The fire of betrayal roared from the barrels of a thousand guns, as the second wave of Astartes revealed where their true loyalties now lay.įollowing the massacre on Isstvan V, the Warmaster Horus sent the Konrad Curze and his Night Lords Legion on a campaign of genocide against the Imperial strongholds of Heroldar and Thramas in the Aegis Sub-sector of the Eastern Fringe, thus protecting Horus' flank and delaying the Dark Angels Legion from reinforcing the Loyalists. Inside the black alien fortress where the Warmaster had made his lair, a lone flare shot skyward, exploding in a hellish red glow that lit the battlefield below. It was then that Horus revealed his perfidy and sprung his lethal trap. As the battered Raven Guard warriors staggered towards the unified Night Lords and Word Bearers force, exhausted, clutching empty bolters and broken blades, believing their "brothers'" presence to be a reprieve, they waited in grim silence.Īs they voxed hails requesting medical aid and supply, the exhausted warriors of the Raven Guard and Salamanders came to within a hundred metres of their "allies". Bronze chains wrapped their armour, lashing weapons to fists, as the Night Lords made ready for the coming signal to begin the assault upon the unsuspecting Loyalists.įollowing the first wave of the attack and the bloodying of the three Loyalist Legions, the second wave of "reinforcements" eagerly awaited the withdrawing mass of Loyalists on the slopes of the Urgall Depression. Each member was known by name and reputation within and without the Night Lords Legion.ĭuring the Drop Site Massacre, First Captain Jago Sevatarion led his 1 st Company elite to the surface of Isstvan V.
This elite cadre's numbers were chosen from amongst the standard ranks of the Night Lords Legion from Astartes who had been singled out and personally selected by their primarch for their ferocity and cruelty. Even before the treachery of the Drop Site Massacre of Isstvan V, the Night Lords were Renegade in all but name, having entirely devoted themselves to the arts of terror and murder.Īt the forefront of this Legion of murderers, cutthroats and torturers were the Atramentar.
A Pre-Heresy Terminator of the Night Lords' elite Atramentar in Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armourĭuring the Great Crusade no Legion of the Legiones Astartes elevated the use of fear itself as a weapon to the extent that the Night Lords did.
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