"Rejoice! We bring you the bountiful gifts of Nurgle, feculent blessings of which you are singularly unworthy. Yet our master is generous and forgiving, and so for all your lack of gratitude, he will grace you with them nonetheless. Breathe deep, you throne-worshipping worms. Feel the power of a true god..."
- — Nauseous Rotbone, Plague Surgeon and personal physician to Mortarion
The Plague Surgeon Nauseous Rotbone, personal physician to the Daemon Primarch Mortarion, brings Nurgle's unholy blessings upon his foes.
Nauseous Rotbone is a Plague Surgeon of the Death Guard Traitor Legion formerly of the Sons of Sorrow vectorium who now serves as the personal physician of the Daemon Primarch Mortarion.
History[]
The name of Nauseous Rotbone is infamous throughout the Death Guard and beyond, for this accomplished Plague Surgeon is the personal physician of Mortarion himself. It is Rotbone who sees to the virulence of the plague censers borne into battle at Mortarion's feet, and the putrid feculence of the Daemon Nurgling mites that bear them. It is he that draws his primarch's Daemonic ichor with needles and grizzle-leeches for use in gruesome rituals and unclean rites. Rotbone listens to his gene-sire's embittered rants with a doctor's wry patience, and is one of the few individuals in the galaxy who Mortarion will permit to disagree with his pronouncements or challenge his plans.
Originally, Rotbone belonged to the Sons of Sorrow, a vectorium of the Legion's 7th Plague Company. Since being chosen and elevated by Mortarion -- seemingly on a whim -- he has fought alongside, and even led, forces from all the different Plague Companies.
He is the keeper of the surgical dungeons deep within Mortarion's Black Manse on the Plague Planet, wherein the Death Guard keep their stocks of tainted gene-seed, and Rotbone's assaults into realspace are most often launched to gather new samples for this genetic treasure trove, with which he delights in tinkering.
Sources[]
- Codex Heretic Astartes - Death Guard (8th Edition), pg. 35
- Codex: Death Guard (9th Edition), pg. 75