#xarl

[hanon-akulai]

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

[yesthe-artblog]

Night Lords are a girls best friend <3 (for @preysight )

[burnbrighterthanever]

What your favourite Warhammer ship says about you, Astartes/Astartes edition, an incomplete list:

Argel Tal/Khârn: The ending of Betrayer made you cry. Press F to pay respects.

Khârn/Sigismund: You think fight-sex is underrated.

Sigismund/Sevatar: You're a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of having a nemesis.

Sevatar/Rushal: You were or are really into Hannibal.

Kargos/Amit: You have a blood kink.

Dante/Mephiston: You just want nice things for your sad vampire boys.

Lucius/Eidolon: You don't see the point in pledging yourself to Slaanesh if you can't at least get a real good time out of it.

Akurduana/DuCaine: You're still not over Fulgrim and Ferrus. Press F to pay respects.

Abaddon/Loken: You think lovers-to-enemies is a criminally slept-on trope.

Abaddon/Loken/Aximand/Torgaddon: You think that polyamory might not solve all problems, but it's certainly a start.

Abaddon/Khayon: You don't understand why only knights are allowed to have homoerotic fealty bonds. Don't wizards deserve to yearn too?

Khayon/Ahriman: You're really into Vezimira's Sorcerers In Stockings.

Ventris/Honsou: You think the Ultramarines novels would be better if Honsou cut out the middleman and actually got Ventris pregnant.

Talos/Xarl: Void Stalker made you cry. Once again, press F to pay respects.

[csh3n75]

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

For those who know

[w-futurisk]

[reclusiarch-orm]

Outcast among Outcasts. Untouchable among Untouchables. Alone.

Talos and Ruven and all the world of differences between them. My half of a trade with @captainswank :}

Alternate color versions, closeups and composition notes below cut

so my whole concept here is just. Ruven and his isolation within his legion, contrasted with Talos and his many many bonds and brothers. Talos belongs, and Ruven is Enemy. No one will look at him or touch him.... because Talos disapproves. Because Talos has made him untouchable. Witch.

This is set shortly after Ruven was retrieved, while he is still showing starvation and has not received augmetics yet.

COMPOSITION: Every figure here looks away or turns his back to Ruven. All the "contacts" between figures happen on a different plane; I've made them distinct compositional groups in

-their poses: everyone stands but Ruven. they exist in the foreground, and he in the background. the only thing that somewhat inches into the middle space is his shackled foot... -their contacts: they all look at and touch each other, while Ruven *seeks* contact but gets none. He is looking with blind eyes and seeing no one. The only one who looks at him/acknowledges him is Talos, who is looking down on him. Ruven is below and separate. -color wise: Ruven is wearing a psy-blocking collar in this part of the story, which only further isolates him from a legion that won't touch him. I've made the others bright to match their souls, while he is weak and washed out and cold. he cannot see them and he cannot sense them. He is cut off from them in every sense.

Alternate colors:

Blue dominant (love blue)

VIII Legion Colors

Original Colors (how it was painted)

[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.

[shaydh]

thinks about Talos and Xarl and takes emotional damage again