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*[[Contrition]]: a world of daemonic cities.
*[[The Frozen Heart]]: The eye of the storm, and reputed to be where the dynamo which fuels the warp storm is located.
==Inhabitants==
===Plague Marines===
*[[Germinatoris]]: One of the most vital positions within the [[Adeptus Astartes]] is that of the Apothecary, a warrior medic tasked with harvesting the precious gene-seed from the fallen in order that the chapter may endure. Yet within the Screaming Vortex there exists a coterie of [[Plague Marines]] who grotesquely mirror their noble counterparts. Like carrion feeders, they prowl the battlefield, plundering the gene-seed from any fallen [[Traitor Space Marines]] they can find and infecting them with the viscous fluids that ooze from their rotting innards in order to ensure the propagation of Nurgle’s putrefying influence.{{Fn|3}}
*'''Forsaken Host''': Among the many tales of terror and death found within the Screaming Vortex is that of the Forsaken Host, the solitary survivor of a battle which scoured an unknown planet of life during a forgotten age. Legend says a host of fat, buzzing flies accompanies him—one for each of the fallen during that fateful battle—and that their collective buzzing tears at the sanity of those who hear it, for it is filled with the suffering of billions. Now he is a walking avatar of the devastation of war whose followers relentlessly seek new souls to add to the teeming hordes that swirl about him with ghoulish intensity.{{Fn|3}}
*[[Emissaries of the Wasting Death]]: The Plague Marines of the Wasting Death are particularly feared among the many denizens of the Screaming Vortex, for their very presence brings with it untold suffering and privation. Wherever they tread the ground shrivels and cracks beneath their feet, and even the heartiest and most resilient creatures shrivel and perish as they draw near. Contact with the malefic air of deprivation that surrounds these desiccated warriors irreparably scars those who survive, often manifesting in incessant pangs of unquenchable thirst and indescribable hunger that lasts for years after the dreadful encounter is a distant memory.{{Fn|3}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Rogue Trader Rulebook]], {{Cite This}}
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Black Crusade Core Rulebook]], pgs. 319–339
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Black Crusade: The Tome of Decay]], pg. 32
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