![]() ![]() This world was but one outpost of the Old Ones' vast empire across the cosmos, and they travelled to other worlds via stellar portals constructed at the northern and southern poles. They created other servitor races, including the ancestors of Elves, Dwarfs, and Men, though these races have no knowledge of this truth. The Old Ones dwelt in these temple-cities, guarded by their Lizardmen creations and served by amphibious minions - the Slann - who shared their potent magical abilities. ![]() This epoch is now forgotten, except in the most ancient and obscure myths of the High Elves, or in faded inscriptions within the mysterious temple-cities of Lustria. Thousands of years ago, before the coming of Chaos, the god-like Old Ones governed the world and shaped it with powerful sorcery. " See the withered crops, the wasted cattle, the people stricken with the Seven Plagues! Trust not the quackeries of the leech-doctors, but take up the hammer of Sigmar and let us martyr our stinking corpses for the glory of the Empire!" Only the most powerful weapons or the most lethal of wounds have a chance to slay a true follower of Nurgle, though even the process of closing into martial range with the Plague Lord's children can bring an agonising death from one of his joyful diseases. For Nurgle's chosen even mortal blows given in battle are rarely enough to slow them and cause little or no pain. ![]() Those few who embrace the Plague Lord's "gifts" willingly are granted superhuman endurance against all disease and most forms of pain. Nurgle sees those mortals who are clean and unspoiled as a fresh canvas just waiting to be painted. Nurgle grants a strange comfort to his followers, who find a twisted camaraderie in their fellow lepers and plague victims. Humans are by far the most common worshippers of Nurgle, though Skaven, beings of filth and decay themselves, see him as a kindred spirit - and some Skaven worship him exclusively, if secretly, rejecting even their own Chaos God, the Horned Rat. Nurgle embraces the downtrodden, the forgotten, and those with nothing else to live for, thinking to uplift them by bestowing the many blessings he has to offer. His followers commonly come from the lowest classes of Human society, who live in filth and despair already. The mortal worshippers of Nurgle include the diseased, nihilists, and the insane. When plague inevitably comes to their frozen realm, the tribes of the Northmen often appease Nurgle by offering gifts or Human sacrifices in hopes of being spared from his beloved diseases. Nurgle's worship is only favoured when plagues and disease are prevalent amongst their people, for to do otherwise would simply bring the same diseases upon their lands. Of all the Dark Gods, Nurgle is perhaps the least worshipped amongst the Human tribes of the north. Many of those affected by Nurgle's poxes usually turn to him in order to escape the pain and despair caused by sickness and disease, and while the other three major Ruinous Powers have little care for their followers, it is Nurgle who displays an uncommon love, admiration, and faith in those that would follow in his blighted footsteps. ![]() While those who wish to spread death, decay and corruption are certainly amongst his followers, there are also those who wish to endure, to become resilient enough to handle the difficulties and opportunities presented by an uncaring world. In the same way, Nurgle also personifies perseverance and survival. After all, decay is simply one part of the cycle of life, without which no new life could grow. Though so much of his portfolio is concerned with death and decay, Nurgle is unexpectedly also the personification of rebirth. Nurgle is the embodiment of the constant cycle of death and rebirth which animates all life in the universe, and was brought into being by mortals' fears of death and the despair they feel about their inevitable mortality from age and disease. He is the eldest of the four Chaos Gods and indeed is undoubtedly the oldest Chaos God of all, for the process of death and decay is as ancient as life itself. Nurgle is the Chaos God most directly involved with the plight of mortals, particularly Men, who suffer so acutely from a fear of death. Nurgle, also known as the " Plague Lord," " Grandfather Nurgle," the " Lord of Pestilence," the " Fly Lord," the " Urfather," and as " Neiglen" and " the Crow" among many other names in Norsca, is the major Chaos God of disease, decay, despair, destruction, death and rebirth. ![]()
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