Adeptus Ridiculous - NIGHT LORDS: AVE DOMINUS NOX | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: July 7, 2021

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Welcome everyone to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous Podcast. My name is D.K. Diamantis. And today we are going to learn about all the wacky, crazy, wild, and ridiculous things in Warhammer 40K from our almost lifelong fan. Bricky, I don't think it's been lifelong, but it's been a while. So if you enjoy today's podcast, please head over to patreon.com slash adeptus Ridiculous and consider supporting the podcast. You get access to our Discord, to bloopers. and Bricky's favorite thing, all of the Wifu and Ab posters.

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God fucking damn it. After the conversation we just had. You know that, you know that meme? You know that meme where that person's like, two of you guys are friends, right? You're going to say yes and I'm going to say no. Because of this shit. I love it.

It's just the best episode ever already. The next one is Book Club is this Friday, which will be day after tomorrow in terms of when this episode is being released. Make sure you finish reading Gons Goes first and only before them. And then the third housekeeping business is Alpha Legion. That will be next week. It'll be the episode after this one. I know it took a little bit of time to get there,

but I'm finishing up the Alfarious book for my research. So it will be next week as Alpha Legion. Do not worry. We will not delay too long. After that, we also have the more guardsman party reading. We will probably be doing that most likely in July. so you should be getting more of that this month and last but not least I have one more

thing I wanted to do I haven't told D.K. and shy about this but I had a great concept so my girlfriend recently got horribly horribly drunk and with all of my friends up in L.A.

and a couple of my friends threw up on some people's cars and it was just it was fucking horrid great start I'm really excited they had a drink called the LA Waters, which is about four and a half shots of alcohol, and it makes the drink look like a brackish gray blue,

hence the term L.A. water. And I was thinking to myself, how cool would it be if we did a custom 40K cocktails? And so I decided that for our 11,000, 11K mark on Patreon, Me and D.K. will come up with three, or maybe I'll come up with them and then you'll drink them. Three custom Warhammer-based cocktails. And we'll drink again like the Garson Party.

And you know what we should do, D.K.? We should fucking just peruse memes that the people send us, Warhammer memes while we get shit-faced. Nice. In fact, so much so that I even was going to name one of the drinks the forget-me juice. From the goddamn Scola episode. And I already know it's going to be in it, so you better prepare your fucking asshole, man. Oh, no.

If it's forget me, juice, it's got to be something that's going to really fuck you over. You're going to do some bullshit with absinthe, aren't you? I hate absence, so no, but it'll be just as devastating. So anyway, if we hit 11K, that's that. Pass that. I do want to get into this episode because I'm excited because it's fucking night lords. Let's go!

It's night lords overall, because we did curs. We'll still talk a little bit about curs here, but as you know, you boys, is a newly found nightlord simp. Well, you've only just now accepted it. Like, we've known that since the night lord episode, like, how many times have you brought up the books? I'm reading the books. I love the books. I love it. And Aaron was like, oh, you should get a night lord.

No, I wouldn't do a night. No. guys, I wouldn't do. And it's like, we knew, man, this ain't like a new thing. You're you only just now admitting it. Once I finished the books, I was like, okay, I think it's time. And then I read the more recent Conrad

Kerr's novel that came on like a couple years ago. And I'm like, okay, it is definitely time. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, I pretty much am building the night Lord's army now. Maybe we'll show it off to the fans once it's there. But let's talk night lords. Let's do it. With my knowledge of

a couple of the books and all that, and I'm starting thing I'm getting a lot more. I can, there's even a bit of Nostroman, the language that I can tell you about. Okay. Um, which is fun because, uh, in the, the trilogy, they actually speak Nostroman a bit. And it's, it's very interesting language. It's very, um, they, they refer to it as gangster's poetry where it's very fluffy and very like meant to sound all sly when a reality. It's kind of just said by douchebags. Okay. I liked it. I kind of like that. It sounds fluffy, but it's just, it's made for gangsters. Yeah.

Like, like, one of the Nostrama phrases is Shrila la Lereil, which is whore that mates with dogs. That definitely, I was not expecting that. I, that's that, you're right. That sounded so, like, fluffy and like, oh, yeah, that sounds nice and it's, nope. Yep. Like, there's also another one called, like, Korshia Se, which means breathe now. But literally translated, it means breathe now. But actually, it's more so like breathe now while you still have the chance.

Like, beware. Oh, okay. So that's like a warning. Yeah, that's a warning. Breathe while you still have the lungs to do it. Exactly. There's also one more one that I mentioned. I like that.

It's a hoshah amthile van vichie Lalis, which is this vessel is cursed. You know, so it's very fluffy. It's very like, hmm. And for a horrible, horrible group. Let me, let's start with a quote. Oh, let's go. This is a long fucking quote, D.K., and I apologize. All right.

I brought a lunch. It's fine. Excellent. This is from Talas Valcoran, main character of the Night Lord's Omnibus trilogy, from the third book. Okay. And this without too much of a spoiler. He says, quote, it is not enough.

We stand in the dust at the end of the end of the book. centuries of useless sin and endless failure. The Legion was poisoned and we sacrificed an entire world to cleanse it. We failed. We are the sons of the only Primark to hate his own Legion. There again, we failed. We swore vengeance on an imperial, yet we run from every battle where we don't possess overwhelming force over a crippled enemy.

We fail again and again and again. Have you ever fought a battle you'd struggle to win with no hope of running a Have any of us? Have you ever since the siege of Terra itself drawn a weapon with the knowledge you might die? I will not see my life hoard away without meaning. Do you hear me? Do you understand me, prince of cowards? I want vengeance against the galaxy that hates us. I want imperial worlds to cower when we draw near. I want the weeping of this empire's souls to reach all the way to Holy Terra and the sound of suffering will choke the corpse God on his throne of gold. I will cast a shadow across this world. I will burn every man, woman, and child. So the smoke from the funeral pyres eclipses the sun. And with the dust that remains, I will take the echo of damnation into the sacred skies above Terra

and rain the ashes of 20 million mortals down onto the emperor's palace. Then they will remember us. Then they'll remember the legion they once feared. So if we want to set a tone for the episode, This dude's like, yeah, 20 million children. I'm going to take the ashes and just sprinkle them over fucking the emperor is throwing. Yeah, he's going to rain them down, a storm of ash and blood over the fucking Imperium. Holy shit.

That's a, that's some shit. It's some shit. It's a very night lords thing. And that's the thing I like. So a little bit more about obviously night lords. The color scheme they have is very much that like blue and red. They're obviously the 8th Legion. We all know that.

They are comprised of obviously the companies. I think normally the first company is normally the Terminators in a Legion or a chapter, and then it kind of goes from there. For instance, they're actually made up of claws. So claws. Like claws are like squads, basically. Oh, okay. So instead of calling them a squad, they're just like, oh, first claw.

Yeah. Yeah, first claw 10th company is the group of the book. And the Terminators are actually the first company, and they actually have a special kind of Terminator for the Night Lords. They're actually known as the Atramentar. The Atramentar? The Atramentar. These are such weird names.

Like, GW naming is so confusing sometimes. It can be. And I mean, yeah, a whore that mates with dogs. The Atramenta are pretty neat. They're obviously the Terminators, but they actually have a bit more of an interesting concept when they have all their chaos bits. So they got like the big tusks of the Terminator helm and stuff. But often their shoulder pat is actually of a lion, of an old Nostroman lion

that used to be in like the planes of the planet. And it was apparently a very, like a kind of a really strong-ass lion. Yeah. And so it's kind of neat to have like a regal lion be the shoulder pad of the night lord's terminators. That's, yeah. A regal lion for kind of scummy douchebags that just want to kill everything. For awful, awful people.

Yeah. The, one of the more interesting things about, of course, Nostromo is a really big part of this Legion's history and one of my favorite parts of it because Nistramo is really, it's like a character in its own right, really, that planet. You know, the sunless world, the planet of endless nights, the

dead planet because Gers was like, die. Oh, that's right, did Curz, um... He exterminated honest it, right? Yep. I was going to say that's what made it seem so strange because like having the lion

on the shoulder pad is like kind of cool and everything, I was like, I mean, that's a regal animal from Nostromo. And like, if Kurs exterminatist the planet, would they really want, like, a reminder of Nistramo on the? The Kurs hated Nostromo more than almost anybody. Uh, because, because that was the issue is that Kurs, Kurs was Batman, right? Yeah, he is, the difference is that, you know, literally someone tried to kill themselves. And he was like, that's against the law.

Your skin's gone. Now I'm going to wear it on my scrote. Here it goes. Actually, the person who tried to kill himself was a woman, so no scroats there. Actually, speaking of scroats, all right, D.K., I need to ask you a question you probably get daily, all right? Okay. I'm worried about this question. Such a dean came and it from scroats, but whatever, go ahead.

Do you respect your balls? Yes, I do. Why, yes, Bricky, I do indeed respect my balls. Excellent. If the night lords invade you, put a gun to your head because your balls are forfeit. All right. Good advice.

Thank you. I will keep that in mind if the fictional night lords ever invade California. Good to know. Like how you said California was such like a, they never touched this place. Nah. Why would they ever get here? Why would they ever?

California is clearly the show. shining beacon of light that no one would ever touch, right? Oh, yeah, and then the Texas guy in the comments is like, I say, I hear my comma for me. Yeah, anyway, uh, night lords. What were we? Sorry, I had to, I had to look this up just so I could have this for the video. There we go.

Just get someone to edit that as with a night lord's fucking, with some night lord's wings in the helmet. Yeah, should I put some, put a, put a night lord helmet on this. Yeah, we'll leave it to the people. Go ahead. Yeah. So, well, so Curz, I should talk a little more more Curz

because it's an interesting thing about him because he's obviously psychotic. A lot of people A lot of people think that he had like a split personality issue or a multiple personality disorder

where on one hand there was Conrad Kurz and on the other hand there was like the night Haunter, the crazed man and like the good man. I don't believe that. I actually don't like that theory. I think it lessens the moral, interesting implication of him. Because for him, obviously, he despised the night lords. He hated them.

And as the knight hunter, you know, he eventually brought the entire planet into submission. And the planet was completely free of all crime. And then he left. and when the planet started to degrade into crime again, they were like, he left and they were begging him to come back. Like, can you imagine begging that man to return? I mean, I can sort of imagine it because like when he was the night haunter,

like there was no crime, none. I mean, granted, he's very strict. But there's no crime. And he was a great leader. Apparently when there was no crime, to be had he was benevolent he was kind he was intelligent so i could see wanting him to come back because if he leaves it's just going to descend back into chaos and crime and it's going to turn into a dank world of just malevolence and hatred and crime is going to run rampant it's going to

be awful again so i mean yeah if you're nistraman which i don't know why the word nistraman sounds really weird to me it works better it works better with a russian accent Yeah, I guess it does Yeah, it has a good like Yeah, but yeah I could see actually wanting Conrad to stay On this drama Well, yeah, well he would like to do it a little bit

Because he also was you know Plagged by horrifying visions Oh, yep But he, you know, Curse even said himself Quote, I will be vindicated soon And the truest lesson of the night lords will be taught Do you truly believe I care What happens to any of you after my death

like he just hates he hates his legion because he was he was supposed to be Mr. Justice man that's all he believed in was justice and when the the legion's ranks were being swelled by Nostromo's

horrible poisonous murderers and all it's it was a bad thing it turned his legion into the into the people the criminals the gangsters that he hated A great scene from the Strombo

is a boy is walking home and he's just walking home from school and he looks to his left on an alleyway and he sees like a rape in progress and his buddy his buddy shoves him along. It's like don't look the gangsters will recognize your face

and he goes home to like a single mother who rolls up her sleeves when he comes in because her arms are tattooed with her owner from the owner's name from the gangs. Right. Oh, Jesus.

And the whole area is just a depraved like, like something about crime and some of the worst kinds of crime. A lot of night lords were murderers before they were teenagers and rapists by the time they were.

Oh, fuck. I mean, I knew Nistramos was hard, but Jesus. that's a lot it's a lot it's hard to it makes it difficult for me to be like yeah I really like the night lords considering they're all like the worst of the worst

before becoming like the night lords they were just the scumiest scumbags you could ever imagine just awful horrible murderer criminals and yeah that's fair I mean granted they're not much better when they became night lords but

That's true. You know. At least they were, you know. But I think space Marines. Oh yeah, goody. A starry. A space Marines never did anything wrong. Yeah, we're the, a little bit of a step up.

They've taken one step up the ladder, kind of. Ooh, Angron. Yay. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Oh. But on another side.

So obviously, the whole concept, Because Kurz's big quote is death is nothing compared to vindication. His last words, right? Yep. Yeah. Because visions were vindicated. He was right. He wasn't crazy.

The visions were, they all came true, right? Well, he was most certainly insane. He was most certainly crazy. But his insanity really kind of became a thing near the end of his life. It wasn't really that bad prior. I mean, he was definitely tormented, but. I wouldn't call him, like, completely insane until later. Curz particularly had this, the issue where he could see the future.

And the thing is, is that sanguineous, like, could also see the future. But sanguineous, because they're all psychers, you know, to an extent. Oh, I didn't realize sanguineas was a cyker, I guess. I guess I just figured he was, well, he's a Primark, right? And I guess Primark has a little cyker in them because. He was a bigger psycher. Blood Angels have, I think, a decent amount of psychers. But he saw all the good futures.

Sanguania saw the best outcomes, which is, of course, a nice bit of irony. Because he's dead. Curse saw the worst futures. From his infancy, he was seeing the worst kind of stuff. You have to think about him as a kid. Imagine a kid who sees the future, and the future involves all of his brothers turning on his father and his father sending an assassin to kill him.

Oh boy, that'll, yeah, I guess that'll fuck you up a little bit in the head. Yeah, and the future's kept on coming to pass. The thing and the concept is that these are a variation of the future, right? Sanguania has the good, curse has the bad, and he's tormented by the bad. So in a sense, the idea is that, in order, to be vindicated, he kind of did things that would therefore cause the bad future

to occur. Example, there's a great part in his Primark book when he's chasing a young boy on a rooftop who was attempting to diddle a lady. And he eventually gets stricken by these horrible visions,

right? Right. And he's actually given two separate visions. On one vision, the boy, does not attack him and he goes up and they speak with each other and the boy eventually reforms his actions

the boy grows old he actually gets more of the gangsters on his side and they start reforming the planet in a more civilized way crime goes down through working together the boy becomes a mentor

almost like a son to Kurz and the young boy dies on his death on his deathbed with Kurz beside him. But like, I lived a good life. I did good things. Nistramo is better because of us. On the other side, the boy grows for his knife and shanks, curds in the ribs. He doesn't kill him, but the boy escapes, and he becomes the guy who escapes the night haunter. I made it, and then his influence starts to wane, and the justice, like the crime becomes more popular because they're not scared of him anymore. They might start fighting back more.

Oh. And then it becomes worse. And so the boy walks up to Kurz and Kerr's is like, I've seen, I see one future, this is not worth taking the risk. And so then he grabs the boy by his throat and like cracks his windpipe, you know? Wow. But then he looks to the side and he sees the boy's knife and it's pretty far from reach. Ooh.

But he's just kind of like, no matter. It was, I couldn't take the risk. Oh. So he's not, so, so, so Curr's isn't just seeing one timeline. He's seeing like, he'll see like, uh, variations and branches in his sites. Like he'll see the boy becoming a good person or the boy becoming a murderer and sort of like dethroning him. And he can sort of be like, uh-oh.

Uh, I think he mainly only sees the bad. I think this may have been, this is the first time I've ever. heard him see not bad. So I think it was just a fluke. Because I was going to say if he constantly sees both sides, like, couldn't he like actually try to make a better future?

Which kind of sounds interesting because it's like, he's like, oh yeah, I can see good and bad, but I'm actively choosing bad because I'm a fucker. And I'm just, I've been plagued with these visions. I don't want a happy future. I want the darkness. And he's just making

this active choice to just go the dark path. That was the concept of the vindication part where. Right. Curz was a monster, right? Yes. Yes. And the problem is that if his, he was so like sunk down in the concept of fatalism, right?

Fate. Yeah. Because if, if, like, his future is wrong, you know, let's say, because he saw his death. from a young age. He saw his death at the hands of the assassin. And if he stopped the assassin, which he absolutely could have done, then that proves that Sanguineus was right

and that Curz became a horrifying insane monster of his own will, not because that was his destiny. And Curz can't handle that. How can he handle the concept that everything he did all the horrible things he did was make him a monster because he liked it and not because he had to. Oh, I guess that would turn him into an even bigger monster.

He was like, oh yeah, I knew you were coming assassin. Shank. And he, because he couldn't stand the possibility that he himself was the monster. Yeah. Because his whole life is like, okay, the emperor proved to me that this, this is what the emperor, wanted him. The emperor made me this way. Why do I plague these visions? Why do I have all his problems? Because the emperor made me. He made me this problem. He made me this way. So it's the proof. It's vindicating the fact that the emperor made him a monster. Yeah. I wonder, I wonder how

it would have turned out for Kerr's if very early on, like, he like has all these bad visions. And like before he becomes like a horrifying monster, he actively like tries to change his visions. And not end up dead by an assassin? Well, that was the problem is that he was thrown into one of the worst scummy or plant. Yeah, with no parents, no teachers. He was literally alone and starving.

It's kind of hard to look on the bright side of Nistrama when it's complete darkness all the time, right? Ah, the bright side. Give me that drug roll, son. Give me that drug roll. Let's go. Let's go. But I said that I was going to talk less about curs

And then we talked all about curs So let's stop with curs for a bit He's just so cool though It's hard Like especially night lords You know how You know how when I call Pertharabo Primark of the Iron Warriors

A petulant manchild Yes A lot of people get mad at me for that Because Perchirabo's neat And they're right But here's the thing Is that it's not like You're not ad mech viewers

This is not binary he can be cool and a petulant manschild. Curz is an interesting sympathetic character. He's also fucking insane. Oh, yes. You can be both. I'm okay with that. There's a gray area here.

I can't say anything about Perchirabo because I know nothing of him because I think the only time he's been brought up was when he's the one that made the maze that Vulcan got put into, right? And his hammer was like at the end of it. Yes. I'm learning. Let's fucking go. Anyway, but yeah, that's all I know about Perchrabu is he likes to make cool shit like that maze and Vulcan get stuck in it.

But yeah. Perch, people really like the Iron Warriors. In fact, maybe we're delaying the Iron Warriors just to spite them. Hey, but no, not really. They're neat, but I haven't done the research on them yet. So we'll see. I'm sure I'll come around to them more like I did Angron, but at the moment, I like to make them upset. You want to know a funny, an interesting thing?

Yes, I would love to know an interesting thing. The night lords justify their actions quite a bit. In a kind of a fucked up, in a kind of a fucked up way, though, because like Lehman Russ, right, or Gilliman, they send an attack force to the planet to put it into submission during the Great Crusade. Okay. The night lords killed about like only a thousand people and then they, and the planet fell to them. Oh, is it, I would assume, so if they only killed the thousand people. thousand people. It has to be that like they killed those thousand people in such a savage, awful, horrible, grimy, disgusting way that the rest of the planet was like, nope, surrender.

You are correct. The concept is that through the use of fear, fear is the only way to guarantee compliance. So by killing, by spreading fear, you can actually take over a world with a very a small lack of bloodshed. Nice. Which is kind of weird because you'd think if anybody wanted more bloodshed, it'd be the night lords. Yeah, but they're supposed to be about justice, at least in the beginning. Oh, right, right, in the beginning when they're still with the Imperium and they're still, okay, that's fair. Yeah, the terror tactics.

I mean, they do, they do still like it, especially as they got poisoned. But for example, in a little thing called a lesson in darkness, which is a small little short story, I believe. There's a great tidbit where the night lords brought a planet into compliance by attacking an enemy ship above the planet, taking it over, and bringing it into the atmosphere, just hovering. And the entire capital was celebrating because they had fought off the night lords. And then they opened some of the pods and started throwing

the flayed bodies of the crew into the crowd. They were just like, they just went E, open the airlock, and just started throwing down like skinned bodies onto the people. So it was raining flayed bodies on what would have been a celebration

for them killing the night lords. Yep. And then, and by doing so, they actually stood there and waited and allowed the planet to go into feet. based anarchy and broadcast their pleas for safety to other planets, the system, to conquer the system. They conquered the system without setting a fucking foot on the planet. Whoa.

They are, they are, what's the term? They are results on a budget. Holy shit. That's crazy. That's insane. Would you like another quote, D.K.? I would love another quote. This is from Jago Sevatarian, also known as Sevatar,

who is probably the second best known Nightlord's character around. Even shy threw a picture up really fast. Oh shit. Quote, because the wolves kill cleanly and we do not. They also kill quickly, and we have never done that either. They fight, they whimmed. and they stalked back to their ships with their tails held high. If they were ever ordered to destroy another legion,

they would do it by hurling warrior against warrior, seeking to grind their enemies down with the admirable delusions of the noble savage. If we were ever ordered to assault another legion, we would virus bomb their recruitment worlds, slaughter their serfs and slaves, poison their gene seed repositories, and spend the next dozen decades watching them die slow, humiliating deaths. night after night, raid after raid,

we'd overwhelm stragglers from their fleets and bleached their skulls to hang from our armor until none remained. But that isn't the quick execution the emperor needs, is it? The worlds go for the throat. We go for the eyes, then the tongue, then the hands, then the feet.

Then we skin the crippled remains and offer it up as an example to any still bearing witness. The wolves were warriors before they became soldiers. We were murderers First, last, and Always

Oh my God That is Who Boy This guy's surname Is literally The Condemned Or the Prince of Crows

It's fitting I do My fucking wrists Have god damn Razor tallies now From that edge I know right Geez

Oh my God, but I mean, I guess it is fitting because, you know, like he said, they're a murderers. They were murderers first, and that's what you do. You're not a hungry wolf looking for a quick kill. You want to see the suffering. You want to see a slow drawn out. Sevatar is a bad man. He's a cool guy.

Sevatar is like one of the most loyal night lords, but he also doesn't take any shit. He also constantly, like, kind of, he kind of argues back on Curz a few times. Oh shit, really? Yeah, Savitar is, his first captain. So he was the commander of the Atramentar, the Terminators. And he is, I think he's one of the best duelists, like, in space marines. That's a pretty big deal.

One time, I think someone was about to beat him. I forget who it was in a duel, and then he cheated and beat him anyway. like suck my dick Nostromo rules. I have to see. I love it. Okay. Oh, there it is. Cool, cool, cool. There it is.

Yeah, he had, he finished the duel, looked on, and oh, he headbutted the guy, therefore disqualifying himself. But he thought it was fun. Bonk. Bonk. But, Savitrar was also the first man to ever declare the phrase, death to the false emperor. He was the first guy to ever say it. First one. Good for him.

What a Chad. I think we'll give him the Chad title. Good for him. I'm not really doing Sevatar enough real justice here because I haven't read the Prince of Crows or whatever the name of his book is. He has a made book. I think it's one of the

goddamn Horacee books that I'm just too worried to just jump into. Maybe maybe be viewers will be like, no, it's great. You should read it. But he, he does sound like someone that like, if he had a, if he had a book, that would be a crazy book to read through and all of his actions and just how he is. I'd read it. I'd check it out. It was actually rather interesting because he actually had red wrists. Do you notice that in the picture? Oh, yeah, he does. His, well, his gauntlets are red, but yeah.

So this is actually, this is, I fucking love this Legion and how much they incorporate their planet's culture into their stuff. That's a lot of, I didn't realize how many space marine bodies were in that picture behind him. Oh yeah, there's a lot. Wow. Jesus. His red arms are actually in a strawman gang tradition. Which means the, back in the day, the hands of traitors or fools were tattoo red by their families to show them as death marked. The sign

that no gang or family would tolerate grave failure, but they were condemned and still had labors to reform before they were to die. So they're basically condemned and they still have shit they need to get done. But once the thing is done, their gang leader would kill them.

They would execute them. They were death marked for whatever reason. Trader, fool. It was called stained sinners red. And so they kept that tradition by painting the armor right around the gauntlets. So Savatar

was actually one of them and one of the person asked him which one he was, a traitor or a fool and he replied both and we never knew why. Oh. Oh, okay. So at some point he was a treacherous

traitor. Or a fool. They said he was both. Yeah. So he did something he did something to earn him the sinners read, but we have no idea what it was. So at some point when his task is done, is the leader of the night lord is going to kill him? Well, it's too late now. It is said that he died during the siege of Terra, the actual final battle.

But here's the thing is that it said he has died there. And everyone, you know like the Mandela effect? I've heard of the Mandela effect, but I don't think I know exactly what it is. it's like, okay, there it is, it's a shared false memory phenomenon. That's, it's, it's the idea that like you either believed or was, or thought of something that was true. And then you just kind of believed it was true. That's a very short way to describe it. But it's said that he died during the siege of Terra.

But even like, like, Kurz, like, Kurs was chilling near his end of his life. And he asked for Savatar and, like, bring Saviatar. I need to speak to him. And like, Savatar is dead, my lord. And he goes like, wait, what? What the fuck do you mean?

No, he's not, you idiot. Yeah, and it's like, he died on the siege of terror. He's like, oh. Bullshit. Oh, no, he's like, oh, that's right.

I forgot. But other people are like, some people don't believe Savatar's dead. They don't, they say he's dead, but a lot of people don't believe he's dead,

but we have no idea where he is. His body was never recovered. He's never recovered. we don't know where he went. Savitar was an interesting guy, so it's a little bit curious to see what he could have ended up doing, but Savitar is one of those people that he's like,

maybe he's gone, maybe he's not. He's got a cool mini, though. It's a 30K mini, but it's a cool mini. Oh shit, that is a dope mini. Wait, that's Sevatars mini, his gauntlets aren't red. Fucking idiot. They should have painted it red. Yeah. What the hell? Why is it a red? I'm going to kill

someone. Oh, damn, Brie's going night lord. I'm a damn it someone's gonna get their Scroats yanks He's got the scrolls too good for him Good good good choice Good choice My man good shit

So do you remember when The Lion and Gilliman were trying to find Sneaky Gremlin Imposter Curz on Ultramar Yes So there was a thing called the Thamas crusade Or thramus crusade This was during the Horaceae I think this is actually what takes place during the whole

Prince of Crows thing where they fought the Dark Angels quite heavily and this involved there's a ton of fighting the Horace Heresy we've covered quite a lot of this but the main interesting thing is that

the eventually the Dark Angels ambushed the Night Lords after the Night Lords were being duches and problems and to say that the night lords got curbstomped would be an understatement the night lords got like battered.

I think they lost a good like 80% of their men in this in this crusade or something. That might be an overestimation. There might be a hyperbole. But I think the night lords have one of the smallest chaos legions of the founders.

Jesus. 80% they lost? That's not just getting slaughtered. That's, oh, I mean, put them on the protected species list because they're, I mean, God, that's near extinction. The night lords got just bodied.

I think they actually might be one of the least remaining first founding personnel. Their legion is really small nowadays. During this fight with the Dark Angels, and after getting their ass

slapped, there was a small bit of Night Lord's fleet that actually teleported it onto the Dark Angels flagship called the Invincible Reism. And who teleported on there was a man named Cogromer's, first captain Jago Savatarian, and about a dozen of the Atrementar Terminators. No, actually a lot of Terminator's did. A dozen survived.

Savitar was captured. And Curz for months evaded and hid and stalked in the shadows of the fucking flagship of the dark angels. No way. He was he fucking vented, dude. He actually vented. For months. He was playing the most insane game of among us ever. Incredible.

He was literally like just in there the whole, for like months. Lion was there. He was searching for him personally on the ship and he's like, what's that meme of the guy in the cabinet and like the soldiers are aiming the other direction? So was Conrad like killing people or was he just looking for Savitar? I think he was doing both. Eventually he actually he eventually is He escaped and that's when he made his way to McCrag with the Ultramar system and all that. That's so crazy to think about just like, sir, sir, someone's dead again.

He's like, God damn it again! Where is this son of a bitch? So we already know how about to that He got captured and then he eventually got yeated out into space In like a little stasis chamber He eventually was found by like pirates And he was taken back to his planet This is after the Horace Herculeau Because Curris wasn't there for like the siege of terror or anything

But Yeah it's kind of funny It's actually kind of a big deal This crusade is a large reason why the dark angels Are a problem now we don't talk much about the dark angels but there's a joke that dark angels are actually chaos I have the fallen

the old chaos vampires right oh that yes that joke on that forgot about that one the thing is like a large we haven't talked about dark angels yet we'll eventually do it but I was being serious when I asked that question I know which is why it was so funny I was dead serious

I don't know I don't know I hope shy puts that clip in this episode, just to have a context. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a dark angels? There's like a, so that's like the, is that like a chaos vampire thing? What do you, what do you, uh? What? I don't know this shit, man. You're the teacher, you're supposed to teach me.

Um, but obviously like the Dark Angels themselves, they had an issue where some of people went traitor and a lot of of stuff to fall in they're really really fucking um paranoid but this betrayal on their home world happened when the lion and his boys were out fighting the night lords so the concept is that they were very they were distracted from this betrayal gotcha and that ended up uh example like increasing the problem but yeah um curs and the boys eventually made their way to another planet known as Segwelsa What a name? Seguelza was also known as the Carrion world.

Oh, great. Good. I bet that's a fun vacation spot. Well, it's where Kerr's ended up making his screaming gallery. Yeah, I'm assuming the Carian world is full of Carian, which is what, dead decaying flesh. So, yeah, I'm sure that'd be a great place for a screaming gallery. Oh, well, the screaming gallery, they're not dead. Oh, that's true.

So after 20 years of building a giant palace on Seguelso with like hundreds of thousands of slaves, he made his screaming gallery. You know, the gallery where the walls and the ceiling were made of people and the floor was made of people and faces and heads and they were all alive and they were all screaming all the time. Yep. Yeah. If you were in the screaming gallery, where would you want to be placed? I would want to be on the ceiling. I would, that's probably a good idea. That of the corner.

Yeah. Yeah, or the corner. The corner. You don't want to be right in the middle. If you're right in the middle, it's like, oh, no. I don't want my face stepped on. No, definitely. Although there's someone in the comments like, yeah, I want to be in the middle because

a step on me, curs. Yeah, but it's like a bunch of night lords that do it. Yeah, but, you know, I'm not here to King's Shame, you know. We made Doge Van Dyer that... Your goddamn right. Oh, watch, like, Doge Van Dyer ends up, like, like Curse gets back into his screaming gallery, and he looks down, he sees a doghead.

Oh, no. He's like, what the fuck is this? Like, don't worry about it. Don't worry. Yeah, yeah, long-lived co-os goads. Curse, is that a dog? Is that a doge head down there? Shut the fuck up.

I love it. Send in the sororitus prisoners. The barefoot sorority sisters. This is awful. This is awful. The screaming gallery was already terrible. Now we've turned it into a meme. Guarantee.

The feeding gallery. Oh. Oh, no. It's just everyone is turned upside down, so it's just their feet sticking out instead of their heads and faces. All right, listeners, who's going to be the first

to make this into a reality? Who's going to be the first artist that tries their hand? No, this has to be the next comic of the Skull of Progenium is the feeding gallery. Oh, no. We're so fucking dumb.

I know we are. I cannot, I cannot emphasize that enough. We are so fucking dumb. I love it. Imagine, imagine me last episode, making a, admittedly, rather lukewarm take. Like, it shouldn't even be a take. It's not even a take, but we know Warhammer people can be very, very that way.

But, like, imagine that. Imagine me being trying to be, like, making a take like that and being like, yes, so this gallery, right, it's covered in feet. It's just covered. Let's talk about the feeding gallery. Like the two sides of men. Jesus Christ. So, but let's get this train back on track, right? Yes, yes.

He makes the screaming gallery in his palace because he's Conrad Kurtz. He's fucked up. He's a night lord. It's a night lord thing to do. It's a curse thing to do. Yes, it is. It's a very courish thing to do. Actually, I didn't really have much else to say about the screaming gallery besides that.

The Segwellso was just like they're kind of the second world to take over after the loss of classical Nostromo. Right. So this is kind of like their HQ now. Yeah, yeah. But Shai says she wants to cut out the feeding gallery. You better fucking not. You leave that in. That's culture and class. This is why they come to our stream. Yeah. Or our videos. Sorry, whatever. Whatever.

Though, just to kind of, I mean, I was kind of rounding out the episode anyway a little bit. When it comes to like the actual game, both the tabletop and in terms of how they fight, they tend to like raptors a lot. Imagine like jetpack troopers that fly in the air with like big old chain swords and kind of screech down from the skies. Oh, that's why raptors are the, they're like the jet packs. For a second, I was like, wait, what the fuck is a raptor? And I just imagine night lord just, you know, rolling in on a.

actual like dinosaur raptor and just yeah they also really don't like demons really yeah they they tend to hate demons um demons and most of right are seen as like like the opioid of the weak you if right because because these people have like this idea of justice and the concept of because curs also didn't like demons never became a demon primark either um that's true because like would you consider the night lord's They're not really chaos, are they? They're just a traitor legion. That's the interesting thing.

It's like, well, some people do declare maybe some slight allegiances in the night lords. Like, you know, maybe a couple claws might, like, be a little corny here. Or they might, like, say blood for the blood god before they fight. But they don't like demons themselves. Iron warriors also don't like them. And so in a sense, like, you could call them chaos because. some of them might serve the dark gods a bit more and they also work with people that serve the dark gods

and often sometimes demons do work with them in a sense but they don't like them gotcha and they think that if you are like a demon if you accept a demon into your life or you accept a demon's assistance you're like a weak individual or you made a mistake okay so they're a trait Legion, but not...

That's a better way to put it, I think. Chaos Legion. I mean, we'll call them chaos because that's what they're classified as, but a traitor Legion would most likely be a better way to describe them. Gotcha. That being said, they sure as shit act chaos. Yes, they do. But they always acted that way, though.

Like, even when they were in the Imperium, they were still, like, using awful, terrible trade, not traitor tactics, but like, terror tactics. Yeah, terror tactics. Though a good way, and I think the good way to round this out, is that I really like the night lords because they are probably one of the biggest underdogs in 40K. Their legion got slapped by the Dark Angels. They are crushed. They're almost like scavengers. Often their armor is like stolen from other people.

Their weapons are taken from other people in like the imperial quillow. is like scratched out or chipped off. They cover things with their, with skin to hide like a salamanders marking, for instance. Often their slaves do large amounts of jobs more than regular slaves would do because they need the personnel. In fact, slaves are actually quite the commodities. Sometimes people have certain nightlords have their own slaves. And sometimes those said night lords will kill the slaves for fun because you still are on a night lord. ship, but sometimes the slaves are

incredibly valuable. In fact, there's even a coin, a fancy Nostroman coin that has a picture of Curz on it. And on the other side, it says, Ave Dominus Knox, which is the catchphrase,

the main phrase of the night lords. Very similar to Hydrodominatus for the Alpha Legion, or for the emperor, for the emperor's children. Well, they have three main phrases. They have, we have come for you, which is the big one. They also have in midnight clad, which is kind of...

That makes sense. Yeah, that's kind of like the ready for battle. You know, I stand in midnight clad. But the main one is Avey Dominus Knox, which in the Strahman means hail to the Lord of Night. Nice. And so that coin often resembles protection. him. If a slave has that coin, then it is assumed by other night lords and by the slave that they are under the protection of their, their Starty's lord, and harm to them will be met with

punishment. Oh, okay. So if you got the coin, you don't have to worry about a night lord shanking you in the back because he's bored. Oh, you still have to worry about that plenty, but you have at least a little bit of an assurance that maybe it won't happen as quickly. If you have like a 40% chance of being shanked, now you have like a 10% chance of being shanked. That's still worth, definitely worth having that coin. Yes.

Definitely worth having. Get that coin, Slaver boy. But the night lords, they're very underdog. They're not doing well. Their legion is faltering. And they don't have like good leadership.

After Savatar died, his successor was, a non-Nastroman born person. And it made a lot of the Atramentar unpleased. So the Atramentar kind of fizzled out and started becoming bodyguards for like various people they liked.

There's not really a first company anymore. They just kind of fizzled their way out. And a lot of the Night Lords are content on just kind of raiding for plunder and just surviving. And that's one of the reasons why that first quote is enjoyable that I

mentioned earlier where he keeps on saying like it is not enough you know he wants to stop being just these scavengers instead become like a true force again which the night lords currently are not yeah there it seems it sounds like you said they're just content being scavengers and plunders and whatever we don't have to be that good yeah and so that that's one of the interesting things in one of the parts of the book where it's like no it's time for more. It's time to become more. Damn. They're basically done as war bands now.

Random ships are war bands and each war band is kind of off doing their own thing. There's no organization really. There's no them working together. They're just kind of out becoming raiders. And so the concept, like, obviously the night lords are very bad people, both from a chaos point of view and to an extent almost an objective point of view because they are murderers and rapists. Yeah, I was going to say,

it's pretty much all-encompassing, yeah, no matter what lens you look at it through there, pretty bad. But you can really show a little bit of, a mild bit of sympathy in the sense that they're a dying Legion, they're a dying race, their planet is dead,

and in another sense, like, they're, you almost kind of want them to succeed. You want them to get revenge. because the galaxy and the emperor in particular was like, yeah, you guys are going to be used for terror tactics.

And then afterwards he was like, oh my God, you guys are so terrible. Why are you using terror tactics? You told us to. Yeah, it's like you fucking stole us too, goddammit. That's what we're supposed to do. You definitely feel like the night lords

were almost betrayed first before they became the betrayers. cast aside. It's like the bully whose dad beats him. Oh, yeah, I suppose so. They were just, they were born into it. They were born, they've known nothing but

terror and being awful and being murderers and criminals. That's what they were born into. That's what the emperor wanted them to do. That's all they know. Yep. And in a sense, you know, it almost, It almost makes you like, I'm obviously wanting them to succeed as a sign of good writing. In an objective sense, these people are all terrible.

But let's be honest, the Imperium isn't a whole lot better. No, not a whole lot. When you truly think about it. Yeah. What's that meme where it's like, like, admit it, if 40K was real, you would be joining the Tao. And I'd be like, yeah. Yep. Yeah, I would.

I 100% would. I would want nothing to do with the Imperium. The Imperium is, yeah, they're terrible. But until then, fuck the Tao. Unless it's the far side enclave. Unless it's the far side off. Unless you're part of the eight. All right. Are you ready for me to

butcher some horrible Nostroman before we end this episode? Oh, fuck yeah, dude. All right. Got wet my lids for this. Gross. Areate it. Warm it up.

Okay. Cover all 9,000 taste buds. That cream, pure vanilla. Oh, God, I regret everything. I remember a documentary where they followed around some ice cream taster and that was like the exact quote that, anyway, go ahead. I'm sure shy will put the video. Oh, absolutely. Veris Kloratha doth, setakara, Tesh, Dasovalian,

Suruthus Vezajas. Sons of our father stand in midnight. night clad, we bring the night. Or, or, you could do Valjea chalet, which stands for I love you. Wow, that doesn't... It's just, huh, doesn't seem like something

a night lord would say, unless they were saying it ironically as they were like stabbing you and bathing in your blood. Well, it's, it's Nostroman, you know, perhaps like a slave on the ship or like a commander or, you know. It's Nostroman. It's, it's

Strom and it's not just the Space Marines. Gotcha. God, nightlights are I... This is my favorite Legion. I have come around. Salamanders are still a close second. I still

love you, Sally's. But I, there's a certain level. I love depressing Slavic media. I love depressing Russian stuff in general. And I, I really like the aesthetic.

I love the planet. I love how much culture that they have. And I think they're just really fascinating. And I feel so bad just calling them evil edge lords in the beginning. They are. They are. They're more complicated. They are evil edge lords.

But like there are more layers. They're like an edge lord onion. An edge lord onion. it's edgy I'm so weird but then you peel back the layers and it's like whoa and then you start crying

yeah and in the middle of that it's a rose you know it's complicated it's complicated it's complicated I didn't expect them to boost up to your favorite Legion

though that's nice there's something about like a true underdog story they're very like very underdog the books helped so far I've read

four Nightlord's book, the trilogy and the Conrad Curs one, and they're all just like incredible. Nice. They're probably like that trilogy, that trilogy are the best books I have ever read in 40K. Whoa. Yeah, like, like, number one. That's, that's high praise. It is.

And I- You've been reading the books for like nine years, you said? Well, I read Gonskos way back when, but. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just the point, the point is just the fact that, It's rare that I go from a legion that I thought was just edgy edge lords until I made the first Conrad Kerr's episode and then I started reading and then I started doing more and now we're here and the viewers have watched me grown. They've watched my enjoyment grow and it's

Your evolution. They watched you start off as a little larva and they watch you cocoon and blossom into a bloody, terrible, scroat butterfly. And God damn it, do I love? my scroats. Oh. So, my name has been Bricky. Thank you for watching this episode of Adeptis Ridiculous. I will see you in the next one for Hydra Dominatus. You can find me Bricky at everywhere, Twitch, YouTube, etc.

DK. You can find me at D.K. Diamanty's everywhere. Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, Real D.K. Diamante's on Instagram because whatever. DK. Yeah. I just realized something. Oh, did you? What?

I was gonna say are your stroke cloths in the dryer and you forgot to take him out what happened? Your name is the initials for Dean Kamen. It's my first and middle initial but yeah it's fine. Oh my god Dean Kamen. You were Dean Kamen the whole time! How did you- oh my cover's been blown in the episode I can't.