Having physically clashed before the start of the Heresy with Rogal Dorn, he was censured by his brothers, who convened a council to consider the matter of their darkling brother. The Night Lords conquered utterly those who did not welcome the coming of the Great Crusade, crushing all opposition in such an overwhelming and brutal fashion that no others would dare resist.Īs with so many of the primarchs who rebelled against the Emperor and all they had been created to stand for, Konrad Curze crossed a line from which there was no return. He preferred the company of the warriors of his own Legion, the Night Lords whom he indoctrinated into his favoured methods of combat and control.Įven before the outset of the Horus Heresy, the Night Lords were using methods most others would have denounced as brutally unnecessary and cruel. He remained sullen and introspective, and shunned the companionship of his brothers.
In the brutal underworld in which he had matured, the primarch had learned that only total dominance would suffice and that to show any sign of weakness was to invite treachery.Įven when Curze joined his brothers in the glorious campaigns of the Great Crusade, he appeared to hold to such views, eschewing such notions of hope and optimism which drove others to instead believe in the dark realities of the natural order. Yet, when the Emperor took Curze back to Terra, Nostromo was plunged back into anarchy, for no one was left to enforce order.ĭespite the brutality of his methods, Konrad Curze's actions appear to have been motivated by a deep, if twisted, sense of justice. When the Emperor presented Himself to the primarch, the people believed that a new age had arrived. Rather, the people knew that even the slightest malfeasance would result in Curze himself visiting death upon the criminal. The people of Nostromo had been entirely delivered from the predations of criminals, but not by way of enlightenment or order. Curze's rule was not one of beneficence, however, but one of fear and repression. The terror that stalked the streets exacting vengeance upon the lawless soon became known as the Night Haunter, and so fearful were the people of his judgement that soon all, not just the criminals, locked themselves inside their dwellings, and a peace of sorts was imposed.Īs with most of the primarchs, by the time the Emperor found Konrad Curze he had risen to a position of dominance over his world. Soon, Curze began to prey upon these criminals, mounting their mutilated corpses where all could see and take heed. No natural light lit the alleys and the depths, and all manner of fell criminals lurked within them. Murder was rife and the people lived in constant fear. Like all of the primarchs, he matured quickly, bearing witness as he did so to the most horrific excesses of Nostromo's corrupt society.
Curze survived as a wild thing, living in the lowest depths of the hive cities and competing for food with the vermin and scum of the sewers. The world of Nostramo was a lightless industrial waste, its cities teeming and anarchic and its main export the raw adamantium found beneath the surface. While many of the primarchs were raised by those peoples they found themselves amongst after the Ruinous Powers scattered them to the corners of the galaxy, Konrad Curze grew to maturity in very different circumstances. Only later, when the doomed primarch surrendered his soul to the Ruinous Powers was his relentless drive for justice perverted into the form it now takes. Ten millennia ago, the Night Lords' Primarch Konrad Curze was driven to acts of extreme violence by a deep-rooted desire to punish the guilty and impose order upon the anarchy in which he grew up. While such an approach might appear mindless, at one time it was different. They show no mercy whatsoever, eschewing all subtlety and guile for wanton bloodshed and destruction. The Night Lords are synonymous with terror and murder, for their favoured mode of warfare is the unfettered application of brutal, overwhelming force. The Night Lords are experts in the use of terror tactics to win battles and demoralise their foes before the main combat even begins. The Night Lords do not worship any of the four Chaos Gods individually, but acknowledge them equally in the form of Chaos Undivided as they ruthlessly spread terror and fear amongst the galaxy's inhabitants. They betrayed the trust of the Emperor of Mankind during the Horus Heresy of the 31st Millennium and became one of the 9 Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines. The Night Lords were originally the VIII th Legion of Space Marines created during the First Founding.
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