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... 😂

[@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?

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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?

[@dr.stronk9857]

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

[@greldikvaskupalah2009]

Ethics and moral are the luxury of the victorious.

[@GreatAukEntertainment]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@Bigboy_smooth]

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

[@arizonaicesuntea9922]

1:14 You know this is gonna be good when the start of the video has a Letter Kenny meme.

[@Hateful_Psycho]

They apply by the Jack Horner rule, “we’re evil because we like being evil”

[@ragnarshadow]

They always reminded me of the vamp goths back in the 90s, the opposite side of the goth spectrum from me back then a rivet head. Side slightly related note old fashioned noise marines with the guitar weapons is one of the first things drew me to chaos.

[@cirno9349]

Konrad did the ultimate gamer move and choose not to participate in the hersey

[@jeremyedwards4426]

They are just more relatable dark eldar, being evil and awful just for the sake of being evil and awful.

[@shorewall]

That's relatable to you?

[@samhack7249]

Where am I left since my favourites are Nightlords, The World Eaters, Deathguard and The Black Templars???

[@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.

[@nooneofinterest234]

To all night lords fan that also like anime, are you guys also fans of Overlord?

[@Brickwell]

Yes.

[@NorthernXY]

No tungsten carbide rings? It's basically 21st Century ceramite.

[@C0ldramen]

Someone described them as evil Batman and I’ve been a night lord fan ever since

[@Sigma-lf5fs]

Night lords are metal as fuck, thats why I like em

[@Salantor]

Interesting counter: fuck if I know, can't be arsed

[@elmothepig5256]

To clarify. It's not like we think skinning babes is necessary, it just makes us happy😊

[@TheDanielenos]

Despite my favourite legion being the salamanders, I can definitely see and get why people love the Nightlords

[@AGaiman]

Ave dominus nutz. Gottem

[@derekharris5625]

They're funny, next question!!

[@HesitatingGears]

Cause they're just silly little guys trying to get a little treat

[@jordanrenner3078]

I was just thinking about this question yesterday thanks for making this

[@adiabeticjedi3278]

Cool astethic, pain in the wrist to paint, fun being sci-fi batman-who-laughs in power armor. Some people also like playing the bad guys. So I get it. I am more a Raven Guard man myself, but I will not lie. If Night Lords had a more calm design to their armor, and remained loyal. Id probably rock them as an army too.

[@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!

[@grimgoreironhide9985]

I like their armour and bat style helmets.

[@Some_Really_Random_Dude.]

I think what greatly helped is the Night Lords Omnibus. They're still raiders, murderers, torturers, slavers, and cowards. But they're all people and they're all assholes. They talk like a bunch of gangbanger scum. Yet by the end of that trilogy I felt bad for Vandred of all people. The marine losing a battle for his own mind against a Daemon for most of the books. There's nothing noble about the Night Lords. They still pretend to fight the great war, but most of them just don't care anymore. And almost none of them pretend their fight is a glorious one. Their tactics almost solely revolve around terror and playing as dirty as possible. And their justification is flimsy but straightforward. They built the imperium, they get to tear it down. Hell, they made an adept of the mechanicum uncomfortable, because one of them flat out stated he was beginning to think like them and that no coldly logical machine would have ever devised the shriek.

[@КонстантинИванов-д1д]

this entire first half of this video was "weird freaks and I say that cause Im one of them" over and over again

[@gideonhorwitz9434]

Strong case of fanbase Stockholm syndrome myself included hail Decimus

[@forgefathervulkanhestan18]

Next up is Blood Angels right? Do the successor chapter that got excommunicated by the BAs for taking the red thirst to far. I always forget the name.

[@magicalmadness]

Mate as the second biggest nightlord simp. I totally agree that we are all weird like i got a cheek tat of a chibby NL elbow dropping a word bearer

[@jahahahaha]

It's fun to have a legion that's just evil. I became a CSM fan cause I just wanted evil marines. Not tragic marines, not misguided marines, not melancholy marines, not ambiguously chaos aligned marines, just evil marines.

[@shanemcdaniel9809]

People hate Dark Eldar though... Even though they do the same things, but with a little bit of TROLLING mixed in.

[@FlameForgedSoul]

"The Night Lords are awesome." Agree to Disagree.

[@vasdklwje]

People like Night Lords because of Aaron Dembski Bowden.

[@Cmdtheartist]

Night Lord fans make the Island of Misfit Toys look like Olympus.

[@RebeccaKindy]

my brother in Christ don't look up the night lords on TUMBLR should have been the warning as well. For me it's the characterization the way that the night lords can be deeply self aware its almost tragic Their aesthetic also comes into play... Konrad is hot therefor a lot of night lords are also hot (its like Sanguinius and his sons

[@InternetSupervillain]

Because ADB wrote a phenomenal trilogy. That's the only reason.

[@argilax11]

Starforged looks like decent quality but unfortunately they’re shipping from China so expect it to take a bit. Ordered a ring a few weeks ago, hasn’t arrived yet

[@sovietunion7643]

personally i like them because they are the only one of the traitor legions that had a reason for betraying outside primarch daddy issues or being forced into it. the night lords did their job of shock and terror campaigns quite well, and got a good number of compliances during the great crusade, but were hated for it by other legions due to its sheer brutality, even by 40k standards. its still a BS reason, but it makes sense that they felt anger and injustice against the imperium for being sidelined for literally doing their job and intended purpose of terror campaigns well.

[@dariostabletopminatures]

NIGHT L O R D S. Nuff Said. Lighting. Thunder. Rocky 4. You know. Entourage, School of Rock and the Movie with Sly where he is a Trucker. ... ...That Movie. OVer the TOP! Nightlords. Hellboy 2. Wesley Snipes. Blade. Night. L O R D S.

[@sydalg95]

I love Nightlords this should be fun

[@TheInsatiableDrBoom]

There are very few actually well written books in the black library. Thats not say they cant be entertaining but just not welll written. Lord of Night and Storm of Iron are both fantastic.

[@georgeaswipe5031]

IS GOOD LEGION. NOT FAN BOY, BUT LIKE THE LOGIC - SCARE, KILL FEW, SAVE REST

[@WompWompMcStomp]

hmm, yes, Night Lords, proper class. You know what bone boys are also proper class??? Mortifactors. Please do them. Also Dark Krakens are also pretty cool as they are also bone boys but yeah

[@badassgibus]

Cause having more than one traitor legion that doesn't do chaos is stupid to gw

[@ThisIsYourGodNow]

its the wristblades

[@drkblade0958]

Because I think the Night Lords are way better versions of Dark Eldar.

[@marcopiras7681]

Becouse just a NL can say in face of abbadon he fail 12' times to bring war to the imperium and run away unschatted 😂 And when they are still marked as cowards they hold the high numbers of best warriors among the traitors

[@Ratman36]

Skaven yet?

[@nobleman9393]

yes-yes

[@punishedredruby]

yes-yes

[@Melantrist]

Honestly I don't know anyone that likes the Night Lords further than their name but ok...

[@Tomhortone]

Their are a garbage legion but they are my garbage legion

[@andreasmuller4666]

Nightlords are worthy of only one thing. Being tied to the end of a demolisher canon and subsequently fired through the chest by said canon. Yes, I despise Curze and his entire legion of psychos and no, not even Sevetar will change my mind about that. They fell and that makes them weak.

[@morgant.dulaman8733]

Oh come now, they didn't fall. They merely changed teams. Seriously though, I can never get why some people can't at least acknowledge some of the primarchs and their legions had decent reasons for turning against the emperor even if we can agree that throwing in with Chaos was a truly insane idea (albeit one most didn't willfully make). In the case of Konrad and the Night Lords themselves, whatever the emperor truly envisioned when he created them, Curze was already...off...by the time big E found him and he still gave the dark king an entire legion of genetically modified super soldiers. Further, neither he, Malcador, or seeminly any officials bothered to do anything when said dark king decided to replace his legion's losses from Nostramo. Even if it seemed compliant for a while, I might have suggested keeping an eye on the place especially when rumors started floating around that new recruits out of the place were acting more like MS-13 members than actual space marines. If a commander in chief gives a guy who's clearly going mad command of an army, allows that army to recruit from the worst criminals in his country, then gives them carte blanche to act like their treating the Geneva Convention as a checklist, and finally that army turns on them and throws in with someone offering a chance to be even worse, that's not them "falling," that's said Commander in Chief reaping the rewards of his own bad decision making.

[@getouttadodge01]

Why people prefer these crybabies over the Dark Eldar confuses me

[@ThatGuyOnFireKnownAsAndrew]

No one is as weird as the imperium fan boys

[@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...

[@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

[@supremeone9524]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@sarnicholas4053]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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"

[@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

[@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

[@gerardorafaelubaldopatron6042]

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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@CrashCanuck537]

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

[@BilboniousBagODonuts]

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

[@YourStylesGeneric321]

"Bolters barked"

[@teb3407]

I ain't ever been this early what the fuck

[@SeanCrosser]

Yeah bro dang

[@slippyfruit8538]

Dang it

[@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

[@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.

[@Black_Knight1241]

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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@VinnyPTAstartes]

"Death is nothing compared to vindication"

[@prometheuscastles]

AVE DOMINUS NOX!

[@potatosoup9536]

Because we never grew out of our Batman hyperfixation

[@BilboniousBagODonuts]

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

[@astroboy6515]

Personally I just love their design. Pure drip.

[@frej7422]

⚡NIGHT LORDS MENTIONED⚡🗣🗣🗣‼️‼️‼️‼️🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯RAAAH🦇🦇🦇🦇🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥AVE DOMINUS NOX🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯

[@Dogue83]

WE COMING FOR YOU WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️ ⚡ ⚡ ⚡ 🦇🦇🦇

[@Black_Knight1241]

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

[@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.

[@nobleman9393]

Night Lords are our little meow meow.

[@commanderrepublic7914]

Is this a LRR CH reference?