#first claw

[hanon-akulai]

First claw boys, really really rough sketches! 🦇 (Close-ups under the cut!)

[w-futurisk]

[csh3n75]

It is no sin to wish for a life with meaning, or a way to win this war.

For those who know

[drbigsadbabymd-blog]

I think its funny that the vast majority of Night Lord art, both official and fanmade, portrays them with the batwing helm (which...as they should, shit looks cool as hell)

But in the Night Lords omnibus, people keep asking Xarl why he's wearing his batwing helm because it's apparently only supposed to be worn for special occasions. Like a dress uniform, but for armor.

And each time he's like "Goddamn, is a bitch not allowed to take pride in their appearance, get the fuck off my dick"

So all of the art we're seeing of Night Lords is basically depicting them as the Traitor Astartes equivalent of a guy wearing his best church suit to go to the grocery store.

[carminanoctis]

The wheeze I let out when ADB finally reveals that Variel the Flayer has blue eyes after spending an entire book describing his unsettling, wide eyed, unblinking, staring into your soul way of looking at anyone. Variel who defected to the dark eyed, irisless night lords.

It's the meme, he put the meme in Blood Reaver

someonedrawthispleaseXD

[helloitsmadamehyde]

y'all ever think about how Variel the Flayer is the youngest guy in First Claw by like 10,000 years?

How, yes, he's a space marine and they're sort of interchangeable parts, but he's SO CULTURALLY DIFFERENT from the first generation he'd kind of find them unrecognizable.

Like, the old guard were raised on the secular imperial truth, human ascendancy, yadda yadda. Nostramo existed for them, their primarch fought with them, the Great Crusade was REAL for them, not just stories handed down.

Meanwhile Variel would have been raised on M41's "the God-Emperor of Mankind" shit before becoming a space marine. He calls killing his battle-brothers "giving them the emperor's peace" the first time we meet him, even though he's a heretic marine. Little Variel probably grew up going to mass with his family, even if he doesn't remember it, and especially if he underwent the trials to become an Aspirant.

Not to mention, Talos spends his whole life trying to live up to Konrad Curze's ideals and Variel doesn't even know who his primarch *is*, nor does he care.

That culture shock is FASCINATING and I wish we saw more of it.

also I realized, the Night Lords books from Variel's perspective is just:

talos/mercutian/etc: pointer dog like fixation on the horus heresy and konrad curze

Variel, who was not even born: what on TERRA are you boomers going on about?

[sorormaior]

Could we have some more Talos in Husbandry au please? Maybeeee first claw in general? Thank you!

- Slog

Sometimes life gives you an entire litter of night lords

[yanagikou]

Cyrion of the 1st Claw, tenth Company. Second best Night Lord and now (un)willing participant of Marine Meat Monday 🐼👍🏻

"Where is the meat?!" You ask. Well, it can be found on my Bluesky bc Tumblr has already warned me once that I was a naughty panda 🙃🫠