The Tallymen are warriors of the Death Guard who serve as the spiritual leaders of the Traitor Legion.
Overview
Part priests, part demagogues, part metaphysical scribes and quartermasters, these zealots stride to battle festooned with the trappings of their strange craft. Upon their shoulders the Tallymen bear huge vox speakers through which their voices boom. Their incantations are endless, a drone of counting. Tallymen are the preachers of the Sevenfold path, emphasizing the number of Nurgle, seven in all its forms.[1]
But perhaps the most notable feature of the Tallymen are the tomes they carry, filled with the woes inflicted on the enemy and other information relevant to the Plague God. They count spent shells, wounds inflicted, and the number of screams that can be heard. They count the number of flies in the air and the number of slain. Always they tally the unholy seven, and in so doing they invoke Nurgle’s boon. Nurgle’s faithful are empowered and inspired by the Tallyman’s count. On the battlefield, Tallymen are terrors, yet at all other times their order is isolated and secretive. Long ago, Mortarion entrusted them with the numerological codes to unlock the hidden vaults on the Plague Planet where the Death Guard keep their most appalling viral weapons. Such strains are precious and irreplaceable, and not lightly do the Tallymen part with them. The Death Guard Lord who demands access to these horrific instruments of destruction had best be prepared to pay a price to a Tallyman.[1]
Known Tallymen
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See also
- Epidemius - A Daemon known as the Tallyman of Nurgle
Sources
- 1: Codex: Death Guard (8th Edition), pg. 36
- 2: The Lords of Silence (Novel), Chapter 1
| Death Guard Forces | |
|---|---|
| Command | Lord of Contagion • Lord of Virulence • Lord of Poxes • Daemon Prince of Nurgle • Chaos Lord • Plague Champion • Sorcerer • Malignant Plaguecaster • Tallyman • Plague Surgeon |
| Troops | Noxious Blightbringer • Foul Blightspawn • Biologus Putrifier • Plague Marines • Blightlord Terminators • Deathshroud • Possessed |
| Lost and the Damned | Cultists • Poxwalkers • Pestigors • Plague Zombie • Plague Ogryn • Mutants |
| Vehicles and Daemon Engines | Helbrute • Chaos Rhino • Chaos Predator (Infernal Relic Predator) • Chaos Land Raider • Chaos Vindicator • Myphitic Blight-Haulers • Plagueburst Crawler • Plaguereaper • Defiler • Plague Hulk • Foetid Bloat-Drone • Blight Drone • Miasmic Malignifier |
| Aircraft | Thunderhawk • Stormbird • Storm Eagle • Hell Blade • Hell Talon • Harbinger |
| Daemons | Great Unclean One • Herald of Nurgle • Plaguebearer • Nurgling • Beast of Nurgle • Plague Toad • Plague Drone • Chaos Spawn |
| Special Characters | Mortarion • Typhus |
