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Nurgle's Rot

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Nurgle's Rot is the most foul of the countless contagions which afflict mortal beings. It is Nurgle's gift to the mortal universe. It is completely incurable, highly infectious, has a very slow course that turns the infected into bloated, rotting, corpses,[1a] and worst of all it corrupts the souls of the infected into new Plaguebearers.[1b]

It is as much a spiritual plague as a physical one, as the souls of those infected are slowly leeched into Nurgle's realm, where they appear as warty seed pods growing from cracked branches of gloomy willows. Each pod swells and ripens as the plague destroys its host in the real world and the nascent Plaguebearer feeds upon the victim's dying energies. When fully mature, the podule drops and the newly created Plaguebearer tears himself free. An individual can also be corrupted into a Plaguebearer, their mortal body twisted and mutated just as much as their soul.[3] A mortal who resists for a significant period produces an equally long incubation period resulting in a larger, tougher and more disgusting Daemonic Herald of Nurgle.[1b] Many sufferers undertake death quests in order to be killed and avoid this fate[2].

The disease has varied physical symptoms that are almost unique to each infected individual. Examples of these symptoms are the appearance of leeched eating the individual's eyeballs, swelling pustules full of maggots, necrosis of internal organs, and the sudden appearance of painful lesions on the skin.[3]

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