Blight Grenade

"There are few sounds as glorious as the dull thud of a blight grenade and the screams of the dying."

- Forgus Moult, Plague Marine^[5]

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Also known as a Death-Head of Nurgle, Blight Grenades are explosive devices bloated and swollen with pathogens used by Plague Marines. When they explode the resulting shrapnel carries deadly toxins and contagions that can penetrate cracks in armour, cause flesh to boil and slough away, and fill the air with blinding spores, all the while keeping the victim alive until the very end. Some versions of Blight Grenades resemble maggot-filled shrunken heads,^[1] while others are made from the actual heads of slain enemies.^[2]

Death Guard will use Blight Grenade in extreme close quarters, as the grenades have no impact upon them and horrendous effects on their victims.^[6]

Variants

• Hyper blight Grenade - A rare and more devastating variant, used by Biologus Putrifiers. Each individually created, these grenades are even more horrifyingly effective, giving the Biologis Putrifier the opportunity to study the effects of each explosion in order to modify his next creations.^{[5b][Note 1]}

Images

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  Blight Grenade^[3]

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  Blight Grenade^[5a]

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  A Blight Grenade on the belt of a Death Guard Chaos Space Marine^[4]

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  Blight Grenade exploding^[6]

Trivia

The following information is not to be regarded as officially sanctioned and/ or is not written from an in-universe point of view. A detailed explanation of the term "Trivia" as used in the Lexicanum can be found here.

Notes

• Note 1: In the Conquest 12^[5b] the image of a Hyper blight grenade completely matches the illustration of a "simple" Blight Grenade seen in Warlords of the Dark Millennium: Typhus^[3] (presented as the first image (with descriptions) in this article).

See also

• Gifts of Chaos

Sources

• 1: Deathwatch: Mark of the Xenos, pg. 126
• 2: Imperial Armour Volume Seven - The Siege of Vraks - Part Three, pg. 15
• 3: Warlords of the Dark Millennium: Typhus, pg. 8 — Blight Grenade
• 4: Conquest 09, pg. 22 — Fire in the Hole! - Blight Grenades
• 5: Conquest 12:
  • 5a: pg. 5 — Blight Grenades
  • 5b: pg. 5 — Biologus Putrifiers
• 6: 
Magic: The Gathering's Universes Beyond Warhammer 40,000 - Blight Grenade - for details see Blight Grenade/Sources