The canonically accurate way to play Nightlords is to set up your pieces, watch your opponent to set up their pieces, then, upon realizing you’re not guaranteed victory, retreat from the field of battle without ever firing a shot

Calling the Night Lord's spooky all while having a skeleton as a profile pic really drives home the fact that the Night Lord's are indeed very spooky.

Originally, when I first got into warhammer I tried to paint ultra marines but I used a really dark blue, and used blood splatters (paint blood not real blood) to cover up my mistakes then i learned about the night lords and was like “oh hey that’s what I made”.

FUN BIT OF TRIVIA! So, Konrad Curze - interesting name right? I'm pretty sure it's a reference (Much like Fyodor Karamazov is a reference to Fyodor Dostoievsky's book "The Brother's Karamazov"), specifically to Colonel Kurtz from the movie Apocalypse Now, which is based on the book "Heart of Darkness" Written by Joseph Conrad - hence Konrad Curze. They even got cheeky and swapped the K and C around so we have Joseph Conrad/ Col. Kurze versus Konrad Curze. Sneaky authorses... BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! In Lore, Konrad Kurze is killed by an assassin named M'shen. In the movie Apocalypse Now, Colonel Kurtz is a rogue US Colonel who is ordered to be tracked down and killed by a US Army Intelligence Officer named Benjamin Willard. When Willard finds Colonel Kurtz, he is offered no resistance as the Colonel has been *mentally broken from his long and savage war and in-fact asks for Captain Willard to take his life." AND WE'RE STILL NOT DONE. GUESS WHAT ELSE?! The Actor who played Benjamin Willard? HIS NAME WAS MARTIN SHEEN. Colonel Kurtz and Martin Sheen? Konrad Curze and M'Shen? Yeah! Fuckin clever. I'll also be the first to admit that I didn't know all of this myself, but instead My Mother drew the connection after a conversation between my brother and her about the Nightlords and Konrad Curze.

Turns out the real Night Lord was the friends we made along the way (They all went crazy thinking they were the Night Lord)

Dude, I've been binging your videos coz it just feels like finally having that one friend who casually nerds out with me on warhammer lmao. Keep it up man

I think self-awareness is a byproduct of his actual positive attribute, which is a very strong sense of justice and his negative aspect is either self-doubt or sadism. Which would make sense, since if you can balance out the two you could have the widest perspective of the world and be more compassionate, though seemingly cold. But clearly, with how Konrad basically got poisoned and sort of poisoned himself by consuming a criminal after digging himself out of a really deep hole, it skewed almost any chance for him to reconcile his two sides. And since he couldn’t really lose either side of the coin, his sense of Justice likely made him question himself a damn lot because he’s using the same methods he’s flaying the fuck out of people for.

Their self-awareness is so torturous to them that they run it you with jetpacks on their backs and chainsaws in their handsets the funniest thing ever

The raven guard are emos writing poetry and crying the the shadows. The night lords are black metalheads who drag you into the shadows where a small pool of blood spills from.

Night lords are cool

As a diehard night lord fan this has to be my favorite description of them. Great job Authur. I first found out about them through index astartes pdfs I downloaded back in the late 2000s when I first got into 40k. Found the first book of the night lords trilogy at the local Barnes & Nobles shortly there after and have been a diehard ever since. Finally jumped into the Horus Heresy game when the black book about the Thramus Crusade was released. Lore in the back is shit, but I don't care it got me the courage to start buying stuff from forgeworld before the prices got too insane. Still happy that I got my Sevatar and Curze models, in addition to a raptor squad and three Contemptor dreadnaughts. Currently building and painting my legion force. I have 2000 points assembled that I'm painting. I'm saving sevatar and Curze to paint last. I want my technique to be perfect before I start work on two of my favorite characters from all of warhammer.

Konrad Curze is my favorite primarch. I know your videos are primers instead of deep dives, but you could easily spend hours discussing his lore. And the Night Lord characters like Sevatar and Talos are paradoxically some of the “noblest” in the setting. I can picture Curze the Night Lords, at least at the start, as someone who reads Machiavelli’s “The Prince” and decides to take the “ends justifies the means” and it’s better to be feared than loved” to their logical conclusions. Fantastic legion, and they would be my favorite if I didn’t love the knightly aesthetic of the Dark Angels more.

The Night Lords Omnibus and the Curze primarch book are what made me start reading the 40k books and fall in love with the lore. They also caused me to buy Night Lords as my first army which I'm currently painting up so they'll forever be near and dear to me. On that note, God do I wish they did SOMETHING with Decimus

I love Konrad's story so much. No joke, might be one of my favorite Primarchs It just adds to something ive always felt about the story of WH40k; its a tragedy

I think Konrad's flaw wasn't just the visions themselves, but his unshakable fatalism. Other character's in 40k have visions and try to change or avoid bad outcomes. Konrad came to believe the future was immutable and that was the final nail in the coffin for him.

I love when you make primarchs smile.

I wish the primarch hadn't killed himself, and somehow found some hope (even though that's sort of against the setting). Hadn't heard about these guys, but now I'll try and pick up the omnibus you mentioned to find out more. Great videos, man! Hope you've got peace and hope somewhere.

Cruze is the best primarch because he trusted the process enough to see it through to the mopping up loose ends part.

One of the boons of the VIII Legion not bending the knee to Chaos is that their geneseed is still completely usable. Night Lord's that are kicking around the Imperium are not the same ones from 30K like the other traitor legions, but are pure blooded Night Lord's, not half breeds like Honsuo of the IV for example. Also fun fact, due to their geneseed and recruiting from night worlds and or very dark places like underhive prisons, where the recruits have genetically adapted to the dark, they have the best night vision amongst all the Astartes. It's so good that sunny/bright conditions are near unbearable to them without their helmets on.

The night lords went from being a bunch of batmen with no moral compass on steroids to the literal dirlewanger brigade

I for one love Uzas, he's funny

Nightlords just respect and love life. Truly one of most merciful and compassionate chapters.

Ave Dominus Nox! Truly the only good guys in 40k! *dabs in midnight clad*

If you ever get the chance, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Carcharodons Astra chapter. They are absolutely one of the dumbest things in the setting, in the best way. They are like Loyalist Night Lord's but shark themed

I love the Night Lords. I read the Omnibus and my second ever 40K book was Konrads Primarch book

Konrad's big problem is that whenever he saw the possibility of a good or bad outcome with his visions, he always focused on the bad. What, that dude may help me or kill me in the future? Better just kill him now and make sure to err on the side of caution! Like, his entire life was built around him ensuring the worst possible outcome happened by constantly obsessing on only the worse possible outcomes.

Name: Jason Vorhes Chapter: Night Lords *Known for being too soft in the eyes of his brothers as he only slaughters the women and children over the age of 11*

I never liked Night Lords, because how NOT SM they are. But I grew to like them for their named marines who straight up laid down their own lifes to save normal humans. Justice at its finest, because these innocent weak people did not deserve the shit they were about to go through. Unlike stuff they killed to keep them safe.

Your videos are so entertaining. I think ill binge your whole channel again today because its that entertaining. Keep it up, mang!

Also you're quickly becoming one of my few lore channels due to your content and my love/obsession of Warhammer lore. Keep it up.

make another in-depth video where you can actually nerd out abt these guys to full capacity

Love all of your videos dude!

You are going to be big I can tell keep up the good work.

Keep up the content Arthur! Lovin every second of your stuff! 😊

They are for some my favorite legion, for many of the reasons you laid out.

"I wanted to be a hero. And look how that turned out."

Hell yeah 😎

Would be great to get more Night Lords content. I appreciate how passionate you sound about them. An episode on the omnibus would be awesome!

Second favorite traitor legion. Hype for Worldeaters coming.

This is an outstanding video. Great job!

Found your channel recently and I really love your videos, I already know most of this stuff but hearing it from you is entertaining, so keep it up 👍

Dude I LOVE your content and delivery! Please please please make some 1-2h videos! That would go hard!

Dammit, as good as Bricky’s video is, he didn’t do the Nightlords justice. You sold me on them though. The Vth will always be my favorite, but now I have a favorite traitor legion too

I just found your videos and it makes me so happy that you like the Night Lords as much as you do. They are my favourite legion, so much so I have their icon as a tattoo.

“We have come for you.” Is one of their battle cries.

It got outright written in the night lords trilogy that Konrad Curze hated the veterans too. And that he got killed by a callidus temple assassin. He could have survived, but he believed in the absolute truth of his visions and didn't try. Edit: ah you mentioned that seconds later Edit 2: Yeah they're my favourite. Partially because my name is Konrad

I imagine if you did want to see how we the audience would react to a longer video, grabbing the omnibus would be a good start. Also, you should try to bring bricky in to rant together about the night lords. Good video, as always.

You should be pals with Bricky; He loves Night Lords too

I’d like to see more of the constant mobilization and intelligence gathering of terror troops. The flaying of children can just be implied, thank you very much.

They are half of my favorite space marine chapter Blood Gorgons are a blend from the cursed founding and I think Nightlords are one of their progenitors, the other being World Eaters, or maybe Alpha Legion

Great video!!! I cannot wait when you publish the lore on my own Legion and of my father, Lorgar Aurelian.

Definitely not opposed to more night lord videos

Love them. They are the most pure of the legions

>hour on the night lord omnibus God I'd love that I read it back in the day and the audio book is so good

Every time i see one of these vids it makes me "this" much closer to buying an army and playing warhammer. Very good video!

Thank you to you and Vox in the Void for making it ok to love the Night Lords!

the night lords are why i have my back against the wall when i sleep at night

The raptors are ravenguard and were the genetically mutated sons of corvus corax after the alpha legion sabotaged his new legion recruits after the drop-site massacre.

Good old Night Lords

I'll begrudgingly listen to your opinion about my favorite legion (been a night lord since 2nd) but only because your videos are the best.

"You like Nightlords because of their emo haircuts, I like Nightlords because terrorism is based. We are not the same"

I made my own 40k war-band from 12, that slowly absorbed stragglers and.... acquired vehicles, along with gifts from others, and now it is a full on legion sized company. Ave Dominus Nox

Your voice is so calm and relaxed without being monotone, it's really nice to hear when craving warhammer at work

The Emperor proceeds to make his God of Justice a super serial killer man. It goes wrong. 🤣🤣🤣

You know Konrad despised his legion because of that fact that when he returned post heresy the only person he wanted to see was Jago (aka Sevatar)

I'm a huge night lords fan so it's always great to see others as well. Ave Dominus Nox

I'm assuming you haven't finished the NL Omnibus yet cuz hoo boy that Uzas statement gonna age like fine wine

Please make longer vids i love these

Thanks for getting me into nightlords, theyre my first finished army and i love them so much

i play night lords because of the reasons you mentioned... with almost half a chapter strong where 300+ models are painted

Dude wev WANT hour long videos from you!😊

ARTHUR, I LOVE THE NIGHTLORDS TOO!! When I was new to Warhammer, I was stressing out about what legion to pick so I can join my friends in Tabletop. I saw one of the 1st pictures of a Nightlord on Google images and I fell in love almost instantly! 1st spotting the shimmering Red bat wings on the helm & analyzing every detail of the Marines armor, looking down I was Hooked! Looked like a marine fresh out of a Heavy metal cover! I thought they where like vampiric Marines or something (before I knew about the blood angels) I asked sent the picture to my friends & they told me the basics about them & funnily pointed out that they tortured people, while also pointing out the filleted face of someone stretched out on the Shin of the same Nightlord I 1st saw which I didn't notice at the time 😅. I like to play "good guys" & to me the Dark angels are as close to looking like Nightlords while doing SOME good, but from afar I still love learning about the Nightlords with every Audio book & scrap of info I can find off of lore channels. (Ps. Sorry for my ramblings, but please! Talk more about the Nightlords!! You gave me so much more info about them than I've found over years of knowing about them!!)

Dude, I absolutely love the lore for Konrad Curze. you should definitely make another Nightlords video.

Ave Dominus Nox brother

12:29 I would but I’d be visited by a blue-ish armored guy with a skull face

A fine video sir, and that's coming from a veteran 8th Legion player (started in 3rd edition). HH does a much better job of representing the 8th Legion than 40k currently, I must say. But, overall:AVE DOMINUS NOX!!!!! Edit: You have a new subscriber, sir.🤘

My favorite legion finally covered

thats pretty cool Brother. Go ahead and double it, and give it to the next person

guess you and bricky would be friends

One of those sites selling off brand resin figures was selling a "Sad Batman" primarch

GW not making ninght lords miniaturer is a crime

My second favorite traitor legion (Iron within, Iron without). Sevetar was a BEAST.

13:46 yeah uzas moment

The night lords would be amazing at a Barbecue.

I thought the story went that the nostraman recruits began to overtake the terrain recruits not "pure" hearted nostramans. That kurze had developed such a culture of fear on nostramo that the humans born into it that he got as recruits where just obsessed with recreating it

Bricky says Night Lords are his favorite too - you should collab with him.

I loved the concept of ruling with a sense of extreme justice to the point of tyranny. He hates the legion solely because if you come from the homeworld you're already lacking. Edge lord batman is my favorite description. I'd love to hear the full breakdown, I'm pretty accustomed to long form discussion (2hrs+) so I can't wait for the first hour long vid. The only thing that I dislike about them is that their love of fear causes them to lose focus and they just instead enjoy pushing the weak around, but that's more to their flaw which means they're pretty solid. Yeah...I'd say they are pretty cool.

This is a certified nostraman classic

I believe Konrad is still ""alive"" in his crown.

Well, I sort of knew about the Night Lords and Curze beforehand, but now it's like, oh, I understand why someone would find them really fuckin' cool and neat. I wouldn't mind hearing you gush about 'em summore, honestly. They actually sound like a really interesting part of the setting. :3

"I am Justice..I am Punishment!!!! I am VENGEANCE!!!! and i surrender"... this was said by a Night Lord after he avenged a little girl after she was killed by her overseer... A Night Lord can show empathy that are equal to that of a Salamander... That what makes the Hersey so sad...They had a light that could've heralded a justice system of the Imperium worthy of a NobleBright 40k setting.

Getting through the Soul Hunter trilogy and I can confirm, Nightlords cool.

My favourite faction i love them. Ave dominus nox.

4:37 this part had me dieing XD

It drove him: 😐 Insane: 😄 I love your work, voice and personality bud. Im marathoning your legion video playlist while I paint white scars for my 10th edition combat patrol. Thanks for the entertainment and motivation Mr. Edge Lord 😂

I'm glad to find someone who loves the VIII as much as I do. Ave Dominus Nox

Drukhari and nightlords are fuckin sick

Looking forward to part 2

Kinda funny that there is a night lord that painted his gauntlets red because of a crime, and I’m thinking “ooh crimson fists?”

At 4:44 you sound exactly like the narrator in Battleblock Theater and it really fits. ^^