Thelugh Poxmaw
Thelugh Poxmaw is a Death Guard Chaos Lord who serves in the Apostles of Contagion Warband and took part in the Thirteenth Black Crusade.[1]
Biography
After the Great Rift's creation during the Crusade, the forces of Nurgle seized three Imperial systems that became the Scourge Stars; these became used as a staging ground to invade Ultramar. As the Daemon Primarch Mortarion began to muster the Death Guard's forces for the invasion, several Warbands attacked nearby Imperial worlds to prevent them from stopping the Daemon Primarch's plans. The Apostles of Contagion were one of those Warbands and Poxmaw led his forces in an invasion of the world Daxar.[1]
They met resistance in the form of a Astra Militarum strike force, built around the 56th Cadian heavy infantry. Despite the Guardsmens efforts, the Apostles drove them back across the world's desert. However, at the desert's end was a passage known as Tarran's Pass, which the Guardsmen fortified and used to repel every attempt the Apostles made to destroy them. Conscious that the Guardsmen were planning a counterattack that could destroy the now depleted Apostles' forces, Poxmaw ordered his Sorcerers to summon several hundred Beasts of Nurgle. Once the summoning was complete, Poxmaw sent the Daemons towards the Guardsmen and, though dozens of the beasts were destroyed, the Daemons broke through their defences. As the Beasts of Nurgle then began rampaging within the Guardsmen's forces, Poxmaw led what remained of the Apostles to destroy them and end the threat Daxar posed to the Scourge Stars.[1]
Sources
- 1: Codex: Death Guard (8th Edition), pg. 54 — Beasts of Nurgle
