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===The Horus Heresy===
At the beginning of the Horus Heresy, many Death Guard who remained loyal to the Emperor were [[Battle of Isstvan III|massacred]] on Isstvan III by their fellow Space Marines, including Captain Ullis Temeter. Roughly a third of the Legion was still loyal to the Emperor.{{Fn|16c}} Shortly after, they battled Imperial forces in the [[Drop Site Massacre]]. During which the Death Guard would deploy the entirety of its armoured reserves to combat their loyalist counterparts. They suffered brutal losses against the loyalists, to such an extent that the Death Guards capacity to wage armoured war was left severely degraded.{{Fn|76a}} A number of Death Guard Marines, and one Luna Wolf who renounced his Sons of Horus status, led by Battle-Captain of the 7th Company [[Nathaniel Garro]], remained loyal to the Emperor. They formed part of the crew of the [[Eisenstein]], a frigate which ran the Traitor blockade in the Isstvan system in order to bring news of Horus' descent into Chaos to the Emperor on Terra.{{Fn|2a}}
During the Horus Heresy, the Death Guard joined Warmaster Horus in many battles and raids on the Imperium. The Lord of Death split his fleet, commanding one himself and [[Calas Typhon]] the other. Mortarion's smaller fleet led a [[Second Battle of Prospero|failed attempt]] on [[Prospero]] to convince [[Jaghatai Khan]] and the [[White Scars]] to join with them, and the Mortarion found himself in combat with the Great Khan. After the White Scars managed to abandon the Death Guard fleet, Mortarion had his Legion embark on a spiteful purge of the Prospero System.{{Fn|18}} Mortarion then fought alongside Horus in the [[Battle of Dwell]] and [[Battle of Molech]] before rejoining Typhon's main fleet, which had been waging a campaign of misdirection and misery against the [[Dark Angels]] since the [[Battle of Perditus]].{{Fn|17b}}
*[[Foul Blightspawn]]{{Fn|25g}}
*[[Biologus Putrifier]]{{Fn|25g}}
*[[Grave Wardens]] (Heresy-era){{Fn|7676b}}
*[[Mortus Poisoners]] (Heresy-era){{Fn|77}}
*[[Foetid Bloat-Drone]]{{Fn|25j}}
*{{Endn|74}}: [[White Dwarf 72 (2015)]] — Parade Ground
*{{Endn|75}}: [https://archive.ph/MWPMV Warhammer Community: LVO Preview 2025 – Nurgle coughs up a new Lord of Poxes] ''(Saved archive page, dated 16 January 2025, last accessed 16 January 2025, original link: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/elxrte0d/lvo-preview-2025-nurgle-coughs-up-a-new-lord-of-poxes/)''
*{{Endn|76}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre]], **{{Endn|76b}}: pg. 50**{{Endn|76a}}: pg. 227
*{{Endn|77}}: [[Exemplary Battles of the Age of Darkness: The Battle of Perditus Umbral-51]], pg. 3
*{{Endn|78}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/11/11/new-death-guard-terrain-sighted/ Warhammer Community: New Death Guard Terrain Sighted! (Posted on 11/11/2020)] (Last accessed on 11 November 2020)
