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|Population=Billions{{Fn|8a}}
|Affiliation=[[Chaos]]
|Class=[[Daemon World]]
==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 All are immense strongholds bristling in anti-orbital batteries, trans-atmospheric docking facilities, armouries, plague laboratories, and training facilities. Any one of them could rival the greatest [[Fortress-Monastery|Fortress-Monasteries]] of the [[Adeptus Astartes]].{{Fn|8a}} However greatest of thesefortresses, '''the Black Manse''', is truly titanic and stretches between the three highest peaks and serves as Mortarion's personal keep{{Fn|5}} from as well as the base of the [[7th Plague Company]].{{Fn|8a}} From space looking like , the fortress resembles 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}}
Munificence 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}} Its oceans are foul bubbling miasmas.{{Fn|8a}}
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}}
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Conquest 02]], pgs. 5-6 — ''The Plague Planet''
*8: [[Codex: Death Guard (10th Edition)]]
**{{Endn|8a}}: pgpgs. 13-15, ''A World of Horrors''
**{{Endn|8b}}: pg. 111, ''The Peal Yard''