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Night Lords

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Night Lords	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Night Lords are one of the most iconic legions of Chaos Space Marines in Warhammer 40,000. Even before the Horus Heresy broke out they were infamous for their brutal attacks (which often involved excessive amounts of force) and terror tactics. Essentially, think of an entire army of eight-foot-tall genetically enhanced supersoldiers in power armour, and now they incorporate all the darkest aspects of Batman filtered through the characteristic grim darkness of the far future. This will only come a fraction of the way to summarising what the Night Lords are, but for our purposes it will do.The Night Lords were originally the subject of only one book, Lord of the Night (2005) by Simon Spurrier, which presented an alternate interpretation of their history where their Primarch and progenitor, the Night Haunter, was a highly focused individual who shunned the accolades that were heaped upon his peers. Instead, he prosecuted his own brutal kind of warfare precisely because none of the other Legions would and was loyal to the Emperor up until the end, even when his father had abandoned him. This interpretation, bolstered by the quality of the book, proved popular and enjoyed renewed interest with the release of Aaron Dembski-Bowden's Soul Hunter series, which includes, in narrative order, the short story Shadow Knight (2009), the novel Soul Hunter (2010), the audio drama Throne of Lies (2010), the novel Blood Reaver (2011), the short story The Core (2010), and finally the final novel Void Stalker (2012). They also have a number of works featuring and also centering on members of the Legion in the Horus Heresy series.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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Night Lords / int_10b6b5f7	type	Cherry Tapping
Night Lords / int_10b6b5f7	comment	Cherry Tapping: A Humongous Mecha version is done when the Imperial Titan Hunter in the Grey finds Seventh Claw's Rhino APC, and, to conserve ammo, destroys it by stepping on it. Seventh Claw is not pleased.
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Night Lords / int_12dd1d4c	type	RapeAsDrama
Night Lords / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: To Octavia In Soul Hunter. By Blood Reaver, she's pretty well adjusted, but Maruc mentions to Septimus that the trauma isn't completely gone.
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Night Lords / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Night Lords / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son!" Guy: Most of the legion.
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Night Lords / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Night Lords / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Xarl, the most skilled combatant of the Claw, is the first to die against the Eldar in Talos' vision at the end of Blood Reaver. When the rest of First Claw (sans Xarl at that point) attempt to fight the heavily-armed Genesis Marine champion. Then Xarl shows up and evens up the score.
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Night Lords / int_187228e0	type	Bridal Carry
Night Lords / int_187228e0	comment	Bridal Carry: After Septimus and Octavia finally admit their love to each other, he scoops her up in his arms and would have carried her back to his quarters if the plot hadn't intervened.
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Night Lords / int_19102429	type	Twist Ending
Night Lords / int_19102429	comment	Twist Ending: Played straight because it probably wasn't the twist you were expecting.
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Night Lords / int_1950b76f	type	A Good Way to Die
Night Lords / int_1950b76f	comment	A Good Way to Die: Double Subverted with Xarl's "death" in the Blood Reaver epilogue Then played straight by Xarl in Void Reaver.
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Night Lords / int_19dcd4bc	type	Sand in My Eyes
Night Lords / int_19dcd4bc	comment	Sand In My Eyes: A variant with Malcharion the War Sage. Talos claims that he serves as an inspiration to everyone else, to which Malcharion replies that all he did was shout loudly and kill things. His dreadnought body then makes a rattling, crunching noise described as being like a tank shifting gears. He claims it's his cannon's autoloaders cycling, but he's actually chuckling instead. He does it several times throughout. The Emperor's Gift, also written by the same author, has Bjorn the Fel-Handed doing the same, indicating that it is a common thing amongst dreadnoughts.
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Night Lords / int_1b38f6b7	type	Shout-Out Theme Naming
Night Lords / int_1b38f6b7	comment	Shout-Out Theme Naming: Most things related to the VIII legion are named for something related to Joseph Conrad or his works, when they don't relate to fear in some way.
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Night Lords / int_1dce4748	type	Power Limiter
Night Lords / int_1dce4748	comment	Power Limiter: In the form of a runic collar on Ruven while he is held captive by the Red Corsairs.
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Night Lords / int_1e763245	type	Vice City
Night Lords / int_1e763245	comment	Vice City: The city of Nostramo Quintus, and the whole planet.
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Night Lords / int_1ef7232d	type	Wild Child
Night Lords / int_1ef7232d	comment	Wild Child: Curze raised himself on Nostramo. He subverted the trope, but that's because he was a Primarch.
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Night Lords / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Night Lords / int_1fc8335e	comment	Talos' encounter with the Ruinous Powers in Soul Hunter. Originally intended to initiate a Deal with the Devil, but Talos' Heroic Willpower twisted it into this.
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Night Lords / int_20598ec4	type	Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain
Night Lords / int_20598ec4	comment	Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: Talos' dream flashback to his childhood in the slums of Nostramo Quintus.
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Night Lords / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Night Lords / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: Most commonly Uzas, but other members of 10th company have been known to do it.
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Night Lords / int_21d41a5b	type	Praetorian Guard
Night Lords / int_21d41a5b	comment	Praetorian Guard: The Atramentar, one of the results of the Terminator First Company fracturing into bodyguards around other company captains after Zso Sahaal inherited Sevatar's position. They very rarely see combat in the Exalted's warband.
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Night Lords / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
Night Lords / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: Talos' nightmare in Blood Reavers epilogue.
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Night Lords / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Night Lords / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo Sahaal's second victim at the very start of the book gets stabbed by his claws, described as being "pinioned like a butterfly on a page". Same description is used for Sahaal himself later when Mita finds him crucified in the mental prison where Eldar had just placed him.
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Night Lords / int_26852e3d	type	Persona Non Grata
Night Lords / int_26852e3d	comment	Persona Non Grata: Subverted, The Covenant's crew are surprised that they aren't banned from Hell's Iris. By the end of Blood Reaver, though, it has been changed from "Persona Non Grata" to "Kill On Sight".
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Night Lords / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Night Lords / int_295087bf	comment	Mercy and Forgiveness, Konrad Curze's own lightning claws.
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Night Lords / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
Night Lords / int_2a3006e5	comment	First Claw eventually stops cock-blocking them, though, given that Talos's vision in the Epilogue shows Octavia is pregnant...and running from the Inquisition.
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Night Lords / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
Night Lords / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: Maruc. He's yet another slave taken in by the Tenth Company, and gets ear-marked by Septimus as an assistant armorer. He doesn't seem like he'll last very long.
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Night Lords / int_2d428543	type	Eyes Never Lie
Night Lords / int_2d428543	comment	Eyes Never Lie: Throughout the franchise, but most notably in Savage Weapons, the most obvious indicator of Konrad Curze's growing madness and eventual Superpower Meltdown is the continual "fever bright" state of his eyes.
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Night Lords / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
Night Lords / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: A very large one after the death of the Night Haunter lead to the start of the story.
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Night Lords / int_305bcbb9	type	Space Pirates
Night Lords / int_305bcbb9	comment	Space Pirates: The Red Corsairs, who appear in Blood Reaver. The 10th company has to resort to this occasionally, much to Talos' disgust.
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Night Lords / int_30d71ee	type	Flaying Alive
Night Lords / int_30d71ee	comment	Flaying Alive: Done with great glee to a loyalist Astartes in the opening of Blood Reaver. Also mentioned as a means of punishment that the 10th company use to keep their slaves and / or brothers in line. Taken Up to Eleven with the flaying pits, where they are flayed, thrown into a huge hole in the ground, and left to die. This becomes the fate of many of the ten million people purged from on Tsagualsa in the first half of Void Stalker.
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Night Lords / int_31f242b3	type	Smoke Shield
Night Lords / int_31f242b3	comment	Smoke Shield: The result of Zso Sahaal's attempt to kill Krieg Acerbus at point blank range with a holy bolter given to him by the Primarch of his chapter. He emerges from the smoke completely unharmed and backhands Sahaal across the room, cracking his power armor.
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Night Lords / int_34b33a09	type	You Should Have Died Instead
Night Lords / int_34b33a09	comment	You Should Have Died Instead: Cyrion says this to Uzas in a half-joking manner before a boarding action, wishing Uzas had died in a previous raid instead of the apparently uncorrupted Sar Zell. We later see exactly how this went down in a two-chapter-long flashback in Void Stalker. Sar Zell was gunned down by Ultramarines as First Claw tried to board their Thunderhawk, after which then-tagalong-sergeant Uzas added insult to injury by unceremoniously claiming Sar Zell's chainaxe. No one was thrilled.
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Night Lords / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
Night Lords / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: The Eldar also want the Corona Nox, and to this end a Seer Council took control of an Inquisitor to look for it.
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Night Lords / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Night Lords / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: Vandred holding off the Red Corsair armada so the Echo of Damnation and the surviving portions of Tenth Company can escape.
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Night Lords / int_3c1bc558	type	Board to Death
Night Lords / int_3c1bc558	comment	Board to Death: When Zso Sahaal was uniting gangs and underhive elements into his personal army, he has the respective leaders brought to him and intimidated into swearing their people to his service. Then he kills them all at once, to keep power firmly in his control.
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Night Lords / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Night Lords / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Mita, who has incredible psychic powers but is treated like garbage by the people she protects and constantly thrust into danger. By extension, all psykers in the book are in this boat, as this is a general W40k theme.
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Night Lords / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Night Lords / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: To be expected in the 40K universe, but surprisingly averted in the case of the Night Lord's slaves. Yes, they are enslaved to vicious demi-gods who commit acts of horror and slaughter as standard procedure, but the Night Lords still treat their slaves and crew better than other chaos legions (and possibly a few Imperial organisations). However, the Night Lords will not hesitate to do something horrible to their slaves if they misbehave. And they find nothing wrong in hunting and butchering their nonessential slaves for sport every so often. This gets Uzas in trouble, as he ends up rampaging through 30 of the essential crew and 2 of his brothers while hallucinating that he's hunting down on the warband's current target in the second book. Specifically averted and lampshaded in The Core. A sensor officer flinches whilst telling Talos that the ship they are looking for is hidden inside a space hulk the size of a small moon. Talos then informs him that he is not going to kill him just for giving him irritating news.
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Night Lords / int_3d29fed	type	NoKillLikeOverKill
Night Lords / int_3d29fed	comment	A moon around Tsagualsa, which Talos shoots with planet-busting torpedoes, allowing them to blow up a nearby retreating Genesis Marine battle barge that hid behind it.
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Night Lords / int_3d85c6bc	type	Black Speech
Night Lords / int_3d85c6bc	comment	In Void Stalker Talos goes to Septimus and beats Septimus to within an inch of his life for getting Octavia pregnant. When he demands an explanation, Septimus defiantly answers him in Nostraman. Talos is briefly left speechless after, for the first time ever, one of his slaves tells him to "eat shit."
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Night Lords / int_3e11c4b0	type	Under New Management
Night Lords / int_3e11c4b0	comment	Under New Management: Zso Sahaal replacing Sevatar as First Captain after the Siege of Terra. The majority of the Legion did not appreciate this. When Talos takes (unwilling) command. Void Stalker explains that Night Lords have traditionally very poor track records at uniting their entire legion under one commander since Kurze's assassination. Their legion is just too fractured, so it's not like it's entirely Sahaal's fault.
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Night Lords / int_3ff156fa	type	Nay-Theist
Night Lords / int_3ff156fa	comment	Nay-Theist: The Night Lords' theology in a nutshell, applying in equal measure to both the Emperor and the Chaos Gods. The only reason some Night Lords even dignify the Chaos Gods is to gain a temporary advantage by channeling their power, and then abandoning them when their blessings are no longer needed. Uzas tried doing this with Khorne to gain martial might, but not giving Khorne his due. Khorne, not to be denied, has penitently left Uzas a shambling wreck who's hardly the soldier he was before. Uzas is constantly trying to explain this to First Claw in his lucid moments. He's been so far gone for so long, that none of them care. Zso Sahaal gave the Chaos Gods some worship, though he venerated Kurze above any of them. He did gain some power and was even protected from psychic spying by some attendant daemons (that he may not have been aware of). The price was that he was well aware that it was eroding his sanity, and ran the risk of becoming a maddened Chaos worshiper. At the start of the third act, he realized that his dedication to his father's vision was more important to him than the promises of the Chaos Gods, and he swears them off.
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Night Lords / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Night Lords / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: Nostramo (and later Tsagualsa) on a planetary level
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Night Lords / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Night Lords / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The ending of Void Stalker. There are only a handful of survivors from the entire warband, including Variel, Lucoryphus, Malik and his surviving Atrementar; all the others, including the rest or First Claw are dead, but they succeeded in taking down a Phoenix Lord, though in all truth, she will probably be back. Octavia and Septimus manage to get away alive, and Talos' legacy lives on...
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Night Lords / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Night Lords / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: The Legion's hat alongside being The Dreaded, as demonstrated extensively in Void Stalker to the point where Talos weaponizes it into an astropath-annihilating pulse. Put to use explicitly in Throne of Lies and Blood Reaver and used in Soul Hunter during an Imagine Spot.
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Night Lords / int_4bc2095b	type	One Head Taller
Night Lords / int_4bc2095b	comment	One Head Taller: Septimus to Octavia.
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Night Lords / int_4e34d653	type	See You in Hell
Night Lords / int_4e34d653	comment	See You in Hell: Said by Talos to Xarl during Xarl's improvised funeral, without any malice whatsoever. It's both an honest assessment of their lives and a warped, classically Nostraman gesture of brotherhood.
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Night Lords / int_516ac9a8	type	Viking Funeral
Night Lords / int_516ac9a8	comment	Viking Funeral: Following Xarl barely winning a fatal duel with the Novamarines Champion in Void Stalker, Talos harvests his brother's geneseed by hand in his own quarters, and incinerates the corpse and everything in the room with a looted flamer. When hen he leaves, Talos tells Xarl that he'll see him in hell soon.
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Night Lords / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Night Lords / int_5313c266	comment	Bookends: In Void Stalker, the prologue is one of Talos's visions showing the climax, though subtly different in several respects.
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Night Lords / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Night Lords / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: All of the Night Lords are sadistic, brutal monsters regarded as deviants even by the other Traitor Legions. First Claw are no exception, and in many ways are worse; Uzas is slipping into the worship of the Blood God, Cyrion is a rogue psyker with vampiric urges, and Talos tortures and mutilates various people to an astounding degree over the course of the series. And yet, they are all protective of Septimus and Octavia, and often have pleasant conversations that are - by the standards usually set between mortal and Astartes - unusually civil and without pomp. Cyrion, for example, is the only person in the series to simply ask Octavia how she is feeling after a long and arduous journey through the warp, making pleasant chit-chat to put her at ease.
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Night Lords / int_54cbd0cb	type	This Is Unforgivable!
Night Lords / int_54cbd0cb	comment	This Is Unforgivable!: After Uzas kills fourteen serfs/slaves, some servitors, and the sergeant of Third Claw, just mere days after getting his slaughter on at Ganges station, the members of First Claw debate what to do. The consensus is kill Uzas, and Talos tells them that the Exalted has ordered Uzas's death, so if they spare him, they better have a damn good reason. They get one when the more numerous Third Claw comes looking for payback. Once Talos finds out that Septimus got Octavia knocked up.
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Night Lords / int_585ecd03	type	Picky People Eater
Night Lords / int_585ecd03	comment	Picky People Eater: Uzas takes great joy in eating the geneseed of his fallen enemies on multiple occasions. One could take it solely as a sign of his status as the resident Ax-Crazy, but Talos makes mention of the practice in a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to a fallen dreadnought. Aaron Dembski-Bowden eventually confirmed this as a Legion-wide tradition. When confronting the father of the Voidborn about his desire for revenge, Talos tells the man he ate the heart of the Blood Angel who killed his daughter, and that should satisfy vengeance.
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Night Lords / int_586589bc	type	Journey to the Center of the Mind
Night Lords / int_586589bc	comment	Journey to the Center of the Mind: The aforementioned "meeting the Dark Gods" moment for Talos takes place there until the ritual powering it wears off.
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Night Lords / int_5969d512	type	Computer Voice
Night Lords / int_5969d512	comment	Computer Voice: Of the masculine type for servitors in Throne of Lies. The Covenant of Blood itself sounds more gender neutral.
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Night Lords / int_5b351f0d	type	IntercontinuityCrossover
Night Lords / int_5b351f0d	comment	Intercontinuity Crossover: With the Salamander saga in the short stories, The Core and Promethius Requiem in the Fear the Alien anthology. Zso Sahaal can be seen in a number of Talos' flashbacks, and Acerbus is mentioned at least once.
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Night Lords / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Night Lords / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Talos' dream of the Eldar at the end of Blood Reaver
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Night Lords / int_5c613245	type	Thrown Out the Airlock
Night Lords / int_5c613245	comment	Thrown Out the Airlock: Septimus warns to Octavia in Throne of Lies that the crew would try to do this to her, if she continues to make trouble with The Exalted. Problem was that they don't have an extra navigator.
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Night Lords / int_5c758f0	type	Faux Flame
Night Lords / int_5c758f0	comment	Faux Flame: Used by the Eldar to ignite Cyrion's corpse in Talos' nightmare in the Blood Reaver epilogue, Variel isn't as lucky and dies much more slowly.
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Night Lords / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
Night Lords / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: Talos' visions, and Uzas' Khornate fugues when he's given some perspective in Blood Reaver. A less insane variant for Deltrian in Void Stalker.
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Night Lords / int_5fff364d	type	Combat Medic
Night Lords / int_5fff364d	comment	Talos's super-hearing is what first alerts him to Octavia's pregnancy. His super-smelling would've tipped him off first, but, since he is a Combat Medic, what he doesn't know about human pregnancy could fill a battle barge.
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Night Lords / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
Night Lords / int_60b21fa3	comment	Melancholic — Xarl. Cynic, chronic complainer, suspicious pessimist, and yet somehow a very capable Lancer for Talos. Throws his whole life into the sword and it shows in every sense of the word.
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Night Lords / int_61e43473	type	Dramatic Space Drifting
Night Lords / int_61e43473	comment	Dramatic Space Drifting: Used in Soul Hunter to emphasize how little The Exalted cares for the lives of First Claw after it decides the fastest way to liberate them from The Sword of the God Emperor is to blow a hole in the side and let the difference in pressure suck them out into the void for easy collection.
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Night Lords / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Night Lords / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The epilouge of Blood Reaver. Talos' visions of fighting Eldar, which as of the end of Blood Reaver are never realized.
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Night Lords / int_655aa5ff	type	Broken Faceplate
Night Lords / int_655aa5ff	comment	Broken Faceplate: Talos' helm at the opening of Blood Reaver, echoed in the damage to the helm of the Marine Errant.
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Night Lords / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Night Lords / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: First Claw at the beginning of Soul Hunter. Played for the worst of each humor, because to do otherwise wouldn't be Grimdark. Choleric — Uzas. His emotions are all or nothing; he's almost universally violent, irritated or sullen when he isn't an unreadable shell. Thinks only of himself, which is how he became corrupt in the first place. He himself admits he all but runs on a slow, seething rage. Melancholic — Xarl. Cynic, chronic complainer, suspicious pessimist, and yet somehow a very capable Lancer for Talos. Throws his whole life into the sword and it shows in every sense of the word. Phlegmatic — Talos. His romanticism of his Legion's past and the power his prophetic abilities have over his life have left him worn thin all around. Known to brood over both. His stubbornness won't let him put anything less than his heart and soul into what he does however, and it's nearly killed him before. Sanguine — Cyrion. Possibly the most easy going of the group, and the most vocally distressed at the state of the Legion, although it also means he stands out the least in the shambling wreck of a squad.
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Night Lords / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Night Lords / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: With Vandred/The Exalted at the end of Blood Reaver. Vandread reassumes control over his body and takes out at least five Red Corsair ships with him and the Covenant, and then dies, forcing the Exalted to take his place as the Covenant is destroyed. Xarl versus the Genesis Marines captain.
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Night Lords / int_671a3e1	type	Too Kinky to Torture
Night Lords / int_671a3e1	comment	Too Kinky to Torture: Being a cogboy would already mean that the knowledge broker can switch his pain receptors as desired, but Sahaal's interrogation of him shows that he takes some pleasure or satisfaction from the whole thing.
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Night Lords / int_673c9dd8	type	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual
Night Lords / int_673c9dd8	comment	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual: Every piece of scavenged Imperial material must have the insignia removed or (in the case of warplate, where this would be too difficult), ritually defaced. When Talos takes command, he renames them the "Warband of the Broken Aquila" in recognition of this.
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Night Lords / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
Night Lords / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: Maruc in a bar in Hell's Iris eyes one of the "waitresses". Septimus warns him against it for her fashion sense, as well as looking too hard at anything living on a semi corrupted planet.
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Night Lords / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Night Lords / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Any place Talos sleeps or has his prophetic seizures in turns into this. Uzas' chamber is shown to be very messy version of this. In the entire room there is nothing but rubbish, a small altar to Khorne made mostly of skulls, half cleaned skulls, and the waste products of said cleaning.
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Night Lords / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Night Lords / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: In Void Stalker: The Eldar of Craftworld Ulthwe aren't trying to kill Talos because of the psychic scream that he unleashed, they're trying to kill him because the Seer Council (heavily implied to be at the direction of Eldrad Ulthran) believe that he is the destined "Prophet of the Eighth Legion" who will unite the Night Lords in the 13th Black Crusade to destroy Craftworld Ulthwe. Talos himself rejects the idea, as he couldn't unite a single Claw, but Variel had already foreseen this and was instead after his progenoids.
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Night Lords / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Night Lords / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "It was a curse, to be a god's son" "Death is nothing compared to vindication." Echoed by Talos, whose actions in Void Stalker seem to echo Konrad Curze's end-of-life breakdown. Only Talos seems like he's going to take the entire 10th Company down with him...
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Night Lords / int_6bea999c	type	Radio Voice
Night Lords / int_6bea999c	comment	Radio Voice: Used in Throne Of Lies to indicate vox transmissions.
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Night Lords / int_6c5e2f5f	type	Shattered World
Night Lords / int_6c5e2f5f	comment	Shattered World: The VIII legion homeworld of Nostramo following the Earth-Shattering Kaboom at the end of The Dark King. The Talos saga opens with Eurydice being found on one of the remaining shards. A moon around Tsagualsa, which Talos shoots with planet-busting torpedoes, allowing them to blow up a nearby retreating Genesis Marine battle barge that hid behind it.
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Night Lords / int_71a223fc	type	Up to Eleven
Night Lords / int_71a223fc	comment	Taken Up to Eleven with the flaying pits, where they are flayed, thrown into a huge hole in the ground, and left to die. This becomes the fate of many of the ten million people purged from on Tsagualsa in the first half of Void Stalker.
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Night Lords / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Night Lords / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: Inquisitor Kaustus was under control of the Eldar throughout the entire book and was waiting until he could break free or for Mita to kill him.
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Night Lords / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Night Lords / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: The phrase "How the mighty are fallen", originally Konrad Curze's musings regarding the Emperor of Mankind, gets repeated throughout the book regarding the state of the Imperium and Zho Sahaal himself.
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Night Lords / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Night Lords / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: A weird example concerning Uzas in Throne of Lies. In the rest of series he is often present in the background staying taciturn whenever he isn't raving or rampaging, but he is mentioned only in passing in the audiodrama when First Claw is marked out as having five members, and has no speaking lines nor a mention by name.
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Night Lords / int_773b0523	type	Impaled Palm
Night Lords / int_773b0523	comment	Impaled Palm: A minor part of the damage to the crucified, flayed and mutilated loyalist Astartes in the opening of Blood Reaver
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Night Lords / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
Night Lords / int_7919a45b	comment	A number of Night Lords want to do this to resolve who will lead the restructured claws at the start of Void Stalker. The commander Talos allows honor duels, but says that anybody who wants a Duel to the Death has to fight Xarl. This makes everyone back down in a hurry.
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Night Lords / int_79f9249	type	Horrifying the Horror
Night Lords / int_79f9249	comment	Horrifying the Horror In Void Stalker, the sadistic and ruthless Night Lords enter a state as close as an Astartes can get to panic when they realize the sound they thought was rain was actually the sound of the Phoenix Lord Jain Zar’s feet hitting the ground from running.
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Night Lords / int_7aba8180	type	Job Title
Night Lords / int_7aba8180	comment	Job Title: Soul Hunter, Blood Reaver and Void Stalker
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Night Lords / int_7b21866b	type	Noun Verber
Night Lords / int_7b21866b	comment	Noun Verber: Soul Hunter, Blood Reaver and now Void Stalker. Also, Night Haunter.
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Night Lords / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Night Lords / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Talos' seizure in the opening Soul Hunter. Variel's handling of surgery at his introduction in Blood Reaver. In a flashback, when Uzas takes the freshly-killed Sar Zell's chainaxe, seemingly cementing First Claw's hatred for him ever since.
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Night Lords / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
Night Lords / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: Fates of Septimus, Eurydice (later Octavia) and Maruc
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Night Lords / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Night Lords / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Cyrion's Slaaneshi gift isn't brought up at all in Blood Reaver, but it does get brought up again in Void Stalker, by Lucoryphus of all people. Note, this was at the end of a sequence where Cyrion was feeling it come up again.
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Night Lords / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Night Lords / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: "Even in death I will avenge myself." Additionally, from The Dark King: "Death haunts the darkness, and he knows. Your. Name." In Blood Reaver, when Third Claw challenges First Claw, the former claims to outnumber the latter seven to five. Talos, wanting Third Claw to back off, replies that one of the five is Xarl. In Void Stalker "I am the Prophet of the Eighth Legion. My name is Decimus." Pure badassery.
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Night Lords / int_86e12b9a	type	City Noir
Night Lords / int_86e12b9a	comment	City Noir: Nostramo Quintus—the city that had spawned of the Night Haunter, Talos and Xarl—took this trope practically to 11 before Curze took control and after he left to lead his legion.
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Night Lords / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Night Lords / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The whole book, really. The good guys are often worse than the bad guys. The bad guys are even worse than that. Wait, why are we still being designated the bad guys?
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Night Lords / int_88b1a0cb	type	Atop a Mountain of Corpses
Night Lords / int_88b1a0cb	comment	Atop a Mountain of Corpses: The parts of the Mausoleum on Tsagualsa which weren't made of living flesh were generally statues of rockrete shaped from slain civilians. Repeated on Tsagualsa when Talos returns there in Void Stalker.
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Night Lords / int_8a298b91	type	Cool Pet
Night Lords / int_8a298b91	comment	The Hamadrya does this on occasion, even its spit is acidic.
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Night Lords / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Night Lords / int_8a4988bb	comment	Ruven drools constantly as a prisoner of the Red Corsairs, as he is chained in an uncomfortable position, psychically bound and perpetually in a state of mild Mind Rape.
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Night Lords / int_8aeccf04	type	Bullet Hell
Night Lords / int_8aeccf04	comment	Bullet Hell: First Claw's duel with Third Claw. Mercutian's heavy bolter.
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Night Lords / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Night Lords / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The Night Lords were driven from Tsagualsa by the Primogenitor Chapters, the Ultramarines and their successor chapters. All of their successor chapters, meaning about two-thirds of all the Space Marines in the Imperium. When told this, Variel, formerly of the Astral Claws (which are implied to be Ultramarines descendants) is aghast.
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Night Lords / int_8c431fe4	type	Band of Brothers
Night Lords / int_8c431fe4	comment	Band of Brothers: Inherent in the nature of Astartes, but Zig-Zagged throughout Tenth Company, given the nature of the VIII Legion (although that is not strictly atypical in the Traitor Legions). First Claw plays it straight, despite the immense suspicion and near hatred some members have for each other.
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Night Lords / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Night Lords / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: The Tenth Company in general and Talos in particular in Void Stalker. Justified, as their evil was always there, Void Stalker just didn't have a foe more evil than them like the Black Legion and the Red Corsairs to contrast against, and one of the themes of Void Stalker is Talos coming to accept that the Night Lords really are just a bunch of murderers, rapists, and sadists who just kill for their own amusement. In fact, the Night Lords' primary antagonists in the books, the Eldar, are often considered one of the few groups to have moral superiority over the Imperium.
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Night Lords / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Night Lords / int_90c018ac	comment	By Void Stalker, it seems that the cock-blocking was on purpose, as if Talos beating Septimus half to death as if he should've known better is anything to go by. Justified, considering Octavia is the 10th Company's sole navigator and they can't get very far (at least no FTL) without her.
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Night Lords / int_9578bb87	type	Canis Latinicus
Night Lords / int_9578bb87	comment	Canis Latinicus: Ave Dominvs Nox: allegedly, Hail the Lord of the Night. (it should be Ave Domine Noctem)
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Night Lords / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Night Lords / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Septimus has one while going off to kill disruptive new inductees into The Covenant's crew in exchange for a lasrifle for Maruc.
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Night Lords / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
Night Lords / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: Uzas is held guilty for killing Arkiah, the father of the Voidborn, despite his constant lucid insistence that he did not. Turns out in Void Stalker he's been telling the truth, it was Cyrion.
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Night Lords / int_973291cd	type	Pardon My Klingon
Night Lords / int_973291cd	comment	Pardon My Klingon: Septimus swears in nothing but Nostraman, even when speaking Gothic for Octavia's benefit.
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Night Lords / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Night Lords / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": During the Tsagualsa Reprisal, the Night Lords reaction to the Ultramarines and their successor chapters arrival was to start screaming "Get to the ships!" in every dialect of Nostraman.
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Night Lords / int_9821d339	type	A Chat with Satan
Night Lords / int_9821d339	comment	A Chat with Satan: Talos' encounter with the Ruinous Powers in Soul Hunter. Originally intended to initiate a Deal with the Devil, but Talos' Heroic Willpower twisted it into this. When Talos speaks with Ruven's dead remains... kinda'.
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Night Lords / int_98770aab	type	Coup de GrÃ¢ce
Night Lords / int_98770aab	comment	Coup de Grâce: Talos beheading J'sara in Throne of Lies. It plays out a bit like a Mercy Kill, but given Talos was the one doing the torturing that left her in that much pain, the mercy is lessened somewhat. The Genesis Marines' company captain, delivered by Xarl, of course. After half her body is blown up by Talos, Jain Zar is crushed under Malcharion's Dreadnought feet; "I...HAVE TO FINISH EVERYTHING...FOR THAT BOY".
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Night Lords / int_998360a	type	Take Up My Sword
Night Lords / int_998360a	comment	Take Up My Sword: Talos' acquisition of the former Captain's bolter makes it even harder to deny his suitability as a leader.
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Night Lords / int_9a480050	type	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
Night Lords / int_9a480050	comment	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Briefly invoked in both books. Talos ends up meeting two of the most powerful Chaos Warlords in the galaxy (including Abbadon himself). Despite knowing how powerful they are, Talos is remarkably casual about voicing opinions that would see anyone else slaughtered in a moment. There are mitigating circumstances in both cases; Talos genuinely finds Abbadon a broken, twisted warlord with delusion of grandeur (even mentioning the consistent lack of success in all his Black Crusades); and in the other case, he is deliberately being cocky to endear himself to Lufgt Huron.
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Night Lords / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Night Lords / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: This takes place within the Imperium of Man, even the nominally human Cog is heavily discriminated against.
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Night Lords / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
Night Lords / int_9d6e002e	comment	We later see exactly how this went down in a two-chapter-long flashback in Void Stalker. Sar Zell was gunned down by Ultramarines as First Claw tried to board their Thunderhawk, after which then-tagalong-sergeant Uzas added insult to injury by unceremoniously claiming Sar Zell's chainaxe. No one was thrilled.
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Night Lords / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Night Lords / int_9e0c3153	comment	Additionally, from The Dark King: "Death haunts the darkness, and he knows. Your. Name."
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Night Lords / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Night Lords / int_9e943076	comment	First Claw also has its moments, most noticeably the duel with Third Claw, after which Talos sustained severe enough damage to temporarily blind him and eventually merit a new arm and Talos' nightmare sequence at the end of Blood Reaver which features Mercutian fighting past the point of death and running on sheer hatred and brotherhood to defend Cyrion and Variel's corpses for a few moments, and Uzas pulling a One-Man Army maneuver physically impossible even for a Space Marine.
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Night Lords / int_9eaf2be0	type	Three-Point Landing
Night Lords / int_9eaf2be0	comment	Three-Point Landing: Talos on the cover of Void Stalker.
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Night Lords / int_9f9540ae	type	We Can Rebuild Him
Night Lords / int_9f9540ae	comment	We Can Rebuild Him: Huron Blackheart in his backstory, then Septimus following a run in with Black Legion slaves in Soul Hunter, and finally Talos after the duel with Third Claw.
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Night Lords / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
Night Lords / int_a01f88a7	comment	General Failure: Discussed in a bit of back-and-forth between Talos and one Abaddon the Despoiler on why his Black Crusades haven't yet succeeded. Talos himself isn't much of a general when given the chance to lead, which is part of why he doesn't like leading.
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Night Lords / int_a0a005d1	type	Protagonist Journey to Villain
Night Lords / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: Used as a framing device in Shadow Knight.
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Night Lords / int_a132a4fe	type	Where I Was Born and Razed
Night Lords / int_a132a4fe	comment	Where I Was Born and Razed: Night Haunter destroyed Nostramo, the Night Lords did little more than watch.
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Night Lords / int_a16102d2	type	Meat Moss
Night Lords / int_a16102d2	comment	Meat Moss: The Screaming Gallery in the mausoleum on Tsagualsa. Made of the fused flesh of hundreds of shrieking faces which were kept alive with fleshcraft for the sole purpose of being both terrifying and badass. Konrad Curze was not particularly fond of cheery design, and enjoyed the screams. Some parts of the lower decks in the Echo of Damnation feature steel walls mutating into flesh due to the warp mutations the ship went under when the Red Corsairs had it.
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Night Lords / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Night Lords / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Talos scoops out J'sara's eyes in the process of torturing her for information in Throne of Lies. He also blinded M'shen with his acidic spit in the process of hunting her down and earning his epithet. Throne of Lies mentions that J'sara and M'shen sound nearly identical. The eye damage may be a Meaningful Echo.
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Night Lords / int_a3673c4c	type	It Gets Easier
Night Lords / int_a3673c4c	comment	It Gets Easier: Shadow Knight and Soul Hunter both feature Talos' memory of his first kill at the age of 12. He's more contemplative than anything after the fact, while his unblooded friend Xarl, the future Blood Knight and Master Swordsman, is the one freaked out.
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Night Lords / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
Night Lords / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Talos In Soul Hunter.
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Night Lords / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Night Lords / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Corona Nox, an obsidian crown studded with diamonds that belonged Konrad Curze, which makes it an important relic for the Night Lords.
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Night Lords / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Night Lords / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Malcharion and Lucoryphus. Or as they call each other, "Mal" and "Luc". It would be heartwarming if it wasn't so unnerving.
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Night Lords / int_aa245ded	type	Mob War
Night Lords / int_aa245ded	comment	Mob War: Sahaal orchestrates one to delay the Inquisitor's retinue while he searches for the Corona Nox.
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Night Lords / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Night Lords / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Often hits like a brick during flashbacks to the golden age of the Night Lords.
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Night Lords / int_ac7471b0	type	The Dead Have Names
Night Lords / int_ac7471b0	comment	The Dead Have Names: Invoked by The Exalted of all people.
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Night Lords / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Night Lords / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: A lot of Night Lords do this, given that Nostramans seem to be known for their poetic linguistics. Xarl in particular does this a lot.
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Night Lords / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Night Lords / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: The Night Haunter does not agree with this trope.
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Night Lords / int_b0155044	type	Always Night
Night Lords / int_b0155044	comment	Always Night: Nostramo is perpetually dark because the dying sun it circles cannot penetrate the pollution-clogged atmosphere. The world is barely better lit at noon than at midnight, keeping the planet swathed in dull greys and deep blacks.
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Night Lords / int_b1b5081b	type	Sapient Ship
Night Lords / int_b1b5081b	comment	Sapient Ship: The Covenant of Blood has a machine spirit of its own and it doesn't like or trust its new navigator. The Echo of Damnation is a little more accommodating, but more as a feral, eager beast that Octavia has to keep restrained.
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Night Lords / int_b349a835	type	Soiled City on a Hill
Night Lords / int_b349a835	comment	Soiled City on a Hill: Nostramo as a whole upon Curze's return.
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Night Lords / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
Night Lords / int_b4de919d	comment	Make an Example of Them: A core part of the Nostraman/VIII Legion doctrine, demonstrated with the stringing up of the gangers in Blood Reaver and the crucifixion of Ruven's corpse on the bridge of The Echo of Damnation
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Night Lords / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
Night Lords / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: In Soul Hunter, there's a theme of the Night Lords being this to the Blood Angels. Although in terms of tactical doctrine, they're more of a shadow archetype to the Raven Guard. Bizarrely enough, Night Haunter is this to Konrad Curze, making the man his own shadow archetype.
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Night Lords / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Night Lords / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Ruven attempting to use his powers after they were bound by the Red Corsairs for months. Probably also overlaps with Psychic Nosebleed. Talos, as Variel is convinced that his body is rejecting the Night Lords' geneseed.
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Night Lords / int_b905e88c	type	People Jars
Night Lords / int_b905e88c	comment	People Jars: The titan princeps in Deltrian's posession.
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Night Lords / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Night Lords / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: First Claw circa the Great Crusade: Talos, Cyrion, Xarl, Sar Zell and Vandred.
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Night Lords / int_ba1463a5	type	Creation Sequence
Night Lords / int_ba1463a5	comment	Creation Sequence: The first half of Shadow Knight, depicting Talos' biological and mental transition from an accomplished child thief in the slums of Nostramo Quintus to a hardened junior Space Marine watching his homeworld go up in an Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
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Night Lords / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
Night Lords / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: Done at the worst possible moment in Void Stalker. In Soul Hunter, Talos has a vision of Uzas and Cyrion trying to kill each other. He initially thinks that he saw it happening on Crythe, and assumes he was just wrong when it doesn't come to pass. During the final endgame, Talos realizes the vision showed Tsagualsa instead of Crythe and rushes to stop it from happening. And even then, he got it wrong.
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Night Lords / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Night Lords / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: If not for the narrator explicitly telling the reader that Cog is not an Ogryn, one would assume he is one from the description. People regularly make this mistake, making Cog extremely angry.
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Night Lords / int_bd50ec63	type	Battle in the Rain
Night Lords / int_bd50ec63	comment	Battle in the Rain: The covers of Soul Hunter and Void Stalker.
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Night Lords / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
Night Lords / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In Soul Hunter, Talos is out in a trance and meets representations of the Chaos Gods in the form of himself dedicated to the respective gods. After getting offers from Slaanesh and Tzeentch, Talos tells them to go back to hell. He would have said the same thing to the other two, but Nurgle tells off Talos and leaves without even making his offer, and Talos wakes up before he can properly tell off Khorne. In Void Stalker Talos goes to Septimus and beats Septimus to within an inch of his life for getting Octavia pregnant. When he demands an explanation, Septimus defiantly answers him in Nostraman. Talos is briefly left speechless after, for the first time ever, one of his slaves tells him to "eat shit."
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Night Lords / int_c03860d2	type	Womb Level
Night Lords / int_c03860d2	comment	Womb Level: The mausoleum/palace on Tsagualsa is an unusual variation; it's made of an amalgamation of thousands of living human corpses as opposed to one creature.
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Night Lords / int_c547f08d	type	Ghostly Chill
Night Lords / int_c547f08d	comment	Ghostly Chill: Indicative of the presence of a Neverborn.
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Night Lords / int_c7b5445c	type	Cool Starship
Night Lords / int_c7b5445c	comment	Cool Starship: The Covenant of Blood
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Night Lords / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
Night Lords / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Night Haunter gave a lot of his children their titles, alternating between prophetic ("Soul Hunter") and just plain whimsical ("War Sage").
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Night Lords / int_ca805002	type	Power High
Night Lords / int_ca805002	comment	Power High: What Slaanesh offers Talos in exchange for his eternal servitude, along with her usual Sense Freak "benefits".
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Night Lords / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Night Lords / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Aaron Dembski-Bowden eventually confirmed this as a Legion-wide tradition.
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Night Lords / int_cd3ebc8e	type	What Year Is This?
Night Lords / int_cd3ebc8e	comment	What Year Is This?: Sahaal asked this of one of his victims, as an afterthought, he asked what millenium it was, as well. He first thought he had been gone longer than expected, but he was completely taken aback when he found out that he was gone not a few centuries, but for ten millenia.
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Night Lords / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
Night Lords / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: Blood Reaver, and Void Stalker, though the second is a name unknown to the audience.
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Night Lords / int_d2810345	type	Boarding Party
Night Lords / int_d2810345	comment	Boarding Party: First Claw boards the Imperial ship The Sword of the God Emperor and proceeds to slaughter the bridge crew in Soul Hunter. They also did this on a space station in Blood Reaver. The favor is later returned to them by The Blood Angels. ...which they return to the Red Corsairs aboard the Echo of Damnation... ...before having the favor returned to them again by the Genesis Marines.
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Night Lords / int_d46bae01	type	Tarot Troubles
Night Lords / int_d46bae01	comment	Tarot Troubles: Konrad Curze regularly read Nostramo Quintus' version of the Tarot. Following the annihilation of the planet at the end of The Dark King it only bodes ill for him.
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Night Lords / int_d53ecfe3	type	Not-So-Safe Harbor
Night Lords / int_d53ecfe3	comment	Not-So-Safe Harbor: Hell's Iris. The name alone should be enough explanation, and it doesn't help that the warband made a mess last time they were there.
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Night Lords / int_d6b5f05f	type	Friendship Moment
Night Lords / int_d6b5f05f	comment	Friendship Moment: A rather grim example. When Talos is shredded following the duel with Third Claw, he reaches out first to Cyrion, then Septimus, Mercution, and he surprises himself by asking for Xarl as well. Cemented even deeper by Talos' harvesting Xarl's geneseed himself by hand and giving him a makeshift Viking Funeral in his own quarters. He realizes many commendatory, honorable or brotherly things could be said over Xarl's corpse, but the truest thing was that if there was a hell, Talos would join him there soon.
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Night Lords / int_d861e4f8	type	War Crime Subverts Heroism
Night Lords / int_d861e4f8	comment	War Crime Subverts Heroism: You know the Blood Angels? The guys we've been saying are one of the nicest Chapters of Space Marines? They kill the Void-born and her mother during the boarding of the Covenant of Blood. It doesn't even appear to have been by a Death Company brother, which might be excusable.
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Night Lords / int_d8f636b8	type	Salvage Pirates
Night Lords / int_d8f636b8	comment	Salvage Pirates: The 10th Company/Warband of the Exalted. Depicted in Shadow Knight and mentioned elsewhere upon occasion. Having (for the most part) rejected the gifts of Chaos, they are denied the Offscreen Villain Dark Matter given to most of the traitor legions.
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Night Lords / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Night Lords / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: For a small and seemingly insignificant company like 10th, they sure seem to run into a lot of big name chaos marine commanders (Abaddon in Soul Hunter, Huron Blackheart in Blood Reaver). Mostly due to Talos' rare talent as a prophet.
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Night Lords / int_dc167d72	type	Knowledge Broker
Night Lords / int_dc167d72	comment	Knowledge Broker: Pavulti's trade after going renegade from the Mechanicum.
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Night Lords / int_de143e97	type	Psychic Nosebleed
Night Lords / int_de143e97	comment	Ruven attempting to use his powers after they were bound by the Red Corsairs for months. Probably also overlaps with Psychic Nosebleed.
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Night Lords / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
Night Lords / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: Talos' dream "conversation" with Ruven's crucified skeleton.
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Night Lords / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Night Lords / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Sharks are often used in reference to anything voidgoing. There are a number of bird-of-prey motifs for the Night Lords, such as their use of Raptors and referring to their squads as "[X]th Claw". Lucoryphus acts more animalistic than human.
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Night Lords / int_e3697447	type	Finishing Stomp
Night Lords / int_e3697447	comment	After half her body is blown up by Talos, Jain Zar is crushed under Malcharion's Dreadnought feet; "I...HAVE TO FINISH EVERYTHING...FOR THAT BOY".
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Night Lords / int_e3b14ec9	type	Badass Baritone
Night Lords / int_e3b14ec9	comment	Badass Baritone / Evil Sounds Deep: Demonstrated in Throne Of Lies, although Xarl, the most martial, is noticeably deeper than Talos, Cyrion and Mercutian.
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Night Lords / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Night Lords / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Descriptions of Night Lord initiated combat or torture usually teeter between this and straight up nauseating.
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Night Lords / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Night Lords / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: The contention between the two of the mare brought up when Mercutian insists to Xarl that 10th company did not steal from Ganges Station, they "liberated materials".
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Night Lords / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Night Lords / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Neverborn, who survive anything short of having their body dismembered. First Claw also has its moments, most noticeably the duel with Third Claw, after which Talos sustained severe enough damage to temporarily blind him and eventually merit a new arm and Talos' nightmare sequence at the end of Blood Reaver which features Mercutian fighting past the point of death and running on sheer hatred and brotherhood to defend Cyrion and Variel's corpses for a few moments, and Uzas pulling a One-Man Army maneuver physically impossible even for a Space Marine.
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Night Lords / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
Night Lords / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: Talos renames all of his slaves for (presumably) High Gothic ordinal numbers. Konrad Curze is said to have nicknamed a number of his brethren.
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Night Lords / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
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Night Lords / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: Cyrion acts as one between Septimus and Octavia before they admit their feelings to each other. After they do, and Septimus is in the process of Bridal Carrying Octavia to his quarters, Talos interrupts them once again. First Claw eventually stops cock-blocking them, though, given that Talos's vision in the Epilogue shows Octavia is pregnant...and running from the Inquisition. By Void Stalker, it seems that the cock-blocking was on purpose, as if Talos beating Septimus half to death as if he should've known better is anything to go by. Justified, considering Octavia is the 10th Company's sole navigator and they can't get very far (at least no FTL) without her.
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Night Lords / int_ecfe441	comment	My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: Ruven notes he can smell Septimus' attraction to Octavia. Talos's super-hearing is what first alerts him to Octavia's pregnancy. His super-smelling would've tipped him off first, but, since he is a Combat Medic, what he doesn't know about human pregnancy could fill a battle barge.
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Night Lords / int_ee6201b8	type	It Was a Gift
Night Lords / int_ee6201b8	comment	It Was a Gift: Subverted when Talos loses his bolter and no less a hero than Malcharion the War Sage casually hands over his own as a replacement. Despite Talos' initial misgivings over a Legion relic, Malcharion points out that he is now a Dreadnought and doesn't need it. Occasionally the human characters will barter around legion coins, signifying the legion's protection over that person. The voidborn's parents are given one, not that it helps.
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Night Lords / int_ef2582c3	type	Named Weapons
Night Lords / int_ef2582c3	comment	Named Weapons: Well... Aurum, the power sword Talos stole from the Blood Angels Anethema, his old bolter Mordax Tenebrae, Zso Sahaal's bolter Executioner, Xarl's chainsword Banshee, Cyrion's bolter. Mercy and Forgiveness, Konrad Curze's own lightning claws.
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Night Lords / int_f041eb0d	type	Phlegmings
Night Lords / int_f041eb0d	comment	Phlegmings: Shows up about as often as Tears of Blood, usually as a milder version. Bonus points for most incidents involving acidic spit. Uzas drools near constantly as a result of his Khornate corruption. The Exalted drools as a result of being physically incapable of closing its mouth, which in turn is the result of daemonic possession-induced mutation. In two separate books Talos has found a human psychically fused to a machine who drooled when the link was damaged. Ruven drools constantly as a prisoner of the Red Corsairs, as he is chained in an uncomfortable position, psychically bound and perpetually in a state of mild Mind Rape. On at least one occasion Talos has begun drooling in rage. The Hamadrya does this on occasion, even its spit is acidic.
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Night Lords / int_f3da74ff	comment	Creepy Crows: Lord of the Night recounts Zso Sahaal's memory of Curze appearing to his men clad only in a cloak of raven feathers following the Siege of Terra. Additionally, one of Sevatar's epithets was "Prince of Crows".
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Night Lords / int_f3e87937	type	Tears of Blood
Night Lords / int_f3e87937	comment	Tears of Blood: Seems to show up a lot The Exalted produces black, oily bloody tears whenever it attempts to smile. Lucoryphus is constantly shedding them, leading to his epithet. Ruven, when exposed to light too bright for Nostraman eyes (although presumably not too much for a someone not born on a night world). When psychically stressed, Octavia will cry blood from her third eye.
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Night Lords / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Night Lords / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Septimus and Octavia. After spending years in captivity and surviving all three novels escape the Night Lords and rejoin the Imperium, where they will be looked after as Octavia being a Navigator makes her too valuable to misplace, both are in love with each other and Octavia is pregnant with Septimus's son and end the series by both revealing their real names to each other. One of the few unambiguously happy endings in 40k. Averted. In the epilogue, Variel makes good on his promise to hunt them down and take their child from them in order to recruit him into the Legion and to continue the legacy of Talos' geneseed. Given the nature of Space Marine recruitment, the child would most likely have been under the age of about 12 when this happened, and Variel is unlikely to have asked for parental consent.... Possibly played straight or averted. It never outright states where Decimus came from or that Variel managed to find Septimus and Octavia, and while he could be the child of Coreth and Eurydice, it is equally likely that the name Decimus is not a reference to his parents slave names but rather emblematic of the 10th Company that sacrificed themselves to allow him to exist, and the fact that his entire wargear and gene-seed are inherited from the 10th. It's entirely up to the reader which interpretation they prefer.
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Night Lords / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
Night Lords / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: Vandred's death Then the 10th Company in Void Stalker
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Night Lords / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Night Lords / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When Octavia goes to talk to Talos while he's torturing the captive astropaths, the smell coming causes her to begin throwing up uncontrollably upon entering the room, which Talos watches in fascination, mistakenly assuming it is morning sickness.
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Night Lords / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Night Lords / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: Many things important to the Night Lords are named for the works of Joseph Conrad.
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