Night Lords Custom Warband

Hey yall, just wanted to drop what I have planned for my NL Warband, lmk if you think it needs changing or any critiques

71st Claw - Sons of the Grave “Undying are we”/“Death we bring” (like a call and response thing)

Lore: In the first year of the Thramas Crusade, the Night Lord legion were already taking a heavy toll in casualties. In the heat of battle, the Lord Reaper of the 71st Claw, Darvanius, took his Claw and fled from the battle. He already thought it was a lost cause, and most of his Warband already thought that both Horus and their primarch had forsaken them. With nowhere else to run to, being heretics, outcasts, and traitors everywhere they go, the Grave Diggers set course for the Warp. As much as they had detested the other traitor Astartes for their worship and reliance to the Warp, now they would all bite their tongues as they entered into the unknown cosmic horror. With the Warp, some may come in for but a few moments and come out a thousand years later, whereas others will come out the same years they spent in. The Grave Diggers were stuck in the Warp for 20,000 years. All that time, they spent fighting to stay alive against the hoards of daemon. However, with the time spent in the Warp, the geneseed of the sons of Curze began to corrupt. After a skirmish with heavy losses against the disciples of Khorne, they began to count their dead. That is, until the dead began to twitch and writhe. Convulsing and shaking in a seizure like manner. All at once, the once dead traitor Astartes got up and stood tall. In that moment, Darvanius said “Undying are we…” and the once dead responded with “DEATH WE BRING!” From there, the Night Lords Claw renamed themselves as the Sons of the Grave. Now escaped from the Warp, their sole goal is to spread their geneseed across the galaxy, to give every living being with the “gift” of undying. The worst part is that they know they will win. It doesn’t matter how many times that they lose the battle. For they are undying. And death they will bring.

Fun Facts: • They are both in fear of and hate the Dark Angels for the slaughter they committed to their brothers, and rather than being the gift of undying to them, they rather just eradicate them off the map. • The other rivals by proxy are any followers of, or directly is, Khorne, as their blood does not flow, for they are eternal and cannot truly die. • I took inspiration for this Warband after listening to the Black Sabbath song “Children of the Grave,” and the Claw number is taken from the year the song came out. • They get more Grave Sons by taking their most resilient and hateful slaves and give them the “honor” of Revenant, before they are forcefully injected with the geneseed, and quickly beheaded by the Liberator, and rise from the dead to become a Grave Son. • As they cannot die, and do not fear death, they choose to not use guns or long range weapons, opting to charge into battle with bloody claws to strike fear into their enemies.

Warband in total • Fuckton x Abducted Slave, self explanatory • Fuckton x Revenants - Cultists, upgraded slaves without the gift of undying • 1 x Liberator - Master of Execution, gives the gift of undying • 100 x Grave Sons - Legionnaires, basic fighting units • 20 x Headstone - Aspiring Champions, the leaders of each Talon • 25 x Flying Horrors - Raptors, not preferred but useful jump pack unit • 50 x Slashing Terrors - Warp Talons, heavily preferred and revered warriors • 10 x First Deads - Possessed, some of the first to have the gift, and have become corrupt beyond help • 1 x Necromancer - Master of Possession, the tamer of the once cognitive undying soldiers • 5 x Craters - Havocs, your standard heavy weapons unit • 4 x Tomb Masters - Chosen, the strongest of the strong Grave Sons • 1 x Champion of the Grave Gezerack- Champion, the second in command of the Warband • 1 x Lord Reaper Darvanius - Chaos Lord, the Warmaster of the Sons of the Grave

217 x Traitor Astartes

Color: Dark midnight purple hue color scheme, aged brass trim, bright red eyes, still the same Night Lords logo, but with a very decayed skull. Lots of battle weathering