A follower of nurgle isn't necessarily a pus-ridden walking corpse, at least not from day one. I think people forget that nurgle worshippers can have variances in attitude and their exact method of following nurgle, just like the worshippers of the other chaos powers. A grim mercenary who just wants to get through the nightmare of existence. A young, cheerful psyker who won't be caught by those evil men in the black ship.

I'm getting to play a crusade-era Alpha Legionnaire tactical marine (with 1.5k xp spent on the Dark Heresy scum class) so getting that concept played out.

For black crusade, I'm thinking a charismatic heretic who may or may not be a space marine. Probably chaos undivided but...

Preaching to crowds about doom and destruction but there is hope! The god and father figure will save us all! Offer worship and be strong in your faith!

nurgle will be my first choice i love the humour of papa nurgle combined with extreme ichyness ,  experimenting with new plagues and diseases and using them to spread the word and infection across the galaxy :)

Stormast said:

I don't think any of the Chaos gods is "obvious" if you don't insist on making them so... I'll give a few examples:

Imperial Cleric who wanted to be perfect in his worship of the Imperial Creed... Except perfection is pretty damn hard to achieve, especially in faith as multi-faceted as Imperial Creed is. But hey, don't worry, we in Slaanesh cult know ALL about perfection... We can make it happen ;)

Adept of Administratum who is very competitive, always trying to be the best in his office, winning everyone else in speed and accuracy of his work. When he can't quite seem to get above his peers he asks Slaanesh for help to perfect his working methods... or, starts to ask hep from Khorne in methodically wiping out the competition.

Oh there are so many wonderfull ways to be corrupted... No need to go with the stereotypical "Khorne Psychopath Pirate", "Slaaneshi Drug-Addicted Nymphomaniac", "Tzeetch Meddling Sorcerer" and "Nurgle Deathguard Zombie" concepts...

Polaria said:

Or you have some devout person who carves statues of various holy figures. But they don't come out right, so he seeks help. Since Slaanesh covers perfection, he gets pulled into that. As his renown increases, he gets asked to build them in more high profile places. Which is helpful because, since Slaanesh is also the god of excess, he is wanting to make them bigger.

Next thing you know, he's trying to carve a planet into the shape of The Emperors head.

Vayron Rezzi looked around and was amazed once more by how improbable his allies were. He smiled: Life never failed to surprise.  A few weeks ago he was still the heir of a great malfian family. A few weeks ago he was in control of his life and his future was full of hope.

Now he was exiled, fugitive, escaping with a blood soaked lunatic, a rogue psyker and an enormous pile of puss, bile and maggots. One servant for each god. Every main chaos god anyway, the cosmology of warp had proved to be more complicated than he ever dreamed when he first joined the cult years ago. Still, Khorne, Tzeench, Slaanesh and Nurgle, was that a good or a bad omen?

``Hurry up weakling! If you slow me down I’ll hack you down! ``

Vayron accelerated. Covered in blood, tall, muscular and well armed, Charrin never failed to make an impression. The Khornate was relatively collected and intelligent, for a Khornate that is. Vayron had always seen them as blood mad lunatics but the warrior seemed to have a good grasp of tactics and strategy.
A lunatic nonetheless of course.
And a mutant to boot.

Still, he felt better with him than with that ``Great Magus Ervan`` if that really was his name. At least he knew what to expect from Charrin. Tzeentch worshipers were such headaches.

Even Ervan was better than Undine though. A space marine and a traitor, that’s what this one was. The abomination never seemed to move quickly or graciously but Vayron did not fancy even Charrin’s chances against such an opponent.

For all his corruption, Undine was the tallest and the biggest of them all. He also, Vayron suspected, was the oldest, and by a long shot. Whenever he talked, maggots and flies escaped his mouth, whenever he moved, a vile slime spilled from cracks in his armour. He retained a vaguely humanoid form, which was some sort of an accomplishment for a nurglite of his rank, but that only made him more horrible and disgusting to behold.

Worst of all, in Vayron’s mind, was the knowledge that Undine had chosen to be that way. He decided, at some point, to embrace the lord of all decay. That, he could not understand. It was as alien to him as anything could be and that made the infection even harder to understand then the Magus.

``Say, Undine.`` He asked. ``Why did you join the Lord of decay? Did you know how disgusting he would make you?  Did you have any choice in the matter?``

 

``I.. Could have… fought… too…``
The space marine talked slowly and paused often. His deep voice was as disgusting and intimidating as his appearance was.
``But I…Had to choose… And I… decided …``

He paused to spit something on the ground
``I decided… to...follow... my inner... feelings.``

The magus and the Warrior were also paying attention now.

``Hate? Vengeance?``Asked the Khornate.

``Ambition? Pride? Or could it be… ``  
The magus thought for a while.
``Fear, maybe. I always suspected that was the motivation behind choices such as yours. After all, I can see why, in the face of death…``

Undine kept walking. ``Love… It was… Love.``

For a few seconds, everyone was silent.

``You? I fail to see how that could have helped in that department!``
``Hahar! You must be quite popular with that smell of yours! What a nice idea!``

Though he stayed silent, Vayron was just as surprised as the others. Love? Really? Wasn’t Nurgle the worst possible choice? Not even a blind woman could love a face like that!

``Brother… Comrades… Love can also… be meant for...these things... When my brothers turned… I…I could have stayed…true… to my vows… True to… My faith… But love held… my hand… back… And kept my… pride… in check.``

He turned around and stopped walking.

``Love had… every…`` He spat again ``everything… to do… with it. But that was… That was so…long ago.``

``Sucks to be you`` was all Vayron could manage. Maybe he would have done the same.

``Oh I am… quite… content… As I said… before… That was…``he spat  `` long ago``



(I'll keep going if you want)

SlimeTheGreat said:

Please do.

Anybody ever see Moral Orel? If I were to play a Nurglite, then I think that I would play something similar to Clay Puffington. The major motive is desperation. I imagine for a lot of Imperial Citizens, they are trapped in a pretty miserable life. Imperium doesn't seem very big on the human rights and all. I'm sure most stave it off with inter-personal connections. Families and loved ones can go a long way in that. Its not a luxury that everybody has though. So some lonely Munitorium drone dutifully toiling away at making shell casings for the God Emperor's armies for 60 hours a week without anybody in the world to turn to is going to be in some pretty sorry circumstances. He's not motivated by hatred. He's a good person. He doesn't want to inflict suffering or go on a mad rampage. He wants release. He has no life to lead and nobody who needs him and nobody to even be. So when he hears about a religion exposing unconditional love he signs up.

I imagine Nurgle worshiping characters have the potential to be some of the most nuanced characters Black Crusade will offer.

SlimeTheGreat said:

you have my undivided attention.

on a side note, I think a mutant in service to Nurgle would be an interesting fit. Yeah, Mutants are typically the purview of Tzeench, but a good number of mutations are the products of disease. Perhaps a mutant doctor refuses to believe that raw chaos is the only cause of mutation, that mutation is a conventional disease, and with Nurgle's help, he can stabilize runaway mutations in existing mutants, and spread the gift of "mutually beneficial mutation" to other planets. after all, if it is a disease, it can spread like one.

Gillam Harrow said:

I think it's quite clear that all Chaos provoke mutations. In BC we will see mutations specific to each Chaos god.

You seem awfully certain there - just wondering why you think that there will be god specific mutations? Typically, in the past, it's appeared as though many of the Chaos Gods give from the same big mutation bucket (tentacles, claws, wings, other animal parts, psychic powers, etc).

MILLANDSON said:

I belive it was said in a podcast, might also be somewhere on the site.

Anyway, the way I remember it was that: Lets say you get a mutation "Extra Limb". Depending on which god you are aligned to, the limb will have bonus effects.

Khorne: Tearing, extra damage. An extra arm covered in blades and spikes.

Slaanesh: Fexible. A whip like arm, usable up to 3m.

Eeeh... those where the two gods I remember seeing/hearing mentioned.

Thinking about it, I do belive it was a podcast, I'll see if I can find it again.

Found it, at worlds end radio.

www.worldsendradio.com/wp-content/uploads/WorldsEnd_Ep56.mp3

You can right-click and download it if you want, or just left click and listen to it. I dont remember exactly when they start talking about BC, but its somewhere in there.

Ahhhh, that's what he meant!

In which case, fair enough. I thought he meant completely different mutations, rather than the same mutations, but with some of them having different overall effects based on what God you follow.

That was just me misunderstanding what he meant by his statement, rather than not having heard the podcast or whatnot.

I read this in the article Corruption, Infamy and Apotheosis http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=2217

The gifts of the Chaos Gods take the form of mutations, and many of these have a two tier effect. Such mutations have a primary effect, which applies to every character that gains it, and a secondary effect, which is applicable to characters dedicated to a particular Chaos God. For example, a classic Chaos mutation is the Additional Limb, the primary effect of which is to grant the Heretic the Multiples Arms Trait. If the Heretic is dedicated to Khorne, the new limb bristles with bony spines, granting attacks made with it the Tearing quality. If he is dedicated to Slaanesh, the limb is so lithe and dextrous in its movements that its attacks are carried out at +10 to the character’s Weapon Skill. If the Heretic is dedicated to Nurgle, the limb oozes necrotic slime, which grants its attacks the Toxic (1) quality. A character dedicated to Tzeentch is gifted with a limb that darts and writhes in such an unpredictable manner that he can use it to Disarm opponents as a Free Action.

It seems that there is not specific mutations to gods as I said, but the same mutation will have different forms depending of the god. Neither mind, in many cases the same mutation would be so different in appearance, that it would be considered as distinct mutations in the setting, although being the same in the rules. I think.

It was just a confusion over semantics They are effectively the same thing, though, granted.