Difference between revisions of "Beast of Nurgle"
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| − | + | The Beast of Nurgle, or Slime Hound and Nurgle's Lapdog, bears the looks of an amalgam of living creatures fused into one nightmarish being. | |
| − | + | The Beast of [[Nurgle]] has the soft and sticky body of a pale slug, webbed feet which flap uselessly, a face of writhing green tentacles, | |
| − | The Beast of [[Nurgle]] has the soft and sticky body of a pale slug, webbed feet | + | and a whiptail growth that bursts from its and back and which wags from side to side. |
The creature's appearence mirrors its deadliness, its touch causes paralysis to those unfortunate to encounter it, its slimy trail rots everything in its trail. | The creature's appearence mirrors its deadliness, its touch causes paralysis to those unfortunate to encounter it, its slimy trail rots everything in its trail. | ||
| − | + | The presence of a Beast is enough to kill small animals or to age or to decay larger ones. | |
| − | + | In short the Beast is the embodiment of death and decay. | |
| − | + | In contrast to its sickening appearence, seen by mortals as an essence of mindless decay and horrid rot given putrid flesh, Beasts of Nurgle exemplify the Plaguelord’s endless enthusiasm and excitement for forces of life and death. | |
| − | Once his new playmate has stopped moving, it shifts attention to another victim. In this way,in its excitement it leaves a trail of death and destruction. | + | The Beast is driven by its craving for attention, greeting newcomers by slobbering all over them with its tentacles. |
| − | + | This attention poses no threat to other creatures of Nurgle, but it proves fatal to mortals. | |
| + | Once his new playmate has stopped moving, it shifts attention to another victim. In this way,in its excitement it leaves a trail of death and destruction. | ||
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| − | Warhammer Realm of Chaos The Lost and the Damned (1990) | + | Warhammer Realm of Chaos The Lost and the Damned (1990) |
Revision as of 19:54, 6 May 2013
The Beast of Nurgle, or Slime Hound and Nurgle's Lapdog, bears the looks of an amalgam of living creatures fused into one nightmarish being.
The Beast of Nurgle has the soft and sticky body of a pale slug, webbed feet which flap uselessly, a face of writhing green tentacles,
and a whiptail growth that bursts from its and back and which wags from side to side.
The creature's appearence mirrors its deadliness, its touch causes paralysis to those unfortunate to encounter it, its slimy trail rots everything in its trail.
The presence of a Beast is enough to kill small animals or to age or to decay larger ones.
In short the Beast is the embodiment of death and decay.
In contrast to its sickening appearence, seen by mortals as an essence of mindless decay and horrid rot given putrid flesh, Beasts of Nurgle exemplify the Plaguelord’s endless enthusiasm and excitement for forces of life and death.
The Beast is driven by its craving for attention, greeting newcomers by slobbering all over them with its tentacles.
This attention poses no threat to other creatures of Nurgle, but it proves fatal to mortals.
Once his new playmate has stopped moving, it shifts attention to another victim. In this way,in its excitement it leaves a trail of death and destruction.
Source:
Warhammer Realm of Chaos The Lost and the Damned (1990)
