Night Lords
Allegiance
traitor
Pre-Heresy Ranks
- Legionary
- Sergeant
- Centurion
- Captain
- First Captain Jago Sevatarion as Prince of Crows
- members of the Kyroptera
- Atramentar as Terminator veterans of the 1st Company
- Equerry
- Chaplain
- Librarian
- Primarch Konrad Curze.
Post-Heresy Ranks
- Chaos Space Marine
- Aspiring Champion
- Claw Master
- Chaos Lord
- Sorcerer
- Warpsmith
- Daemon Prince
- Prince of Crows as an honorific for outstanding warlords.
Companies & Units
- Companies, especially the 1st Company as Atramentar
- later warbands
- squad level as claws, for example first claw of the tenth company
- terror and jump troops organised in such claws.
Homeworld(s)
Nostramo, a perpetually dark hive world with a criminal, decadent society, later destroyed by Curze via orbital bombardment. Afterwards they briefly based themselves on the cold carrion world of Tsagualsa before scattering between various Daemon Worlds in the Eye of Terror and fleet‑based raider groups.
Combat Doctrine(s)
- Terror and deterrence warfare: night attacks, psychological operations, torture and public mutilation to demoralise armies and civilian populations. They favour raids, ambushes and systematic fear‑mongering over long campaigns or classic set‑piece battles.
Epochs & Role
In the Great Crusade used as a terror Legion to ‘pacify’ recalcitrant worlds. In the Heresy they join Horus, fight in the Thramas Crusade and increasingly fracture under internal violence; after Curze’s assassination they splinter into warbands and flee into the Eye of Terror. Through the Scouring and into M41/M42 they exist as scattered pirate and terror bands such as the Covenant of Blood warband (Talos), the Bleeding Eye and many others.
Successor Chapters / Warbands (Overview)
- The Night Lords Legion as a fragmented Traitor Legion
- numerous warbands such as the Bleeding Eye, Covenant of Blood, Claws of the Black Hunt, various Raptor cults and remnant companies. No loyalist successor Chapters exist.