Putrid Choir
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| Origin: | Death Guard[1] | ||
| Leader: | Unknown | ||
| Colours: | Sickly-Green with a Light-Rust rims[1] | ||
| Chaos Dedication: | Nurgle[1] | ||
| Strength: | Unknown | ||
The Putrid Choir are a Death Guard Vectorium[1] of the 3rd Plague Company.[2]
Overview
Their specialisation the defensive warfare, once they've captured a key strategic point—ideally one that supplies water, air, sustenance or spiritual strength—they fortify the area, deploying Miasmic Malignifiers to saturate the surroundings with their pervasive corruption. True to their name, they broadcast unending death-dirges through blaring vox-systems and hammer plague bells relentlessly. This auditory torment erodes the enemy's sanity, triggering fevered agony and impulsive assaults that inevitably break upon the Choir’s impregnable lines.[5]
The warriors of the Putrid Choir's march to battle, is always signalled by the baleful toll of their tocsins of misery. Accompanying this maddening percussion is the sound of scores of the Warband's diseased throats bellowing discordant battle dirges in honour of Grandfather Nurgle.[1]
History
They were among the Death Guard's forces that took part in the Chromyd Front, under the command of the Chaos Lord Thraxoplasmox. During that battle, the Putrid Choir invaded the Industrial World Okharium and laid siege to the vital Ferrumore Prefabricum XIX. With the aid of the Pus Brothers and the Dolorous Gnaw Vectoriums, the Ferrumore was under the Death Guard's firm stranglehold despite its Imperial forces preventing them from fully claiming it. However their hold was later decisively broken, by an assault led by the Blood Vipers Captain Xanthin Atris, which allowed fresh Imperial forces to reach the Ferrumore.[2]
Notable Engagements
- Battle of Anvarheim[3a]
- Charadon Campaign[2]
- Nachmund Rift War[4]
- Fighting with the 14th Volpone Bluebloods[3b]
See Also
Sources
- 1: Dark Imperium (Game), Death Guard Booklet, pg. 12 — Death Guard Vectoriums
- 2: White Dwarf 460, pg. 21 — Flashpoint: Charadon War Zone - The Chromyd Front
- 3: Codex: Death Guard (8th Edition)
- 4: War Zone Nachmund: Rift War, pg. 32
- 5: Codex: Death Guard (10th Edition), pg. 20
