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==History==
Ku'Gath was once a [[Nurgling]] sitting upon the shoulder of Nurgle. Whilst Nurgle was mixing his most virulent toxin ever, Ku'Gath tumbled from his nesting place into the cauldron, where he took a great draught of the filthy contents and swelled with its power. Invigorated, Ku'Gath drank and drank until the cauldron was nearly empty and he had grown into a [[Great Unclean One]]. Nurgle laughed at the antics of his Nurgling, who had become the embodiment of the perfect disease that had been bubbling within the cauldron. Ku'Gath, however, realised that he had robbed his father of the greatest disease ever concocted; and has since been wandering the universe, searching for the perfect ingredients to recreate the toxin for Nurgle. He also captures those whom his diseases corrupt and take them back to his lair, where he can observe their degeneration more closely.{{Fn|3a}}
As the [[Horus Heresy]] raged, Ku'Gath was among the [[Greater Daemons]] summoned into [[Realspace]] by the [[Thousand Sons]], during the [[Battle for Terra]]{{Fn|8a}}. After the [[Lion's Gate Spaceport]] fell to the [[Traitor]]s, the Daemons were unleashed to destroy the [[Imperial Palace]]'s [[Colossi Gate]]{{Fn|8b}}. While they succeeded in tearing down the Gate's outer defenses, the Daemons were destroyed by the [[White Scars]]' [[Stormseers]] and the [[Adeptus Custodes]], before they could complete their task.{{Fn|8c}}
During the [[Gheistos]] Cataclysm in [[M41]], Ku'Gath is known to have led the [[Daemon]]ic forces who besieged the [[Planetary Governor]]'s Fortress.{{Fn|1}}
In 927.[[M41]], Ku'Gath was summoned on the [[Agri-World]] of [[Curwen]] at the head of the Daemonic Legion. A [[Grey Knights]] strike force arrived, and [[Justicar]] [[Anval Thawn]] led a force into the very heart of the Daemonic horde to avoid encirclement. Ku'Gath swallowed the [[Purifier]] whole, but Thawn detonated his weapon inside the Daemon's throat and burst from its body. Ku'Gath was slain and banished back to the [[Warp]].{{Fn|2}}
Ku'Gath appears again in 998.[[M41]], when intervention of [[Justicar]] [[Styer]] and his [[Grey Knights]] in attempts of [[Inquisitor]] [[Malia Orbiana]] to find on the planet [[Squire's Rest]] of [[Sanctus Reach]] biological weapons against [[Orks]], led to the manifestation in reality the [[Bonewrack]] disease - once lost Ku’Gath’s infection. Later the Grey Knight managed to defeat Ku’Gath and his horde of [[Plaguebearers]] and expel daemons to the [[warp]]. Ku’Gath himself was defeated by the blow of [[Librarian]] [[Gared]] when his [[Nemesis Greatsword]] bisected Ku'Gath's head.{{Fn|4}}
==Wargear==
Ku'Gath rides atop a palanquin carried by straining Nurglings, and loaded with the paraphernalia of his mobile laboratory. In battle, Ku'Gath uses the opportunity to conduct his field tests, unleashing clouds of spores and bacteria that could wipe out whole armies.{{Fn|3}} He wields a large diseased-ridden sword which he stores in his body and pulls from his mouth.{{Fn|10b}}
The [[Nurglings]] that grow from Ku'Gath each carry a unique blend of the elements that had created him, and can be [[Necrotic Missiles|hurled at his enemies]] to produce various different infections.{{Fn|3}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Battle Missions]], ppg. 17*{{Endn|2}}: [[Codex: Grey Knights (5th Edition)]], ppg. 16*{{Endn|3}}: [[Codex: Chaos Daemons (6th Edition)]], ppg. 51
**{{Endn|3a}} {{cite this}}
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Sanctus Reach: Maledictus (Novella)]] by [[David Annandale]], Chapter Ten*{{Endn|5}}: [[Dark Imperium (Novel)]] by [[Guy Haley]], Chapter Sixteen*{{Endn|6}}: [[Dark Imperium: Plague War (Novel)]] - , Chapter 3*{{Endn|7}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition Rulebook]] , pgs. 154-159 - ''War Zone: Ultramar''*8: [[Saturnine (Novel)]] :**{{Endn|8a}}: Part 1 - , Chapter 5 **{{Endn|8b}}: Part 2 - , Chapter 2**{{Endn|8c}}: Part 3 - , Chapter 2
*{{Endn|9}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/12/05/the-warhammer-preview-online-black-library/ Warhammer Community: Warhammer Preview Online: Black Library (posted 12/5/2020] – Interview with Guy Haley (last accessed 12/5/2020)
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Godblight (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|10a}}: Chapter 6
**{{Endn|10b}}: Chapters 27 & 36
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*[[Codex: Chaos Daemons (4th Edition)]], {{Cite This}}
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