Night Lords: Difference between revisions

* [[Twist Ending]]: Played straight because it probably wasn't the twist you were expecting.

* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Being a cogboy would already mean that the knowledge broker can switch his pain receptors as desired, but Sahaal's interrogation of him shows that he takes some pleasure or satisfaction from the whole thing.

 

 

* [[A Chat With Satan]]: Talos' encounter with the Ruinous Powers in ''Soul Hunter''. Originally intended to initiate a [[Deal With the Devil]], but Talos' [[Heroic Willpower]] twisted it into this.

** When Talos speaks with {{spoiler|Ruven's dead remains}}... [[All Just a Dream|kinda']].

* [[Cold Flames]]: {{spoiler|Used by the Eldar to ignite Cyrion's corpse in Talos' epilogue nightmare, Variel isn't as lucky and dies much more slowly.}}

* [[Combat Medic]]: Talos and Variel. Talos doesn't really do much medic stuff any more, even by 40k's standards of the word. Variel on the other hand, does and still finds the time to be a murderous badass.

** The command throne in ''The Covenant of Blood'' {{spoiler|and ''The Echo of Damnation''}}

* [[Cool Starship]]: ''The Covenant of Blood''

** {{spoiler|The Genesis Marines' company captain}}, delivered by {{spoiler|Xarl, of course}}.

** {{spoiler|After half her body is blown up by Talos, Jain Zar is crushed under Malcharion's Dreadnought feet; "I...HAVE TO FINISH EVERYTHING...FOR THAT BOY"}}.

* [[Decapitation Presentation]]: Most commonly Uzas, but other members of 10th company have been known to do it.

* [[Determinator]]: {{spoiler|Daemon Prince Caleb}}, who survives {{spoiler|being sucked out into space, being exposed directly to the Warp,}} being shot in the throat with a shotgun, and having a chainaxe thrown in his face!

* [[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu]]: Briefly invoked in both books. Talos ends up meeting two of the most powerful Chaos Warlords in the galaxy (including Abbadon himself). Despite knowing how powerful they are, Talos is remarkably casual about voicing opinions that would see anyone slaughtered in a moment. There are mitigating circumstances in both cases; Talos genuinely finds Abbadon a broken, twisted warlord with delusion of grandeur (even mentioning the consistent lack of success in all his Black Crusades) and in the other case, he is deliberately being cocky to endear himself to Lufgt Huron.

* [[Dramatic Irony]]: Often hits like a brick during flashbacks to the golden age of the Night Lords.

** Variel's handling of surgery at his introduction in ''Blood Reaver''

** In a flashback, when Uzas {{spoiler|takes the freshly-killed Sar Zell's chainaxe}}, seemingly cementing First Claw's hatred for him ever since.

* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]

* [[Eye Scream]]: Talos scoops out J'sara's eyes in the process of torturing her for information in ''Throne of Lies''.

** Also mentioned as a means of punishment that the 10th company use to keep their slaves and / or brothers in line.

** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] when {{spoiler|''ten million'' people are flayed on Tsagualsa in the first half of ''Void Stalker''.}}

** Sanguine -- Uzas. His emotions are all or nothing; he's almost universally violent, irritated or sullen when he isn't an unreadable shell. Thinks only of himself, which is how he became corrupt in the first place. He himself admits he all but runs on a slow, seething rage.

** Choleretic -- Xarl. Cynic, chronic complainer, suspicious pessimist, and yet somehow a very capable [[The Lancer|Lancer]] for Talos. Throws his whole life into the sword and it shows in every sense of the word.

* [[Not Me This Time]]: Uzas is held guilty for killing {{spoiler|Arkiah, the father of the Voidborn}}, despite his constant lucid insistance that he did not.

* [[Not So Different]]

* [[Noun Verber]]: ''Soul Hunter'', ''Blood Reaver'' and now ''Void Stalker''. Also, Night Haunter.

* [[Obligatory War Crime Scene]]: {{spoiler|You know the Blood Angels? The guys we've been saying are one of the nicest Chapters of Space Marines? They kill the Void-born and her mother during the boarding of the ''Covenant of Blood''. It doesn't even appear to have been by a Death Company brother, which might be excusable.}}

** {{spoiler|This troper didn't even find that particularly surprising. Like all the crew of the ''Covenant of Blood'', The Void-born and her mother were heretics and traitors. Besides, the Night Lords are big on [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty]]. Where you or I see mercy, they see opportunity.}}

* [[One Head Taller]]: Septimus to Octavia

* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: Septimus swears in nothing but Nostraman, even when speaking [[Common Tongue|Gothic]] for Octavia's benefit.

* [[People Jars]]: The titan princeps in Deltrian's posession.

** On at least one occasion Talos has begun drooling in rage.

** The [[Cool Pet|Hamadrya]] does this on occasion, even ''its'' spit in acidic.

** [[Word of God|Aaron Dembski-Bowden]] eventually confirmed this as a Legion-wide tradition.

** When confronting the father of the Voidborn about his desire for revenge, Talos tells the man he ate the heart of the {{Blood Angels Blood Angel}} who killed his daughter, and that that should satisfy vengeance.

** When psychically stressed, Octavia will cry blood from her third eye.

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: The Night Lords were driven from Tsagualsa by the Ultramarines and their successor chapters. ''All'' of their successor chapters, meaning about two-thirds of all the Space Marines in the Imperium.

** Once Talos finds out that {{spoiler|Septimus got Octavia knocked up.}}

* [[Three Point Landing]]: Talos on the cover of ''Void Stalker''.

* [[Theme Naming]]: Many things important to the Night Lords are named for the works of [[Joseph Conrad (Creator)|Joseph Conrad]].

* [[Vice City]]: The city of Nostramo Quintus

* [[We Can Rebuild Him]]: Huron Blackheart, Septimus following a run in with Black Legion slaves in ''Soul Hunter'', Talos after {{spoiler|the duel with Third Claw.}}

* [[What You Are in The Dark]]: The Night Haunter does '''not''' agree with this trope.

* [[Where I Was Born and Razed]]: Night Haunter destroyed Nostramo, the Night Lords did little more than watch.

** When the rest of First Claw (sans Xarl at that point) attempt to fight the heavily-armed {{spoiler|Genesis Marine captain}}. Then Xarl shows up and evens up the score.

* [[Wretched Hive]]: Nostramo (and later Tsagualsa) on a planetary level

* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: {{spoiler|Vandred holding off the Red Corsair armada so the ''Echo of Damnation'' and the surviving portions of Tenth Company can escape.}}

* [[You Should Have Died Instead]]: Cyrion says this to Uzas in a half-joking manner before a boarding action, wishing Uzas had died in a previous raid instead of the apparently uncorrupted Sar Zell.