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Child of the Night Review(Spoilers beyond Spoilers)

Kol Saresk

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b1soul Venerable Brother

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I find Soldier hilarious...especially the scene in the end when he and the kid look out into space with blank robot-like expressions

 

Also the scene in which he tries to get the kid to kill the snake with the boot. I like Soldier the same way I like Battlefield Earth 

Hyaenidae Venerable Brother

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Heh. I'll take the blame for that, my bad.

 

Anyhow, I found the story very interesting, and it was refreshing to see a Night Lord short written by a different author (no offence, A D-B ). The different mentality of the old Legion, the physical differences of the first generation Terrans, and, dare I say, seeing someone smack Sevetar about a little (even for a second) was intense. 

 

I, for one,  hope to see Fel Zharost again.

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Heh. I'll take the blame for that, my bad.

 

Anyhow, I found the story very interesting, and it was refreshing to see a Night Lord short written by a different author (no offence, A D-B ).

 

None taken. If I wanted to be writing Night Lords, trust me, I would be. I have a lot of new ideas for them, but not much desire to get them onto a page right now.

 

John's one of my closest friends. I've got nothing but love for his work. 

depthcharge12 Venerable Brother

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Heh. I'll take the blame for that, my bad.

 

Anyhow, I found the story very interesting, and it was refreshing to see a Night Lord short written by a different author (no offence, A D-B ).

 

 

None taken. If I wanted to be writing Night Lords, trust me, I would be. I have a lot of new ideas for them, but not much desire to get them onto a page right now.

 

John's one of my closest friends. I've got nothing but love for his work.

 

I like when you do Night Lords specifically for the reason of seeing the Dark Angels in action.

 

Yeah, it's one of those unintended results :D

Hyaenidae Venerable Brother

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Heh. I'll take the blame for that, my bad.

 

Anyhow, I found the story very interesting, and it was refreshing to see a Night Lord short written by a different author (no offence, A D-B ).

 

None taken. If I wanted to be writing Night Lords, trust me, I would be. I have a lot of new ideas for them, but not much desire to get them onto a page right now.

 

John's one of my closest friends. I've got nothing but love for his work. 

 

 

Y'know, I realize we've had this discussion before, but have you or Mr. French discussed the return of Zho Sahaal? I know that you've avoided it due to a lack of contact with the original author, and your respect for another's work (one of the reasons I love you like a burly prison guard), but it's always been one of those loose ends that have itched at the fluff-gland in my brain.

 

Just curious, mind.

b1soul Venerable Brother

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I like when you do Night Lords specifically for the reason of seeing the Dark Angels in action.

 

ADB for Dark Angels and Flesh Tearers all day every day

 

After reading Savage Weapons, I am very very disappoint in Gav Thorpe 

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Am I the only one that thinks that the "duel" between Zharost and Sevatar only happens in Zharost mind (kind of...what Id like to do) and that Sevatar simply realizes of it due to his psychic powers? It is just the impression I had since when Zharost starts coughing blood, Sevatar is staring at an empty space where everything happened.

depthcharge12 Venerable Brother

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Am I the only one that thinks that the "duel" between Zharost and Sevatar only happens in Zharost mind (kind of...what Id like to do) and that Sevatar simply realizes of it due to his psychic powers? It is just the impression I had since when Zharost starts coughing blood, Sevatar is staring at an empty space where everything happened.

Mind = Blown

 

Oh wait haha that was an unintentional pun :P

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VikingWarband Battle-Brother

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I apologize in advance for dusting off an old post, but I'm engrossed in all things 'Night Lords' at the moment and attempting to tie a lot of lore together. Please humor me though :)

 

So, in the original post, Kol Saresk implies that this story refutes the possibility of Sevatar being Khyron,. This whole Sevatar/Khyron/Grey Knights thing is fascinating to me and I've only just begun to read the Grey Knights fluff, so I won't comment one way or the other about that yet.

 

BUT

 

In this short story "Child of Knight", isn't the Astartes who's come after Fel Zharost a Night Lord himself?

 

Evidence:

1) At the very beginning of the story, the Astartes specifically says "I have come for you". Is that not tell-tale NL parlance?

2) The story has given us some subtle differences between Terran-born and Nostramon-born NL, one of which was the fact that the Nostramons filed their teeth while the Terrans were naturally pointy. At the end of the story, Fel says that the answer was there in the darkness with him "laughing through sharpened teeth", implying that the Astartes was a Nostramon-born Night Lord.

3) How did this Astartes even find Fel in the under-world of Terra? Assuming the Astartes is a NL (which I think he is), he would have to have some way of "finding" him (e.g. psychic ability or knowledge of Fel's past and thus a reason to seek him out on Terra).

4) Again assuming the Astartes is a NL, what other NL in the universe could have gotten to Terra (or would even dream of being there) during this time period?

 

Finally we know that the Astartes wears grey armour, which probably means Knights Errant, but what if the armor were the first battleplate of the Grey Knights themselves? 

 

So before I hop on the "Sevatar is Khyron" bandwagon, I was hoping someone could help me with the more basic question of whether the Astartes from "Child of Knight" is a Night Lord in the first place.

 

Cheers!

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Sevatar would have to get to time travel for this to happen unless he was performing an act so convoluted it would put an Alpha to shame. He is seen fighting on terra, in midnight clad, killing loyalist (supposedly). So to be the guy to recruit Fel, he has to escape the DA away from the rest of his legion, get to Terra, be recruited by malcador, having not been caught by the imperial fists, recruit fel, get back to the Night Lords, lead a fifth of the legion to terra, including 8th company, some of whom imply they saw him there, look like he's killing loyalists (very convincingly)/ is killing newly turned traitor loyalists, loses his helmet and gets zapped off to Titan. So yeah that wasn't just recruiting and i admit that was actually quite fun to type. But i believe its a little unlikely, though he still could be Khayon potentially. Won't rule it out. Or its pure Balderdash :p
VikingWarband Battle-Brother

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Sevatar would have to get to time travel for this to happen unless he was performing an act so convoluted it would put an Alpha to shame. He is seen fighting on terra, in midnight clad, killing loyalist (supposedly). So to be the guy to recruit Fel, he has to escape the DA away from the rest of his legion, get to Terra, be recruited by malcador, having not been caught by the imperial fists, recruit fel, get back to the Night Lords, lead a fifth of the legion to terra, including 8th company, some of whom imply they saw him there, look like he's killing loyalists (very convincingly)/ is killing newly turned traitor loyalists, loses his helmet and gets zapped off to Titan. So yeah that wasn't just recruiting and i admit that was actually quite fun to type. But i believe its a little unlikely, though he still could be Khayon potentially. Won't rule it out. Or its pure Balderdash tongue.png

Wait a sec... I don't want to imply that Sevatar is Khyron from my post.

My question was just about the Astartes who had come after Fel and whether he was a Night Lord (not necessarily Sevatar, although it could be possible).

We don't know when exactly the story takes place, only that it's during the Heresy. For all we know, this could take place after the battle on Terra, since Fel is hiding beneath it all and may have been closed off from everything and everyone, having no idea that a battle had been fought above.

helterskelter Veteran

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I genuinely think there wasn't a place on terra you wouldn't have heard that battle. I didn't take it as such, I accidentally combinef the two events so that what I was saying made some kind of sense, and so as to potentially remove Sev from the equation. But it was suitably vague so it could be anyone
VikingWarband Battle-Brother

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I genuinely think there wasn't a place on terra you wouldn't have heard that battle. I didn't take it as such, I accidentally combinef the two events so that what I was saying made some kind of sense, and so as to potentially remove Sev from the equation. But it was suitably vague so it could be anyone

But you do think it was  Night Lord, correct?

Flint13 Venerable Brother

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You know, upon my initial reading I kinda assumed the unknown Astartes recruiting Fel was just taking a shot at him with the "I have come for you" line, kinda like saying "Yippee ki-yay, mother :cusser," to 90's Bruce Willis.

 

Now though... Imma have to check that business out again :D

Balthamal Venerable Brother

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Given what's been said I'd actually prefer it now if it wasn't a Night Lord who said it. I like the idea that the unidentified Astartes is taking a shot at Zharost by mouthing off the VIII Legion's favourite taunt. Definitely more needed though. He seems like an even more convoluted character than Talos or Sevatar and they're about as deep as you can get with the Night Lords

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