hh2节译：午夜幽魂的预知诅咒、纳斯特洛姆的毁灭

午夜幽魂的预知诅咒

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 科兹被诅咒去知晓未来。在梦中，他能看到关于他人如何死去、未来如何被焚灭和现有的一切如何化为废墟的异象和预兆。这并非对于因果的巧妙解读，而是对预言的粗暴触碰。科兹能够瞥见一丝未来，并陷入流血的梦境和清醒的场景。可当下和未来之间的通路又往往会隐藏起来，科兹对时间的地平线投下恐怖一瞥，而之间的道路宛如遥远的孤岛。死亡和毁灭折磨着他的双眼：兄弟挚友们惨死，所有子嗣们都在鲜血与烈焰中受着煎熬。他也看见了自己的死亡，而且他知道这是经由他父亲之手所造成的。科兹对于这种诅咒隐瞒了很多，我们所知道的也是从其他人的记录中所瞥见的只言片语——这些人中就包括弗格瑞姆，科兹曾对他独自倾诉过；而最重要的，则是我们不得不猜测：科兹走上自己的这条道路是否是因为缺乏希望。这些异象困扰着他，他也努力去理解它们。康拉德 科兹对于诺斯特拉姆的牌卜艺术尤其着迷，而在与命运无尽之手的博弈中，他也会无休止地寻找当下与他所见到的未来的通路

Death of Nostramo

诺斯特拉姆的毁灭

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 Curze became ever more withdrawn, what little light shone in his being guttering to nothing, and leaving him with nothing but darkness and the screams of a lost future.

诺斯特拉姆的毁灭为一长串的事件画上了句号，这些事件见证了午夜领主们放弃了他们最后的荣誉。午夜领主们那缺乏节制的作战方式遭到了其他军团的鄙夷和敌意，而随着厌恶情绪的滋长，柯兹甚至也越来越被毁灭、灾厄和背叛的异象和预兆所困扰，他看见自己为之奋斗的一切都分崩离析，银河间的秩序和正义破碎零落，自己的子嗣沦为毫无思想与志向怪物。科兹变得更为沉默寡言，他的的心中本就几乎没有光芒，而这一点萤光也忽明忽暗，终究熄灭，独留黑暗与失落未来的啼嚎。

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.

科兹越来越失魂落魄，他向弗格瑞姆——他唯一信任的兄弟倾诉此事。但弗格瑞姆愧对这份信任，他向多恩告知了自己对于科兹正在屈服于疯狂的担忧。当科兹在Cheraut星系并几乎杀死罗格 多恩时，一起都到了头。科兹从多恩的盛怒前飞逃离开，回到了曾是他避难所的阴影边缘。就在此时，他得到了关于那斯特罗姆的消息：那个他从野蛮暴行中拯救而起的世界沦为了犯罪和腐化之地。他离开时留下的凡人统治者屈服于贪欲，再一次地，谋杀的哀嚎在无光世界的城市中此起彼伏。科兹的判决简单而迅速：午夜领主们毁灭了那斯特罗姆。作为一名原体和远征尊主，只要他认为合适，他就有权进行解放或毁灭，但在无光世界死亡的一刻，午夜领主们也失去了最后的约束，而让他们这种变化真相大白的，便是他们（在伊斯特万五号）对其他兄弟的背叛。