Nurgle

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Nurgle the Lord of Decay

Nurgle is the chaos god that represents entropy, agony, any form of disease and illness, decay and death.

He is also known as the Lord of Decay, Father or Grandfather Nurgle, Neiglen, Onogal or Nurglitch. Human Chaos Marauders call him Lord of Flies or the Plague Crow.

Nurgle's holy number is seven. His symbol are three slime-balls, horse droppings, buboes filled with pus or other things similarly unpleasant, that are arranged in a triangle representing a stylised fly.

He is diametricly opposed by Tzeentch. Where Nurgle spreads random diseases, decay and entropy Tzeentch opposes him with evolution and tries to achieve his goals by creating complicated plans of intrigue and counter intrigue, fueled by the hopes and wishes of the mortals to change anyone and everything.

Daemons of Nurgle

Mortal followers of Nurgle

Humans who are cursed with retardation, illness, various plagues, horrible wounds or starvation often start praying to Nurgle, if there isn't any other god who will hear their moaning. For that, Nurgle stands in direct opposition to Shallya, the goddess of mercy. Followers of Nurgle still bear all marks of pestilence but it doesn't kill them. Instead, it makes them even tougher. Sometimes human cultists of Nurgle look more like Zombies than like the living.

Beastmen who follow the call of Nurgle are not uncommon, and his special breed of Bestigors are called Pestigors.

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