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	\|Battle Cry = "We have come for you!"		\|Battle Cry = "We have come for you!"
	\|Origin = [[Night Lords]]		\|Origin = [[Night Lords]]
	\|Warband Leader = The Exalted, [[Talos]] Valcoran, Decimus		\|Warband Leader = The Exalted, [[Talos]] Valcoran, Decimus
	\|Base of Operations = Mobile		\|Base of Operations = Mobile
	\|Specialty = Small scale operations, piracy		\|Specialty = Small scale operations, piracy

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1d4chan>Gilten: /* First Claw */

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First Claw

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	Effectively "First Squad", this formation is the core of the narration of the novels. While Talos is unquestionably the protagonist, his attitude and the strained teamwork of his squad drive most of the story.		Effectively "First Squad", this formation is the core of the narration of the novels. While Talos is unquestionably the protagonist, his attitude and the strained teamwork of his squad drive most of the story.

	*'''[[Talos]]:''' The leader of First Claw and former [[apothecary]]. His main shtick is that he has part of the Night Haunter's precognition, which is occasionally useful, but is also breaking his body down. He is oddly principled for a traitor marine and spends a lot of his time looking for some purpose other than just terror-murdering. He also makes a point of looking after his serfs well, provided they do what he tells them. A notable part of his character is that he isn't the most powerful or even the best fighter; instead he's the best at keeping a cohesive squad together and focused, which considering how dysfunctional the Night Lords are is saying something. He's also notable for being the one who hunted down and killed Curze's assassin, although she [[Blood Ravens\|got away with the relics]] first. Dies alongside most of the squad while taking down [[Jain Zar]] herself, although given that she's a [[Phoenix Lord]] <strike>she'll be back at some point in the future</strike> she came back for Psychic Awakening. It's never made clear exactly how his prophetic powers work - he's called out by a Raptor as having psychic potential that he never cared to have trained (in part because his trainer would have been Ruven below), but his sight is extremely different from how most seers work and he differentiates his abilities from the farseeing of warp sorcerers as being "pure". Then again, Curze's abilities were described as psychic in the Heresy novels, and Talos' abilities are inferred to be a genetic inheritance. Possibly due to this, or because he was the only Night Lord who loved his father enough to avenge him rather than salivating over his legacy, Talos was one of the very few Night Lords that Curze genuinely liked (or at least didn't actively despise). His last battle came about when he was hunted by the forces of [[Craftworld Ulthwé\|Ulthwe]], lead by Jain Zar. Injured and crippled, he let Jain Zar get in what would have been the deathblow, had Talos not committed suicide by grenade cluster. Despite this, Jain Zar's current body survived long enough for Malcharion to curb stomp her to death, then complain about having to finish everything for Talos.		*'''[[Talos (Warhammer 40,000)\|Talos]]:''' The leader of First Claw and former [[apothecary]]. His main shtick is that he has part of the Night Haunter's precognition, which is occasionally useful, but is also breaking his body down. He is oddly principled for a traitor marine and spends a lot of his time looking for some purpose other than just terror-murdering. He also makes a point of looking after his serfs well, provided they do what he tells them. A notable part of his character is that he isn't the most powerful or even the best fighter; instead he's the best at keeping a cohesive squad together and focused, which considering how dysfunctional the Night Lords are is saying something. He's also notable for being the one who hunted down and killed Curze's assassin, although she [[Blood Ravens\|got away with the relics]] first. Dies alongside most of the squad while taking down [[Jain Zar]] herself, although given that she's a [[Phoenix Lord]] <strike>she'll be back at some point in the future</strike> she came back for Psychic Awakening. It's never made clear exactly how his prophetic powers work - he's called out by a Raptor as having psychic potential that he never cared to have trained (in part because his trainer would have been Ruven below), but his sight is extremely different from how most seers work and he differentiates his abilities from the farseeing of warp sorcerers as being "pure". Then again, Curze's abilities were described as psychic in the Heresy novels, and Talos' abilities are inferred to be a genetic inheritance. Possibly due to this, or because he was the only Night Lord who loved his father enough to avenge him rather than salivating over his legacy, Talos was one of the very few Night Lords that Curze genuinely liked (or at least didn't actively despise). His last battle came about when he was hunted by the forces of [[Craftworld Ulthwé\|Ulthwe]], lead by Jain Zar. Injured and crippled, he let Jain Zar get in what would have been the deathblow, had Talos not committed suicide by grenade cluster. Despite this, Jain Zar's current body survived long enough for Malcharion to curb stomp her to death, then complain about having to finish everything for Talos.

	*'''Xarl:''' The beatstick of First Claw. Talos' childhood friend (less so now) and regarded as the best fighter in the company. He's used as a threat by Talos to make anyone trying to edge for command by murdering their superiors. Xarl was a foil to Talos, being a cynic and cutting quite close to a grounded, if otherwise typical Night Lord, as opposed to Talos' romanticized ideas about his father and Legion. Apart from being an abrasive snarker, and chronic complainer, there isn't a lot else to say about him. Dies after headbutting a loyalist marine champion to death through his HELMET - Xarl wasn't wearing one. Badass to the end.		*'''Xarl:''' The beatstick of First Claw. Talos' childhood friend (less so now) and regarded as the best fighter in the company. He's used as a threat by Talos to make anyone trying to edge for command by murdering their superiors. Xarl was a foil to Talos, being a cynic and cutting quite close to a grounded, if otherwise typical Night Lord, as opposed to Talos' romanticized ideas about his father and Legion. Apart from being an abrasive snarker, and chronic complainer, there isn't a lot else to say about him. Dies after headbutting a loyalist marine champion to death through his HELMET - Xarl wasn't wearing one. Badass to the end.

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	The warband is a relative newcomer to the 41st Millennium, being displaced in the warp from some point after the flight from Tsagualsa to a couple of centuries before the events of the books. (ADB admited that the timings he described in the first and second books didn't quite make sense and added an errata to the third book.) As a result, the Warband is living 200 years subjective time from the Heresy, and thus more closely resembles a Heresy-era company than a 40k-era Chaos Warband.		The warband is a relative newcomer to the 41st Millennium, being displaced in the warp from some point after the flight from Tsagualsa to a couple of centuries before the events of the books. (ADB admited that the timings he described in the first and second books didn't quite make sense and added an errata to the third book.) As a result, the Warband is living 200 years subjective time from the Heresy, and thus more closely resembles a Heresy-era company than a 40k-era Chaos Warband.

	This warband has always been small, having a hundred marines at it's peak, similar in strength to a codex compliant ~~chapter~~. However, due to attrition, next to no recruitment, and occasional desertion, this warband has been dwindling in numbers ever since it returned to take an active role in realspace. By the end of the third book, only three marines and a handful of human servants has survived. At best, the warband was decimated and the scattered survivors left to rebuild; at worst, the warband has unofficially disbanded and the survivors banded together with their surviving assets to form a new warband.		This warband has always been small, having a hundred marines at it's peak, similar in strength to a codex compliant company. However, due to attrition, next to no recruitment, and occasional desertion, this warband has been dwindling in numbers ever since it returned to take an active role in realspace. By the end of the third book, only three marines and a handful of human servants has survived. At best, the warband was decimated and the scattered survivors left to rebuild; at worst, the warband has unofficially disbanded and the survivors banded together with their surviving assets to form a new warband.

	==First Claw==		==First Claw==

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76.78.140.147: /* Other Members of the Warband */

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Other Members of the Warband

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	*'''Malcharion:''' 'The War Sage.' Former Captain of the 10th company before he was interred in a Dreadnought and wrote their big book of war. Due to the difficulty of reactivating him, he was left in the care of Deltrian, 10th Company's resident tech priest, who mostly just let him sleep. Despite having survived, he was resentful at having been brought back in a dreadnought, thinking it was a cold and stifling existence. He was reawakened on Talos' orders when a leadership dispute threatened what little cohesion the Warband of the Exalted had. His first action was to turn an assault terminator who had been sent to stop his awakening into Swiss cheese with his autocannon. Can be described as Talos' cool grandpa. Was "killed" again taking down the Blood Angel's equivalent of Bjorn the Fell-Handed... for the second time, the two of them having first dueled as regular Astartes during the Siege of Terra. Unknown to the rest of the crew, his casket was saved and he was reactivated for the events of Void Stalker. Takes down a large number of Ulthwe Eldar in the crypts of Tsagualsa. After this, he planned to disappear into the catacombs and fall asleep for the last time. He survived Warband's last battle, killing Jain Zar after Talos committed suicide via grenade cluster. It's unknown if his sarcophagus was recovered afterwards, but given how smart he was, his plans to deactivate for the last time was probably a success.		*'''Malcharion:''' 'The War Sage.' Former Captain of the 10th company before he was interred in a Dreadnought and wrote their big book of war. Due to the difficulty of reactivating him, he was left in the care of Deltrian, 10th Company's resident tech priest, who mostly just let him sleep. Despite having survived, he was resentful at having been brought back in a dreadnought, thinking it was a cold and stifling existence. He was reawakened on Talos' orders when a leadership dispute threatened what little cohesion the Warband of the Exalted had. His first action was to turn an assault terminator who had been sent to stop his awakening into Swiss cheese with his autocannon. Can be described as Talos' cool grandpa. Was "killed" again taking down the Blood Angel's equivalent of Bjorn the Fell-Handed... for the second time, the two of them having first dueled as regular Astartes during the Siege of Terra. Unknown to the rest of the crew, his casket was saved and he was reactivated for the events of Void Stalker. Takes down a large number of Ulthwe Eldar in the crypts of Tsagualsa. After this, he planned to disappear into the catacombs and fall asleep for the last time. He survived Warband's last battle, killing Jain Zar after Talos committed suicide via grenade cluster. It's unknown if his sarcophagus was recovered afterwards, but given how smart he was, his plans to deactivate for the last time was probably a success.

	*'''Septimus/Coreth:''' A human serf of Talos, the 7th if the name wasn't a giveaway. A former Imperial shuttle pilot, he became Talos' artificer after being captured on a raid, which makes him rather invaluable to the crew in general. Loyal to 10th company rather than Chaos or traitor forces in general. Also survives the events of the series, with a slim vestige of a happy ending (WHAT?! IN MY 40k!).		*'''Septimus/Coreth:''' A human serf of Talos, the 7th if the name wasn't a giveaway. A former Imperial shuttle pilot, he became Talos' artificer after being captured on a raid, which makes him rather invaluable to the crew in general. Loyal to 10th company rather than Chaos or traitor forces in general. Also survives the events of the series, with a slim vestige of a happy ending (WHAT?! IN MY 40k!). Septimus can get very witty at points surprisingly and somehow does not get voided out a airlock. Oh, he also shags the Navigator.

	*'''Octavia/Eurydice Mervallion:''' Talos' 8th serf and a [[Navigator]]. Quite young and unmutated for a member of the Nobilite (explained by her family being a weak one genetically and not very powerful on Earth). Got snatched from a 4th-rate rogue trader and suddenly became the Navigator of an Astartes warship. Reality ensues when her inexperience and lack of power make this a very difficult job to perform. Gets knocked up by Septimus, earning the latter a pretty big beating from Talos when he hears her fetus' heartbeat. Has an odd relationship with Talos, hating his guts for enslaving her and betraying the Imperium but kind of resigned to it. Also escapes the end of the books with a potentially happy ending.		*'''Octavia/Eurydice Mervallion:''' Talos' 8th serf and a [[Navigator]]. Quite young and unmutated for a member of the Nobilite (explained by her family being a weak one genetically and not very powerful on Earth). Got snatched from a 4th-rate rogue trader and suddenly became the Navigator of an Astartes warship. Reality ensues when her inexperience and lack of power make this a very difficult job to perform. Gets knocked up by Septimus, earning the latter a pretty big beating from Talos when he hears her fetus' heartbeat. Has an odd relationship with Talos, hating his guts for enslaving her and betraying the Imperium but kind of resigned to it. Also escapes the end of the books with a potentially happy ending.

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	Effectively "First Squad", this formation is the core of the narration of the novels. While Talos is unquestionably the protagonist, his attitude and the strained teamwork of his squad drive most of the story.		Effectively "First Squad", this formation is the core of the narration of the novels. While Talos is unquestionably the protagonist, his attitude and the strained teamwork of his squad drive most of the story.

	*'''[[Talos]]:''' The leader of First Claw and former [[apothecary]]. His main shtick is that he has part of the Night Haunter's precognition, which is occasionally useful, but is also breaking his body down. He is oddly principled for a traitor marine and spends a lot of his time looking for some purpose other than just terror-murdering. He also makes a point of looking after his serfs well, provided they do what he tells them. A notable part of his character is that he isn't the most powerful or even the best fighter; instead he's the best at keeping a cohesive squad together and focused, which considering how dysfunctional the Night Lords are is saying something. He's also notable for being the one who hunted down and killed Curze's assassin, although she [[Blood Ravens\|got away with the relics]] first. Dies alongside most of the squad while taking down [[Jain Zar]] herself, although given that she's a [[Phoenix Lord]] <strike>she'll be back at some point in the future</strike> she came back for Psychic Awakening. It's never made clear exactly how his prophetic powers work - he's ~~not otherwise described as~~ a ~~psyker or~~ as ~~psychically sensitive~~ in ~~any other meaningful way~~, and he differentiates his abilities from the farseeing of warp sorcerers as being "pure". Then again, Curze's abilities were described as psychic in the Heresy novels, and Talos's abilities are inferred to be a genetic inheritance. Possibly due to this, or because he was the only Night Lord who loved his father enough to avenge him rather than salivating over his legacy, Talos was one of the very few Night Lords that Curze genuinely liked (or at least didn't actively despise). His last battle came about when he was hunted by the forces of [[Craftworld Ulthwé\|Ulthwe]], lead by Jain Zar. Injured and crippled, he let Jain Zar get in what would have been the deathblow, had Talos not committed suicide by grenade cluster. Despite this, Jain Zar's current body survived long enough for Malcharion to curb stomp her to death, then complain about having to finish everything for Talos.		*'''[[Talos]]:''' The leader of First Claw and former [[apothecary]]. His main shtick is that he has part of the Night Haunter's precognition, which is occasionally useful, but is also breaking his body down. He is oddly principled for a traitor marine and spends a lot of his time looking for some purpose other than just terror-murdering. He also makes a point of looking after his serfs well, provided they do what he tells them. A notable part of his character is that he isn't the most powerful or even the best fighter; instead he's the best at keeping a cohesive squad together and focused, which considering how dysfunctional the Night Lords are is saying something. He's also notable for being the one who hunted down and killed Curze's assassin, although she [[Blood Ravens\|got away with the relics]] first. Dies alongside most of the squad while taking down [[Jain Zar]] herself, although given that she's a [[Phoenix Lord]] <strike>she'll be back at some point in the future</strike> she came back for Psychic Awakening. It's never made clear exactly how his prophetic powers work - he's called out by a Raptor as having psychic potential that he never cared to have trained (in part because his trainer would have been Ruven below), but his sight is extremely different from how most seers work and he differentiates his abilities from the farseeing of warp sorcerers as being "pure". Then again, Curze's abilities were described as psychic in the Heresy novels, and Talos's abilities are inferred to be a genetic inheritance. Possibly due to this, or because he was the only Night Lord who loved his father enough to avenge him rather than salivating over his legacy, Talos was one of the very few Night Lords that Curze genuinely liked (or at least didn't actively despise). His last battle came about when he was hunted by the forces of [[Craftworld Ulthwé\|Ulthwe]], lead by Jain Zar. Injured and crippled, he let Jain Zar get in what would have been the deathblow, had Talos not committed suicide by grenade cluster. Despite this, Jain Zar's current body survived long enough for Malcharion to curb stomp her to death, then complain about having to finish everything for Talos.

	*'''Xarl:''' The beatstick of First Claw. Talos's childhood friend (less so now) and regarded as the best fighter in the company. He's used as a threat by Talos to make anyone trying to edge for command by murdering their superiors. Xarl was a foil to Talos, being a cynic and cutting quite close to a grounded, if otherwise typical Night Lord, as opposed to Talos's romanticized ideas about his father and Legion. Apart from being an abrasive snarker, and chronic complainer, there isn't a lot else to say about him. Dies after headbutting a loyalist marine champion to death through his HELMET - Xarl wasn't wearing one. Badass to the end.		*'''Xarl:''' The beatstick of First Claw. Talos's childhood friend (less so now) and regarded as the best fighter in the company. He's used as a threat by Talos to make anyone trying to edge for command by murdering their superiors. Xarl was a foil to Talos, being a cynic and cutting quite close to a grounded, if otherwise typical Night Lord, as opposed to Talos's romanticized ideas about his father and Legion. Apart from being an abrasive snarker, and chronic complainer, there isn't a lot else to say about him. Dies after headbutting a loyalist marine champion to death through his HELMET - Xarl wasn't wearing one. Badass to the end.

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	The '''Warband of the Broken Aquila''' (formerly the '''Warband of the Exalted''' and '''[[Night Lords]] 10th Company''' before that) is a warband of [[Chaos Space Marines]] of the Night Lords Legion, if we still had to point that out. They're the guys you see in [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]]'s Night Lords trilogy.		The '''Warband of the Broken Aquila''' (formerly the '''Warband of the Exalted''' and '''[[Night Lords]] 10th Company''' before that) is a warband of [[Chaos Space Marines]] of the Night Lords Legion, if we still had to point that out. They're the guys you see in [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]]'s Night Lords trilogy.