Editing Konrad Curze (section)

==Abilities==

Although knowledge of his gifts apparently were not widespread amongst the ranks of his brother Primarchs, Curze was capable of mild feats of psychic display (when compared to someone like Magnus at any rate, as he was never trained in their use). The first and most impactful of these traits were his visions of the future. Likened to waking nightmares, these visions most often were of how people would die, or some calamity involving mass death and destruction (such as the Heresy, which he had known would happen long before it did). He was no exception; as stated above, the Night Haunter had foreseen his own death from the moment he awoke on Nostramo. These visions also often extended to those he would lay eyes upon. Oftentimes the worst of these visions would cause Curze to have violent, blackout seizures during which he could become violent enough to almost kill a fellow Primarch without even being conscious of what was going on. These visions could also be applied in battle, allowing Curze to see what his opponents would do before they did it. This made him borderline broken in terms of melee combat, and the only times he was ever bested involved him essentially forgetting to use this power. While using it, he was capable of entering into a protracted stalemate with Sanguinius, who was arguably the most martially powerful of all the Primarchs, and who had similar but (ordinarily) less frequently active ability. Though Sanguinius was not armored at the time, it ultimately didn't make a difference as the future-seeing abilities of both combatants kept either from ever landing a hit. Just to put things in perspective, Sanguinius's final duel with Daemon Angron saw Sanguinius land at least 6 different blows that would each have crippled or killed Angron had he not been a Daemon, and he ultimately won the engagement by just straight up ripping Angron's brain out of his skull with his bare hands. And that was with Sanguinius already being wounded and tired. As a random aside, Curze was apparently one of the tallest of the Primarchs, as in ''Unremembered Empire'', he is noted as being taller than the Lion, who was known for certain to have also been one of the tallest Primarchs.

The Night Haunter also displayed a few other feats of psychic development, such as [[Psychic Disciplines|telekinetically]] destroying a series of lights to aid in his escape from a VII Legion detention chamber. The fashion in which he did this was described as being akin to "the blast wave of an explosion, with Curze at its epicenter." He was also capable of telepathically conversing with Jago "Sevatar" Sevatarion. [[Sevatar]], a latent psyker, was exploring Konrad's psyche during the latter's unconsciousness resulting from wounds inflicted by the [[Lion El'Jonson]] during the [[Thramas Crusade]]. Apparently the Night Haunter had a role in helping to suppress Sevatar's psychic potential, as revealed in the conversation between them - and that, because Sevatar was not trained in their use, those psychic abilities would be increasingly [[Chaos|self-destructive.]] Why he simply did not start training him will probably forever remain a mystery. He must have been the legion's only psyker or there is no rationale explaining why Sevatar was not just passed over to the Night Lord's Librarius for training his abilities. (The ''Night Lords'' Trilogy explains this by an incompatibility between the gene-seed and the host, the visions being a 'side-effect' of that struggle as it grows worse over time.) He also seems to have some sort of odd and presumably psychic ability to transform briefly into a shadowy/smoky cloud thing, which he did a few times during his 2v1 duel against the Lion and Guilliman to evade attacks, and also when a Perpetual called Damon attempted to kill him on Macragge after the duel. This could also have been the writer simply taking descriptive liberties while describing Curze's super speed, but it's written in such a way as to be reeeeaaaally hard to tell. Some of the passages of this fight include:

<blockquote>''The blade scythed at Curze’s head. He did not move. Then he was smoke.''</blockquote>

or:

<blockquote> ''Guilliman struck again, driven by fury, and cut through something. It was only shadow. Only the tatter of a cloak. Talons snapped back at him. He raised his shield. Razored claws ripped sparks off its surface and shredded its edges. Guilliman hacked again. Nothing. Shadow. Shadow!''</blockquote>

He's also seemingly able to slip away into shadows that are way, way too small to hide something of his size and literally just be gone, as he did when infiltrating Sanguinius's throne room on Macragge. So he does seem to have some sort of psychic affinity for darkness and shadows, but how this ability functions exactly is very difficult to parse out.

He also has the ability to hide his mind from other psykers, as seen, once again on Macragge, when John Grammaticus states that he can seemingly only find Curze when he wants to be found. Another example occurred when Curze ambushed an Ultramarines squad with a Librarian, named Prayto. Prayto was unable to sense Curze until Curze attacked, when he stunned the Librarian by allowing him to sense, at the last second, just how horrible Curze's mind really was.

As the Primarch of the VIII Legion, Konrad had a servant throughout the Great Crusade named Ekra Trez (who bore the title of "Sin-Eater"). Trez was tasked with keeping a record of the Night Haunter's precognitive visions in a massive tome, and would often make note of which ones had been proven correct or false. Trez was also more than aware of Sevatar's psychic ability, leaving some readers of the Black Library's Horus Heresy novels curious as to what role Trez may have played in the Primarch's psychic development - if any.

Physically speaking, his primary domains were speed and stealth. His speed was such that, during his duels with the Lion, the latter was on several occasions only able to block strikes from the comparatively unskilled Curze by way of a presumably psychic, extrasensory danger sense that is functionally similar to Spiderman's "Spider Sense". Similarly, his stealth capabilities were great enough as to require the Lion to employ the same danger sense to stay alive a few times when Curze ambushed him. Additionally, at the start of his confrontation with Sanguinius, Sanguinius while looking for Curze gazed directly at his own empty throne, illuminated in a shaft of light. He then turned around for a few seconds to examine a decoy set up by Curze, and when he turned back, Curze was sitting on the throne with Azkellion's body under his foot. Curze was not particularly known for his strength, and was noted as being so thin during the Heresy as to appear ghoulish. However, he was still able to flip Land Raider tanks and punch through the reinforced armor ceramite of Terminator plate with his bare hands. He was also noted as having become increasingly averse to personal hygiene as the heresy ground on, to the point where his body odor was nearly a match for ''Mortarion's''. He was similarly unconcerned with it during his initial stay on Nostramo, but was introduced to the concept of bathing during the Crusade, and made an effort not to look and smell like an average college student during that time.