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Nurgle Lore

Being a collection of pages organising the lore of Nurgle into its disparate categories by subject matter.

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Creatures

The followers of Nurgle take various unwholesome forms. These pages gather together information from many different sources to give a complete view of how their backgrounds have developed with each publication, where appropriate including illustrations.

• Beasts of Nurgle: Daemonic Beasts filled with joy that want to share their love.
• Blight Drones: Daemonic Engines that fly through the air, spreading Nurgle's foul blessings (Forge World).
• Foetid Bloat-drones: Daemonic Engines that fly through the air, spreading Nurgle's foul blessings.
• Great Unclean Ones: the jovial Greater Daemons of Nurgle, made in his image.
• Hooktors: Lesser Daemons of Nurgle, powerful and mindless killers.
• Mabrothrax: Greater Daemons also known as Plague Elementals, appearing only in early Warhammer Fantasy.
• Nurglings: Lesser Daemons of Nurgle, little mischevious imps that travel in swarms.
• Pestigor: Beastmen of Nurgle, often mutated to have a single eye and horn.
• Plaguebearers: Lesser Daemons of Nurgle, victims and spreaders of Nurgle's Rot.
  • Poxbringers: the strongest and toughest Plaguebearers, who act as Heralds of Nurgle.
  • Sloppity Bilepipers: infected with the Chortling Murrain and thus compelled to entertain.
  • Spoilpox Scriveners: who are tasked with checking the count of other Plaguebearers.
• Plaguebulls: Minotaur champions of Nurgle, bloated and diseased with Nurgle's pestilent gifts.
• Plague Hulks: a fusion of Daemon and Defiler to make a Nurglesque version of a Soul Grinder (Forge World).
• Plague Marines: Chaos Space Marines dedicated to Nurgle, and blessed with his bounteous gifts.
  • Lords of Contagion: powerful and aggressive leaders of Death Guard warbands.
  • Malignant Plaguecasters: Death Guard sorcerers utilising plague-related psychic powers.
  • Noxious Blightbringers: Death Guard champions wielding demoralising Tocsins of Misery.
• Plague Ogryns: huge and strong Ogryns, mutated by Nurgle's corruption (Forge World).
• Plague Toads: bounding daemonic beasts used as mounts by Plaguebearers to form Pox Leapers (Forge World).
• Plague Towers: daemonic siege engines armed with multiple cannon-like weapons.
• Plague Zombies: infected dead that rise again to fight for Nurgle as shambling zombies.
  • Poxwalkers: a strain of plague zombie with horned growths and rictus grins.
• Rot Flies: huge daemonic insects hatched from Beasts of Nurgle, and used as flying mounts by Plaguebearers to form Plague Drones.

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Characters

There are very many named characters in the background of both Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 that have a connection to Nurgle, often through singular appearances in small bits of fiction throughout the many rulebooks. This table lists those individuals that are important; key figures that have a major impact on their respective settings, as measured by the amount of background information written about them, and whether they have been represented with models and/or rules. Additional minor characters are given in a list after the table.

Other minor characters: Abscessas, Aghalhor, Agoris the Foul, Ahleir, Gullivox Arcul, Brother Bellicor, Bhadrub Buboepox, Biliousness, Blackrot, the Blight Stalker, Blothar, Ophiria & Remy Brousse, Marnic Bubon, Bul'gla'throx, Buorgdius, Bzzark the Fly-borne, Cachek the Deranged, Cord Cantric, Saul Charyn, Colathrax, Gerag Corlin, Corpulux, Plague Captain Despoidiol, Dhornurgh the Reborn, Lord Dhripit the Grand Ulseer, Dipteron, Dribwretch, Drog'lar Slimeskin, Drollr Bleedeye, Engvarr, Ergr'ech Ar'gruag'ach, Fabian, Feculux the Master Mucanoid, Festasmus the Putrid, Rurkhar Festigor, Lord Festrus, Eructacus Foetor, the Forsaken Host, Wretch Gab'larr, Gal'furth, Garlea, Alehir Ghent, Ghlub'tar, Morsaviour Ghonst, Ghrubex, Giglex, Chaos Lord Glothila, Death Priest Glug'frath, Glutgora, Brother Gluttmar, Gol'grul, Gorak, the Grave Harbinger, Gresh, Grizguttage, Grod, Grotti, Growlx, Grubenth, Gru'glop, Grulgoch, Gryst, Gul'gulm'ga'tol, Gurglax, Gurglish the Ever-Rotting, Guttrol, Gzarik Redclaw Nurgle, Leach King Hespherash, Kulvain Hestarius, Hovit, Ischbak Gatrog Nurgle, Jurt, Korvede Kalthrax, the Keisari, Kilpengur the Blighted, Gogroc Laugr, Lethrax the Blighted Hand, Magir Linschoten, Longhorn, Lurgon, Mag-grub Larvalmaster, Malaghent, Manthrax, Mulgus, Nostag, Offalrott, Duke Olaks, Pestulus, Effluvias Plo, Rhodan Polikharp, Pusmaw, High Priest Rancidguts, Adipose Rex, Urgloth Rotheart, the Rotting King, Hemler Rottingflesh, Plague Mother Septhrix, Shog'glr the Magnificent, Skarathaoritx, Skas, Skyrak Slaughterborn, Slogoth Poxbelly, Lord Slougous, Squamglut, S'Thall, Rheumalicae Surpetiss, Aefluvia Tamilar, Thush'Bolg, Esau Turnet, Ulbirna, Dhalus Ulkalor, Utterblight, Uzao, Lord Vileblight, Vommikrux, Yorgol, Yufreth of Tidec, Sythia Zale, Zlans the Wracked.

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Groups

Nurgle's followers have formed a variety of organisations of like-minded fellows, all seeking to venerate the Plague God in their own manner. Here are some prominent examples:

• Warhammer Fantasy
  • The Befouling Host, an army of Nurgle Daemons that uses fungal spore attacks.
  • Carnival of Chaos, a travelling circus of performers that spreads Nurgle's joy.
  • Nurgle's Rotters, a Blood Bowl team of contagious players that infect their opponents.
• Warhammer 40,000
  • Bringers of Decay, a Nurglite warband within Abaddon's Black Legion.
  • Brotherhood of Plague, Chaos Space Marines of Nurgle that fought in the Bloodpox Campaign.
  • Callers of Sorrow, a cult of Nurgle-worshippers on the hive world Desoleum (FFG).
    • Blessed Flesh, a Callers of Sorrow Strain that performs self-mutilation (FFG).
    • Mournful Song, a Callers of Sorrow Strain (FFG).
  • The Cleaved, Chaos Space Marines with oozing armour and high pain thresholds.
  • Company of Misery, Chaos Space Marines filled with despair that fight against hope.
  • Death Guard, the Chaos Space Marine legion dedicated to Nurgle.
    • Apostles of Contagion, a Death Guard sub-faction that follows Nurgle but not Mortarion.
    • Lords of Decay, a Death Guard sub-faction, also connected to the Judged.
    • The Purge, a Death Guard sub-faction that seeks to eradicate all life.
    • The Tainted, a Death Guard sub-faction that specialises in mutated creatures.
    • Tainted Sons, a Death Guard vectorium that favours line-breaking and trench-fighting.
    • Other Death Guard vectoriums include: Carrion Hounds, Corpsemakers, Fecund Ones, Glooming Lords, Heralds of Despair, Mouldering Claw, Pallid Hand, Pox Mortis, Putrid Choir, Weeping Legion.
  • Death Priests of Mire, savage Nurgle-worshipping zealots of the Screaming Vortex (FFG).
  • The Inevitable Order, a heretek cabal of Tech-Priests working to increase entropy (FFG).
  • The Judged are a group of thirty Space Marine Chapters sentenced to the Abyssal Crusade in the Eye of Terror.
    • The Deathmongers (formerly Brothers of the Anvil) wear Nurgle's symbol on their pauldrons.
    • The Flylords (formerly Vengeance Chapter) fought alongside the Death Guard at Ultramar.
    • The Grey Death (formerly Iron Drakes) were infected by fungus and turned to Nurgle worship.
    • Other Nurgle warbands connected to the Judged include: Talons of Anathrax and Vectors of Pox.
  • Legio Mortis, also known as the Death's Heads, are a Titan Legion dedicated to Nurgle.
  • Legion of Festering Death, a Titan Legion dedicated to Nurgle, led by the Plague Titan Bubonis.
  • Plague Legions, the innumerable hordes of daemons that make up the armies of Nurgle.
    • Septicus Legion, one of the Legions Pathogenus, led by the Great Unclean One called Septicus.
  • Pox Tribes of Pyurultide, constantly-warring tribesmen that venerate Nurgle's diseases (FFG).
  • The Reborn, Chaos Space Marines with corroded armour and antiquated weaponry.
  • The Scourge, a group of Nurgle worshippers that arose amongst Imperial Guardsmen (FFG).
  • Vile Savants, a manifested Warp-disease that spreads via Plague Zombies (FFG).
  • Writhing World Sorcerer-Kings, powerful psykers infested with parasitic vermin (FFG).
  • House Zegenda, the Navigator house that is bound in service to Mortarion.

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Things

A variety of unwholesome and tainted items that spread pestilence and inflict decay may be found in the hands of Nurgle's followers. This is a selection of such notorious objects:

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Diseases

There have been several diseases named in various sources, which provide additional flavour...

• Warhammer Fantasy: Black Fever, Black Plague, Crimson Death, Graverot, Green Death, Grey Weeping, Gutrot, Leprosy, Red Pox, Squirming Pox, Tomb Rot, Weeping Ague, Weeping Plague, Wyrmblight.
• Warhammer 40,000: Aleynikov's Bane, Blistereye, Bloody Flux, Brain Fever, Brittle Coma, Consumptiphagus, Dark Contagion, Deathly Pox, Destroyer Plague, Death's Grasp, Eater Plague, Enfeeble, Eyerot, Festering Pox, Festering Shroud, Flyblown Palsy, Fydae Strain, Glowlung, Gurgling Doom, Liquefying Ague, Loathsome Pox, MACS, Mordexijn, Muscular Atrophy, Nurgle's Breath, Obliterator Technovirus, Ochre Pox, Oozing Pox, Plague of Despair, Plague That Walks, Red Flux, Skin-rot, Somnambuphage, Spawnrot Fever, Stenchgut Plague, Walking Pox, Weeping Pox, Yellow Dementia, Zombie Plague.
• Both: Bone Ague, Bulging Eye, Chortling Murrain, Creeping Buboes, Crook Bone, Death Dance, Eye Rot, Green Pox, Grey Ague, Grey Fever, Nurgle's Rot, Shakes.

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