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The War of the Night's Sons was a series of excoriation campaigns conducted by two infamous Chaos warbands working in conjunction with one another, comprised of The Long Night and Night of Slaughter warbands in the Phalanx IV solar system.
1st War of the Night's Sons[]
The 1st War of the Night's Sons was a territory war between 2 chaos space marine warbands: The Long Night and the Night of Slaughter.
Shortly after the Long Night had successfully taken over the Phalanx IV solar system and established their base of operations in the hive city of Avast, on the planet Symarus. The Night of Slaughter would spark the conflict by arriving within the system attacking the planet of Thulne-31 and taking over its supply depots. severing a supply line for the Long Night. At first, the Long Night's captain Vorar Dek attempts to form an alliance and partnership with the Night of Slaughter and avoid any bloodshed, the Night of Slaughter answered this request by streaming video footage throughout the system of Vorar's messengers being mauled alive by flesh hounds, and the warbands leader Horrimus revealing himself and his own request: "Vorar, you're men lay here before me with guts spilling on my ship's floor. Let this be a sign of what's to come 'Night Lord'. If you do not retreat from this system now and leave my warband alone it shall be your body that my hounds feast upon..."
This would begin a 5-year long bloody conflict, with both warbands fighting back and forth between each other for territory and resulting in mass casualties of both Heretic Astartes forces as well as citizens of the system, though these citizen deaths would not matter much to the Night Lords. Nearing close to the end of the war, Horrimus orders an assault on the planet of Symarus and strikes Avast in particular. Horrimus and Vorar would engage in hand-to-hand combat, both using their lightning claws only, during their conflict another party would arrive; 2 salamander chapters would arrive on Symarus, the Black Dragons and the Covenant of Fire Chapters. Vorar and Horrimus would pause, ordering their troops to cease fire and focusing on the imperial ships in orbit.
Both warbands would abandon their feud for time to focus on the imperial threat and neutralise it. Horrimus would fight alongside his men on the ground striking down any loyalists that stood in his way, but would be bested by the Covenant of Fire's primaris reinforcements and would be burned alive. Horrimus would nearly die until the Long Night troops attacked the primaris marines and save the rival captain. Horrimus would be horribly disfigured and his body would be covered in burn marks but he would live. By the end of the conflict the salamander chapters would retreat, and in the aftermath, the Long Night and the Night of Slaughter would continue a peaceful truce; Horrimus would take Thulne-31 as his sole territory, and Vorar would be allowed to maintain the remainder of the territory within the system.
2nd War of the Night's Sons[]
The 2nd war of the Night's Sons would begin when the Tzeentch warband The Virtifiers would contract The Long Night through a cult for an assassination of 3 chaos warlords from the Death Guard, Emperor's Children and World Eaters legions. At first Vorar Dek would be wary of working with a Tzeentch cult, however they were in the possession of an artefact known as "The Wrath of the Grey-Wings", a relic battle tank of the Horus Heresy formerly belonging to the 13th company of the 8th legion Vorar hailed from, Vorar and his personal company of Black Barons, along with relic master Uriel the half, would embark on what would be their final journey together.
The first contract involved Nagath the Curdled, a plague champion of the "Maggot kindred" warband of the Death Guard legion, Vorar and his killteam would land on their orbital station nicknamed the "Rotten Spire" and clear out the entirety of the station and eliminate Nagath. Vorar would also discover a gene-vault within the station with hundreds of stores of loyalist gene-seed from countless chapters, Vorar would destroy this supply along with his men to ensure the Maggot Kindred could never reform their numbers. Upon fulfilling this contract their clients would meet with them on the station to ensure the job had been done.
While Vorar was completing his contract, the Night of Slaughter was regrouping and building their numbers heavily under the command of Horrimus. One such even would speak the end for the Night of Slaughter, an unknown chapter of unknown name would betray the Imperium of Man and seek out the Red Corsairs, finding Horrimus' fleet. Led by an astartes known as Sett, the Night of Slaughter would welcome their new traitorous brothers with open arms and warm welcomes, as warm as a chaos warband could provide
Vorar and his Black Barons would next hunt down Aalara the Painter, chaos lord of the "Perfect Circle" warband. The warband was operating out of Belial IV within the eye of terror. Aalara had been operating out of Belial IV for a decade, building up forces of fellow Emperor's Children Astartes and communing with their dark God Slaanesh in search of Daemonic ascension. When Vorar's forces landed on the planet's surface they would find the Perfect Circle warband operating out of a crashed Thunderhawk gunship that had been modified into a small encampment, lightly guarded and mostly out in the open the camp was an easy target for the Long Night Barons. Aalara would die as a coward, his forces barely putting up any kind of fight whatsoever and the Painter would lay bleeding and chocking for any semblance of last words as the blades of Uriel's lightning claws released his head from his lacerated neck. Uriel had impressed many of the Barons with his ruthlessness, his cunning in battle rarely seen as the Relic Master spent most of his days on Symarus deep in Vorar's tower's chambers caring for their many artefacts. Vorar would commune with his contractors via vox-channel, informing them of the pathetic death of the Painter, upon this confirmation they would receive the whereabouts of their final contract kill: Drakassi.
Drakassi is a daemon world of Khorne, famous for a sea of blood covering the planet's surface. Their target was a singular World Eater known as Glashnoth the Devourer of Laa, a terminator lord who had earned his title for cannibalising his former captain Laa many centuries before. Vorar would be hesitant, but would take his killteam to Drakassi in search of Glashnoth and his band of World Eaters. Glashnoth could be found within one of the planets many arenas fighting other World Eaters for sport, the Black Barons would coordinate an aerial assault over the arena first to decimate any adversaries that would prove to be obstacles before dropping to the surface to eliminate the devourer. Glashnoth was primal, his sheer size was intimidating enough but he was also armed with a large double-ended thunderhammer he called "Smash" and "Crush", the hammer would take out two Barons with ease within minutes of the battle beginning, their skulls being rendered into splinters on the battlefield with barely a form to identify them. Blades clashed against hammers, insults were thrown at eachother and killing blows laid onto veterans of the Barons as though they were inexperienced scouts attempting to take down a warhound titan, they were losing this battle.
Vorar would make a call, his men would retreat to their transport and disengage Glashnoth, the Devourer mocking them as their ship spat bolter fire onto the arena grounds, reducing Glashnoth to a bloody mess and denying him the honourable gladiatorial death he so wished and desired. Vorar may have been embarrassed and ashamed that he couldn't take him down by hand, but the contract was complete, and their employers would be informed that the contract had been fulfilled to the full. Finally they would receive instructions on where they would meet with their employers for their reward, the planet Golgas.
Landing on the planet the Long Night assassins would meet with Kazuma the Glazing Eye, the chief emissary of the Virtifiers Thrall band of the Thousand Sons Legion. The Thousand Sons revealed the relic tank "Wrath of the Grey-Wings" in pristine condition, almost as though it had just been crafted by the mechanicus cults of mars. Vorar and Uriel were impressed, a veteran seeing a former asset and a child witnessing the legacy of his company in all it's glory, Uriel would be the first to enter the Wrath to inspect it, however the moments triumph would be cut short when Uriel raised his bolter an began firing at Vorar and the Black Barons.
Uriel had betrayed the Long Night, the relic master had been corrupted by the sorcerer Nehabrak of the Virtifiers and his psyker abilities awoken by the serpent. Vorar would survive the initial bolter fire, though he would lose two Barons, and ducked under cover with the rest of his men. Uriel would fire once more, shells crashing and exploding against his captain's cover, but would soon give up and begin to leave Golgas with Kamuza and his accompanying Thousand Sons marines.
Vorar and the Black Barons departed quickly from Golgas, and made their way back to Phalanx IV and Symarus to warn the rest of the warband of Uriel the Half,s betrayal only to discover that the Night of Slaughter had launched an attack on the city. Avast was in flames, Night of Slaughter ships painted the sky red and black and the Long Night's forces were desperately fighting a losing battle. Vorar was furious, their truce with Horrimus' forces had been broken and he had launched an unprovoked attack against defenceless civilians and destroyed everything Vorar had worked to build. Vorar's ship would board Horrimus' flagship to confront the Christened on his command deck and finish this fight once and for all, the Night of Slaughter astartes refused to engage Vorar and his men while they made their way through the ship, something Horrimus had commanded them to do if the Headhunter boarded the ship, something he would come to regret.
Horrimus stood alone in the command deck clad in his ancient indomitus pattern terminator plate, skulls and bronze spikes decorating the black, red and blue armour covering his burned body. Vorar stood in pure midnight clad of jet black, his artificer helm primed with preysight and his bolter armed. The two captains had met once again as enemies for the first time in over a decade, both with fire in their eyes and war raging down below on the ground. "Vorar....." Horrimus spoke, his burned and damaged vocal chords gargling and bubbling with every word "You dare stand here against me? After your forces attempted to destroy me?! to destroy my corsairs!" he coughed up flem between words and snarled like a wild animal, Vorar refused to speak to him, he simply ignited his lightning claw and engaged the former Night Lord turned corsair in battle. Blades clashed against blades, armour clashed against armour and giants fought for hours on end each blow getting closer and closer to being the killing one, until Vorar was left bleeding and gasping on the deck floor with his lightning claws shattered and helm laying in scraps and shards. Vorar had been bested, the end was there for him. Sett would enter the command deck along with the rest of the Night of Slaughter Hexad command to witness the Headhunter's demise.
Or so Horrimus thought, until Sett raised his power sword and decapitated the Christened where he stood, his body clashing in a massive thud against the steel deck floor below and painting the silvery metal red with thick blood. Vorar sat shocked at the sight, the warrior Sett licking his blade clean before speaking to the Headhunter. "Ah what a pity, Horrimus would've been proud to kill you Night Lord. Yet that was not your fate" "Why? What is this madness?" Vorar replied, still trying to grasp the situation and assess what had happened "Horrimus was weak Vorar, weak. His reign was one of mindless selfishness and foolery, thinking he could make as much a difference in the galaxy that Black-heart did" Sett spoke "We are weak without Huron, we are thin blooded without our corsair brothers, and we are chained like slaves if we allowed Horrimus to continue his mad reign". Both warrior locked eyes, Vorar understanding Sett's decision and seeing clearly what this was, an ending.
Epilogue[]
The last battle of Avast would spell the end for the current Long Night, their new homeworld was decimated beyond repair and their forces crippled by Horrimus' final attack. Sett and Vorar would meet an agreement of temporary peace as both warband would leave the Phalanx IV system forever, the Night of Slaughter returning to the Maelstrom to Huron Blackheart and The Long Night returning to the Eye of Terror to reunite with the rest of the 8th legion warbands. The Night of Slaughter would re brand upon returning to the Maelstrom, becoming the Blades of Sett. Sett is now awaiting orders from the corsair lord, hoping to bring his warband immense fame and a war worth fighting for in the coming centuries.
Uriel would become a sorcerer for the Virtifiers and be taken under Nehabrak's wing, both him and Vorar would meet once again within the Eye of Terror and the Half, now the Reborn, would almost kill his former captain. While failing to kill Vorar he did force him to accept chaos into his soul, what would've been the killing blow was thwarted when Vorar allowed a daemon of Malice to possess his body and give him the strength to survive the battle against the Reborn sorcerer. However his soul was forever corrupted and tainted, this taint slowly consumed the rest of the Long Night warband over the coming decades.
Phalanx IV would go dark, without the Long Night's protection raiders and xenos would be able to invade and decimate the system until all life within it ceased, it's death went silent in the grand expanse of the galaxy as an afterthought.