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The hunters have become the hunted. The Night Lords flee to the dark fringes of the Imperium to escape their relentless pursuers - the aeldari of Craftworld Ulthwé. Their flight takes them to the carrion world of Tsagualsa, where their primarch died and their Legion was broken. There, history will repeat itself as a deadly assassin stalks the shadows, and the Night Lords are drawn into a battle they are destined to lose.
Written by Aaron Dembski-Bowden. Narrated by Andrew Wincott.
Cool fact about Lucoryphus, he was the first traitor to fight on the wall during the Siege of Terra. I know they mention it in the book like it's just a guy talking big, but it was made canon in the Siege of Terra books
Are you serious? That’s awesome.
@@ATart6 "WE ARE THE FIRST ON THE WALLS!" Cue all the other Night Lords fucking CHEERING.
Pretty sure he landed on his feet so hard that he shattered bones in his feet, so whenever anyone asked him about anything he would usually respond with a complaint about how bad his feet hurt XD.. 🦶 😖
Septimus: Horny
Talos: *I WILL SPAY AND NUETER UNTIL IT IS DONE*
@High Chaplain Knox bru that’s what he is referencing.
Hahaha
1:13:00 And that's why I love dreadnoughts, they have this "Good ol'Grandpa with a shit ton of stories to tell" feeling to them.
Edit: " _GET OFF MY LAWN_ " The Warsage Malcharion from his famous work "The Tenebrous Path"
Or that annoying old guy that constantly complaining “back in the day….” whenever he bumps into some problems
Personally love when Talos tells Variel to save the gene seed and Variel rips off the flayed face on his shoulder, showing the Nightlords symbol and saying "I am a son of the 8th Legion and I will die with my brothers on that worthless rock below." Nice little character growth. He started as sort of the "guy who tagged along," swapping sides instead of actually JOINING the 8th. Even the others were like "he's not from Nostramo, he doesn't even have our gene seed, he's not one of us." By the end though he was full 8th legion, willing to fight and die not just with Talos, but the Nightlords as a whole.
The terminator armor was found in a short story called The Core that takes place between book 2 and 3, Deltrian had to fuck around with it a lot. There was also a short story called Throne of Lies that takes place between books 1 and 2, that doesn't give them any goodies, but it has some good moments.
Yeah it also ties in with the salamders books! The omnibus of the night lords have all the short stories.
Yup, the omnibus in print has two short novellas that are nice for context for one book into the next but don't have any plot points you're missing to understand the actual novels.
Yea Lucoryphus literally leads a fuckload of genestealers towards 5 Salamander Termies. Deltrian was on a data gathering mission. Septimus may or may not have been bait hahaha.
Spoiler warning - C'Tan star eaters are the pinnacle of 'You didn't bring a big enough gun'.
Not enough Dakka
If that dont work. Use more gun
My absolute favorite part of this book was how terrifying ADB made fighting the Eldar sound.
I mean I dunno, it was what, a couple dozen Night Lords at best and they slaughtered hundreds of Eldar. Stating how their basic warriors were little bitches barely worth the effort.
The only really terrifying one was the Phoenix Lord, for obvious reasons. And even she was killed, in the end, by the collective efforts of like 5 astartes (arguably one, because the only part that really even mattered was Talos getting stabbed on purpose to blow himself up)
@@utes5532the basic Eldar weren’t much of a challenge, the howling banshees were about on par with them… But Jain Zar, now that was terrifying
Actually Aaron Dembski Bowden said there might be a second nightlord in the future! He said he'd likely do them after a few other projects
YYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!
THE DECIMUS TRILOGY!
LET'S FUCKIN GO
I FUCKING LOVE THE FLAYERS OF EVERYONE LETS GOOOOOO
I'm here from the future to tell you we're still waiting
@@muaddoubledipsI'm here from the future future to tell you we're stillllll waiting.
Malcharion making void stalker go squish was probably my favorite part of the book
“I have to finish everything for that boy”
I mean if they're reviewing 40K books at this point I really hope they go over "prophets of wagh." Who doesn't like a bit of orks krumping other orks.
We need more ridiculous Ork stories.
They have been reviewing books for months now.
Are you saying orks had a holy war? Oh boy.
Shais gonna get a big choppa
Book club
What made the Cyrion betrayal so bad was that the whole book we saw Uzas clawing himself back from Khornes grip. We were all rooting for him and just as he makes it, that fuck swoops in.
"I see my brother is clawing his way out of the grip of demon dementia, it sure would be a shame if someone decided to be a total fucking dick cramp"
I find the tirade before Uzas died was unintentionally directed at Cyron, and with how at peace he was, just, I honestly couldn't finish the book after he died.
I'm just sitting here smoking some of Nurgle's herbs and I realized a sad fact. we as readers know that Khorne isn't about that lying shit. He will gladly stab you in the front and rip your skull out through your eye socket and his followers are the same. If Talos had any knowledge of the chaos gods he would have seen the betrayal coming and our rabid blender boy could have been spared.
@@Lazysupermutantlol lmao I couldn’t either
I really like how that woman gets babied by Malcharian (idk how to spell his name), and in the epilogue she is on the ship with Septimus and Octavia. Just a little detail I really like
Agreed, I loved having her there, her dynamic with Malcharian was great.
Deltrian and Lucoryphus are my new favorite odd couple. They're two terrible individuals, but they're such bros to each other.
I completely disagree with replacing that lady with Maruk. His sudden death let you know that no one was safe, or at least gave the perception of that. Otherwise you would feel like some characters just have plot armor.
Phoenix Lord Explained: It's a permanent avatar state but all you have to do to be the next Avatar is put the armour on.
When Jain Zar shows up I was freaking out a bit since I had slightly forgotten that Talos fights her.
Now we need ADB to write about Decimus
He needs to replace that shitty NL Champion model.
I would also read it too.
There is a short story in the Night Lords omnibus that ties in with another story in the Salamanders omnibus that talks about how they end up getting the Terminator armor
Tone-wise, Blood Reaver felt like a fun Saturday morning cartoon and Void Stalker felt like a tour bus through Gehenna Valley conducted by Mengele.
"tour bus through Gehenna Valley conducted by Mengele." not many people will get this reference including myself
@@ryanadams0922 real bad schutztaffel captain. And gehenna most likely meaning a layer of hell. The lowest one I believe.
@@wiccanthropy1956 wait I thought?... I Googled that and it was an ACTUAL location here on earth. You are telling me GW put something similar in the books?
@@ryanadams0922 Gehenna: abode of the damned in the afterlife in Jewish and Christian eschatology (the doctrine of last things) this definition is far more likely than the actual real world place
Joseph mengele was a holocaust train conductor and Jesus Christ compared the fires of hell to the fires that burned outside of the walls of Gehenna in the bible.
I’m still hoping for them to read Our Martyred Lady, I want to hear their reaction to Celestine going full Snyder Cut Wonder Woman on a bunch of heretics
I concur. That would be hilarious.
I actually read that PRE founding of ADRIC. The shipping is strong
@@Bricky awesome 😁
i love the ending, it`s so ironic XD
Jain Zar is quite a big badass. She is the first student of Azurmen (aka the one who made all the eldar warriors shrines) and this is her first death (i think). So she is at least over 10 000 years old and the equivalent of a Primarch but for eldars.
I like how they show how deadly the Hallowing Banshees are, and then Jain Zar comes in and shows how deadly the Phoenix Lords are.
@@ShadowGhost0117 if I remember the night lords kill ratio against the banshees were 1:0~3. While their trade for the regulars were 1:10~90? My memory is a little dookie currently. One of the member of 1st Claw stated something about slaughtering the regular eldar troops.
Uzas is my favourite character because he's very sad... He essentially has chaos-dementia, and his moments of clarity were heart-rending.
"Brothers! Why are my hands painted the red of the sinner!?"
One of my favorite Warhammer arts is of a mantis warrior facing the Red Wake and he literal just comes under the chapter masters hips
With a torn of left arm.
Really can't wait for them to eventually do the Thousand Sons episode, and someone having to bring up a certain chosen daughter of Tzeentch called Vezimira......
Fifteen Hours is a great read. If I had to compare it to a movie, it’s in the same vein of tragedy as Saving Private Ryan
Thats one of my favourite warhammer books
Great novel
Brah that is a good one.
I had a copy years ago but its lost now.
I only really remember the beginning when they are dropping into a live combat zone only to find out the moment they land they are not just on the wrong side of the engagement but also at the completely wrong warzone.
I can confirm that Variel did indeed find my parents. Septimus died screaming by my own hands thirteen years later
Hold on... Don't most Space Marines have their names changed when they become a marine? Because that would very easily explain Decimus' name. Variel just had a sense of humor with his naming.
That's mostly a Fists thing.
Not really, Talos and Xarl have the same names they did as children. In the flashback where Talos' mom dies, she calls them both by their names.
Found a great Decimus STL file recently. Finally got an excuse to start a Night Lords force.
Link?
Dammnit give us the link
We never did recieve the link. Fuuuuckin tease!
Im surprised at how consistent they made the night lords likeable even sevetarr in the horus heresy
I throughly enjoyed listening to all three of these. The ending is what we all knew would happen, but the twist at the end left me with a few questions that we can only theorize on.
Wait a minute....that thumbnail looks familiar....
It makes DK and Bricky look like Hack Frauds.
Usually I just lurk, but felt the need to comment saying thanks for introducing this series to me. I was a bit sceptical with the first book as it felt a bit disjointed, more like a series of loosely connected events rather than a plot. But the second book was so good as soon as I finished the first thing I did was purchase the third.
I loved the insight into what would have otherwise been one note edge lords. And Talos was a great lead, moments of tragedy ("I wanted to be a hero") mixed with the brutality of the Nightlords(his spiral into fucking crazy in book 3).
My only real complaint was Octavia's and Septimius' relationship. Warhammer writers should be banned from writing romantic relationships. Octavia had more chemistry with Talos, a sexless space marine. But that may be me being picky.
Anyway can't wait to read more about the Night Lords now. This book activated the dumb bitch part of my brain that all women and gay men have that makes them obsessed with psychopaths. So thanks for that Bricky
Damn. So glad Lucoryphus survived. He’s just a creepy Little Guy
An add came up as soon as bricky was talking about how Cyrion pegged all the murders on Uzas. "Cyrion pegged him" was the last thing I heard before the add cut in and I'm dying.
I gotta admit ....I kinda like Night Lords due to these damn books. Damnit now I gotta build a Night Lord army
Same here. I would love if they did something similar like the Gaunts Ghosts character models and do the same thing with 1st Claw and a couple other characters.
@@ShadowGhost0117 yea im with you in the "I'm about to spend way too much damn money for custom built figures" for Night Lords and may also get some Gaunts Ghost since I just started that story
@@BestCupid trust me, the Gaunts Ghosts series is amazing.
For me is hard to say what I like more from Aaron Dembski-Bowden either the Night Lords books or Black Legion books
Ngl I cried a bit when Uzas died..
I love those hints in void stalker of Uzas fighting back his Khorne corruption. His switch from "Blood for the Blood God" to "Blood for the 8th Legion" is a very nice way to portray his attempt to get away from Khorne
I'd start playing Night Lords immediately if they released a Lucorophis Model.
I love how his nane was Decimus. Absolutely explained it in one word
For Bricky, here's how Phoenix lords work: Normal exarchs become trapped on their path of whatever shrine and their souls inhabit the armor they wear (via soulstones, that's why exarchs are covered in bling). The Pheonix lords are similar but more intense, the souls of the original phoenix lords were so strong that they essentially use their armor as a soulstone, when an eldar aspect warrior puts on the armor of their aspect's phoenix lord they literally become inhabited by that Phoenix Lord's soul. They're reborn in new bodies because their aspect warriors put on their armor and essentially just become the next vessel, with the exception of Maugen Ra (the dark reaper Phoenix Lord) who just hasn't ever died in the last ten thousand years or so.
Yeah and its all made cannon in Godblight books if I am not wrong.
"leads to cadia falling" excuse me dk, Cadia Stands.
What I don't get is why Variel would even be interested in specifically Octavia's child? Any healthy male child would do.
I'm pretty sure he explains at one point that the child would be an excellent candidate, which he would know from the medical scans he did on her earlier in the book.
Shy your edits are great
Don't know if you guys have already decided your next one, but I certainly hope Helsreach is on your list. Hands down the best Black Library book I have ever read. Others are good, great even, but none have ever compared to the glory of Helsreach.
Blood and fire is dope AF too
There is a fan made animation on CZcams of Helsreach. Go watch it its pretty cool.
I cannot begin to explain how happy it makes me to be less than a minute into this video and have already heard "FUCK CYRION!" twice. Because FUCK CYRION!
I really hope they do a Carcharadons Astra video or read their two books. One of the like two groups to make Night lords scared. Also The Red Wake is a marine the size of a Primarch.
A marine that augments their armour with dreadnought parts is something no one wants to mess with
@@oligb1469 Tiberius the red wake is literally size on oar with primarchs like he can be near size as alpharius or some height like a custodian
I hope to Big E that the Carcharadons are sons of Curze they are a close 2nd to 3rd space marine group
20:33 I like to believe that every Night Lord has a subconscious fear of hammers thanks to Vulkan
46:25 I like the idea of saying "wow, what a fucking night lord" as an insult now
Wow these night lords really were some void stalkers
I finally got around to finishing this book. It wasn't hard to do, but I just got into this book club way late.
Incredible book. So many conflicting feelings rooting for 1st Claw, despite what they had done just a handful of chapters prior. Absolutely nuts. I loved how it got tied up in the end. So much catharsis!
Day one of asking for a carcharodons video
i support your request.
'Adept, your request has been sent along for processing. Est time/2455.3years.'
Perfect it is going to come out when the new elder scrolls game comes out
Carcharodon Astra
Attack pattern: Nom Nom
One of my favorite moments was early on when a nightlord was asking about Dueling to the death and talos basically said, "okay. You wanna duel to the death? You gotta go through Xarl" and all the nightlords that had their hopes up IMMEDIATELY just kinda went "ah shit, nevermind"
*Spoilers for Lost and the Dammed*
Yeah its turns out During the siege of terra Lucoryphus claim of being the first to get on the walls wasn't just bragging, He really was the first upon the wall
What a Chad.
So much of this one was:
"How fucked up is fucked up?"
...
"Dats fucked up"
Great review guys, I got this collection but I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. Really hoping for a Lords of silence or Fabius bile trilogy episode one day
isnt throne of lies a nightlords book aswell?
Yes.
Tsagualsa is also the planet where Lion fought Linear for the first time and said Loyalty is its own reward
I loved uzas from the start
They did too good a job with the evil, I was rooting for telemion so hard. Their justification for the slaughter of a planet was so childish, not to mention how one-sided it was. Then they run from their well deserved justice to go think up something worse! Excellent Villain writing, excellent trilogy.
I believed Uzas when he said he didnt kill the voidborn's father because he's corrupted by Khorne who does not lie
seeing flosting baby shy with a paper and cup of joe feels adorable and right to me
A little late here but the Xarl reference in Decimus is his helmet, in the 2nd book Xarl begins to use his ceremonial helmet with the bat wings as a form of pride
My favorite part about xarl's duel is he used the same tactic that sevetar beat sigismund with
Talos did Night-11
Lmao the night lords who decide to ditch their brother because his hurt and slowing them down...
And then he can't believe that his brothers who ditched him was on the floor ahead dead .... And starts laughing (so did I) but then Jain Zar...killed him too.. and couldn't even able to tell the rest of the warband...
RIP .Uzas. our favourite semi khorne berserker 😭
(I believe you didn't killed void born father... When he said "this is the last time I will tell you Talos, I didn't do it" and allowed himself to be killed but got red fist instead")
You guys should read about Argel Tal
The night lords omnibus has all the short stories form the night lords that fill a lot of gaps
I kinda wonder if part of Xarl's death is sort of meant to clear the way for Jain Zar. If Xarl is around for that fight, then he really is the "dedicated melee guy" and it would naturally gravitate towards a duel between the two. Killing off Xarl earlier lets you turn the Jain Zar encounter into more of a horror movie for the night lords - no one in the squad can match her, and so they get picked off one by one, and it's only by whittling her down bit by bit through constant sacrifice and little phyrric victories that they can actually beat her.
Talos could have summoned the Tyranids with the screech. If not to the galaxy then at least to the local area. Alternatively the shadow in the warp could stop the screech.
I would have liked it if you had covered the short story that takes place between book 2 & 3. It talks about them getting the terminator armor.
Cyrion saying he was done with the long war was pretty sad
1:01:25 is the most agreeable part of this video, Nightlords stay rekt
to be fair octavia did notice the warp beacons and told Talos about them she just didn't know what they were so she toldhim something like "there were things watching us.". so I blame Talos for that since he wasn't all there after just waking up from his coma.
I never would have thought that a Night Lords story could pull off a twist "Villain" considering how fucked they all are, but like god damn they did.
R.I.P Xarl.
29:50
My favorite bit. Absolutly. No questions asked.
If you read the Omnibus there is a short story between Blood Reaver and Void Stalker where the Terminator Armour is salvaged from a Genestealer infested Space Hulk Deltrian is after the knowledge of a Knight house located withing the Hulk and First Claw fight Genestealers protecting him while he gets it
The bleeding eyes encounter Lost Salamanders driven to Madness within the Hulk amd Ambush them the Salamander Terminator suits are then dragged back to the Echo
I personally can’t wait for ciaphas Cain books or Brutal Kuunin
Why was Variel so Hooked on taking Octavia’s child in particular?
Because their child would be the perfect reincarnation of Talos and his abilities.
I think it‘s just pure spite. Also, Talos probably wanted to spook someone one last time
Love the Mechanicus they are some of my favorite Imperium factions to play behind Astartes.
Octavia did notice the warp beacon but just didn't understand what it was
44:07
I now want to listen to a night lords omnibus with heavy usage of based, pog etc and I hate it.
I just finished it. The imagery of Variel walking thru the town dragging bodies on chains was about my favorite single scene in the trilogy.
there is a short story where they absolutely fuck up some salamanders and steal their terminator armor. thats where they got the sutis from.
No Ciaphus Cain?! I feel betrayed
One of my favorite parts of this book was the offhand way they mentioned Lucoryphus Chaos corruption. He takes his helmet off and someone says he looks like a drowned corpse, how is he still alive. To which he responds that he doesn't know, then latyer after being killed he is just back with no explaination. Nurgle taint.
Remember no Russian when I read that part it reminds me of that season the airport from call of duty but 10 times darker
This may just have been me misreading his intentions, but did anyone else get the idea that when Cyrion told Talos to not harvest his geneseed, it wasn’t just him wanting to be done with the Long War, but a recognition and secret admittance to how deep his corruption had spread? That not carrying on was an act of atonement for his betrayal of his brother?
The thing with first claw is they are brothers not friends. they stay together for the sake of being something, the idea that even they have to believe in something or why do anything so they put their “faith” in each other. So Xarl doesn’t like Talos, but he loves him as much as something like him can love anything. He is bitter and broken in all the same ways, they joined the legion for the same reasons. In their own ways they are exemplars of the eighth legion.
I agree with Lucoryphus those eldar do be a snacc
I like little Shy reading on her little table
Am I the only one who thought they were gonna put Xarl in the Dreadnought?
At some point I'd love you to do a book club on Soul Drinker. There's a few books but the first really deserves a go through.
khorne doesnt care if you pray
praying isnt very khornelike behavior, your not going to get any points for that in his book
khorne doesnt notice much, but if he does notice you your getting in weather you want to or not
Oh god I just realized that Cyrions “how are you?” Is essentially kind of a Joey from friends “how you doing?” Just a little less flirty, or at least differently flirty (Cause let’s face it if Joey was gonna go for any chaos god it would be Slaanesh). I kinda hate it but also kind of love it
The terminator armors they get from a short story called "The core". They went to a space hulk for some bullshit, a bunch of Nick Kyme's Salamanders went to the same space hulk. Both parties got dunked on by genestealers. First claw just looted the Salamanders' corpse for the armors.
What's Bricky's avatar, by the way? He's the only one that always escapes me.
He carries an Inquisitors seal on the right shoulder.
@@erikrungemadsen2081 just say the inquistor and dk is the acolyte
I figured dk was a tech adept, shy was a cherub, and bricky was some kind of eclisiarch.
"He just felt his heart blood and... *krrrrrk*"
Pretty sure Decimus' helmet was Xarl's
It's a mix of Xarl and Talos
Woah the navigator gene is super rare? You’d have to have plot armor or something to inherit that if you were the child of two main characters.