40K Lore For Newcomers - Who Are... The Night Lords? (Ft. Fredrik Knudsen) - 40K Theories
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- In this episode of 40K Lore for Newcomers, special guest Fredrik Knudsen takes a brief look at the history of one of the cruellest, and most sadistic of all the Traitor Space Marine Legions; the Night Lords.
Narrated by Fredrik Knudsen
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Featuring the voice talents of
Curtis "Takahata101" Arnott as Konrad Curze
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Tim Valencia as Night Lord 1
Kochia Ichihara as Night Lord 2
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Intro theme by Stringstorm
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Alternate title:
Night Lords | Down the Warp Hole
Curze would make a perfect Down the Rabbit Hole subject hahaha.
"It was at this moment , Curze realized insanity was genetic"
Curze became reunited with his father and brothers.
However, this would not last.
Dude
Was going to say that's some rabbit hole.
Konrad is basically that one uncle everyone is scared of but you call when sh*t gets serious.
"Jay-walking; Punishment: Tortured to death on live television"
An Imperial citizen stealing a loaf of bread in order to feed his starving family.
Konrad Curze: Now this is where the fun begins.
Attempted Suicide; Punishment: Tortured to death on live television
@@TheCrimsonSpork when you realized that committing suicide is illegal in Nostramu and you somehow botch your own suicide.
**chuckles** I'm in danger.
Loitering; Punishment: Tortured to death on live television
Modustollens1 Bringing up politics unnecessarily to derail a comment chain, do you know the punishment for that?
*Ork Warboss:* Iz dun know wot dis 'fear' fing is... but doze beakies _points at Night Lords_ Dey give me da frissons.
Emperor: I'm going to give this psychopathic vigilante Emo an army recruited entirely from criminals. There is absolutely NO way this can go wrong
*(Everything goes HORRIBLY wrong)*
Emperor: *(Surprised Pikachu Face)*
"And make them god-tier super soldiers lording over men, because I the emperor of man saw a holovid once about building a strike force out of criminals"
Konrad Curze was clearly goth.
@@TaintedPrinceps No, Goths dress dark, but also see beauty and grace in the darkness. Konrad was just a misanthropic psychopath, who hated everything and everyone around him and figured that flaying people alive for the smallest transgression was a brilliant idea and then calling the Emperor a tyrant, because Konrad clearly doesn't comprehend the concept of irony
@@weldonwin Ok so not emo.
@@weldonwin Your reductionism of Konrad's character and personality are bordering on asinine, my dude. It wasn't that cut, dry, and simple.
Imagine for a second living with constant, uncontrollable precognitive visions of the future that feature despair, pain, horror, murder, torture, conflict and mass death (both yours and others') *exclusively*. Then, imagine those same visions preventing you from sleeping for more than a small handful of hours at a time, after which you wake with skull-splitting headaches. Then finally, during all of your waking hours, not ever knowing which of the visions experienced will come true or not, with a rough 50% success rate. You never know what to believe, you never know how much faith to put into yourself, and you're in constant doubt about your decision making abilities. Primarch or not, that's a recipe for absolute insanity.
The fact Konrad was able to keep it together for as long as he did, with glimpses of recovery along the way, is an absolute miracle. Even Angron suffered sooner, with his butcher's nails having completely taken over his personality, before Konrad's own personality completely degenerated.
Sweet a video on the Scary boys. They are one of my favorite Chaos Legions.
Your pfp, I don’t like it
All the Chaos Legions are favorites. I always smile when I see a Chaos Marine in my bolter sights.
Dark eldar do it better. They're more gothic horror edgy.
@@trollzynisaacjohan1793 Now that you mention it, the Night Lords and the BDSM elves have a lot in common, don't they? The most important difference is that flamers work better on the xenos. They're squirrelly.
I thought only part of their legion dedicated itself to chaos?
Tax Fraud? That’s a Flayin.
Littering?
(Snaps belt)
Holy Crap, what a crossover, I love down the rabbit hole!
I kinda like him more as a narrator than remleiz.
I never would of thought in a million years.
I was just watching Fredrik Knudsen’s video on Wingsofredemption. I love his videos and I had no idea he enjoyed 40k.
He voices dark eldar and ulthran in TTS
Wingsofredemption? Wasn't he the subject of a Down the Rabbit hole episode as like a complete freak?
@Iron Hands Terminator Go and listen to remleiz's 100th episode podcast. EVERYONE is there. Also, The new dreadnought santodes is voiced by the abridged guy
@@The_Foolish_Fool yes Takahata 101 he also voices Konrad here in this video, an Iron Warrior during a video that had him fighting a Imperial Fist, as well as CIAPHAS CAIN, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!!!!
*sees takahata voicing konrad and imagines alucard surviving in 40k while also being the psychiatrist for konrad and the night lords*
That'd make a funny sitcom
I already have this image in my head with him talking to konrad and when alucard talks about konrad a bit of vlad dna from the emperor’s vault to make his primarchs he got said dna after the effects of schroedinger
Night Lords: WE ARE FEAR!
Dark Eldar: Oh my sweet child...
Hearing that distinct voice speak on warhammer lore is so WEIRD. Not bad, just... weird.
@Chris Lindsay I may be mistaken, but he was in a tts episode. One of the Alfalegion members that Magnus put in a soul box.
Templar1ca I thought he played Eldrad in the Eldar focused episodes
@@dantemaffessanti1832 Quite possible as well. The credits do tend to zip by sometimes so I most likely missed that.
I’ve known about Fred before I got into Warhammer 40k, to learn he’s a fan of this still weirds me out
You never want to be at a Night Lords birthday party, trust me.
The cake was nice. But, all the hanging flayed corpses really soured the mood.
Random Centurion Their view on “Ball games” is quite skewed
The piñata is not filled with candy and screams when whacked with a stick.
Night Lords More Like *Edge* Lords Amirite?!
@Iron Hands Terminator "Spite Lords" is an Iron Warriors trademark.
They are about as edgy as a ping pong ball.
😉
I might do a NL army in the future....
You can leave now
Who are you calling edgy? Death to the false emperor!
Everyone asks who are the night lords but nobody asks How are the nightlords
Might have helped, that!
They're deeply genetically insane, as usual.
They are not well
I've been reading the Night Lords omnibus and they are quickly becoming my favorite traitor legion.
Sith, Reavers, Sardaukar, Dementors? Oh how quaint.
it's always a good day when this channel uploads.
Customizing a Night Lords Daemon Prince soon.
I got the Daemon Prince kit for pretty cheap on eBay and realized there would be a lot of extra bits left over, so I used Oyumaru thermal plastic to mold and duplicate the bits I would need in order to use all the included bits.
Originally I had the idea to build/customize 4 Daemon Princes, (Black Legion, Thousand Sons, Death Guard, World Eaters) but I have several pounds of Apoxie Sculpt so I decided to build one for each of the original 9 traitor legions; duplicating bits from other kits and some original molding to ensure each explicitly represents the legion from which they ascended.
The Terror Troopers, they don't get enough love. Thanks for the vid.
Deep in the heart of the Himalayas during the primarch project
My emporor, we have successfully succeeded in you wish to created superior soldiers. Using the genetic data of specimens 1 through 7 each one of the test subjects while each slightly unique as determined by your genius, although 6 is a little hairy, but i digress. Many of the common attributes have manifested.
Emporor: Report
Each one outside there dedicate armor is on average 7 feet tall with the weight of a a large horse. They can spit acid and succesfully gain the memories of the corpses you provided. Also they can successfully fire the new bolter rounds. Which that for the record are about the size of the ancient beer can my lord.
Emporor:.................... but are they scary enough?
My lord?
Emporor: ..................Bats.
Lol and this is what they threw in the cauldron.
1. Tear of a grumpy lion
2 . [Redacted]
3. Feathers of a peacock
4. Lump of jealous iron
5. Fu Manchu laced with speed
6. Fermented Liver of a pug
7. A brick
8. A batman comic printed with mercury
9. The blood of an anemic chad
10. The rust of a prosthetic limb
11. [Recipe lost]
12. The scaps of a butcher
13. A chunk of lapis lazuli shit out from a conceded noble
14. The contents of the medicine cabinets.
15. The tome of harry potter written on papyrus
16. moon rock with daddy issues.
17. The robes of a molested altar boy
18. A lump of flaming coal hugged 100 times
19. The heart of the ancient Brendon Lee
20. [Classified]
I was just about to call it a night but this video came out lol. A nice Lore of my most favorite Legion to put my mind at rest.This is amazing thank you so much :D
Legiones Batmenus, I dig it.
Also, I would be wary, if not downright respectfully(but not overly so) fearful of any warrior from a planet named Nostramo. Too eerily similar to Nostromo-
Terran colonists come across the bits and pieces of wreckage and find a barely legible plaque reading only USC_S NOSTR_MO.
This first settlement isn't heard from after an initial period, except for sporadic messages about how their assigned synthetic science officer had a habit of continually playing the same ominous tune on a damned flute. Many thousands of millennia pass...
“Hey, Vegeta. I’ve become Space Batman.”
What an awesome cross over!
40K Theories and Down the Rabbit Hole!
Iterate on brother Knudsen!
Ave Imperium!
Who are the Night Lords? Psychotics, they are flipping psychotics.
Anti-Salamanders
@Iron Hands Terminator Evil Batman is a rich ninja Joker....which fits.
@@And-ur6ol That's the Marines Malevolent
Probably from the Vitamin-D deficiency of living on such a dark world. Humans weren't meant to never see the light of the sun.
@Iron Hands Terminator I thought they were supposed to be psychotic Owlman?
5:35 imagine how everything would have been if he would have been tutored by Sanguinus instead of Fulgrim.
For the Night Haunter!!!
Very pleased with hearing Frederick, he has a very cool name ;)
*So there's edgy and there's 40K edgy*
basically
You must be new here.
No fucking way down the rabbit hole and 40k?!?!?! Bad ass
This crossover is a trip, please keep going!
Well, THIS was an unexpected crossover!
Knudsen needs a 40K channel, or just sit here at 40K Theories for a while.
The most random crossover in youtube history
That's what I thought too but it's pretty cool
A good question - why did the Emperor need an army of guerrillas (rebels)? Whose rear were they supposed to ravage? It is specifically a defensive tool.
*WELL, THIS IS A PLEASANT SURPRISE.*
So Fredrick, when is your next 'rabbit hole' video coming out?
As usual, great work!!
Wait a minute, I'm subscribed to both of you, for how long, and I haven't seen yall working together til now? I didn't even know one of you were into 40k. A welcome surprise to be sure.
Fredrik has provided a couple of voice lines in a couple of videos before ;)
Why did I get a notification 12 min ago when you already uploaded this?
UA-cam are you trying to tell me something I don't already love about the night lords?
Viris colratha dath sethicara tesh dasovallian. Solruthis veh za jasz!
Remleiz is indeed a good boy. Given he has surgically replaced his original skull of with that of what appears in be a saurian, does this mean headpats are a valid way of showing praise and appreciation? There is a chance, albeit miniscule, that the saurian skull came from a Doggosauradon - a rare but incredibly fluffy creature native to the deaths world of Luther McIntyre V. Does this mean that instead of being a good boy, he is instead a _very_ good boy? What do you think? Leave your answers in the comments below.
My personal headcanon was that they fell to malal/ malice, perhaps without realizing.
It would explain so much. Their bitter hatred of everything, including each other, and their resistance to the big 4 chaos gods
AVE DOMINUS NOX
Death is nothing compared to vindication.
Ahhh... my Legio. Hail the Lord of the Night!
Dear Mr.Knudsen, please do more 40k lore! Down the Warp Hole you go!
*"AVE DOMINUS NOX!!!"*
yoooo i did not expect to see my boy do some reading on 40k lore here
Are youtubers all friends with each other? 40K Theories knows Knudsen, Knudsen knows Seth, judging by one of Seth's videos, he is familiar with everyone from the Internet Historian to Mandalore, who is familiar with Joseph Anderson etc etc. My entire list of my subscriptions knows each other.
Perhaps not all, but s lot of the 40k related ones, especially if they've had roles on TTS.
@@OmniGSageI mean, if they have the same channel themes, then yes. But after all, I have listed different channels devoted to different topics - strange stories, niche games, warhammer, Internet memes and still everyone knows each other.
Has Frederik made videos with sseth? Hey hey hey guy ?
@@Tsunamiieh Watch sseth's video about Wizardry 8 and look at characters he made
I still say Kurz was unknowingly possessed by a demon during his passage through the warp.
Would Fredrik do a "Down the Rabbit Hole" episode about 40k?
Down the Rabbit Hole!! Ah, awesome!! Great episode.
The Night Lords are so sick in the head that Drukari think they're a little too much.
@@BarbaPower91 Really? Interesting. Do you know the name of this story?
On one famous occasion recorded in the chronicles, he invited all the elderly, the poor, and the sick of his realm to gather in a splendid wooden banquet hall, where he plied them (a bit suspiciously) with roast meats and fine wine. As the grateful peasants were digesting their repast, Vlad’s soldiers sealed the doors and windows and set the building on fire, incinerating all inside. “I did this so that no one will be poor in my realm,” explained Vlad, an early pioneer of compassionate conservatism.
Curze became reunited with his father and brothers.
However, this would not last.
WE HAVE COME FOR YOU!
How the Imperium thought sending the Night Lords to istvaan was a good idea is beyond me . And I'm a night lords player
YES. I can definitely get used to this!
How did you know I just bought a night lord conversion set
As a Night Lord player I approve ... We have come for you! Ave Dominus Nox !
How does he not have the most subscribers on UA-cam
"he's a good boy" xD
Yeah, when an Owl that looks like it came out from the Warp told that to an Inquisitor wearing a bird lizzard skull, you will believe he's speaking the truth.
I've been waiting for a while for this.
They look like Vampire Space Marines and I love it
Unfortunately, the next legion became the real vampires. 😇🧛♂️
Excellent featured voice, really like his stuff too
This is seriously a rabbit hole with the night lords are involved
Well, Fred making this video was the last thing i expected, to be honest
yay i love your videos! also would it be possible to do a lore for newcomers video on the word bearers?
40k for new comers who are the nightlords.
*some really sick puppy’s*
They're my sons. Viris colratha dath sethicara tesh dasovallian. Solruthis veh za jass.
Knudsen should feature in every 40k video!
19:50 so wholesome
Great feature
I literally said out loud "Oh, Fucking Christ" when I saw this pop up on my feed. Especially since I've been watching Baldermort's video on these guys...
AYEEEEEEEE Down the rabbit hole let's goooo
Are the loyalist night lords are the ancestors of the space sharks? Or the raven guards, I heard even the worlds eater are part of them
Check out our video on the Carcharodons for more about that ;)
40K Theories thank sir
If Konrad Curze is fiction's 2nd most horrific version of Batman, then the Night Lords are his "Robins". (Sevatar being their "Red Hood") As for the Lion, that's the one that "Baned" the Night Haunter. | 12:24 - (monotone) All hail the Ultrasmurfs.
Yoooooo wtf? DTRH and 40k Theroies? This is truly a gift from The Emperor Of Mankind himself.
Night Lords are such an interesting Legion, defined by the legacy of their gene-father, they stand apart from their fellow Traitor Astartes.
I wouldn't be surprised if Rorschach from Watchmen would love the Night Lords. Hell, I can see him as part of the Night Lords and becoming one of Konrad Curze's favorites. (Although, I can see Rorschach being one of the Traitor Loyalist Night Lords)
The Night Lords and their Master's critical flaw was their moral absolutism and utter unwillingness to compromise or forgive..
*nostalgia in VIII*
Underrated comment
Whelp... I just learned what misotheism is. Nice to know.
Bruh, night lords narrated by down the rabbit whole? Hell yeah!
Gotta say Taka really works for Curze I like it
By far my favorite traitor Legion. The Night Lord trilogy is such a fucking good set of books. Fucking badasses. Also, I love Down the Rabbit Hole! Great choice for a guest narrator.
me: man 2020 is never gonna get better
fredrik: does litterally anything
me: :)
Glorious
Thanks
Eldad, is that you?
Taka as Curze is perfection.
I might not have the money yet but I would support him if he did a Down the Rabbit Hole about The Horus Heresy or the traitor Primarchs.
FUCKING WHAT!? Frederick Knudsen!? HELL YEAH!
Holy shit, what a crossover!
Holy hoot, this was a surprise
Ooh it Fredrik from down the rabbit hole
"We have no cats Konrad"
Down the wut?!
What the crossover?!
40k lore for hole wut?!?!
Ave Dominus Nox!!
I like the evil space batmen