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[[File:Horus Heresy Calas Typhon.jpg|thumb|right|220px|First Captain Calas Typhon during the Horus Heresy.{{Fn|6}}]]
[[File:TyphusCodex.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Post-Heresy Typhus kills [[Tau]] ]]
Typhus was born '''Calas Typhon''' on the Death Guard's eventual homeworld of [[Barbarus]]. Typhon was a half-breed, the result of one of the [[Overlord (Xenos)|Overlords]] of Barbarus taking a liking to his Human Mother. For this, his mothers fellow villagers drowned her.{{Fn|19b}} As a child upon the toxic planet of Barbarus, Calas Typhon was troubled by nightly phenomena over which he believed he had no control. Objects would shudder and smash around him whenever he was frightened or angered, and plants would wither and die under his gaze. These phantom powers troubled him greatly, but he resolved to turn them to his advantage. By the time Typhon reached maturity, he had learned to master the psychic energies that resonated within him each night; a feat of will that impressed his elders mightily. With this act, Typhon became stronger in his resolve to succeed than any of his peers. When [[Mortarion]] defected from the Overlords after witnessing their atrocities, Typhon was the first person the Primarch encountered and the young child helped lead him to safety.{{Fn|19a}} During his early adulthood, Typhus was a champion of Mortarion's early Death Guard in his war against the [[Warlord of Barbarus]].{{Fn|18}} When the [[Emperor]] reclaimed his lost son Mortarion from the poisonous mists of Barbarus, and reunited him with the the superhuman warriors born from his [[gene-seed]], Typhon was amongst those chosen to join their ranks. As he joined the legion, his psychic potential was suppressed through training due to the anti-[[psyker]] sentiment of his Primarch. Nonetheless through his rugged talent, Typhus Typhon was eventually able to rise to the prestigious position of [[First Captain]].{{Fn|12a}} He shared a strong bond with Mortarion, the two being close comrades due in part to their shared origin as outsiders even among Barbarus.{{Fn|17b}}
During the [[Great Crusade]] Typhon often proved his ability to shrug off wounds and effects of hostile actions alike, becoming a legend amongst his warriors. On the planet of [[Rothric IX]] during the eponymic [[Tribeswar of Rothric IX]] he managed to withstand a hard blow to the side of his head and though this blow would have easily killed a lesser man, Typhon was merely driven into a cold rage, and taking up a short iron bar he killed every tribal warrior around him. In another episode Typhon saved a squad of [[Sisters of Silence]] on the planet of [[Madrighoul]] by throwing himself onto a malfunctioning [[Krak grenade]]. After less than a week in the [[Apothecarion]] he had already healed and discharged himself as fit for active duty.{{Fn|12a}}
According to Typhon himself, he was secretly converted to worship of the [[Gods of Chaos]] during the [[Zaramund Campaign]], receiving revelation at the touch of the hand of an old woman{{Fn|19d}}. In fact, Typhon's allegiance to Chaos predated that of his own Primarch, or of [[Horus]] himself{{Fn|2a}}. With the help of his new gods, Typhon became [[First Captain]] of the Death Guard and commander of the battleship ''[[Terminus Est]]''{{Fn|1}}. Typhus Typhon was not particularly loyal to Mortarion, and always wished to travel the Galaxy and forge his own destiny in the name of the Ruinous Powers.{{Fn|1}}
When Mortarion joined [[Horus]] in his rebellion, Typhon helped orchestrate the massacre of loyalist [[Space Marines]] on [[Isstvan III]], when Horus's fleet virus-bombed the surface and killed nearly every living thing aboveground{{Fn|2b}}. Because Battle-Captain [[Nathaniel Garro]] was unable to join his loyalist comrades on the surface, Typhon detailed him to the frigate ''[[Eisenstein]]'', along with Commander [[Ignatius Grulgor]], privately ordering Grulgor to deal with Garro and his men when necessary{{Fn|2c}}. Typhon was furious when the ''Eisenstein'' broke from orbit without joining the virus-bombing. Realizing that Grulgor had failed, he commanded the ''Terminus Est'' in pursuit of the frigate, and managed to severely damage the vessel, but was unable to stop it from escaping into the [[warp]]{{Fn|2d}}. Later during the Heresy, Typhon led half of the Death Guard in a splinter fleet while Mortarion himself took command of the other. During his campaign of misery and misdirection against the [[Dark Angels]], Typhon's fleet attempted to acquire the [[Tuchulcha]] engine in fulfillment of [[Nurgle]]'s designs but was foiled by [[Lion El'Jonson]] during the [[Battle of Perditus]].{{Fn|15}} Hounded by a Dark Angels retribution force under the command of [[Corswain]], Typhon's fleet later reappeared at the [[Zaramund System]]. There, the Death Guard forces were welcomed by [[Luther]] and his [[Fallen Angel]]s.{{Fn|16}}
===Recent History===
Since the Heresy, Typhus has continued to spread the glory of Nurgle across the galaxy. Leading a contingent of Death Guard of the '''[[Plague Fleet]]''' from the [[Terminus Est]], Typhus is known to have laid waste to many worlds and waged many battles in Nurgle's name. He has even traveled travelled to the [[Garden of Nurgle]] inside the [[Warp]] itself, where he has battled [[Khornate]] [[Daemon]]s. After killing the leader of this daemon army, he took the dog-headed daemon's guts and brought them to the Nurgle Palace itself as a gift for Nurgle's Cauldron. [[Lord of Decay]] was so pleased that for this great deed Typhus was honored to dip his [[Manreaper]] into the filth of the Throne of Nurgle.{{Fn|12b}} Typhus turned into [[Plaguebearers]] whole population of [[Protheus]] and [[Carandinis VII]] with all their billions of people. He destroyed the population of the [[Shrine World]] [[Jonah's World]] with carefully orcestrated pandemic and unleashed the Red Flux on the planet of [[Florins]] wiping out the entire male population there.{{Fn|12b}} Typhus has also laid waste to the world of [[Ligeta]] with a noise-plague where the infected became forced to eternally sing a hymn to the Lord of Decay.{{Fn|7}} In 757.[[M40]], he killed 23 billion people on [[Hydra Minoris]] with the [[Zombie Plague]].{{Fn|9a}} In the [[13th Black Crusade]], Typhus' Plague Fleet was the first Chaos force encountered by the Imperium. In the Crusade, his forces went on to ravage the [[Agripinaa Sector]].{{Fn|8}} He also oversaw the Infestation and desecration of a holy planet [[Annunciation]] by himself alone.{{Fn|11}}
In M41 Typhus once again attempted to unite the [[Tuchulcha]] Engine with its brother devices, this time in cooperation with the [[Fallen Angel]] [[Astelan]]. The two planned to gather the original Fallen with Typhus' own forces to create a new legion known as the "Death Angels". However, they were [[Battle of the Caliban System|foiled]] by the [[Dark Angels]] led by [[Azrael]] and surprisingly, [[Cypher]].{{Fn|14}}