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{{PlanetsPortal}}{{DeathGuardPortal}} {{Planets|Map=Galaxy map Eye of Terror.jpg|Map PX=|Planetary Image=PlaguePlanet.jpg|Planetary Image Px=300|Name={{PAGENAME}}|Segmentum=[[Segmentum Obscurus]]|Sector=[[Eye of Terror]]|Subsector=|System=|Population=|Affiliation=[[Chaos]]|Class=[[Daemon World]]|Tithe Grade=N/A}} '''{{PAGENAME}}'''{{Fn|8a}} (or the '''Plague Planet''' to outside observers) is the [[Daemon World]] of the [[Daemon Prince]] [[Mortarion]], and [[homeworld]] of the [[Death Guard]] [[Traitor Legion]].{{Fn|1}} ==History==Originally an [[Eldar]] world known as '''Eliathada''' (meaning ''sublime soul garden'', ''prideful wasteland'', or ''dry valley of dreams''), the world was scoured of life in the [[Fall of the Eldar]] and became located deep inside the [[Eye of Terror]]. Eliathada was claimed by the [[Daemon Primarch]] [[Mortarion]] following the [[Horus Heresy]].{{Fn|6}} Becoming the new home of the Death Guard, Mortarion has made the world into a world of poison, horror, and misery swathed in a miasma of disease-filled clouds.{{Fn|2}} It is unknown who renamed Eliathada the '''Plague Planet''', though the origin is likely from the [[Thousand Sons]].{{Fn|6}} To the Death Guard themselves however, the world is known as '''Munifience'''.{{Fn|8a}} The rotting hull of spacecraft which succumb to plague are eventually drawn, sometimes over thousands of years,{{Fn|1}} to the Plague Planet, where they become part of the [[Plague Fleet]]s.{{Fn|2}} These fleets carry followers of Nurgle through the warp to inhabited worlds where their destructive raids are inevitably followed by outbreaks of deathly contagion. [[Plague Ship]]s that are abandoned or have their crews destroyed drift back to the Plague Planet once more.{{Fn|1}} ==Society & Geography==Mortarion has shaped the planet much in the image of his homeworld, [[Barbarus]]. All is ruled by the skeletal Mortarion, enthroned upon the highest part of the planet, much like his false father was on Barbarus.{{Fn|3}} Much of the planet is dominated by Shrines to [[Nurgle]] and gargantuan mountaintops. The seven greatest mountains each hold a keep of one of the Plague Companies. The greatest of these, '''the Black Manse''', stretches between the three highest peaks and serves as Mortarion's personal keep{{Fn|5}} from space looking like the tri-lobe symbol of Nurgle.{{Fn|7}} The Black Manse is also known as the '''Whispering Tower''' and can be reached through the [[Garden of Nurgle]] in the [[Immaterium]].{{Fn|4}} Another major landmark is the church to Nurgle known as '''Evangelism'''. Underground, vast tunnel-cities and daemonic factories churn out weaponry and other vile resources for the Death Guard. Not even Mortarion knows their true expanse.{{Fn|6}} The Plague Planet is covered in swampy, rotting continents and the seas of slime. There are whole great forests of stinking fungi, huge chemical factories and weird, snail-like living fortresses.{{Fn|7}} The [[Plague Marine]]s of the [[Death Guard]] rarely involve themselves with the population except to select new [[Champion of Chaos|Champions]] to fight alongside them,{{Fn|1}} residing in mighty fortress citadels alongside [[Daemon]]ic Champions of Nurgle.{{Fn|3}} Aspirants fight for their right to join the Death Guard's ranks on the tri-lobed platforms of rusted iron in the suppurating valleys of the Plague Planet.{{Fn|5}} The rest of the population cower in tiny villages, serving their supreme masters.{{Fn|3}} These inhabitants are afflicted with all manner of horrific poxes and pray to [[Nurgle]] for relief from their constant agony. Some of them are favoured and become his Champions, and then fight among themselves for mastery and the chance to become [[Daemon Prince]]s themselves. [[Beastmen]] known as [[Pestigor]]s make up a large part of the population; they are bloated with disease and flies swarm around them and breed upon their rotting flesh. The beastmen are very proud of these signs of their god's favour, and openly boast of the number and severity of their diseases.{{Fn|1}} Diseased things that should be dead roam the planet{{Fn|5}} one of the most disgusting of which is the famous [[Foulspawn]],{{Fn|7}} and clouds of contagion pollute the air, none but the Death Guard could survive even a single breath on the Plague Planet's surface.{{Fn|5}} The defenses of the Plague Planet are formidable, with [[Defense Laser]] batteries mounted on nearly every mountaintop of the world. In orbit hang large [[Orbital Defense Platform]]s and shipyards from which the [[Plague Fleet]] is stationed. In addition to these defences, the atmosphere of the world is coated with a thick diseased cloud that will dissolve anything that attempts to enter without the consent of Mortarion.{{Fn|6}} Deep in the swamps of Munificence stands the '''Peal Yard''' — a fortified forge echoing with relentless clamor. It’s here that the [[Tocsin of Misery|Tocsins of Misery]] are created: cursed bells crafted at the edge of the [[Warp]] itself. The Peal Yard is a liminal space, teetering between reality and chaos. Inside, daemon smiths drone as they shape these dreadful instruments from the agonized cries of dying [[psyker]]s, inscribing these daemonic instruments with runes of madness and sorrow, preparing them for the horrors of war.{{Fn|8b}} ==See also==*[[Planets (List)]] ==Sources==*{{Endn|1}}: [[Realm of Chaos#redirectLost and the Damned|Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned]], pgs. 256–257*{{Endn|2}}: [[Crusade of Fire (Campaign Book)]], pg. 85*{{Endn|3}}: [[Index Astartes]], Death Guard*{{Endn|4}}: [[Hand of Darkness (Audio Drama)]], Part III*{{Endn|5}}: [[Codex: Death Guard (8th Edition)]] — ''The Plague Planet''*{{Endn|6}}: [[The Lords of Silence (Novel)]], Chapter 5*{{Endn|7}}: [[Conquest 02]], pgs. 5-6 — ''The Plague Planet''*8: [[Codex: Death Guard (10th Edition)]]**{{Endn|8a}}: pg. 13, ''A World of Horrors''**{{Endn|8b}}: pg. 111, ''The Peal Yard'' [[Category:Daemon Worlds]][[Category:Death Guard]][[Category:Eye of Terror]][[Category:Nurgle]] [[de:Seuchenplanet]]
