Lord of Virulence
Lords of Virulence are powerful Nurgle-tainted Chaos Lords of the Death Guard.[1]
Overview
Those who have taken up the Mantle of Virulence are masters of massed bombardment, hammering their enemies with heavy firepower and decimating their ranks in the manner of a lethal infection laying their victim low.[2] It is the duty of Lords of Virulence to amplify the spread of the Death Guard in battle, and they do this by advancing into the very heart of enemy lines. These expose Lords of Virulence to tremendous peril, but this only serves for them to demonstrate their own inexorability.[6]
Tubes and pipes erupt in profusion from the Lord of Virulence's armour. From these gout noxious fumes, putrid eruptions whose hue and stench guide the fire of artillery engines behind the lines. Behind them their flensefrond cloaks leave a trail of mucosal slime for hungry Daemon Engines to follow.[3a] Clad in his mutilated Terminator armour, each Lord of Virulence is adorned with the signs of symbols of Grandfather Nurgle's many blessings. Armed with a twin plague spewer and plague claw, he is ready to spread these diseases across the galaxy.[4]
Notable Lords of Virulence
Sources
- 1: Warhammer Community: The Codex Show (Posted on 12/09/2020) (Last accessed on 12 September 2020)
- 2: Codex: Death Guard (8th Edition), pg. 30
- 3: Codex: Death Guard (9th Edition):
- 4: Games Workshop Webstore (Posted on 23/1/2022) (Last accessed on 23 January 2022)
- 5: War Zone Charadon - Act I: The Book of Rust, pg. 92
- 6: Codex: Death Guard (10th Edition), pg. 29
| Death Guard Forces | |
|---|---|
| Command | Chaos Lord (Lord of Contagion • Lord of Virulence • Lord of Poxes • Lord of Flux • Lord of Parasitism • Lord of Withering) • Daemon Prince of Nurgle • Plague Champion • Sorcerer • Malignant Plaguecaster • Tallyman • Plague Surgeon |
| Troops | Noxious Blightbringer • Foul Blightspawn • Biologus Putrifier • Plague Marines • Blightlord Terminators • Deathshroud • Possessed |
| Lost and the Damned | Cultists • Poxwalkers • Pestigors • Plague Zombie • Plague Ogryn • Mutants |
| Landbound Vehicles and Daemon Engines | Helbrute • Chaos Rhino • Chaos Predator (Infernal Relic Predator) • Chaos Land Raider • Chaos Vindicator • Myphitic Blight-Haulers • Plagueburst Crawler • Plaguereaper • Defiler • Plague Hulk • Miasmic Malignifier |
| Flying Vehicles and Daemon Engines | Thunderhawk • Stormbird • Storm Eagle • Hell Blade • Hell Talon • Harbinger • Foetid Bloat-Drone • Blight Drone |
| Characters | Mortarion • Typhus • Rotigus |
| Daemons | |
