![]() The people of Barbarus were slow to accept this pale, gaunt stranger from the mountains, but Mortarion was given a chance to prove his worth when creatures enthralled to another warlord attacked the village. Breaking through the poisonous mists, Mortarion discovered that the prey of the warlords were in fact the same species as he, and swore to deliver them from their oppression. ![]() Mortarion, Primarch of the Death Guard Legion before the Horus Heresy wielding his massive scythe Silence and his sidearm known as The Lanternįinally, knowing he would be unable to find the answers he desired from his adoptive father, Mortarion broke out of the fortress that had been his home and prison after killing several guards stationed at the gates of the fortress, and headed for the valleys of Barbarus. However, the young primarch's questions began to turn towards subjects the Overlord did not want to talk about, namely the pitiful creatures in the valleys that the many warlords preyed upon for corpses to reanimate and bodies to warp. He trained the child, who had a highly keen intellect and voracious appetite for knowledge Mortarion learned everything from battle doctrine, to arcane secrets, from artifice to stratagem. Mortarion was kept by the High Overlord in a small tower positioned at the limit of even his superhuman tolerance to the toxins in the air, while Necare moved his own fortress to the highest peak of the world, beyond where even Mortarion could go. ![]() The High Overlord, Necare of Barbarus, took the child in with the intention of creating a son and heir, naming him Mortarion - "child of death" in the local Barbaran dialect of High Gothic. The infant primarch was screaming and wailing where a normal child would have suffocated and died long before. The primarch-child was taken in by the most powerful of the Overlords, who found him amongst the corpses of a battlefield where he had been engaged in one of the endless conflicts he fought with the other Overlords. The pre-industrial population of the world was split into two groups: the controlling warlords inhuman necromancers with fantastic Warp-derived powers, and the Human settlers, who had been trapped on the planet millennia before and were now forced to eke out an existence essentially as farmers in the poison-free valleys of the planet, fearing the wrath of the necromantic Overlords and their foul creations. When the twenty primarchs of the Space Marine Legions were scattered across the galaxy in a mysterious accident, one came to rest on the planet Barbarus, a world wreathed in poisonous fog where the most advanced technology was that of steam power. Mortarion on Barbarus before the coming of the Emperor. Warhammer 40K Darktide Review - Left To Shred He recently returned to Imperial space for the first time in ten thousand standard years when he led the forces of the Plague God in the invasion of the Realm of Ultramar during the Plague Wars. He was given command of the Death Guard Space Marine Legion on the arrival of the Emperor to his homeworld of Barbarus, but he turned to the service of Chaos during the Horus Heresy.Īt present, Mortarion is the greatest Daemon Prince of Nurgle and the Daemon Primarch of the Death Guard Chaos Space Marines. Mortarion, also known as the "Pale King," the "Death Lord" or the "Prince of Decay" after he turned to Chaos, was one of the original twenty Imperial primarchs created by the Emperor of Mankind. Mortarion, Prince of Decay, Daemon Prince of Nurgle Thus shall you spread his virulent gifts across the false Imperium, and watch its final rotting." Let it roil and squirm and churn, until you are filled with bile so poisonous that all you touch falls to ruin. Hold your bitterness deep within, and there let it fester. " Forget no insult, my sons, as I have never forgotten those of my father, of the Emperor, nor those of Horus.
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