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The '''Death Guard''', formerly known as the '''Dusk Raiders''', were '''Legion XIV''' of the original twenty [[Space Marine Legion]]s. Their [[Primarch]] is [[Mortarion]], who relocated their base to his homeworld of [[Barbarus]] after his discovery by the [[Emperor]]. During the [[Horus Heresy]], Mortarion and the majority of the Legion swore allegiance to [[Horus]], becoming one of the nine [[Traitor Legions]] who betrayed the Emperor. After Barbarus was destroyed during the Heresy, they relocated to the [[Plague Planet]] inside the [[Eye of Terror]].
Because of Barbarus's toxic environment, the Death Guard took great pride in their resistance to poisons, disease, and mortality in general. This fascination led them to worship the [[ChaosGod]] god [[Nurgle]] and in return he infests their armour with pestilence and disease, and elevated Mortarion to a [[Daemon Prince]].
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