First Claw EXPLAINED By An Australian

First Claw EXPLAINED By An Australian | Warhammer 40k Lore

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The most interesting Traitor Marines in the entire setting are easily first claw, and that makes them worth talking about
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@khylerbane4523 10 ай бұрын

“I wanted to be a hero, and look where that got me.” -Talos Valcoran explaining why he became an Astarte.

@RedhoodJT 10 ай бұрын

Uzas’s moments of clarity made his death hurt more than the others.

@benlaw2274 10 ай бұрын

"Why are my hands red" damn bro that shit was heart wrenching

@TheSeriousSoul 10 ай бұрын

I loved how the books show Talos use his terror tactics on the Navigator Octavia early in the books. She opened her third eye to kill Talos who stared back at her third eye without flinching, making the Navigator freak out that this chaos marine was unkillable when he really just had his eyes closed under his helmet.

@WhenGoatsWentBaa 8 ай бұрын

I loved his whole thought process there of "I have no idea if her third eye can kill an Astartes and I'm not about to find out"

@rustkarl 10 ай бұрын

‘The old woman.’ Xarl said slowly. ‘She was your mother.’ Now that was a gutwrencher.

@mistadangerzone8362 10 ай бұрын

GW is sitting on a gold mine with decimus and his hunt for craftworld Ulthwe, not only could it bring the night lords back into the spotlight, but they could use it as a way to add new eldar models

@CousinOfCurze 10 ай бұрын

And the absolute fuckload of lore video's and fan fiction about the 8th means the people want more Night Lords. They could just make it a box set. Night Lords vs Ulthwe. We all know GW loves their box sets. And it would help to FINALLY get some lore on what the Night Lords did after the 13th Black Crusade because that is where the lore left them behind. Decimus had them as united as they would get and GW totally dropped that storyline.

@ThatGuyOnFireKnownAsAndrew 10 ай бұрын

Hopefully we get a hit of that lore when the 10th edition Chaos Space Marine codex drops, they’re gonna need more stories now that the World Eaters are in a diff codex

@nightbones8L 10 ай бұрын

There is literally a single sentence in Arks of Omen books where it says the 8th took an ark, attacked Ulthwe, and didn’t do too well and that’s literally it.

@40kanon 10 ай бұрын

@@nightbones8LWe need Sevetar back. He wouldn't let shit get this bad.

@oogskskfn 10 ай бұрын

@@nightbones8Lthat hurts to hear, the night lords are kind of destined to fail and I guess it makes sense there’s no way a night lord fleet could take Ulthwe, I was hoping theyd team up with another legion and actually make a conflict but they really don’t want to do anything with eldar I guess. It also makes sense that thematically the night lords problem is they do what they’re destined and designed to do and then don’t think they can be anything else, talos fell into the same hole as he was stuck in the heresy, and the fact Decimus’s only motivation is “let’s attack cause my vision said so” they’re essentially replaying curze’s failure over and over.

@swinginjoe8477 10 ай бұрын

Mahn, I loved the resurrection of Malcharion moment. They’re like “dude we’ve tried many times to make you up in the dreadnought, why’d this time work?” And he’s just like “I heard Bolter fire”

@Malkav 3 ай бұрын

I love his final words in the end. "I always have to clean up that boy's (Talos) mess." Like a loving father gathering up his sleeping son's toys.

@MrPiccolop 10 ай бұрын

The relationship between Uzas and Talos is my fave. Talos clearly cares for him. Making sure in so far as it's possible to prevent his mate becoming a full blooded khorne berserker.

@johanneskaiser8188 10 ай бұрын

And that one chapter where pre-Khorne Uzas shows up and is pretty congenial hits hard for it.

@yudelabreu5964 10 ай бұрын

My favorite part of the whole book is the death of Uzas... and the red paint incident.

@joesheridan9451 10 ай бұрын

Uzas is the best character for me

@Cruxterm 10 ай бұрын

I think a video talking about Octavia's son Decimus would be cool, apparently he plans to unifiy the Night Lords

@m0n4rch24 10 ай бұрын

No guarantee Decimus is Octavia’s son but yeah it would be cool to see

@Darthrivs89 10 ай бұрын

It’s not but it’s a fan theory and one that is well beloved so we make it canon and revolt should they disregard our demand.

@Trandul 10 ай бұрын

@@m0n4rch24 It's pretty heavily implied imo. Talos warned them that Variel would come for the baby. I would love to read a book about Decimus uniting the Night Lords.

@Nostroman_Praetor 10 ай бұрын

I'm so happy Octavia is living a good life right now.

@MrFredstt 10 ай бұрын

I can't believe there's never been a Decimus book. After the Night Lord's trilogy GW just sort of forgot about them

@somethingsomething2685 10 ай бұрын

Also shout out to Malcharion for saving one of random Night Lord slave and then escorting her to safety in a move that screams anything but Night Lord

@mumalito 10 ай бұрын

I swear to God Malcharion could have been a Salamander. He truly cared about those under him and was a respected leader.

@Malkav 3 ай бұрын

God I laughed at that scene. "The hell u doin here?" lolol

@trimeerious4349 10 ай бұрын

Getting a video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs would have reacted to being in guillimans situation as imperial regent would be really interesting. Seeing how each primarch would rule their own imperium would be really interesting

@wingwangtingtang 10 ай бұрын

i swear hes already done a video like that

@trimeerious4349 10 ай бұрын

@@wingwangtingtang not that I know of !

@JammesJack-td6gv 10 ай бұрын

He said that he would do that but he has falied to deliver

@ReaperofValhalla 10 ай бұрын

I would like to see pre macheria/emperor tier spanking Logar react to modern day imperium

@declanoconnor3445 10 ай бұрын

@@trimeerious4349 somebody did, may be leutin

@LGMUFO 10 ай бұрын

One of the best series in The Black Library in my opinion, just extremely well written and it convinced me to become obsessed with a faction, that previously, I had negative interest in!

@mikemikhail723 10 ай бұрын

What is the name of the book?

@MydasAU 9 ай бұрын

late but: Soul Hunter Blood Reaver Void Stalker@@mikemikhail723

@benlaw2274 9 ай бұрын

@@mikemikhail723the night lords omnibus (it's a trilogy and I really recommend it)

@kojicasado1422 10 ай бұрын

I missed the mention of Lucoryphus, who was quite relevant and such a badass crazy rocketman

@berserk6855 Ай бұрын

Care to explain further?

@generalgrieeevious 10 ай бұрын

Decimus is technically the only Example of a "second generation" Astartes. Not like the primarius but a "child" of a space marine. Pretty cool honestly.

@bbbbKeJodddd 10 ай бұрын

Well him and Honsou, that prick.

@lXenn0nl 10 ай бұрын

You should commision art of Xarl headbutting Tolemion during their epic duel 💪

@theworld6710 10 ай бұрын

I’m so happy to see this video. It was the Night Lords trilogy that sold me on Warhammer and helped me get back into reading. It deserves all the attention it can get.

@entrippyZ 10 ай бұрын

Since you mentioned the nightlords trilogy, let me remind everyone that some audiobooks are headphones only. This nice old lady walked over to my station during a flaying, she never even looked at me again.

@KnightofLondor 10 ай бұрын

LOL

@veaxeusvulture444 9 ай бұрын

There's audiobooks of them? Mind giving me the title?

@Ern_53 10 ай бұрын

Cant wait for the night lords to come back their armor design and theme are so awesome

@crowejagerson3628 10 ай бұрын

Favorite books in 40k. You are missed first claw. You murderous, sadistic, but glorious bastards.

@Zso-VIII 10 ай бұрын

"Lord of the Night" walked so "Soul Hunter" could run.

@wolflordgio6320 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely love Sevetar i hope we get more from the scouring books Prince of crows is such a great book!!!

@jaketheberge1970 10 ай бұрын

Unless he died during the siege. No one knows exactly what happened yet.

@Sweetness71775 10 ай бұрын

I don't think Sevatar was at the seige. If he was, he absolutely would have fought Sigismund to finally settle who was the best fighter.

@snackboxone364 10 ай бұрын

A video about the night lords is always appreciated

@hungryfrog3605 10 ай бұрын

Wait so did Talos save Octavia BEFORE she got slaaneshed? Believe me, it would be great if he did, but when I read it I got the impression the cultists were either just starting or in the middle of having their way with her when Talos starting breaking shit and hunting them. So is this just wistfull thinking or did Talos actually manage to SAVE her, and not just keep her from dying?

@sordschie3944 10 ай бұрын

She was not slaaneshed, they just beat all colors of shit out of her.

@ionnanskilliorus6877 10 ай бұрын

No he didn't they had already done their deed.

@jaketheberge1970 10 ай бұрын

It's not stated what happened. They never say if she was or was not assaulted and it is never referenced again as far as I remember. She doesn't act like anything happened beyond getting kidnapped she I lean towards her not being Slaaneshed as you put it.

@sordschie3944 10 ай бұрын

@@jaketheberge1970 And the r-word gets dropped quite a bit in the trilogy but when they speak about the kidnapped its not mentioned and not even hinted.

@hungryfrog3605 10 ай бұрын

I'm in the middle of re-reading the 1st book. That part is my least favorite for obvious reasons, but I'll update if I find anything leaning one way or the other. It doesn't help that Maruc later talks to Septimus about Octavia needing some alone time, and the language could either imply her being traumatized from ALMOST being slaaneshed or BEING slaaneshed, so it's a little vague. Either way, I'll update if the novel gives an answer.

@lthudgins 10 ай бұрын

Sudden urge to make a First Claw Kill Team 😮

@wrathofswe 10 ай бұрын

Thats where I started, now close to 3k points.......

@akumaking1 10 ай бұрын

Decimus needs to show up in the lore again.

@2dola 10 ай бұрын

"Malcarion why did you wake up?" "I HEARD BOLTER FIRE." Most badass introduction of a character.

@thebro4165 10 ай бұрын

This Omnibus was the first Black Library publication I read and nothing has matched it so far. Not only is first Claw really awesome but I also love a lot of the sidecharacters such as the humans and the Red Corsairs. Blood Reaver and the Huron Book are actually the reason why I play Red Corsairs, but it was hard to resist playing Night Lords XD

@severanfenrir4051 10 ай бұрын

I love the piece of lore we get with Uzas with the Red Gaulets of Treason Talos made him wear.

@thatguy1400 10 ай бұрын

Night lords are best at being bad

@indrickboreale7381 10 ай бұрын

Death Note the legion

@TableGrables 10 ай бұрын

They don't need no chaos

@f.e.areproduce5298 10 ай бұрын

Yet again i'm watching another video of yours from start to finish, a more relaxed take on the Warhammer 40K which feeds my curiosity and is said in a very specific type of voice which has just right ammount of relatable person energy in it to make me want to come back for more.

@Genrun 10 ай бұрын

Great vid Majorkill. Made my day with Mercutian. Not much beats the image of a sterile hyper bro soldier firing a 'massive bolter' at a hard to hit demi-god Eldar hottie. RIP Mercutian

@rustkarl 10 ай бұрын

Miserable, loyal Mercutian indeed. I liked him, his pessimistic attitude was rather grounding, especially when they bring up his noble background and he ends up swearing so normally.

@EarthenGames 10 ай бұрын

Night Lords trilogy is amazing. That scene in book 1 when they fight the titan was surreal to read

@jxj13 10 ай бұрын

Night Lord fans are Wild. “He was an honorable man who teamkilled someone who abused one of his slaves” “He also flayed an entire planet and also team kills when he has a seizure sometimes too, isn’t he soo cool?”

@LordLambertius 10 ай бұрын

Damn right he is

@somethingsomething2685 10 ай бұрын

He's honorable for NIGHT LORD standards

@nethanbrake6294 10 ай бұрын

You should've mentioned The Bleeding Eyes and their leader Lucoryphus.

@alfredincognito7678 10 ай бұрын

Lucocryphus and his raptors are on often forgotten badass part of the books. I love how he got a cameo in the siege of terra books

@nethanbrake6294 10 ай бұрын

@@alfredincognito7678 YES YES!

@Yehu12311 10 ай бұрын

Best part is Lucoryphus survives and ends up as Decimus' right-hand man besides Variel.

@jacobgebhart7550 10 ай бұрын

I just finished the series for the second time. The best part is when the shoe finally drops for Talos and Septimus end up telling Talos to eat shit in the 3rd book.

@Fortheemperor382 10 ай бұрын

Its always a treat watching these. It frees me from the drudgery and disappointment of my life for ten minutes

@Meek_Little_Mouse 10 ай бұрын

ADB is such a wonderful author, just banger after banger

@KnifeCursed 10 ай бұрын

It’s almost as if excellent character development and writing make for a great read. GW could definitely stand to do more of that.

@rexlumontad5644 10 ай бұрын

Night Lords are pure unadulterated awesomeness.

@ericdraven8837 10 ай бұрын

Great Legion, Jago is beast and one of my favorite

@codybates2419 10 ай бұрын

They really need to follow up with a Decimus series.

@MKJNS7086 10 ай бұрын

If you're new to 40k, read these books now. I actually picked these up because Majorkill recommended them in another video, and they are legitimately great. Liked them so much I picked up the Lord of the Night mini.

@jasonthorpe7087 5 ай бұрын

I loved the series! ADB along with Abnett and McNeil are the THREE ULTRED best story tellers of 40K!

@sordschie3944 10 ай бұрын

This warband sparked my love for the night lords and space marine, very nice video

@RamonChiNangWong078 10 ай бұрын

They should write a story about an unknown uncorrupted Night lord Spacemarine training new recruits recruits that he made from the geneseeds that he harvested from his fellow brothers

@mitchellbarlow4553 6 ай бұрын

Just got into 40k recently. Been lovin all your stuff. Gunna be ordering some merch soon. Keep up the great job dude! You rock!

@nightlordAL 9 ай бұрын

Those awesome novels got me back into this silly wonderful hobby after a 20 year break

@EbeeDeeby 10 ай бұрын

I liked how after they do that whole psychic shockwave thing that one of the Nightlords realizes that they may have screwed themselves over because as far as the Imperium knows a whole bunch of worlds just went totally dark so they're going to send an overwhelming force in response to that. Bad guys/chaos characters rarely seem to recognize the Imperium as a threat even though it's pretty normal for them to lose to the Imperium. Normally they are just so overconfident or crazy or whatever that they don't care.

@Gxbvy 10 ай бұрын

oh wow I didn't even realized this just came out. Majorkill video is always an instant click for me

@CousinOfCurze 10 ай бұрын

It was their look that first drew me to them, their trilogy that got me back into reading after years and their absolute insane lore and open endedness that made me start collecting chaos space marines and turning them midnight blue. Just the fact that most are random pirate warbands now makes homebrewing them so easy and lore accurate.

@rexlumontad5644 10 ай бұрын

*thumbnail* The First Claw about to drop the best Traitor Legion album.

@DoomStroller 10 ай бұрын

Alright Captain Murder, really happy you did a vid on these guys. Finished the omnibus a month or so ago. You left out a fairly relevant piece of lore. There was a bit of redemption with cyrion and uzsas at the end. Cyrion makes a vague but deliberate confession to talos before he dies. Talos seems to understand the implications. Also xarl is one of the strongest warriors but the atramentar could have been briefly mentioned in that segment. Their reputation appears to preceed them. Agree with previous comment on lucoryphus as well. Dudes a G.Enjoyed the vid! Iron your fucking shirt

@lordwillywanker4203 10 ай бұрын

“Brother why are my hands red, does Talos know i did not do this”

@AlphariusDominatus 10 ай бұрын

10 thousand years after the Great Crusade and The Word Bearers became more hardcore and effective than Night Lords you know something got fucked up along the way.

@anthonycampos7417 10 ай бұрын

From what i recall, the Nightlords omibus never outright states Malcharion dies at the end of the book. If anything there are too many loose ends like Deltrion and how everyone escapes

@Big_chillin 10 ай бұрын

"Ruven - a fellow night lord". Ye chief, I'm not sure about that

@mecwazmakha7670 10 ай бұрын

I love your videos bro ❤. But am patiently waiting for a blood angels chapter video 🥺

@ARAAFIGORN 10 ай бұрын

If there isnt one out yet, i think night a video about Atramentar is bound to happen now

@TheAdoringFan 10 ай бұрын

This channel is so hype. He makes the lore simple when it’s the most convoluted universe.

@RotaFury 10 ай бұрын

I won't lie when i first heard of Night Lord's they where my least favorite, however more i've learned about them the more and more interest in them i am getting to the point where i am unsure if i wanna build my Chaos army as Night Lords OR Red Corsairs.

@timeforthehammer1401 10 ай бұрын

God damn I need reread this omnibus…absolutely loved it!

@AximandTheCursed 10 ай бұрын

Uzas: "Blood for the Blood God! Souls, skulls, souls,skulls..." Adhemar: "Shut up! Shut up before I tear your head off, stuff it with explosives and use it as the ugliest grenade in existence!"

@cbr2317 10 ай бұрын

Majorkill is turning into Mack from Always Sunny Down Under!

@zvonimirgrabic7802 9 ай бұрын

It was the First Claw trilogy that got me into reading Warhammer books.

@transfan962 10 ай бұрын

Do a video on the chief librarian from each legion

@jokingjoker4964 10 ай бұрын

Majorkill you should make a video showing off your current warhammer mini collection one day

@elfinpurple219 10 ай бұрын

Cool vid MK, the Night Lords are easily the most interesting traitor legion, to my mind at least. Nice for them to get some love!

@RawDogAnAeldari 10 ай бұрын

Uzas slowly became my favorite character but I def LOL'd at his end

@sasanahadian2859 10 ай бұрын

Superb video as always @majorkill. Could you make a video dedicated to the Navigators, the major houses, their politics, relation to the overall Imperium and factions, etc?

@AustralianBlueMage 10 ай бұрын

This is what I'm here for: Night Lords, most interesting of the Traitor Marines

@LukeSWOA 10 ай бұрын

Video idea: Do the races pay for their sins in the afterlife in 40K

@sylvanus9758 9 ай бұрын

Night lords omnibus is what got me into reading warhammer besides luetin

@themightyone88 10 ай бұрын

Actually named my second child Sevatar Nykona.... Wife didn't realise what that was until I got the birth cert signed

@minipaintingforyou 9 ай бұрын

Ever since reading ADBˋs Nightlords trilogy, I wanted to paint marines in that scheme. Legions Imperialis is probably going to fill that void 😊 Awesome recap, thank you for sharing!

@flexzible3848 10 ай бұрын

best books from warhammer, amazing saga, a must read, i hope the give us more night lords books

@kommandantduncan1693 13 күн бұрын

I'm not going to lie First Claw and what I've seen so far are what I wanted from Chaos Astarte's

@The_Warsmith 10 ай бұрын

Oh FUCK YEAH. My lads, Uzas and Xarl!

@dr.bright3081 10 ай бұрын

UZAS IS EATING THE GENESEED! Also, the betrayal at the end… I won’t name who it was here. But man. I felt ABSOLUTE DISGUST at that man. Mostly because I thought he was hilarious and liked him before I knew that!

@dr.bright3081 10 ай бұрын

Nvm. Majorkill explained it as the 2nd person he discussed lol

@stripeybag6977 10 ай бұрын

"You did it Jain Zar, you saved the Craftworld. Just imagine if they survived or someone gained their geneseeds." "The what?" Day 308 of requesting a Commissar Yarrick Major Mini pls and thank you.

@JKore905 10 ай бұрын

This trilogy started me down the path of understanding no one are good guys in WH 30-40k

@withlovefromlightindust591 10 ай бұрын

Hello Majorkill, Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you.

@RedoranGuard 8 ай бұрын

I imagine at least one crew member on the covenant of fire (aka their main ship) must of been sad when Uzas died and was depressed after Uzas died.

@ryankyle2467 9 ай бұрын

I didn’t know most of that! Another great video!!! And I didn’t know any of the chaos SM had kids!?! I knew about two of the armies you were building but I didn’t know you did the 3 army bundle lol It’s all good! I did the same thing!!! Necrons, Orks and SM! But my SMs are SOTP with a few of the successor chapter leading the fight!!!

@adampaviacorp.6780 4 ай бұрын

Death frisby. That cracked me up

@thorifyer 10 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas: Half year of viewing, now a subscriber to help you reach your goal.

@Pyronix18 10 ай бұрын

I point blank refuse to subscribe to anyting and my accoutn reflect that, bit the kill god got me. You eearned a sub sir

@adriandeltell8177 10 ай бұрын

The leader of the Raptors was a great character too

@drefranks691 9 ай бұрын

Good to see that MK dressed up as Chris Chrisly this episode

@wrathofswe 10 ай бұрын

Mandatory: Ave Dominus Nox!

@andrewsanchez2888 10 ай бұрын

Boom first like and comment you sir are the reason I ever got into warhammer you've made it funny and easy to understand thank you man

@bencarpenter8980 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the content, it's been great following you the last few years

@warrior12379 10 ай бұрын

Imagine a DOW 2 type of campaign, but with the "adventures" of the first claw. I reckon that would be dope af

@Malkieification 10 ай бұрын

Looks at my nightlord books "contented sigh" read them so many times it hurts now heh.

@collecter343 10 ай бұрын

Worst feeling when you read a book so much that it physically hurts to bend the spine because you're afraid of damaging it beyond capable rereads.

@Malkieification 10 ай бұрын

@@collecter343 Still not broken yet... o_o i feel jinxed...

@poopsled 10 ай бұрын

10th company would make for some dope majorminis

@Deviated88 8 ай бұрын

Just started Soul Hunter last week and I have to say this book is one of the most enjoyable 40K books I’ve read so far.

@Sciontabier 10 ай бұрын

Please make a Nykona Sharrowkyn/Raven Guard inspired major mini.

@servit0r 10 ай бұрын

When you apply tactical flaying to a whole worlds population and are regarded a genius for it.

@jeremyvoisard744 10 ай бұрын

Variel is a certified G change my mind !

@friendlyneighbourhoodsunwheel 10 ай бұрын

Ahh my favourite marines. I just wished they added another trilogy of the Nightlords to see Decimus rise.

@kevinsmith9013 10 ай бұрын

first 40k books I read. Decimus needs a trilogy of his own!

@peterthomas187 10 ай бұрын

Variel is the name of my character in WoW and I did not know about the Flayer. XD