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'''Ignatius Grulgor''', known as the '''Eater of Lives'''{{Fn|3}} was [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the [[Space Marine Company|Second company]] of the [[Death Guard]] [[legion]] during the [[Horus Heresy]]. He has since been elevated into a [[Daemon Prince]].

{{spoiler|source=The Flight of the Eisenstein (Novel)}}

[[Image:GrulgorChaos.jpg|thumb|right|180px|The resurrected Ignatius Grulgor corrupted by the powers of [[Nurgle]] ]]

Grulgor was born on [[Barbarus]] and like many of his legion from that planet, despised some of the old traditions that his brothers from [[Terra]] practised.{{Fn|2a}} He was very headstrong, and always looked for a chance to impress his [[Primarch]] [[Mortarion]]. Shortly before the [[Battle of Isstvan III]], Grulgor and his men were stationed by [[First Captain]] [[Calas Typhon|Typhon]] on the frigate ''[[Eisenstein]]'' with Captain [[Nathaniel Garro]] and his loyal Marines, whom he was supposed to eliminate.{{Fn|2b}} He failed, and was killed by a [[virus bomb]] that was damaged in his fight with Garro's men.{{Fn|2c}}

Following Typhon's betrayal which stranded the Death Guard fleet inside the Warp, Mortarion went to Grulgor and asked the Daemon to pledge that he would slay the First Captain if needed. Grulgor agreed, and when brought before Typhon strangled him to death. However due to the [[Destroyer Plague]], Typhon quickly came back to life and both Grulgor and the First Captain laughed. Grulgor had fulfilled his oath, but Typhon was beyond death. Grulgor revealed that any oath he had taken to Mortarion was vastly eclipsed by his service to [[Nurgle]]. Grulgor's form dissolved and merged with Typhon, transforming the First Captain into [[Typhus]], Herald of Nurgle and Host of the Destroyer Hive.{{Fn|5b}}

The current commander of the [[Wretched (4th Plague Company)|4th Plague Company]] of the [[Death Guard]] is dubbed the '''Eater of Lives'''{{Fn|6}}, but it is unknown if this is specifically Grulgor.

During [[The Fall of Medusa V]] campaign, Ignatius Grulgor reappeared in the form of a [[Daemon Prince]] to lead an attack of [[Chaos Space Marines]] against the planet [[Medusa IV]]. A notable battle of the conflict was the sacking of the monastery of Madrigales, as it was home to an [[Astropathic Choir]] made up of thousands which had enough strength to send messages to anywhere within the [[Imperium]]. What's more, its vast cogitator banks housed more than two thousand years' worth of stored astropathic communiqués, and so the monastery was considered of inestimable value by the Imperium. The siege of the monastery should have lasted weeks, if not months. But Grulgor and his [[Plague Marine]]s made easy work of the garrisoned [[Imperial Guard]], including three [[Leman Russ Battle Tank]]s from the [[Mordian]] Ironskins which guarded the gates. Grulgor smashed barehanded through the hull of one and then filled the crew compartment with pestilential filth, while a [[Chaos Land Raider]], the ''[[Cradle of Desolation]]'' punched the turret off another. The third attempted to fall back through the gates but Grulgor shouldered into it, flipping it onto its roof. With the gates wide open, it took less than an hour for the Chaos Space Marines to overrun the monastery. An [[Adepta Sororitas]] strike team was called in to cleanse the monastery and retrieve the databanks, but by the time they fought through the now-filth-infested hallways, the astropathic choir had been slain and the databanks were removed. Gulgor and his forces quickly withdrew from the monastery and despite being chased through the surrounding valleys and mountain paths by [[Canoness]] [[Magda Comptress]], they mysteriously vanished off the planet, a suppurating crevasse as the only sign of their passing.{{Fn|1}}

*[[List of Daemon Princes]]

*{{Endn|1}}: [http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=&pIndex=2&aId=10500161a&start=3 Ignatius Grulgor of the Death Guard] at Games Workshop website (site accessed 2010.08.15)

*2: [[The Flight of the Eisenstein (Novel)]]