午夜幽魂的預(yù)知詛咒

Konrad Curze was cursed to know the future. In dreams, visions and the pattern of auguries he could see how others would die, how the future would burn, and how everything that had been would come to ruin. This was not the subtle reading of cause and consequence, but the unkind touch of prophecy. He would see glimpses of the future, plunging into them in bloody dreams and waking visions. Always the path between the present and the future would hide from him, a remote island of horror glimpsed on the horizon of time. For it was always death and ruin that troubled his sight: the death of friends, of brothers, and sons all boiled in flame and blood. He saw his own death and knew that it was at the hand of his father. Curze hid much of this curse, and what is known is only glimpsed through the accounts of others, including Fulgrim who Curze alone confided in, and one has to wonder if，?above all else, the absence of hope led him down the path he walked. As the visions haunted him, so too did he reach for understanding. The art of Nostraman cartomancy occupied him in particular, and in the dealing of endless hands he would endlessly sift for the path between the present and the futures he saw.

康拉德 科茲被詛咒去知曉未來(lái)。在夢(mèng)中，他能看到關(guān)于他人如何死去、未來(lái)如何被焚滅和現(xiàn)有的一切如何化為廢墟的異象和預(yù)兆。這并非對(duì)于因果的巧妙解讀，而是對(duì)預(yù)言的粗暴觸碰?？破澞軌蚱骋?jiàn)一絲未來(lái)，并陷入流血的夢(mèng)境和清醒的場(chǎng)景。可當(dāng)下和未來(lái)之間的通路又往往會(huì)隱藏起來(lái)，科茲對(duì)時(shí)間的地平線(xiàn)投下恐怖一瞥，而之間的道路宛如遙遠(yuǎn)的孤島。死亡和毀滅折磨著他的雙眼：兄弟摯友們慘死，所有子嗣們都在鮮血與烈焰中受著煎熬。他也看見(jiàn)了自己的死亡，而且他知道這是經(jīng)由他父親之手所造成的。科茲對(duì)于這種詛咒隱瞞了很多，我們所知道的也是從其他人的記錄中所瞥見(jiàn)的只言片語(yǔ)——這些人中就包括弗格瑞姆，科茲曾對(duì)他獨(dú)自?xún)A訴過(guò)；而最重要的，則是我們不得不猜測(cè)：科茲走上自己的這條道路是否是因?yàn)槿狈οＭ?。這些異象困擾著他，他也努力去理解它們。康拉德 科茲對(duì)于諾斯特拉姆的牌卜藝術(shù)尤其著迷，而在與命運(yùn)無(wú)盡之手的博弈中，他也會(huì)無(wú)休止地尋找當(dāng)下與他所見(jiàn)到的未來(lái)的通路

Death of Nostramo

諾斯特拉姆的毀滅

Nostramo's death came at the end of a long chain of events which saw the Night Lords relinquishing the last of their honour. The lack of moderation in the Night Lords’?methods had attracted scorn and hostility? from other Legions. Even as the tally of disgust grew, Curze became increasingly plagued by visions and portents of ruin, calamity and betrayal. He saw everything he had striven to be broken, the order and justice of the galaxy shattered and his sons become monsters without cause or higher purpose. Curze became ever more withdrawn, what little light shone in his being guttering to nothing, and leaving him with nothing but darkness and the screams of a lost future.

諾斯特拉姆的毀滅為一長(zhǎng)串的事件畫(huà)上了句號(hào)，這些事件見(jiàn)證了午夜領(lǐng)主們放棄了他們最后的榮譽(yù)。午夜領(lǐng)主們那缺乏節(jié)制的作戰(zhàn)方式遭到了其他軍團(tuán)的鄙夷和敵意，而隨著厭惡情緒的滋長(zhǎng)，柯茲甚至也越來(lái)越被毀滅、災(zāi)厄和背叛的異象和預(yù)兆所困擾，他看見(jiàn)自己為之奮斗的一切都分崩離析，銀河間的秩序和正義破碎零落，自己的子嗣淪為毫無(wú)思想與志向怪物。科茲變得更為沉默寡言，他的的心中本就幾乎沒(méi)有光芒，而這一點(diǎn)螢光也忽明忽暗，終究熄滅，獨(dú)留黑暗與失落未來(lái)的啼嚎。

Increasingly lost in his own soul, Curze confided in Fulgrim, the only brother he ever trusted. Fulgrim broke that trust, telling Rogal Dorn of his worries that Curze was succumbing to madness. Matters came to a head in the Cheraut system when Curze lost control and almost killed Rogal Dorn. Flying before Dorn's wrath, Curze went back to the shadowed margins that had ever been his refuge. It was at this moment that news of Nostramo reached Curze. The world that he had raised from barbarity had fallen back into criminality and corruption. The men left to rule in his absence had succumbed to greed, and the cities of the sunless world once again sang with the screams of murder. Curze's judgement was simple and swift; the Night Lords destroyed Nostramo. As a Primarch and a Lord of Crusades, it was his right to liberate or destroy as he saw fit, but in the moment that Nostramo died, the Night Lords lost their last tether to restraint, though it would take the treachery of others to bring this change to light.

科茲越來(lái)越失魂落魄，他向弗格瑞姆——他唯一信任的兄弟傾訴此事。但弗格瑞姆愧對(duì)這份信任，他向多恩告知了自己對(duì)于科茲正在屈服于瘋狂的擔(dān)憂(yōu)。當(dāng)科茲在Cheraut星系并幾乎殺死羅格 多恩時(shí)，一起都到了頭?？破潖亩喽鞯氖⑴帮w逃離開(kāi)，回到了曾是他避難所的陰影邊緣。就在此時(shí)，他得到了關(guān)于那斯特羅姆的消息：那個(gè)他從野蠻暴行中拯救而起的世界淪為了犯罪和腐化之地。他離開(kāi)時(shí)留下的凡人統(tǒng)治者屈服于貪欲，再一次地，謀殺的哀嚎在無(wú)光世界的城市中此起彼伏?？破澋呐袥Q簡(jiǎn)單而迅速：午夜領(lǐng)主們毀滅了那斯特羅姆。作為一名原體和遠(yuǎn)征尊主，只要他認(rèn)為合適，他就有權(quán)進(jìn)行解放或毀滅，但在無(wú)光世界死亡的一刻，午夜領(lǐng)主們也失去了最后的約束，而讓他們這種變化真相大白的，便是他們（在伊斯特萬(wàn)五號(hào)）對(duì)其他兄弟的背叛。