Green Death
The Green Death was a battle between the Imperium, Orks, and forces of the Death Guard.[1]
The battle began when the infected Ork hordes invading the Ecclesiarchy world of Sanctia committed a terrible new barbarism. They fell upon the planet’s defenders, devouring the living and the dead alike, as if compelled by a daemonic hunger. Bloating and swelling, the Orks become obese monstrosities that could move only at a snail’s pace. Puzzled by this strange reprieve, the Adepta Sororitas systematically purged the Orks. It was then that Mortarion and the Death Guard of the 7th Plague Company made planetfall. At Mortarion's passing, each greenskin burst apart in a shower of fluids, and dozens of Nurglings spilled out from their remains to follow their master.[1]
Sanctia fell to the Green Death within twenty hours of Mortarion’s arrival, and the plague spread across the Ecclesiarchy-held system.[1]
Sources
- 1: Codex: Death Guard (8th Edition), pg. 20
