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| I very good read and I would highly recommend it or any of Mr. Dembski-Bowden's literary works. |
I also read Lord of the Night, and though it wasn't quite as good as Soul Hunter, I still enjoyed it and loved that Zso Sahaal always mentions Focus as being the greatest gift that the Night Haunter gave to the Night Lords. The Night Haunter gave them the wisdom that the ends justify the means, but that the means are not to be an ends by themselves, rather the motion by which the ends are met. Through the entire book you get to see Sahaal struggle with this idea, and though he eventually masters the art of Focus once again, he later sees what happens when you walk away from focusing on the ends and rather on the means when he is confronted by a group of Night Lords who have completely fallen to Chaos and fight just for the act of fighting instead of trying to reach a higher goal.
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| A decent book. and excellent canon for the Night Lords |
So it is for these reasons that I have set upon my goal to make my Night Lords army. I have thought about some of the fluff for my Night Lords, mainly the company in which they are in and a couple of the characters in the army. As of right now my plan was to make the 4th company of the 3rd chapter of Night Lords, though I still get confused by how the legions were organized so it may not be entirely correct, but I always imagined the legions to be organized into many chapters or demi-chapters that included around anywhere from between 500 to 2,000 marines with supporting armour and such. Obviously the size of the chapter would probably depend on where the expedition force was going and how much force they would need to accomplish their goals, and thus the greater might of the legions were spread amongst the several hundreds of expeditionary forces, usually the biggest number of forces residing with their own primarch and their force. My idea was to make the 4th company in a chapter of about 1000 marines, who are heading their own expeditionary force into the galactic north east. The company will be roughly the same as a company of marines in the standards of the codex astartes, with a few differences. So that means that the company will most likely consist of a captain, a command squad, 6 tactical squads, 2 assault squads, and 2 devastator squads, though I will most likely include any tanks or attachments like techmarines in the company as well. Eventually I hope to collect enough to field the entire company, and to expand maybe into the chapter's first company and their bike company as well. But for right now I'm trying to write fluff for the company and chapter, and all the named characters that I will be including in the forces. And if anyone would like to talk to me about their opinions on the whole make up of the legions and the make up of a Pre-Heresy company, I would be more than glad to have some people to bounce ideas off on. Well, here's some fluff that I've started on for my Captain:
Taron, The Reaper of the Fraxus System:
A Terran from the beginning of the Great Crusade, he has taken in many of the tenets that the Night Haunter has taught his sons and used them to great effect. Before the coming of the Night Lords Primarch, Taron was a brutal and effective Captain from the beginnings of the Great Crusade, and the arrival of Conrad Curze has only sharped those qualities to a razor's edge. Though he is utterly cruel and focused in his work as a soldier of the Great Crusade, he is not without the companionship and brotherhood inherent in many of the Space Marine Chapters. He has founded close bonds with many of the Terrans that he has fought with over the many centuries of the Great Crusade, and though few of them are still left in the armies of the Night Haunter, his bonds have never been stronger with those that still remain. One such bond of significant note is that with the chapter's oldest living member, Chravex the 4th company's techmarine. When Taron is not engrossed in his duties as the Captain of the 4th, he seeks the wisdom and guidance of the old veteran. Another of Taron's closest brothers is Thearok, and though he was recently interned in one of the chapter's suits of dreadnaught armour after the battle of Drethmor V, Taron still seeks his longest companion's company when he is awakened. Though Taron seeks the companionship of his fellow Terrans, he is very suspicious of those marines that have been recruited from the Night Haunter's homeworld. Taron holds the utmost respect for his Primarch and gene-father, but has inhibitions about the Nostramean unsavory, yet effective, acts of cruelty on the battlefield. But there are a few that he has gotten to know and respects, so Taron does not object to their inclusion in the glorious times of the Great Crusade, but the feeling of suspicion that he feels does not easily go away. Taron received his title as the Reaper of Fraxus System while his company was still fighting alongside the Night Haunter. The title was given to him by the Primarch himself after Taron sought and killed the leaders of the 5 Noble houses of the Fraxus system's corrupt ruling class. After Taron assassinated each of the 5 leaders, he strung them up on the highest point on the capital planet Fraxus III for all to see, thus leading to the subsequent surrender of the entire Fraxus system. The title gives Taron great pride and serves to remind him the value of determination and focus, and the effectiveness that fear can hold in battle.
So that's what I've got for fluff so far, but I will be trying to add more as I expand my army. But until then, I am The Night!
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