Editing Night Lords (section)

==Fun Facts==
*It is believed they're linked to [[Scary Marines]].
*They are one of the few Astartes legions who actually think ambushing is a good idea, rather than standing in front of a line of guns and charging it.
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*Kids check under their beds for the boogie man; the boogie man checks under his bed for Astartes; Astartes check under their beds for their captains; First Company Captains check under their beds for the Night Haunter.
*Konrad Curze ''is'' that thing that goes bump in the night... and he's heading this way.
*The Night Lords know all of the things you're afraid of, and they think they are utter shit-- wait 'til they show you what true horror is...
*The first, most brutal hour of any attack by the Night Lords against is more commonly called "Candyland Hour" for all good children...
*The Night Lords once discovered records of an ancient Terran mythological figure called "Santa Claus". Reading about this fat jolly man, they couldn't help but be both amused and annoyed with his jovial antics. They ''were'' impressed with his ability to get into any habitation block, no matter how well fortified (and assumed warp trickery was at play), his army of slaves in his polar fortress and his almost Orwellian list of "naughty and nice", but couldn't really understand the whole gift giving thing: good children don't get presents, they get the greatest gift of all! They get to live! Bad children... will be made an example of in the style of the Night Haunter and his criminal mob bosses. We'll see who's naughty and nice then.
*The Night Haunter used to keep a record of who was naughty and who was nice... and then severely punished those kids who were naughty (it involved disemboweling). Today, his sons don't keep a record-- they just disembowel whoever might be in the vicinity, naughty or niceness be damned.
*Upon reading about this 'Santa Claus' figure most Night Lords assumed he used some sort of jetbike or skimmer to get around; furthermore upon discovering that bad children get "lumps of coal" for their bad behavior in their stockings, the Night Lords hit upon a great idea: once a year they would deliver coal to all the children on a particular imperial world because "they are bad and thus must be vindicated". Coal themed terrorism was rampant. In what was known as "Ash Thursday" or the Night of 1000 Sorrows, the Night Lords proceeded to unleash a planetwide coal-themed reign of terror upon a hapless imperial world: coal was shoved in their stockings...and in their throats...then ignited; the local Mechanicus weather machine was set ablaze making it rain ash; various coal trucks were detonated raining coal onto hapless Imperial citizens; local water purification centers were destroyed (coal is used for cleaning); and countless Adeptus Mechanicus kidney dialysis machines were smashed. Then they set the weather machine to "snow" and took all the coal back into space so they'd freeze in their habitation blocks and let a note that said "next Sanguinala be a little nicer".
*Further research into the concept of Santa Claus led them to stumble upon an ancient documentary series about the Dark Age of Technology known as Futurama. In viewing this series, they discovered to their delight that Santa Claus was in fact a bloodthirsty, unstoppable Man of Iron who dispensed presents to the nice and punished the naughty. But ''nobody'' was ever nice enough to meet his standards, and so he horribly murdered virtually everyone he came across. Realizing that this was essentially exactly what the Night Haunter did on a daily basis, the Night Lords decided every year to dedicate their Sanguinala celebration to this sort of activity.
*Nostramo is described as being like Gotham City, if Gotham City had no lights, there was another Gotham City on top of it, and only mob bosses and rich scumbags got to enjoy sunlight and medicine. Also everyone had guns and Batman ate his victims. Oh did we mention the Night Haunter was so bad he made everyone "nice"? Yeah. Curze killed so fucking many criminals that the survivors were too scared to do crime anymore. At least until Curze left the planet. 
*They stick bats in their helmets to help them fly.
*They don't get Daemons or other warp dickery, so they always go to sleep with ease without all the voices in their heads (other than their own psychotic subconsciousness).
* [[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 closet loyalists-- ''or are they really?'') try to recruit them for their next great Black Crusade, the Night Lords usually tell them to piss off and send the messengers back in a box (or several).
*They are also the origin of the Raptor and Warp Talon units, the Chaos version of Assault Marines.
*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 are probably as old as you could normally count, because they don't hang around in the [[Warp]] so much. Sort of. The [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]] Night Lords book mentions Talos remembering the defeat at Terra as being only a few decades from his perspective due to chilling in the Warp. He does mention his bestie is getting crow's feet though from time outside of the warp. Since every single example of Astartes age never mentions them dying of age (including a lost company of Luna Wolves re-discovered by Abaddon eight thousand years after the Horus Heresy and a Salamander whose armor was fused to his ship ten thousand years ago was found by loyalists still alive), it's safe to say that yes, Astartes are freaking immortal. Stress-related physical aging of features, though, would be totally unsurprising. Even Space Marines can only take so much shit and see so much horror before it gets to them.
*That's not to say that the Night Lords aren't pants-shittingly terrifying. They know what they're good at and they stick to it.
*They've had enough common sense to survive for this long, despite having so many disadvantages compared to the other eight legions.
*Of course, this is relative, because when we talk about "sensible" in the context of Chaos, we mean "will hang you with your own intestines just for the hilarity of it", rather than "completely ignore the enemy army to attack a strategically worthless town to make sacrifices for the Dark Gods." It helps that their attacks are so low-key (except for the bombing a planet once and causing a MASSIVE psychic scream by torturing a bunch of astropaths and sending dozens of planets into psy-communicating-blank) that the Night Lords are not prioritized and actively hunted by the Imperium. Otherwise they'd likely be wiped out in short order (as mentioned above with the [[Ultramarines|guys that have a toilet seat as their insignia]] kicking their asses). DOWN WITH THE BLUE-TRDZ!(Ehem)I mean smurfs...
*Of all the Night Lords Warbands there are mainly three "Chaos" Lords that still lead based on their vision of The Night Haunter's Legacy:
**First there is Zso Sahaal, the "Talonmaster", former First Captain of the Legion. He was a Terran Legionnaire appointed by the Night Haunter following Sevatar's death. His flight from the rest of the Legion with the Corona Nox, the rightful crown of the Primarch's successor, earned him the title "The Betrayer" to some within the Legion, but he saw Curze's use of fear as focused and controlled in its use. Could be considered defunct, as no one had heard from him for ten thousand years, the First Company dissolved rather than follow him, and as soon as he got back into the setting, no one took his claims seriously of Curze making him his heir. Will likely never get further development, as his main writer left on bad terms with Games Workshop two decades ago.
**Next is Krieg Acerbus, a Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided, whose name is a combo of Latin and German meaning "violent war" (real subtle GW). Also known as the Axemaster, he leads the largest warband of Night Lords in the galaxy and claims that Curze wished his sons to terrorize the Imperium and devour its fear. He and Sahaal battled for the Corona Nox; Sahaal kept the crown, but [[Imotekh the Stormlord|lost an arm]].
**Lastly, there is Talos Valcoran. Formerly an [[Apothecary]] during the Heresy/Great Crusade, he bore the titles "Prophet of the VIII Legion" and "Soul Hunter". He earned the title of Soul Hunter for pursuing and killing M'Shen, the Callidus assassin that killed the primarch, for vengeance and out of love for his father rather than greed (a difference in ideology that he would come to despise his brethren for to some extent). He was also known for prophetic powers like his gene-father, earning him the title "Prophet of the VIII Legion". Eventually he came to succeed his Company Captain/Warband Leader, Vandred Anrathi in leading the Warband of the Exalted, following the Fall of Vilamus. Under Talos' command, it was renamed to the [[Broken Aquila|Warband of the Broken Aquila]]. He later died on Tsagualsa at the hands of the Phoenix Lord Jain Zar of the Howling Banshees. He succeeded in ''killing'' her (though "kill" is a strong term when it comes to Phoenix Lords) in a spectacular display of determination and vengeance, taking her down with him. Talos believed that the Night Lords were betrayed by the Imperium, and were its truest weapon of terror when called upon before the Emperor betrayed them. Talos' gene-seed would later be inherited by Decimus (who might be the son of Octavia, who was the navigator of the ship and Septimus, another slave and a ''friend'' of Talos in the warband), who in turn assumed command of his Warband and gained his gift of foresight.
*The Night Lords' character can be pretty well summed up with this song --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XncuY4wLaA8
**Or this one --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2wzpfPFBlw
**''Ahem''; https://youtube.com/watch?v=sApYX_R4LRo
**No, you're both wrong! It's ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIPGyKGuWeA this]'' song. It's proven [http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/groups/1/3/2055/thumb_620x2000/2013-04-21-RegularMarine43.1.png more than effective against Imperial Guard regiments]
**This is the one --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dy28ef-_tA
**''cough'' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqds0B_meys
**(You might be forgetting this one —-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQPWAJWAYNQ
**Maybe this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFqjDXy9s5A
**This one's obvious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSaDPc1Cs5U
**Or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz1mEMiNPHQ
**Seriously? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGSxJ-K1vL8
*The Night Lords actually treat their serfs pretty decently for a traitor legion. It's still not particularly pleasant, but it's better than being used as a [[Emperor's Children|sex toy]], a [[Word Bearers|sacrifice]], a [[World Eaters|punching bag]], a [[Death Guard|zombie]], or getting eaten because the last meal was improperly prepared (it does happen on occasion) or being used for target practice for lulz etc.
** To be fair, they do still randomly punch serfs into paste and/or hunt them for sport. Oh and they make them live in perpetual darkness too, because this is a Night Lord ship and you just have to get used to it. But they do at least seem to acknowledge that they need the serfs to survive. Sure, the serfs are 100% literal slaves but they are actually useful.
*They actually gave the idea of the vampire imagery to the Blood Angels.
*Once, a warband of Night Lords decided it would be fun to fuck with some Dark Eldars. In turn, the Dark Eldar Haemonculi hunted them down to a random planed, covered said world in perpetual darkness by blocking the planet's sun, then sent Mandrakes ( Dark Eldar who live in a subrealm of total darkness ). The Mandrakes assaulted the Night Lords so badly, appearing at random from the darkness, so much so that, after the Dark Eldar left and sunlight came back on, the Nigh Lords slept with the lights on at night from then on.