Biologus Putrifier

Chaos Portal Death Guard

"There is no finer laboratory than the battlefield. Such a glut of test subjects, their flesh and vitae awaiting only the touch of Nurgle’s gifts to flourish into new and magnificent fecundity. With every jab of the needle, every crisp shattering of the alembic, their blessed suffering brings my concoctions closer to perfection".
- Fesmus Gulgroth, Biologus Putrifier^[1b]

Biologus Putrifier

Biologus Putrifiers are a type of mutated warrior of the Death Guard. These are the refiners of the diseases created by the Foul Blightspawn.^[1a]

Overview

Biologus Putrifiers bear a unique mutation: lidless eyes that grow like cysts concealed beneath their flesh. Known as occulobes, the gaze of these can even penetrate armour to perceive every aspect of an infection’s spread through a body. They quickly record their observations, creating potent tomes of forbidden lore. Driven by an obsessive desire to test their plague-batches to perfection, Putrifiers take a very active role in spreading disease upon the field of battle, observing all aspects of plague and disease they encounter.^[1a]

Yet to simply observe is not their only duty. Samples must be extracted, and tests must be run, and for this they are armed with their Injector Pistols, which create a sick and agonizing death. Those specimens whose deaths are especially fascinating are pierced with injector pistols once again, this time to extract whatever clotted foulness now passes for their blood, ready for later study. Due to their deadliness, Putrifiers are often targeted on sight by the enemy. Yet should a Putrifier be struck by sufficient firepower or a powerful enough blow, the attack is liable to rupture his racks of blight grenades^[1a] including a Hyper Blight Grenade variant.^[1b]

Known Biologus Putrifiers

• Fesmus Gulgroth^[1b]
• Thrax^[2]
• Slert — Serves in the Lords of Silence^[3]
• Furio Thorne — Part of the Harbingers^[4]
• Toxus^[5]

Images

Biologus Putrifier miniature

Sources

• 1: Codex: Death Guard (8th Edition)
  • 1a: pg. 34
  • 1b: pg. 79
• 2: Crusade (Novella), Chapter 2
• 3: The Lords of Silence (Novel) — Chapter 3
• 4: White Dwarf 497, pg. 95 — A Tale of Four Warlords
• 5: Conquest 15 — The Assauilt on Iax, pg. 8