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Konrad Curze / the Night Lord

Konrad Curze, “the Night Lord”, primarch of the Night Lords, is a traitor who ruled through terror and was tormented by visions of his own death. After the ambush on Isstvan V he waged the genocidal Thramas Crusade against the Dark Angels, then became a mad prisoner of Imperium Secundus. He survived the Heresy and let himself be killed, accepting the prophecy.

Role: Primarch
Legion: VIII Night Lords
Side: Traitor
Key events: 3 events

Fate

Survived the Heresy. Withdrew to his lair on Tsagualsa and after the war let the Callidus assassin M’Shen kill him, accepting the prophecy as proof of the Emperor’s hypocrisy.

Key events

Drop Site Massacre on Isstvan V 006.M31 · Atrocity
Thramas Crusade 007.M31 · Inconclusive
Battle of Sotha · seizure of the Pharos 009.M31 · Pyrrhic loyalist victory

Part in other events

The Cheraut Incident · Curze assaults Dorn 999.M30 · Atrocity
Tsagualsa Incident 009.M31 · Pyrrhic loyalist victory
Vulkan Escapes the Nightfall 009.M31 · Loyalist victory
Trial of Konrad Curze 010.M31 · Inconclusive

Duels

Relations

Konrad Curze / the Night Lord — Lion El’Jonsonenmity
The Night and the Lion. Even before the Heresy, Curze beat Dorn on Cheraut; with the Lion he is bound by Thramas — years of mutual hunting. Curze considers the Lion a hypocrite, the Lion considers Curze a rabid dog. Neither “talks the other round”: there are only ambushes and duels.
Event: Thramas Crusade · 007.M31 · Inconclusive
Vulkan — Konrad Curze / the Night Lordenmity
The Immortal and the Tormentor. After Isstvan Curze tortures Vulkan at length, testing his regeneration as a thesis on the futility of hope. Vulkan does not break in the direction the Night Haunter wants: it is a philosophical dispute conducted by means of torture.
Event: Vulkan Escapes the Nightfall · 009.M31 · Loyalist victory

Sources

WH40k Fandom: Konrad Curze
WH40k Fandom: Thramas Crusade

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