it

[@sanguIne-]

Night lords are the guys holding the flaying knife and roasting you while they turn you into a cape of skin. The nobility of hive gangers and mercy of animals.

[@satch5471]

I like the armour its really pleasing and unique, like dark angels with hooded helmets.

[@Frankerzd]

Answer before watching: 1. Primarch was right about everything, and has an end to his story. 2. God-tier writing on the omnibus, you can't dislike the Night Lords after reading it. 3. By far most humane and ethical Legion (during crusade) 4. Insanely high non chaos/non corrupted (aside from raptors) possibly reunited warband/legion under Decimus if it ever came to fruition.

[@Frankerzd]

5. Sevatar

[@ghostrydergames]

part of my love for the Night Lords is how much they remind me of Starscream a lot of them are cowardly and conniving just like him

[@megavore97]

Hit the nail on the head. The 8th legion are conniving little bastards and we love them for it.

[@Wu.Tang.Financial]

The same reason kids like Apple Jacks, we just do. The excellent trilogy by ADB definitely helps too. The bitchin spooky aesthetic, unusual method of warfare, they’re just pimpin.

[@ancientgearsynchro]

The nightlord fans that weird me out the most are the girl the are down bad for Konrad himself (I assume there are guys as well, I just have not meet them). Like what can you find sexy about a man who so meticulously sews together the flayed skin of his victims that he would probably hunt down specific worlds to get "just the right texture/color" for his quilt?

[@barlotardy]

"...But I can fix him!"

[@doomfan8603]

I bet they wish they were Steven

[@thecrusader1673]

Violent and dangerous men appeal to women lmao

[@kevinmccalister4602]

It’s a fantasy of a dangerous man a powerful and in control confident man. A man who could and would rip the world apart for what he believes in. And what if that man… decides to love her and made an exception? The appeal is basically what if this dangerous edgy well spoken and philosophical man decided I was special enough to not harm. But that’s all just my best guess. You could try asking them yourself and see if you survive. 🙂😆

[@n0ttomuch65]

he is Drakula

[@guardsmenmrdew4286]

Honestly nightlords seem like pretty chill guys

[@Pyromaniac77777]

When Savitar was being pressured by his friends to take revenge for the Nighthaunter's wounding, he asked politely if they would change their minds and run away instead of dying pointlessly. They politely disagreed, and so he spaced them. On the spot, with no warning. The one guy who noticed and got away in time, Savitar let live because that's behavior he personally finds intelligent and should be rewarded. Ngl I fell a little bit in love with the Nightlords on the spot. They're just the worst but it's very entertaining Thousands of year of constant betrayal breeds some very crafty fellas

[@reggaern]

Roladon kicking the painted count off the wall was the best scene in all of the lore

[@RawDogAnAeldari]

Another good Night Lords book is Lord Of The Night and not many seem to have read it.

[@Stormdraka]

"Time to hide", double meaning? If the Night Lords are around theres sure some flaying coming around.

[@jaegerbomb269]

Some times people like the heel faction. Personally, I like the "good guy" chapters like the Raven Guard. Beaks for life haters! lol

[@Lunar137]

Holy shit, another beaky boi fan? In this economy!?! LETS GO!

[@joekane1844]

Uzas was a great character. His lucid moments were fucking saaad in the best way possible

[@DasRatStories]

They have the coolest color scheme in the setting, don't @ me + I find them relatable in some personal aspects(not the edgy murder and torture is good shit) + being the thing that goes bump in the night is cool as fuck.

[@prometheuscastles]

AVE DOMINUS NOX!

[@astroboy6515]

Personally I just love their design. Pure drip.

[@angelusumbrae]

"The Night Lords committed a war crime!" "Lol. Yep."

[@H_Eli]

get out of my walls dude. only i am allowed in there.

[@AH-ql4pw]

Holy cow this narration goes up and down like a roller coaster with a jazz tempo. Level it out.

[@grandadmiral8173]

11:20 so they're like the White scars but Traitor. (In the sense that lore youtubers love them but no one really paints them)

[@afro117icarus5]

They’re one of my favourite traitors, they seem unapologetically evil - yes - but not the same as Chaos. The don’t necessarily revel in it, but they just simply don’t care. Plus they look badass and have a unique social structure

[@CyrodiilCome]

Lord of the Night is probably one of the best Night Lord novels, 1 Night Lord crash lands on a hive world. Antics ensue.

[@skeletonknights]

i’m not a huge fan of the night lords. but i am a huge fan of arthur talking about the night lords

[@Grubnar]

Iron Warrior here. The reason for why I like the Night Lords, is that they (like us) haven't changed. Remember the Luna Wolves? They were cool! But then they became the Sons of Horus and turned kinda cringe ... and I don't even know what they think they are doing these days. The point is, they had it, but then they lost it! The Night Lords have remained true to themselves. They are not "stupid evil". Unlike say the Word Bearers, the Night Lords never drank the Kool Aid. They are not high on copium ( or Warp Dust, like the Emperor's Children). Using guerilla tactics when you are fighting a war of attrition against an empire with superior logistics and almost limitless manpower, is not "cowardly", it is just common sense. It is what you do if you want to win ... not to mention survive!

[@David-li4uw]

Night Lords are the “hold my beer” legion.

[@frej7422]

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[@Dogue83]

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[@pestilentanger]

THIS WAS FACT CHECKED BY A NOSTRAMAN PATRIOT 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

[@NobodyDungeons]

I have a night lord character who got kicked out of the night lords for killing people to fast. He’s an incredibly skilled swordsman who has a gene seed mutation that made him stupidly fast even compared to space marines. He was kicked out because he took an abnormal approach to causing fear. He attempts to cause fear through a sheer efficiency. If he’s done his job right the only thing you’ll know is that something took this guys head off so fast you couldn’t perceive it and that it’s coming for you next.

[@KalusBane]

Fun characters to explore, especially from the perspective of the Great Crusade. Wrapping my mind around the motivations of loyalists/blackshield Night Lords has been interesting.

[@professorkatze1123]

skinningpits are a cool concept. fun for the whole family

[@Goldenblitzer]

I see my beloved dark angles “abandoning” an “important battle” to slay the *redacted* and the only copium I’m huffing is “for the Emperor”

[@Ottersanity]

I always had the idea of a Nightlord Warband going on killing sprees on Imperial Worlds as the idea of mercy kills. They slaughter the people because they know the dream the Emperor had is dead and the people are the reason for it. They wish not the people to live in Imperium as the dream is dead.

[@PhlegmFiddleford]

I like them because they were the only legion to both have their primarch hate them and have that feeling be mutual. They were never shown any love, respect, decency, or honor and now they are incapable of showing those things. Nightlords do the shit that chaos likes while also hating chaos. They have no real plans on making things better, they want these huge ideas to come to pass, they are both violent and depraved, but never on behalf of someone else. Nightlords exists purely for nightlords and and really don't care what people say about how underhanded and evil they are. They know exactly what they are and don't bother to lie to themselves about it, and characters like that are decently uncommon in the universe where every single faction has some sob story to justify using lobotomized slave cyborgs as a punch clock

[@gideonhorwitz9434]

Strong case of fanbase Stockholm syndrome myself included hail Decimus

[@danielnolan8049]

Let me take a crack at it as an outsider. Konrad Curze, from the summary videos I remember addressing him, seems like Batman if the joker's, "We're not so different." motif was right. And now there are a bunch of 'mini' corrupted batmen running around the galaxy doing "hot girl shit".

[@zombi3brosnanxx]

While I don’t like Night Lords in the slightest and my immediate thought to see Night Lords is "ew Night Lords," I have a friend who absolutely loves them for the reasons that they suck. He loves that they're a bunch cowardly assholes who would rather run away from a fight with the Imperial Guard to go butcher that orphanage over there. The fact that they are so anathema to what it means to be a Space Marine is what makes them interesting. And I can get that. Won't change my opinion of them but I understand.

[@Bigboy_smooth]

As a Carcharodons fan reading Red Tithe really made me like the Night Lords

[@crowejagerson3628]

" We have come for you"

[@Jurgen_Wulf]

Heh, ADB made people like Night Lords with his Omnibus) Talos was a baddie but with goals, and every other significant character in this series was nicely presented. I really like second book, when Talos decides to hop on former NL's battleship and Huron and his warband portrayed as absolute chaos degenerates (shit and blood everywhere, fully corrupted navigator). Even Exalted was not a totally chaos depraved demon-monster until the very end

[@alejandrorp5160]

The Night Lords Trilogy novels, them being prolly the best Chaos books. That's all.

[@blackhawk4ful]

to me they are so different compared to the other legions. All of them are an archetype of military specialization and culture like the ultramarines are the martial space romans, the death guard are space zombies, iron warriors are greek siege masters, dark angels medieval monstrer hunters/secret society etc. The night lords by comparassion are so... normal, they are no forge masters, they are not artists, they are not warriors, yes they are the scum of nostramo and terra but when you put them next to the offspring of europeran nobility of the emperor's children or the free spirit riders of the white scars they kind of look like an average joe. Plus they are some of the most distinctive legion of all when comes to aestethics. And then you have THE two great night lords: Talos and Sevatar. Talos lives through the worst era of the legion and still holds to its ideals, he tries to keep his company, his family together for the same the reasons he keeps fighting the empirium, he doesn't have anything else. They don't have a homeworld, they don't have a primarch, they barely have people, and yet they are significantly loyal to each other more than any other traitor legion. Because tghey only have each other. Who wouldn't empathise with someone trying to hold to what is dear for them? And Sevatar shows us a beginining of the end for the legion, when you see his way through the crusade and the heresy you see how he realised slowly what they are doing is wrong, not the skinning people alive part, but doing it for the fun of it, leting be guided by a father that doesn't care for them and is going nuts. He sees the hipocresy of Curze when he insisted there was no other way to apeace nostramo, yet he calls bullshit on it, that dialogue between the two really feels like a son finally been mature and brave enough to call on his father's defects and confronting it. The final step on Sev's arch is when a child shows him kindness and humannity and when she is crippled he enacts swift nostraman justice upon the responsible, even though the kid was his enemy. They are a deeply flawed legion with deeply flawed characters, and those are the best ones. Ave Dominus Nox.

[@theendofmyropemydude]

"up to hot girl shit" is how I describe Honsou when people ask

[@luki907]

If an Affliction shirt was a space marine chapter, it would be the Night Lords.

[@sheogorath-the-incrazy]

9:45 Main battle tactic: "They'll be back, and in greater numbers"

[@secondbeamship]

The Emperor of Mankind really thought that he should make a legion completely dedicated to terrorism. Also wondered why they decided to join Chaos.

[@ZeroStako]

Talos: I will burn every man, woman and child so the smoke from the funeral pyres eclipses the sun. Mr. Bones: It's beautiful

[@dreach8819]

In a universe where everyone is bad, why not be the worst?

[@benjaminfrancis8274]

I fantasize about night lords when I play my deathwatch

[@silent_stalker3687]

1:04 Basically if you have a job where you know what will happen, how things will play out, and you get punished for doing your job and don’t even get treated in ways that makes you wish that your boss was neglectful, and you knew he was going to stab you in the back because ‘hey we get more points from hiring these people instead of you’ type stuff. They fired people i trained for saying that the bosses know nothing because i trained them to do the job better, faster, but because they said my boss did a shit job training them- they had to go and i was isolated covering 8 positions that they had 4 people cover. I was alone for 9 weeks with the guys literally running over there to demand i stop working on the machine, to walk up to them just for them to demand i work on the machine i was working on. I had less than 1 minute to run up and down stairs on 8 positions. The people across from me were on their phones for 15 minutes with yellow lights all around until 1 of them noticed. The bosses ignored them to tell me to get to my positions- which held 8, the other people held only 2. I was fired for running. A person was pulling on a belt to get the machine to run because she didn’t know it was shut down. I ran over to tell her to stop, because there is nothing wrong with it. She was abusing this for about 4 hours and it stopped working the next day. The guy saw me running and i was fired for a safety violation. I did report him and put him in a position to, snitch or take the fall for his buddies. One buddy fired anyone who had been there for a few years on the lightest of things when he was promoted to management to… balance budgets. Our new janitors literally just followed the old ones, took a picture of their work to say it was their own. One of the new guys kept stealing my utility knifes. I was moved to another position- but the manager never signed me out of my station because ‘there is someone who was behind and since i was ahead i could do their job to catch them up’ surprise he left, meaning i got him a full check and i lost half my pay because the system said i didn’t do it. I was told i had to run around the facility on a fractured leg which the manager just laughed, and said i could still spot… followed by her throwing me under the bus at lunch ‘this person never answers the radio’ she yelled at me for answering it during lunch. She got written up and i was called up to hand over my radio to her. Days later a manager asked me if i had a radio- i told him i was never assigned one. Turns out she stopped assigning people radios, stopped them from taking them and wrote them up just to assign them a radio and go ‘see this person never answers the radio’ trying to toss other people under the bus. We know how this ends and we just stuck to this out of spite. People stole stuff, still was allowed to stay. People ate food of people they didn’t like just to spit it back into the lunch bag. Not a thing happened People would stop you in the hallway for nothing more than to make you walk around them and laugh. At the very least i got the guy who fired everyone demoted back to the position he cut- and saw him spending hours in the break room. The other person was demoted, but still does nothing but sit back on her phone in the break room and so on. The sheer amount of shit i covered for lead to it spilling out/ machines are breaking due to mistreatment, the estops are being pulled, the other shifts are pissed due to the state we leave stuff and the managers are dealing with so much shit that they are quitting. And now its a blood bath of managers ‘its not me its the employees’ that they fired the veterans to look better on the budget for. The guy who fired me got one of the old guys to just push boxes down the line, making it pile up. He was so smug, meanwhile boxes were cartwheeling down 2-3 stories. I told one of their buyers and they sent me a email ‘you can’t talk about working here even after you are terminated’ turns out i cost them a pretty penny and their facility may have been investigated. ‘Yay this person is out of our hair and our budget looks good, we don’t have to pay that thing 3$ more’ Meanwhile i took 1 week off and i saw 5 people on my positions, all of which were away for almost an hour.

[@KarlPHorse]

Man, I’m a Blood Angel and Night Lord fan. Why you gotta hurt me like this?

[@OldManRogers]

Because they see the setting of 40k for what it is - a lie and they laugh all the way during the slaughter

[@jaypeadieL611]

Oh so psychopathic spacemarines is weird but nuns with bdsm gear and have bdsm slaves isnt weird. Also i have a tyranid and skaven army because i have hamsters

[@killermax5]

Great video as always. Please do one for us Word Bearers fans. Argel Tal and Kharn are bros for life.

[@johnnypop-tart335]

Now you should do blood angels slander

[@recentrogue]

its cause you made a dope nightlords vid, so everyone went and taste tested them, we love sioul hunter