There was no overarching order or authority, simply the rule of the blade and fist you owned what you took. Nostramo was a hellscape, a night world blessed with rich seams of mineral wealth, but in the grip of a cruel aristocracy who exploited it ruthlessly. A tortured soul, he is a product, in many ways, of his upbringing on the benighted world of Nostramo. To understand the Night Lords, you have to understand their Primarch – Konrad Curze, the Night Haunter.
If the Pax Imperialis was violated, the Night Lords were sent, and order restored – the tithe paid in blood. Those who had bent the knee and then sought to rise back to their feet were met with unbelievable acts of retribution from the VIII, who did not see matters in shades of grey. In these early days, the Emperor put his VIII Legion to use in crushing recidivists. No wonder, then, that the proto-Legion preferred night operations. These dark-spawn were among the first of the VIII.īorn from this questionable stock, the VIII had a gene-code which accentuated pale skin and night vision, but provided a relative vulnerability to bright lights and flares. These were the “night’s children”, moulded and formed by their surroundings into savage, silent monsters. Yet, where humanity is found, so are children. Among these places were the prison sinks, “vast caverns filled with the half crushed ruins of millennia”, teeming with the condemned and blighted souls who had committed some trespass or other.įed by a constant influx of people from the surface world, these were an “ever hungering gate to madness and murder”. With the coming of the Emperor, the planet was unified under His banner, but the darkest corners of humanity’s homeworld still remained.
In the time of the Unification Wars, Terra was a grim, blood-soaked world, held in the grip of eternal conflict between petty lords, witch-breeds and gene-kings. A downright dirty fighter and a long-running Night Lords player (and the source of many a defeat for my poor Salamanders and Solar Auxilia), the Flaymaster is going to lend a hand (presumably not his own, and dripping with gore) to some of the tactical commentary as we go through the article.
In this article – for the first time in our series – we are going to be joined by a guest writer: The Flaymaster himself, Berith Degustan ( r on Instagram). If the Night Lords wished to make a planet compliant, then generally, when they were done, its people were compliant, and knew the cost of rebellion.
Their tactics may have been unquestionably brutal, and perhaps lacking a certain “long-term” view in the context of wishing to ensure a population embraced the Imperium, but they worked. Yet, it cannot be argued that they weren’t effective.
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