Adeptus Ridiculous - TYPHUS: THE HERALD OF NURGLE | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: May 15, 2024

Typhus, also known as "Typhus the Traveller" and the "Herald of Nurgle," originally the Space Marine named Calas Typhon of the world of Barbarus, is the Death Guard Lord of the Death Guard Traitor Legion's 1st Plague Company, and the host of the terrible plague known as the Destroyer Hive. He is a Champion of Nurgle, a Death Guard Sorcerer and the former first captain of the Death Guard Legion. Typhus is also the most feared of all Chaos Lords to command one of the legendary Plague Fleets.That Typhus has been truly blessed by Nurgle is indisputable. When the Death Guard were adrift in the Warp during the Horus Heresy, dying from the Destroyer Plague, Calas Typhon, First Captain of the XIV Legion, absorbed the full power of the disease, becoming a vessel for this ultimate corruption. Swelling in size, his skin and armour bonded. Great pestilential funnels grew from his body, spewing forth a miasma of destruction. Calas Typhon has been transformed into Typhus, Host of the Destroyer Hive. Support the show

This Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamante's. His name is Bricky and episodes are happening. But before it does, if you enjoyed today's episode of the podcast and maybe you want to support us, head over to patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous, where you can get access to the Discord, bloopers if they happen. $15 tier gets you access to all of our posters in Krispy HD digital format. And oh, hey, Pricky, did you know there's a new poster today? Oh, no, I actually didn't. Oh, you're going to love it. This is, this is peak.

Yeah, your tone. I honestly don't even know anymore. Your tone is so off. Shai, can you show him the poster, please? I am, I have been anxiously awaiting this for like a week. What do you think about that, Bricky? I don't understand it. That's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, Katie and Valley girl, my friend.

Is there a pun? Well, that, Katie, Katie, Katie, Katie, Katie, Katie, Yeah, she's just a Cadian Like, you know, we've been We've been doing the whole Cadian Valley Girl meme Like, oh my God

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I completely forgot about the Acadian Valley Girl thing. I don't know why it just went right past my head. That's okay. Hey, it happens. I too am an idiot sometimes. This is not what I expected in the slightest. You know the monkey on a typewriter concept? Ah, yes, because eventually, if you put a monkey in a room with a typewriter,

if you have infinite time, eventually it will write. Shakespeare. Decades, dude. This would have taken me, this would have taken me decades. If you put me like Bricky on typewriter and like what poster were you going to do next, this would have actually taken me decades. You know, I don't think it would have taken you decades because I think at some point you had been like, okay, like what, what do we do last episode?

And you probably would have thought about it. And you would have thought about like what memes we did or something. And it probably would have hit you. I don't think it would have taken you. decades, days, weeks, maybe. Okay, all right, you know what, shy, I didn't even notice the black, the blackstone fortress falling in the background. I didn't either until she said it.

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So you, you, I don't want to say you embarrass yourself by not being like, oh my God, I would have never seen it. And now it's time for me to embarrass myself. I assume you have a quote that I'm going to get wrong. So let's just get it over with. Oh, crap. I, uh, actually, actually, you know what? I'll give you a, I would argue to be somewhat easy. I still don't think you're going to get it.

Not because you're stupid this case or anything, but just because, I don't know, it's specific. All right. I am kind of stupid, though. Look upon me and know that I can slay you at will. You have no defense save one to look into the darkness at the back of your own mind. There you will find Father Nergel waiting to offer you life and return for your submission. Deny him and you are mine.

Hmm. So this seems like a very Nergel-coated, uh, thing. What gave you that idea? Well, the fact that you said that Nergel is waiting, and if you deny him, you're my... Although it might not... Like, I don't know what... I'm shocked. You figured out it was

Nergel. I know. Hey, listen, man. Listen. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Knock it off. Knock it off, yo. Um, I don't know, because we've done episodes on Mortarian. We've done the death guard. We've done the Legion episodes on them.

So I don't know what from, like, Nergel is still left, aside from, like, some named character that I just don't know that maybe, like, got a new mini recently or something. Um, I am going to go with named Death Guard character

that I probably couldn't know the name of, or maybe I should know the name of, but I've forgotten his name. And he just got some really cool lore drop or mini or something that I didn't hear. about. What, what name, do you even know of any named deathguard characters? Uh, besides typhus and like mortarian?

No. I don't. Okay. So you don't think the episode is about typhus or mortarian? I, well, I guess we never did do an episode on typhus, but like we covered him in the death guard episode. All right. So I'm giving you a final answer.

Is it new named character or is it typhus? Um, uh, I. The smoke. The smoke is coming out of my ears. New named character. Final answer. You lose. It's typhus.

Damn it! No! You lose how much money did you bet? I bet all of it, Alex. I knew it. I knew it. You're a loser. Luser.

You feel sorry for yourself? Because you are dirt. I was right there. I needed to cut. A bottle? A big dirt bottle? I was so close. Yeah, typical, typical stuff.

Yeah, they were doing typhus. So, shy had the idea that, you know, we finished up every Primark. It took us years, but we finally did it, right? Yes, we did, Magnus, we finished him up, yep. But, I don't, you know, I mean, almost equivalent. Equivalently. Yep, that's the word. It's all right.

I have my moment. It happens. we can also do one thing, which is all of the first captains. Because the first captains are at some points equally as important as the primarks themselves. So. Amen. Aramon. So because of that, we are going to go ahead and start working through some of the first captains at points in intervals and do some character episodes on them.

Okay. And starting off, I thought we would do one on like the one that's easy, which is typhus. Because typhus, I find him, typhus is weird. I like typhus, but I don't consider him to be a very deep character. Yeah. So all I remember about typhus from the episode we did was that he is essentially the reason that the death guard went to nerd. because he was just like, he gave in to Nurgel and he was like, hey, guys, guess what? I'm, I'm, I'm deja vuing the ship into Nergel's domain and we're all just going into it.

And then he gets, uh, he gets rewarded for doing it and he gets like the, the nest on his back and he gets like that cool mini. He gets a beer belly and he gets a scythe. He gets a beer belly and, okay, well, they all have sides. That's true. Mortarians got a scyth to, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. But, I mean, for the most part, you got it. I'd say that, you know, just generally, typhus doesn't have the most, I mean, this could be a, this could be a me thing.

You know, perhaps there's a book that's just like, this is the greatest typhus book ever. You'll understand typhus perfectly. But from what I've read on typhus from the classic Adeptus ridiculous, classic scouring, which is, you know, very light of. amounts. Typhus is, he's a pretty, I don't know, maybe a bit of a simple guy. He's not, you know, the greatest of individuals and his fall, so to speak, is not particularly like, oh, it's so sad and different. Like, no, he's kind of just a bit of a shitter. He'd fit in with the podcast. Great. He'd fit in with all of us real well. He would. And not just that, but also, you know, it makes him very apt for who he is, you know,

because he's a shitter. Literally. He do the poopie. Yeah, and he probably just sits in it. Like, his armor is probably full of this rank liquid that is probably worse than human feces because he's Nergel. Like, his, his armor is probably filled with like, you know, liquid rotting flesh, disease, vomit, puke, piss, shit, and cum. I mean, the last one. Probably.

Someone, someone, someone asked something. This is a very important question, Bricky. Uh, does, um, does good old come? Is that a Nurgel or a Slanesh based issue? Ah, it is not mutually exclusive, I feel like is the answer to that one. It's chaos. I hate how much. Human semen is not mutually exclusive.

I despise how much that like you couldn't get a single one of the Legion identifiers, but when it comes to the classification of cum, that is absolutely the correct answer. You have done it. You win. And I'm just, I'm really mad about this. That is so, you could not, you coded. I was about to say, you could not get more like DK pilled or DK coded than, I don't know what number of the legions are, but if you ask me the classification of where come should be for the chaos gods, I could totally write a dissertation on it. This is the worst. All right. Anywho, moving past this, Typhus,

Typhus, also known as callous typhon. Good old typhus is part of the Which Legion, DK? Obviously, it's the death guard. Yeah, what number is that? Seventh Legion. I'm actually going to throw you off a bridge. 14th Legion.

All right, all right, you get half. I knew it was either the 14th Legion or the 7th, Because I was like, oh, no, that's the one where he's like, oh, what's half of 14? And I was like, wait, was the half for the death guard or was the 14 for the death guard? We did this a week ago, my lord. Damn it, Bricky, ask me about come again. No. All right, so Typhon, callous, so his name is not Typhus originally.

His name is Callis Typhon. He was born on the home world of, what's the home world of the death guard, D.K. this might feel like it's a pretty it's a pretty strong name i like i don't think you're i don't think you're gonna get it but planet death of course no it's what they guard it's a barbarous oh that's that's fitting name for that for them barbarous that's that's one of the home worlds that i thought you would remember just because the name is so like i don't know it's it's very visceral barbarous it is viscer it kind of sounds like it's from an anime too honestly like the planet barbarous swim barbarus

So he's from Barbaris. And unfortunately for Typhus, he was born as known as a half breed. If you remember just a quick, you're not going to remember this one. So as a quick reminder for everyone, Barbaris was a horrible plague planet for the most part. Not as bad as the actual plague planet called the plague planet, but it had a lot of very toxic areas and problems. And it was ruled by a ruling class of necromancer cykers that. enslave the population. And they lived on a big mountain, right?

And you couldn't get up to them because it's covered in like, uh, uh, horribly polluted clouds that will literally kill you and big mortarian problems. You, you remember that. Holy hell.

Yeah, absolutely. Um, yeah, because the higher up you go, the worse the toxins become. And so that whole deal. So typhus was born a half breed because one of the overlords took a liking to,

liking to a human lady. You know, we love that stuff. Yeah. And so Typhus was then born this way, which is why Typhus is a psycher. Now, his mother was subsequently drowned by the village people for being an awful, you know, a witch or not really a witch, but like banging the necromancer. They don't like that stuff. Oh, okay. I thought you were going to be like, oh, yeah, there's, this is 40K Salem witch trials.

I was like, yeah, in the world of 40K, that tracks. I'm surprised every planet hasn't had some sort of psych or witch hunt where they, you know, oh, we're going to put you in the water. And if you drown, well, sorry, we'll, in death, we'll sell everyone that you weren't a witch. But, you know, if you float, well, we were right. I mean, they probably did do that stuff. But regardless, they drowned, they drowned his mom. But they didn't kill him because he was just, you know, just like a baby.

It's like, baby didn't do anything wrong. They have standards, of course. innocent woman is perfectly fine to drown, but the baby, come on. So typhus had your, you're pretty standard, weird, genius kid, I don't know, phenotype type growing up. Because he was a psych. Oh, no, this is, yeah, this is not a Primark episode. I don't know why my brain was like, oh, yeah, we're doing a Primark episode. Of course, this is, this Typhus, not Mortarian.

All right, all right. Well, Shai, you are correct. His mom didn't do anything wrong either. but if I'm not mistaken, aren't there certain religions that are still around where like if you are sexually assaulted in some way, the woman is held as like still like a horror and then like stoned and stuff like that? Like I think that still happens in some plate. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Not to open this can of worms, but yeah, unfortunately. We can move past that political commentary. Yeah. Typhus, regardless, grew up with the issues of keeping his cyker stuff under wraps. He would very often at night kind of freak out, wake up in a sweat with like things moving around the room, almost like a little poltergeisty type stuff. And for a long time,

his main goal as a kid was to learn how to suppress these powers, not show like kid genius or whatever, but really keep this stuff under wraps because if he didn't, well, the, you know, various other clans are not going to take great heat of that. He's probably going to get killed. Probably going to get killed. In an awful way.

So he kind of, you know, really pushed himself, had that like that pure will, personal will and stamina. And it was able to like go through his difficult childhood, suppress his psychic potential, really going to hold himself down for all those reasons. Which is really good because eventually Mortarian, once he realized what stuff that was going on and killed a lot of his captors, went to go free the people. of barbarous and creating the little militia known as the Death Guard, as we are aware of. When the emperor arrived and then stole the Mortarians' kill, which got him only a 10-kill streak, not giving him an AC-130 gunship. He was very, very upset by this because he only needed about 20 more kills before he got the brand-new golden title, calling card, Mono Warfare 2, double golden skull.

icon and he let that brood for years to come. That was, you know how like your brain goes numb when I make an anime reference and you don't quite get it? And it's just like, that's an anime reference, isn't it? That's, that's me right now. My brain is just like, I know that's some sort of military shooter thing,

but I, my gray matter is very dead right now. So, it's fine. Fine. I understand. Like I said, it's like when I make an anime reference, I'm like, I get it. I get it. That was a Mono Warfare 2 reference. And even that, it was a very hyper-specific one. So it's honestly fine. It's like how, it's like I've always said, I'm cursed with the worst party trick imaginable, which is name any year.

And I can tell you which call of duty came out that year. 1994 Actually I don't know if any cods came out back then I can I can I can do 2007 to now Wow Anyway Anyway doesn't really matter This is a weird party trick

I know I know I just I don't know man This is my my flaw This is your life But anywho So naturally Mortarian did what Mortarian does He liberated the planet Emperor came the team kill

or not, uh, soul's killed, the usual. And they went up and good old typhus was able to basically join the ranks of the death guard as a space marine. He got all of the upgrades that space marines normally get. And for the most part,

even though he was a psycher, Mortarian and him became pretty, pretty good friends. Um, he was the first captain. Yep. Yeah, first captain were really chill with each other.

Things were really good. Uh, he really embodied. a lot of the aspects of the death guard, being the horrifically determined stoic warrior that would shrug off basically any wounds that would kill any other space marine. He also did look really cool.

Oh shit. Yeah, he did. I mean, any armor in black and gold is very cool. Like, that's a great color scheme. But damn, let's go, Typhus. Yeah, but when you're black and gold in cataphracti Terminator armor with a giant sice,

it's just like that. It's just cool, man. It hits a little harder, yeah. That's so awesome. But Typhus, of course, embodied all of the major parts of the death guard. He was really stoic, really tanky, was able to just be kind of way through battle without issues. One time, he actually jumped on a crack grenade to save a group of sisters of silence, which

is kind of funny considering how much she probably hates them. Yeah, and how much they probably hate him, too. But it took him just a week in the medical facility before he just got out. Crack grenades are what you throw it to throw at tanks. Oh, so I was literally about to ask you like what type of grenade is a crack grenade? Because like, you know, they're incendiary grenades, their impact grenades. That's a tank busting grenade that he just jumped on. So normally there's a couple grenades.

There's like fraggernaids, which are obviously fragmentation. fragment, yeah. You've got melta grenades, melta mines, which are obvious. But often crack grenades are used for destroying really, like, it's smaller blast radius, but for really heavily armored targets. Yeah, because the dude like literally jumped on it. And was, and like after a week, he's like, back to service. Because the death guard, they're tanky as hell, right?

Fair. I guess you would want to use a crack grenade on a tanky guy, huh? This crack grenade got me moving like a, Claymation figure. I can't say my favorite Dracula flow lines. I don't want to kill. The worms!

The worms! The flies. I hate that that's infiltrated my brain. You finally hit me with like a zoomer meme that's like affecting me. Death guard be like, the flies, the flies. They're back. Anyway, typhus. Typhus.

After a week after getting crack-renated, he's back. So Typhus, you know, he went through all of his campaigns, did the usual kind of stuff that Typhus did. But for the most part, one of the issues that Typhus really felt was that he was being heavily suppressed as an individual, much like he was back on Barbarus. Psychic potential, especially with the Primark Mortarian who hates psychers, just despises them, is not something that he's able to openly.

practice. It makes him feel like considering that he's a half breed, everyone doesn't really like him very much. They don't really like, want him around. And not only all of those things, but, you know, like when you go from the horrible higher ups on Barbaris and then your next person you're underneath is the emperor of mankind, you're kind of just trading one villain for another, you know? Yeah, you really are. I was going to say, like, does it, I guess it wouldn't get any better for him being a psycher. He still has to hide it. And so, like, he's going to have a lot of resentment towards, like, everybody.

Like, maybe he still likes his chapter, but it's like, oh, I still feel like a, like a second-class citizen. I still feel like, you know, nobody accepts me. And, I mean, it's starting to make sense why he would deja vu into Nurgle for a little, like, hey, I finally belong. Yeah, I mean, it's, I don't know, he just basically, like, felt, especially. especially as the Great Crusade wound on, that Mortarian and the like was just under another tyrant. And Mortarian felt this way too. You know, we have our issues with how Mortarian turned

and his personal reasonings for everything he did. But for the most part, Mortarian basically just, you know, felt like he was under the thumb of another tyrant. And he was. And especially Typhus, almost even more so, because even Mortarian hated his psychers. And while Mortarian was like, chill with typhus, like, hey, man, you know, keep that shit under wraps. Mm-hmm.

Still. Yeah, that's still a part of me. And you're still like, oh, these people are shit, but I'll make an exception for you, Typhus. It's like, you're still telling everyone you hate what I am. Like, that still sucks for me, dude. Yeah, it's not cool. It's not cool at all. So, being a bro.

What happens to Typhus in this case? and then like Oh, shyway's an interesting point To be fair, Morty was one of our first Powering discussions People tell us often that we misrepresent The nuance of his fall So maybe we should revisit him at some point

Great, that is true That was like their first three months Of starting this podcast So perhaps maybe there's a It's worth revisiting at some point Sure, that's something we can do If you know, revisit old episodes And see, you know, what we can revise

And rekindle Rekindle So Regardless, though, all of these reasons aside, Callas Typhon was then on a crusade with the word bearers Legion and was approached by an individual of the word bearers Legion, the first chaplain starts with an E. Can you take a guess? No.

I didn't think so. No. Fuck him. No. Good old Arabis inducted Typhon into the seven-pillar Lodge, seven of course. one of the many warrior lodges that spread throughout the legions and slowly corrupted all of them towards the side of chaos. Typhon with his psychic ability was able to kind of visualize what they could possibly be if they got rid of the emperor's ambitions and his more Puritan approach to, you know, the Great Crusades War and his hatred, well, not hatred, but his suppression of, psychers.

Sure. And Typhon must have been such an easy target. Like, Erebus must have just been like, oh yeah, this one, I got it in the bag. It is not going to take a whole lot. All you need is a little push. And like, he's yours. And he's going to go to chaos. And honestly, he probably feels the same way about Mortarian to a degree, right?

If he's like, oh, yeah, once I get Typhus, getting more tarian is going to be like, boop, easy. So it's interesting because that's one of the things. where I was like, you know, Typhus just really wanted to stop being pushed down. And so I don't think it was necessarily one. Like on one hand, I think, damn, Typhus got corrupted quick. But on the other hand, Typhus did just need that little push because he was just really sick. Like, hey, I came from a place of complete slavery and all this awful stuff.

And hey, Arabis, you want to talk about how we can stop being slaves again under the emperor, which we're doing again. I just want to be out and free. Yeah. And I guess the, I mean, I guess you would argue the exact same thing was kind of the concept when it came to the world eaters.

I mean, Anger... Oh, for sure. Minus the fact that Angron had those goddamn nails in his brain. Man, Angron would be so... Like, I would just love to see, even if it was just a side book of a parallel world

where like Engron was actually free of the butcher's nails. Like, just as like a parallel. sort of like marvels what if like what if angron got the nails removed like how crazy different he would be like I don't know why but lately I just

I want to see Angron like at peace and if he even could be at peace after all his shit anyway sorry this isn't an Angron episode I know I mean I'm genuinely curious in my own right whether that's even a thing that's possible but it's not necessarily

not necessarily important yeah um regardless typhon type typhus whatever uh he moved on with this warrior lodge with arabis and was pretty like he kind of joined relatively well you know he fit in pretty well along with all the other people of the lodges and was pretty stoked to be like yeah no way i'm tired of big e's whole shenanigans and that's one of the reasons i think why mortarian was so easily convinced it wasn't really because oh yeah Well, it clearly was not because, oh, yeah, chaos. It was because, oh, yeah, Horace.

Horace is a way, way, way better person to work under than the emperor. Emperor is a tyrant. Warmaster Horace, he's chill. He cares. He gets me, man. He gets me. Yeah. Didn't take much.

I mean, you know. And like for Typhus, finally being able to just, like, be himself, like he's always wanted to be is like, man. that's all you had to do. That's all you had to offer him, right? To be who he wanted to be? Yeah, he could be himself for a change. He didn't have to suppress anything.

He didn't really have to, you know, hide his psychardom. Like, he could just exist. Yeah. It allowed him to be himself and be free. And free, I think, is the big phrase for it. Yeah. In 40K, so rarely do you get, like, actual freedom? Like, that is a, that's a, that's a, that's a,

as like almost an unknowable thing in 40K. That's true. There is a point that Shai makes, which is add to the line of shit bosses. Necromaster masters on Typhus's planet was an asshole. The emperor was an asshole. And Mortarian was also really a huge asshole who hated what Typhus was.

Even if he was nice to Typhus, he still hated what he was. Yeah. He, yeah, Typhus never really got a good leader that really was, you know, until the big swerve. So speaking of the big swerve, of course, they started going through the classic Horacee heresy stuff. They had the Istvon 3 atrocity, which was the virus bombing of all of the loyalist Marines sent down below.

There was a major spooky little situation in which Nathaniel Garrow, famous Deathguard, had found a way to escape from the Isfon 3 atrocity in the very popular book, flight of the Eisenstein and Typhus was sent to go and intercept him with his big terminus S ship wasn't able to got there

really damaged the ship, got really close but eventually Garo was able to escape and then warn Dorn who then promptly attempted to kill him. I was gonna say he promptly escaped

and then Dorn just absolutely slapped him into next millennium. Like he slaps that fool into like the next century Like there's new civilizations popping up when he wakes up from that slab. Good old, good old like, hey, Dorn, how's it going, man? It's like, why do you speak to me ever at all?

Get on your knees and die. It's like, oh, okay, Dorn. Thanks for that. Yeah, by the way, Horace is a traitor. You bitch! You bitch murders. Yep, absolutely slaughters. But, of course, so he isn't quite able to stop Nathaniel.

Garrow from getting away, which is very unfortunate for Typhus himself. But then all the other great stuff happen. You get the lovely other Isvon. Oh, I actually don't think the Death Guard were part of the Isvon 5 Massacre. Were they? Istvon

5 Drop site massacre. I don't think. Oh, no, Death Guard were there. Okay. Oh, yeah. I was going to say, I definitely don't remember. No, no, I forgot that the Death Guard were there. But the Deathguard were not the ones that turned on people. They were like, oh, they've already turned traitor.

They were not the word bearers and the Iron Warriors and the Alpha Legion who then revealed themselves to be the problem. Right, right, right, right. Okay. That was my mistake. Yeah, no, I got that totally backwards. I forgot. Yes, thank you for reminding me shy. Typhus was actually a huge part of the drop site massacre.

He helped orchestrate it. I forgot that because I always know about, I think it's the emperor's children, iron warriors. Oh, what's the night lords? Sure. I forget, wow, I forget which. So I have the, I know the list of people who are there, but I forget which ones were the ones that were considered already traitors and were sent to go, quote, deal with them. And which ones were the ones that pretended to be loyalist and then became traitors? and then turned around.

Yeah, see, this is how I feel when thinking about the numbers. Like, I know all the stuff. I just, you know, you literally can't remember the numbers of the legions. This is a much, this is a little bit more nuanced. It's the same thing. It is literally the same.

You know how I feel now. We understand each other better. First battle, right. So it was Horace, Angron, Mortarian, and Fulgram. Those were the four. And so it was the word bearers, iron, Warriors, night lords, and Alpha Legion. Those were the

four that turned on them, I believe. Okay. That makes more sense. That makes more sense. Because I was like, the death guard definitely did not turn around. They were definitely already there, and so I was trying to remember. So yeah, sorry. Typhus, along with all of the various members of the

Warriors lodge, Arribus and Friends. I was going to say Big E, because big Erebus, but that that might be a little bit confusing. Arabis and Friends Seems like it should be just like One of those children's

Like daytime TV shows in hell Oh, it's Arabis and Friends Buta, bu, bo, bo, bo, bo. The letter of... Today's letter is B for blood. Today's letter is B for bitch. Something like that. Today's letter is T for traitor.

Today's letter is H for heretic. Heresy. This reminds me of the, um, The funny TV programs they had in control. Oh, yeah. With the little puppets that they used and the Uncle Mr. Bounds character. Oh, right, right, right. Fair enough.

Man, I haven't played control in a hot minute. It's a while, but it's like, today's new lesson. Make sure your room isn't completely shifting or else you'll be stuck with no food for three days. Threshold Kids, I think was the name of it. It was very silly. That is definitely Arabis and friends. But, yes, so typhus and then the big Isvan 5 massacre occurred

where Ferris Manus lost his head. Vulcan was murdered 5,000 times. And the rest of them were hunted down and the big tide of the traders had turned. Yeah, Ferris was headed in the wrong direction. Yes, he was. I hate to see it. That being, that being said, after all of that, that lovely stuff,

During the heresy, Typhon led half of the death guard away from Mortarian to go and misdirect and cause problems with the Dark Angels Legion. This was also a thing to then be hounded by. We haven't talked about Coorswain. I feel like we've done a bit of a disservice to the Dark Angels fans by not talking about Coorswain because the guy's kind of a baller. But this is actually one of the interesting things. his typist was kind of in bed, and I mean, I mean, fucking, uh, with Luther. Oh, they fucking. Oh, they, oh, they, and they were roommates.

Oh, they fucking fucking. Oh, they fucking. Yeah. So he was, uh, he was with, uh, Luther for a while. Kind of helping, uh, helping him out during, you know, Luther being Luther and doing all kind of stuff. This, this is all a lot of the more specific things. Uh, what we really care about is the, as you call it, the great swerve.

The deja vuing. Yeah. Yes, yes. the drift king. Yes, yes. Today's letter is D. The day's letter is D for Drift King. That's not one word.

So at this point, right, Arabis said, The time is right, my fellow brother. You need to go do the drift. Drift the kings. You need to drift again. It's time. And so when Arabis with his classic stupid gazing,

I hate Arabis so much. Oh, fuck, Arabis. I love Arabis and I hate Arabis. Just this never-ending level of like, yes, indeed. The gods have spoken to me and it's time now. He is, I mean, he makes a great villain. Like, he is so hateable. And every piece of art of him is like, oh, he's got such a punchable face.

He always had, like, I think it's because there's a lot of, people first captains and stuff with that charcoal drawing that shy just posted him like even Garrow had his up top and the only thing really struggling on Garrow was his male pattern baldness. Yeah.

But Aribus like I think he's one of the only ones that's genuinely got that smug grin. Yeah. Like that alone sells it. Yeah that charcoal one that Shy all is supposed I'm like oh man that that dude needs to get like just he needs a power fist right to the side of his

head because oh my god somebody punched that man it's just it's so funny to me it's just I don't know it's that that's smugness to him I hate him but he told him yep time is right here it is so

because of that he went out and of course was telling Mortarian and friends that hey the 14th Fleet's Navigator was in bed with Malcador the Sijilite because they owe you they fuck it.

Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So him and his Terminators went and murdered all of the navigators and said, don't worry, dad. Don't worry. Don't worry. I have my psychic gift.

I can lead us through the warp safely and not in the hands of these betrayal ridden navigators. Uh-huh. Okay. All right. Considering that I didn't really have a choice in the matter, a mortarian allowed him to lead them into the warp and he did a skirt

scurred he hit him with that skirt scurts skirt imagining the terminus s wasn't I don't think looked the way it did at the time but him just taking these giant ships and just drifting them right into Nurgles big fat hands I mean if you're going to drift into anything of Nurgles

I don't think it's going to be his hands right what would it be It was the fold underneath his breast He lifted that shit up Drifted his ass in there And then just let it go I was like in my brain I was like man How how deep do we want to go with this

It's the he drifted into the worst The worst part of all of Nurgles domain Nurgle's garden is nothing compared to Nergles under boob Oh Oh God All right. All right. So typhus deja vu's into Nergles' underbreast, which is not a sentence I ever thought I would say. But what happens next? Well, listen, what's worse? Dejavooing into Nurgel's underbreast or deja vuing into one of the various pores of the Slanesh-sized planet man?

Oh! There's not much better on those ones. Honestly, I think Nergel's going to be worse because that, I mean, it's literally, you know, chaos god. Yeah. It is Nergel. That's fair. So I think Nergel is always going to be worse. But the, the planet-sized orifices is not great either. Well, anywhoe.

He deja vu directly in there. And unfortunately for the death guard, this is one of the fascinating and unfortunate situations where they're so tanky. They're very resistant to disease. They're very resistant to this kind of stuff because of they're growing up on barbarous and of course, Mortarians' genes seem. So what happens when you're constantly dying and rotting, but not actually able to die?

Right. Is this, I'm sorry. Is this the bit where it's like they're so resilient, they can't die, but they're in Nurgles realm, so they're just suffering, they are decaying, they have disease, they are all in pain. And Nurgles, like, hey, if you just accept me, this pain's going to go away. And they're just like, um, life is pain and suffering right now.

Turning to chaos doesn't seem like such a bad idea. Let's do it. That is basically the concept. The suffering is never ending. It's constant pain and just pure, unending torments because they're so resilient. Yeah. Their tankiness is definitely not a good thing in this Nergel realm. No, don't worry shy. I'm getting to that. But over-arckingly, if they were any weaker of individuals, it probably would have actually just killed them off.

But because they can't, each one of them individually swore or, you know, were forced to swear their souls to Nurgel to put an end to their immense, immense plague suffering. God, imagine being so tanky, even being in Nergel's domain won't kill you. That's crazy to think about, actually. I mean, I'm almost positive that Nergel probably found his own way to be like, well, I'll hold back a little. I mean, he's Nergel. I mean, it's the guy. He is Nergel. And honestly, in his head, he was probably like, this is going to be a good bargaining chip because, like, I want these guys.

Like, these are the boys that I want. So, like, you know, maybe ease off the throttle a little. But still, make him beg for it. But only a little. Only a little. Make him beg for it. So, you know, everyone here having their bad times. Mortarian, pissed.

Ulius. Should not surprise you. No. Mad as hell, as they say. Not loving this. There was a bee in his bonnet. He goes up to Typhus and he's like, what the hell? And Typhus immediately just backtalks him.

He's just like, sucks that you don't understand the power of Nergel. This is the best thing ever. I'm the herald of his stuff. You're not as good as me. Yaba, yababababab. And so Margarian naturally fucking murders him. Yeah. And just immediately, well, it takes him actually apparently a couple of tries because

psychic power on typhus, but kills typhus straight up. But Nergel. He's got his own ideas. and so Typhus is not quite dead. So Mortarians like, all right, you know what? You're going to do this like this? All right, Mr. Demon Prince, Ignatius Grulgor who's in the warp. This guy of mine I really, really hate, but is also extremely pissed off at Typhus because

Typhus killed him. Sick him. He sick this disgusting grulgor, demon prince slash commander. of the death guard. I think second company was he? Yeah, second company. On him and had him strangle Types' remaining life

out of him. Wow. I thought it was just going to be like, oh, you want to keep coming back to life? I could do this all day. I could do this for all eternity, buddy. Bring it on. Come on. Get back up. I'm ready. I'm well-rested. I'm a primark. I do this all day long,

brother. more so he fulfilled kind of like this pact of like well you wanted a revenge to kill him and yada yada but of course this was actually a giant ploy and as the gigantic buzzards and destroyer plague hive flies lots of words there entered into the room and literally ate the demon dude alive uh the demon dude was like get shit on mortarian this was what i was hoping for for all along. And his essence entered the dead typhus. And so did all the flies.

Ah, that's how he gets the nest on his back. And from all the flies, those horrible things. God, I hate those things. Oh, geez. I mean, I don't know what I was expecting. Like, when you said all of the flies, I was like, oh, you know, it's just like, you know, this cloud of black where it's like a couple flies is no big deal. but when it's a cloud of black flies,

it's very gross, but these things are terrible. So it's also incredibly awful when you realize just how big they are. So for example, here is an image of typhus making Tows day very bad. And then you look at the bugs

and they're like the size of your head. Oh my God. That's the, those, wow. Yeah. I mean, there are various size. of these flies. But those are the size of the flies that like he could, he,

he just gets like a swarm of. Well, you can see there's also some smaller versions of it, but they're probably like the queen flies, the big flies, the small flies, the medium flies. They're just huge. That's horrifying.

That one has landed on that Tao's head, and it is like the size of his face. Actually, what was really cool is you can see the Tao's armor literally rusting in, in time. Oh my God, it is. Yeah, you can see it like breaking away at the very back part.

Oh, my, that's, that is great deathguard art. We can just ignore more Tarian on the left-hand side too, you know, is this fine. Oh my God, I didn't even know Mortarian was there. I thought that was just like part of the structure in the background. I didn't even realize he was in the picture. All right. Typhus is wacky because, you know, like, yeah, they have these giant flies on his back. but also then you get art like this and the flies are actually a black cloud.

I think it's all warped shenanigans anyway. How big the flies want to be is just whenever, you know? Yeah. Both variations look great though, to be fair. It almost doesn't matter because both are just so sick, literally, I guess. Yeah, yeah, it is very sick, nasty, yeah. So typhus here gets literally filled to the brim inside out, having his insights eaten by all these flies. And this is when he creates his giant transformation. He swells and gets all

thick and swole and gets that big beer belly, all the giant cloud stacks of bone protrusions out of his back for the flies. It's the big horn, etc., etc. So is typhus at this point just an empty vessel full of like chaos flies, essentially? Like he's just bloated with flies? That's kind of the concept. I don't know if you like, if you like killed typhus would he just be hollow? Probably not because it's warpshit. Yeah, that's true. The logistics of it don't really matter.

It's just kind of a cool idea that he's like, it's sort of like the uge-buggy-man from Nightmare Before Christmas where like, you know, he's a big bag, he's a big bone daddy. And then like once you pull the string, it's just bugs in there and then they all just fall out. That's kind of a cool idea.

It's kind of a cool concept. I kind of dig that actually. Actually, it's not a bad way to put it. Probably, yeah. Yeah, that's cool. I like that. I was a huge nightmare before Christmas fan, so if I can make any ties to that movie,

I am in, brother. Would you like to read this thing that's shy posted? I would love to. The Destroyer Plague is a disease conjured by Nurgle, the chaos god of decay. That's me, of decay. It takes the form of warp spawn flies that infest every orifice of the body.

and lay their eggs in their hapless victims. The victim's abdomens become bloated until they finally burst, unleashing another wave of plague flies to spread the contagion once more. When flies spread throughout the Deathguard fleet, bursting the guts of the space marine typhon on the bridge of his flagship, Terminus S, was the first to stir. He came uncertainly to his feet and spoke only one flam-laced word. more

Ew With that word The flies left their host Broken and bloated And entered Typhon's body Like a wave Surprisingly he remained on his feet But was now a hive of pestilence

He is now known as Typhus Herald of Nergel And host of the Destroyer Hive Ooh that's so cool I dig it I dig it It's good stuff And it really shows off

Typhus's just new level. Oh yeah. That his first words after standing up was just like more. Is that all you got in here, no bell? Like, nice. Nice. Which rather fascinating about Typhus is that from here on out, obviously, Mortarian had no choice. This is what, in a way, it's all very, it's all very hypocritical, but also all very ironic.

Mortarian didn't want to serve the emperor anymore because he felt like it the same in barbarous. Now he serves arguably a deity that is even less caring for him and can basically just consume his essence at any point in time because that's what the chaos gods basically can do when you are there subservient. But Nergel doesn't, I remember if he doesn't necessarily like Mortarian, but for the most part, Mortarian really still doesn't much. love Nurgel at times, even though he's what he is right now. Oritarian spends a lot of his time brooding in his brand new recreation of barbarous plague planet in the warp and just generally being upset. But typhus is like the biggest suckup. Oh, I'm sure typhus is like, I don't want to say madly in love with Nergel, but he must

love what he is now. He must adore the fact that he gave in to all of this. and that he is the host of the destroyer hive. He's like, I am, I am, I am finally free. Suck a fat one, Mortarian. This is my big dub. He is so stoked about what he is now. He grabs that flagship of his, the terminus S,

which I always have to show you the picture of it because it's the worst thing of, I've ever seen. It's like flying decay and skin and, blah. And so, he. It's so great. It's so. Nurgel coded. That's the only kind of ship you could have is the flagship of the deathguard. Yeah, well, at least the flagship of, uh, for, for Typhus.

For Typhus, yeah, yeah. And so he, Typhus goes out and he's like, just having a fantastic time. He's studying all the different plagues and different fauna and things to make new plagues in the garden of Nergel. He's gone to actually hundreds of planets and just brought them pure despair and Nergel's rot. And he's come with brand new diseases. And he's murdered a whole hell. of a lot of Imperials. And he has a great time. And much like Carn with corn, like he puts,

he has a work ethic, man. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure Nergel loves him. He's like, I, man, you work so hard.

My little, my little baby boy. I'm so proud of you. My little baby boy. My little baby boy. I love him so much. My little destroyer hive is such a good boy. Also,

is the terminus asked the one that, like, I don't remember what story we were talking about or maybe if it was in a book or something or is this the one where if it even so much as flies past your planet, the populace is going to go fucking insane and just start going raving and whatever and start turning into poxwalkers and stuff? Oh, maybe. Honestly, I don't even remember that part. If you told me that, though, I would believe you immediately. I don't remember what, and I might be misremembering it also. I might be thinking of a completely

different faction, but I could have sworn there was some, it was either a short story or a poem or something like that, where the terminus S just flew by and the populace was just like, ah, the worms! And just my pox, the worms, the worms! And yeah, but I mean, that does sound like a very deathguard-coded thing to have happen. And it's chaos warp chicanery, so sure, why not? Is chicanery a word, or is that just you being weird? I think that's just me being weird. Okay. It's like shenanigans mixed with something else. Yeah. I feel like I heard someone else make it up and use it and I just kind of stole it.

And now I'm pretending like it's my own quirky little word. That's fair enough. I can understand that. But yeah, now Typhus's whole schick. Now he has a lot of stuff in the Dark Imperium books, which is the more recent stuff with Mortarian and Gillamim. He talks back to Mortarian kind of all the time. He's constantly like, Morty, you suck. You're bad at your job. I'm better at your job.

Nergel loves me more. And he thinks you suck because you're this annoying asshole. But because at the same time, yeah, Mortarian basically is the same guy he hated back in the day. You know, he's sitting. Right. Shai beat me to it. He's sitting in a poisonous planet at the top of a tower like all of his other, all of his other master's dim. He's robbed of all of his agency.

Again, meanwhile, typhus is. is literally a free man. He can do whatever he wants and he's really good at it and he loves Nergel. Typhus in a way was the one who won. Oh yeah. This is like as far as this

death guard story is concerned. Typhus is the winner. Period. End of story. Mortarian lost again. Also like in the death guard hierarchy like are they more, I would assume they're more inclined to listen to Typhus, right? because Mortarian is kind of just a brooding little baby, and Typhus is just kind of like always out doing his thing

and doing the Nergel thing and conquering stuff and just being the destroyer hive. So like, is Mortarian even seen as like the quote unquote commander of the death guard? Like he's still a prime mark, so you don't want to mess with him, but like, is he like respected, like, at all? I mean, at a point, you have to have, like, at the end, the day he is still dad. Yeah, I mean, he's still a prime mark and dad.

At a point, at a point, like, you're going to go back to dad if dad calls you. But yeah, like the two of them work together very begrudgingly. And sure, Typhus might sometimes command more forces than Mortarian commands. But like, if Mortarian goes and tells some Plague Marines to do something, even if they're under typhus, they're going to do it. It's Mortarian. True. It's him.

Yeah. He is him. 100% Himalayan. I must say, well, one, I'm glad the brain rot has arrived. I cannot get rid of it, dude. I must say, there's a lot of Deathguard art out there, and they go pretty often to the classic, you know, stinky death guard stuff, but I, G.W. would never listen to us, but if they ever, do, please keep making this artwork that you've been doing. I am so much a fan of the

horrendous like diesel punk-ish plague fairy men like creepy fisherman's town vibe we got going on here. Oh my God, that's so cool.

I love the like rusted armor and there's just like all the stuff hanging off of it. That is great. And that's like it's so different from any other like depiction of like a space marine or a Chaos Space Marine, because even Chaos Space Marine still have kind of that, like, the mask kind of looks

the same. It's a little distorted, but this is just like a completely different vibe. And I, I kind of love that. I really like, like the second photo I really like too. It looks good. It's not quite the same, but it still has that a little bit of that. Yeah, yeah. But then there's like this one here, which is just, it's so, it's so unique as a concept, this much more brown. Uh, yeah, rotting. The pox walkers in this photo are, are genuinely horrendous. Is this like, reloading his bolter? Yeah, is this from like a codex or something?

Because this is like, this slaps. Yeah, this is from a codex. Uh, I don't remember which codex, but it's, it's such a great depiction. And I think if I were to ever actually make a death guard army, I probably paint them in that, like, grungy, grayish color with like this kind of copper. trim instead of the green because I just like it a lot. Yeah, use a lot of that orange corrosive technical paint, right?

Yeah, stuff like that. Or like copper. I don't know. I'm a huge fan of this styled and it adds such a visceral look to it all. Yeah. If they made the mini look like that too,

that would be a huge hit where like, because even like the backpack is kind of steamy and rusty and the helmet's a little bit different and oh man, that's, I will agree with you. They should do more of that. I, I 100% concur.

You have my concurrence. As for, just because we're, you know, we're about an hour in, but just for the quick final little bit, the typist on the tabletop, great miniature. I've heard that, yep. Looks absolutely fantastic.

It looks great. You can see like the little flies on the side. You get some nergle, like a nergling on the stomach. Very fun. On the tabletop himself, he's pretty cool. If you, if you put him into a unit, it gives them minus one to hit because he's got a giant swarm of flies blocking his advance. But he has the ability called the Eder Plague, which has him pick an enemy unit and do a bunch of damage to them from all of his bugs. I particularly enjoy the fact that if you run him with a big squad of Poxwalkers, Poxwalkers have a special ability where when they kill other models,

you add poxwalkers back to your unit because they're turning them into zombies. But they have a very special rule where if typhus is leading them, things that are killed by his eater plague also count as other pox walkers being revitalized. And I was like, that's neat. That's a fun idea, right?

Yeah. Also, why did I, I thought he had a different mini than that and not like the pre-heresy one. I thought he had like an upgraded mini at some point. Not that is his upgrade, mini Oh, okay I mean, it's still good looking

But for some reason That's not what I was expecting Oh yeah, that's good old Typhus He's a... Okay He's a guy Yeah, I'm not Yeah, I don't know what I was expecting

All right, well cool He is very fun Typhus Typhus is a bit simple For me at times A bit of a simple individual He's a simp But yeah for Nurgle

But he's a You know, if you're just like Hey, here's a guy Who didn't want to be a slave anymore and he went to chaos so that he could be free which is a bit ironic because you'll never be free if you're a part of a chaos group

but more free than under the Imperium well it depends on your definition of freedom his soul is net will never be free no well that yeah that's true but uh like you know if you were expecting some kind of grandiose uh

met like psychological story like with major moral decisions and stuff Like you're not going to get that with the type of story. But if you just want someone who, like, I forged my own destiny, I made like my choices and I am now rewarded for them. It's pretty good. Yeah. He knew what he wanted and he took it.

Yeah. So like that part I enjoy. I guess there's like not a lot of like nuance, I suppose. Yeah. It's a simple story, but a good one. It's a good one. If you were like, you know what? He got what he always wanted.

He's no longer under any real thing. thumb, once you refer to the chunky thumb of a... Yeah, the big disgusting bloated thumb of Nurgel. Yeah. It's good stuff. It's good stuff. I like, I like him. I like Typhus. Good for him. Cool mini, cool story. The worms. The worms. The worms. I don't want to kill. I don't want to kill. I have to. No, the worms.