Talos Valcoran - The Soul Hunter : A Night Lord Worth Talking About | Warhammer 40k Lore 

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Talos Valcoran, single-handedly building the Night Lords fanbase over the last decade.

I love how they scavenge most of their armour and supplies, more traitors need to be written like that. I was thinking of doing a Night Lord kill team with mixed chaos and imperial bits to show that off. Night Lords steal more stuff than the Blood Ravens

The Night Lords trilogy is easily some of the best writing for 40k, and Talos is such a great character. Someone who is willing to easily butcher an entire planet but still able to drop quotes like “I wanted to be a hero. Look how that turned out…”.

I personally really enjoy the idea of a traitor legion that hasn’t fallen to chaos and isn’t worshiping deamons but just have their own point of view. The night lords are already super badass and I believe that the fact they rejected powerful allies and powers makes them all the more terrifying

"The Exalted" Vandred's redemption to his Night Lord brethren was one of the most profound moments in the trilogy to me. It was awesome to see Vandred unshackle himself from the crawlings of chaos and take his flagship into the center of the fight. Knowing full well he would die and would take the demon within with him.

Day 1 of asking for traitor guardsmen regiments and lore

Night Lords and Iron Warriors are my favourite traitor legions, using Chaos when they need/want it but not being extremely stupid about it. Also he has a good way of killing a Phoenix Lord, no bullshit, she was the Predator and he was Arnold, more Eldar losses should be like this

It almost seems like every time the eldar try to step in to "avert some future crisis" or "kill some future threat" they just end up being the reason that it even happened?(angron for example)

*"I CAN SEE THE FUTURE!!!"* - Talos Valcoran who inherited Konrad's power to see prophetic visions.

The Talos trilogy was my first introduction to the Night Lords so it really confused me when I found out a lot of people think they're one of the worst legions

Talos and Sevitar are both night lords characters that I wish we got more of due to them being interesting, complex characters. Hopefully GW gives us a Sevitar book seeing as his story isn't over yet (though unfortunately GW likes to keep the Loyal chapters with traitor geneseed's founding mysterious)

Tzeentch: You'll be a Lord of Change! Talos: Nah, I'm not some progressive Ultramarine. What you got? Slaanesh: You'll be a Keeper of Secrets! Talos: Night Lord...not Dark Angel. Naw, thanks though. Tzeentch: Yeah, "Soul Hunter" is still more badass. Talos: Thanks guys, later! Slaanesh: Why's Abaddon leading and not that guy? Tzeentch: damn good question.

ADB is a goat with his Night Lords trilogy, "The Emperor's gift", "Betrayer" and "First Heretic". I mean, creating such badass characters like Talos, Argel Tal, Lothara Sarrin, Hyperion etc is good enough, but small details everynow and then is just UHHH SO GOOD.

Timmy voicing "Blood for the Blood God" would have been great!

Malcharion is the ultimate night lords gigachad.

Happy to see more Night Lords content

You forgot to mention that the nightlord who got talos’ gene seed was the child of the servants that banged why he has the literally 3rd eye of a navigator

One badass thing I wish you mentioned... The new NL bearing his geneseed, called Decimus. Is the aforementioned baby of Octavia and Septimus. They actually named their child somewhat in honor of Talos

That dude having seggs with the girl on Talos's ship is for me the true gigachad of the story. Like imagine having a 2,30 m tall, hundreds of years old killing machine tell you to not do it or else but still going after and getting that touchdown, is one of the most impressive display of manhood ever written.

I shudder to imagine what literary masterpieces ADB could produce if he wrote everyone the way he writes night lords.

Xarl is my favorite charecter in all fairness. I did shed a tear at his end. It was beautiful.

I absolutely love Uzas, his struggle with khornite corruption is inspiring and the way his story ends fills me with rage (10/10)

I really like the night lords and Talos and his Merry band of misfits made me love them even more. Dude had a really good speech in the third book

When you you're a space marine sadist that is considered the best out of a legion of sadists.

The Night Lords omnibus are honestly my favorite books of all time. So incredibly well written and just filled with awesome character arcs by the entire cast, with some pretty heavy plot twists (especially towards the end there). Great video, casting light on these great books!

Decimus probably one of the most powerful night lords and space marine to ever live. I hope ADB has another trilogy for us. Please 🙏

The Huron Blackheart book was another good example of Chaos Marines being written well

The Night Lords are one of my favourite factions, for sure. They're so enigmatic individually

You forgot to mention Decimus inherited his gene-sire's memories and its obvious that Talos personality is a major factor in Decimus, as Decimus wears his armour in almost the exact same way as Talos did, with the only addition the winged helm. (I don't count skull trophies and flesh capes as differences, as that's just the way NLs operate when they have time.)

That Night Lords omnibus is honestly one of the literary highpoints of 40k, it manages to explore a few things unexplored about astartes psychology and development through Talos’s flashbacks. Also the series has a high amount of human perspectives to showcase how absolutely daunting it is to even face a Night Lords squad, regardless of if you’re hundreds of humans on a ship, or even several squads of well battle worn Astartes. While his First Claw squad are centuries battle traine it can show how Night Lords, despite being underdogs when fighting most other Astartes legions, can still scrape wins by using every dirty tactic in the book. In a universe where everything is super lethal at a mass rate, traditional in a sense the night lords horrific tactics come across as logistical shortcutting lol Make no mistake they are evil asf tho and the book does not shy away from that.

I loved the fact that they actually laughed in the book, It showed me that even evil space Bat men can have chuckle

“Objectively, torturing children is the way better option!” -Majorkill, 2023

Aaron Dembski-Bowden is the best GW writer, IMO, and it shows in this trilogy. Fantastic books 👌

Talos's servants returning to try to save his ass is awesome!

There is also the fact that he had a conversation with a traitor marine that basically revealed how fucked the concept of time is in the Warp and he basically didn't bat an eye when he explained how he viewed his own perception of time in the Warp

There was a very interesting and likable traitor marine from the word bearers named Amatnim in the book apocalypse. It’s an excellent book that I would suggest you give a read. That book also has probably the oldest and one of the most interesting dreadnoughts around that can banish demons with a single word.

Soul Hunter was my introduction to the Warhammer universe. Talos will always have a spot in my heart

The Palatine Blade guy in the White Scars book, Path of Heaven, is also rather compelling. Skillful, determined, and kind of embodying the flawed but still acceptable Emperor's Children pre-Heresy. Cool end as well.

I really hope some writers one day develop or create the lore of more loyalist chapter from traitor legions. I think they are more interesting than the heroic blue boys and a loyalist Night Lord chapter would be cool as hell

legend mate evrytime i want a video your there! DROPPING THOSE BOMBS!

ADB single handedly became my favourite author with this trilogy and helsreach.

The man is getting some love. Thank's Mr Kill.

Talos running into the prison to get Octavia back is a bad ass moment.

This was the trilogy that opened me up to Aaron Demski-Boden and he instantly became one of my favorite 40k writers.

I read the Night Lords omnibus, and enjoyed the whole thing.

By far Talos is my favourite character, he is evil but likeable, and a night lord, my favourite traitor legion of all time, Nice job with the video!

I just finished the Nightlords omnibus last week, damn the ending where they introduced Decimus was just *chef kiss*

Can confirm the trilogy is a badass read. Best 40K books I’ve read and made me love the Night Lords. Talos was a great character and I hope to see more from the 8th legion. Ave Dominus Nox!

Getting a video about how each of the preheresy primarchs would of reacted to being in Guillimans current situation would be pretty cooolll

Damn it, Major. I just dropped a loyalist NL successor idea for the coming BL submission window in order to go the safe route instead with the Ultras but noooo, you just had to rekindle my love for the Night Lords! Ave Dominus Nox!

At last! My favorite character. Thanks @majorkill you're great!!

Favorite legion content!! 🙌🏼

This deep dive into the character is really badass and a lot of fun I also appreciate that it's a nightlord video something I've come not to expect a whole lot

Talos is on of my favorite characters in 40k loved his books.

Hey majorkill I been watching your videos for years now and I’m still a watcher and a fan till 2023 and for years to come. Merry Christmas and happy new to you man. Keep the videos coming.

This is the earliest I've ever been, so I hope you see that you're the one who made me take the leap to actually collecting and painting, cheers mate

You are the first and probably only person I'll ever do Patreon for. YOUR WELCOME

... Some good points on this character--keep up the good work! 👍

Talos and Grimaldus are my two favorite characters. So far you're the only youtuber who has done both justice. Aside from the fan video of Helsreach

Currently reading the first night lords book and I love it! One of the best traitor books iv seen so far

Your videos are perfect timed for my morning gym sessions 💪

Everytime I forget some legions exist, it's either the Ironhands, or the Nightlords...

I just finished night lords omnibus aswell and i really hope for a book about Decimus

Saw the sick artwork on Instagram before realizing you commissioned it. Noice.

Soul Hunter is my favourite book from the Black Library. Great video

The Night Lords were really a mixed bag. Totally psychotic, while being very level headed. They don't even use Chaos for most of them since it'd just be another master to rule over them. They just scavenge and act more as pirates than submit to Chaos. And pirates are more interesting than Khorne Berserkers or Plague Marines. I may not like the Night Lords, but I will acknowledge that they have some of the best lore of all Legions, loyalist and traitor alike.

Back in a day I was lucky to start reading 40k books from this Night Lord's trilogy. After that I thought that all Traitor Astartes have good written and interesting characters. Damm I was wrong :( Anyway, thank you Majorkill for reminding about Talos

Next video idea: If one of the Chaos Gods decides to somehow join forces with the Imperium against the other Chaos Gods, who would it be, why and how would it affect the current setting?

I liked Talos and First Claw very much in ADB‘s trilogy. But lorewise they don’t have s t over Sevatar in ADB‘s Prince of Crows

lore on the high lords, imperial navy, and ecclesiarchy

Ayyy! Currently re-listening to Sould Hunter ATM!

Vox in the Void - Preysight Badass reading of fan thing about nightlords.. it's severely cool

More of these please!

The soul hunter trilogy was great. The Night Lords have some justifications for their treason, and every so often you can see their former astartes nobility just barely shine through.

"It is not enough. We stand in the dust at the end of centuries of useless sin and endless failure. The Legion was poisoned and we sacrificed an entire world to cleanse it. We failed. We are the sons of the only Primarch to hate his own legion. There, again, we failed. We swore vengeance on the Imperium, yet we run from every battle where we don't possess overwhelming force over a crippled enemy. We fail, again and again and again. Have you ever fought a battle you'd struggle to win, with no hope of running away? Have any of us? Have you ever, since the Siege of Terra itself, drawn a weapon with the knowledge you might die? I will not see my life whored away without meaning. Do you hear me? Do you understand me, prince of cowards? I want vengeance against a galaxy that hates us. I want Imperial worlds to cower when we draw near. I want the weeping of this Empire's souls to reach all the way to Holy Terra, and the sound of suffering will choke the corpse-god on his throne of gold. I will cast a shadow across this world. I will burn every man, woman and child so the smoke from the funeral pyres eclipses the sun. With the dust that remains, I will take the Echo of Damnation into the sacred skies above Terra, and rain the ashes of twenty million mortals down onto the Emperor's palace. Then they will remember us. Then they will remember the Legion they once feared." - Talos Valcoran addressing to the 1st Claw

Thank you for sharing the books!! I’m always wondering where to read up on my own after a video

I am a man of simple tastes, I see Talos, I give a like and subscribe

What's the name of the nightlord who received the geneseed of Talos?that dude is going to tear the craftworld a new one

8:24 pretty badass moment in that he still lived and on the ground yelled out talos and said in Nastrmo “Fuck you”

Thanks for this, talus and marduk are the best

Just started my yearly reread of the Night Lords Trilogy

Your content slaps bro!!

These guys are my second favorite chaos legion after iron warriors, very cool.

Day thirty of asking majorkill to compare Abaddon and Archaeon

i waiting so long for you to do this character he is one of my favorite character

Your weekly rant about how great the Night Lords are, _again._ Brought to you by MajorNightKill.

A video about the Marines from loyalist legions that turned traitor would be nifty. We rarely hear about them, almost like it didn't happen.

That's my boy! Not long finished Night lords: The Omnibus, amazing few books (some of my fav 30/40K material I have read to date). Good vid!

Majorkill great vid as always, also can you make a video on the different harlequin masks?

Lol majorkill is definitely sucking off the night Lords to get on brickys good side. Hopefully they'll finally invite you to the podcast

Talos wasnt a hardcore criminal? I remember him recounting when he and his friend killed a shop keeper as boys. The Soul Hunter series is amazing. Also love how well the Exaulted and the Raptor cult of the bleeding eyes were written. Even the leader of the raptor cult had some awesome redeeming qualities as f#cked as they were. Edit: also the ending of Uzaz was such a perfect example of the night lords. He was forced to wear the red gauntlets wial in reality it was one of his brothers thst would go on killing sprees on the lower decks but frame Uzaz most times. Even in his final moments of clarity when he was attempting to his betrayer, he never had the chance to redeem himself in Talos eyes. Death is nothing compaired to vindication, unfortunatly Uzaz didnt get his. And his traitor brother never gave up his secret. Sorry for the spoiler but it is awesome writing, highly recommended.

Confirmed: great trilogy of books.

The nightlords trilogy is easily my favourite piece of 40k fiction. Adb masterfully manages to spin the story around these murderers and traitors, that you almost sympathise with them and immediately hits you with a nugget of their absolute evil. Remember, just because you can construct a justification for your evil deeds does not make them less evil…. Great writing!

All Warhammer content creators have a tacit duty to supply us with more artwork with every video.

I just finished the Night Lords books and they’re so good

Banger Artwork

Night lords are one of my favourites. Obviously went bad but still so interesting!

Props also to daddy Malcharion for that most satisfying stomp then doing the dreadnought equivalent of downing a cold one after a job well done.

'objectively torturing children is the way better option'-Majorkill epic quote right there lol