It was a daemon, no less, with the body of an infant but the expression of an old man, its eyes black and cold as obsidian.' a glowing child-form it was, crawled from the Pit onto the broken street, hissing molten metal dripping from its limbs. Konrad Curze and his Night Lords Legion were shaped by the terror of darkness on their homeworld of Nostramo, just as much as they were by the gene-craft of the Emperor. Konrad Curze was from the start a dark and haunted figure, obsessed by death and judgement, and unshakable in his belief in the fundamental fallibility of Humanity and the agency of fear as the only true means of controlling Mankind's failings. Warhammer 40K Darktide Review - Left To Shred His VIII th Legion, without his leadership, then broke up into competing warbands of Heretic Astartes and fled into the Eye of Terror with the rest of the Traitor Legions. He was slain, some believe willingly, by the Callidus Assassin M'Shen on the world of Tsagualsa in the Eastern Fringe of the galaxy immediately following the end of the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium. Night Haunter did not enjoy his role as an Imperial war leader and was the only one of the primarchs who showed little affection for his 'sons,' the Space Marines of the VIII th Legion that had been created from his genetic template. He was a brutal warrior who believed in the use of fear as the most potent weapon against one's foes, and he taught his Astartes to be as brutal and savage as necessary to put down the enemy. His psyche damaged by the difficulties of his early life, Curze never recovered his mental balance and sought only oblivion from the pain of his reality. Night Haunter was tortured all his life by terrible, dark visions of the future, and this generated a level of psychic anguish and despair that set him apart from his fellow primarchs. Konrad Curze, better known as the ' Night Haunter,' the name he preferred, and sometimes as the ' Dark King,' was one of the 20 superhuman primarchs created by the Emperor of Mankind in the late 30th Millennium and was the master of the Night Lords Traitor Legion of Heretic Astartes.

Primarch Konrad Curze, the 'Night Haunter.' ' It is better by far to be an object of fear than of respect, for one is a truth of the soul and the other an illusion of the mind.'

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