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Chaos & Conquest Pestigor

A bloated Pestigor, a Beastman of Nurgle, armed with a greataxe.

Pestigors, those Beastmen who have been especially blessed since birth by Nurgle, the Chaos God of disease and despair, are renowned and feared among their kind. They are a repugnant foe: their hide splits from a hundred lesions, ichor runs from their eyes and mouths, and their fangs and horns blacken with rot.[2a]

Their spoor harbours foul contagions, and folklore has it that on dark nights they creep from the forests of the Old World to spoil crops, infect farm-beasts, and sicken peasants by spreading their dung around settlements.[2a]

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A Pestigor Beastman of Nurgle[1a]

Though Pestigors are racked by pestilence, disease and malformations they still maintain the morbid vigour that defines all the mortal servants of their patron god. Their fur is usually brown but often hidden beneath dung and other filth, their forms bloated with disease and prominent abscesses and other obvious infections, cultivated to bloom in the shape of the Mark of Nurgle. Highly favoured Pestigors are blessed with the mutation known among them as the "Tears of Nurgle" -- infectious secretions that drip constantly from their ears, eyes, mouth, nose and every other bodily opening. It is also not uncommon for Pestigors who have found great favour with Grandfather Nurgle to become vectors for Nurgle's Rot.[3a][4a]

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A warband of Pestigors assaulting a group of Orcs as depicted in Total War: Warhammer III.[6]

Unlike most Beastmen, Pestigors often possess only a single horn, much like the Lesser Daemons of the Plague God. Like all Nurglites, mortal and Daemon alike, Pestigors possess enormous fortitude in combat. They often scavenge and wear a surprisingly substantial amount of armour for Beastmen, and are generally more organised and well-disciplined in combat than most of their kind. Other Beastmen such as Gors and Ungors revere Pestigors who have been so blatantly blessed by the Dark Gods, respecting them greatly.[3a]

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Rurkhar Festigor, Pestigor Champion of Nurgle, armed with a scythe blessed by the Plague God.

Pestigors, like their patron god Nurgle, passionately hate all the mortal and Daemonic servants of Tzeentch and will seek to interfere with the goals of Tzeentchian forces wherever they may be found in the mortal world.[4a]

Some Pestigors have been blessed with the ability to wield magic by their divine patron. Such Pestigor wizards draw upon the Lore of Nurgle to cast their spells like any of the Fly Lord's other sorcerers.[4a]

Notable Pestigors[]

  • Rurkhar Festigor - Rurkhar Festigor is a Pestigor who actually earned the further honour of becoming a Champion of Nurgle. He is armed with a scythe blessed by the Plague God.[3b]

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