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    Warhammer - Nurgle

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    A commission done for antcow about warhammer character: Nurgle, hope you like it dudes :) (Smile)

    was done in a livestream at the beginning of the year or so. maybe you was there :) (Smile)

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    Nurgle is one of the four major Ruinous Powers. He is titled the Great Lord of Decay and represents morbidity, disease and physical corruption. Of the four Gods of Chaos he is said to be the most involved with the plight of mortals. Those afflicted by his contagions often turn to him in order to escape their suffering. The physical likeness of Nurgle is described as gigantic and bloated with corruption, with foul-coloured leathery and necrotic skin.

    Nurgle is also the Lord of All, because all things, no matter how solid and permanent they seem, are liable to physical corruption:

    "Indeed, the very process of construction and creation foreshadow destruction and decay. The palace of today is tomorrow's ruin, the maiden of the morning is the crone of the night, and the hope of a moment is but the foundation stone of everlasting regret."1

    All gods are embodiments of the hopes, fears and other strong emotions and concepts generated by the mortal races. In Nurgle's case, the source of power is the livings' fear of inevitable death and disease, and their unconscious response to that fear, which is the "power of life", the motivating power of mankind and other races.

    Nurgle and his daemons, in contrast to their putrid appearance, are jovial and friendly in demeanor. His daemon servants and mortal followers usually demonstrate a disturbing joviality and joy at the pestilence that he inflicts, seeing the plagues as gifts and the cries of their victims as gratitude rather than agony. This is demonstrated on the Daemon World of Bubonicus, where an endless chain of crazed revellers circle the planet's equator in a never ending dance. He is often referred to as Grandfather Nurgle, Father Nurgle or Papa Nurgle by his followers because of his paternal nature.

    Nurgle's main enemy is Tzeentch, the Lord of Change, because their power comes from opposing sources. Tzeentch is hope and ambition, while Nurgle is defiance born of despair and hopelessness.

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    Sonderling said:
    THAT is his attempt at Nurgle? Genzo's a fine artist, but he doesn't know diddly dickwizards about the fluff.

    Keep in mind that the chaos gods often take several different forms, and are by their very nature likely to change appearance every now and then. But yeah, this really doesn't look like the bloated, maggot-filled fatherly god that offers his followers an eternal life without pain in exchange for using their bodies as hosts for his horrifying plagues and diseases. It's kind of weird that a god that is largely about unnatural toughness and a release from pain would wear armour, for example.

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    See? I knew from the outset that this Genzo's Nurgle won't be a bloated disgusting zombie.

    Sonderling said:
    THAT is his attempt at Nurgle? Genzo's a fine artist, but he doesn't know diddly dickwizards about the fluff.

    Well, he had Slaanesh down pat, and his Tzeentch isn't all that bad. I agree that he missed Nurgle by 354234 MOA, but we'll just have to see his Khorne. He can't miss that; if he missed i won't call him Genzo again.

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    Astana said:
    See? I knew from the outset that this Genzo's Nurgle won't be a bloated disgusting zombie.

    Well, he had Slaanesh down pat, and his Tzeentch isn't all that bad. I agree that he missed Nurgle by 354234 MOA, but we'll just have to see his Khorne. He can't miss that; if he missed i won't call him Genzo again.

    I disagree with the you on that. His Slaanesh didn't bear any marks associated with said god, threw snakes in there for no reason, and to me it just says "generic succubus" and not Slaanesh. Genzon's attempts MIGHT be explained as being Daemon Princes, but none of them so far say "I am Nurgle." If anything, this one loosely befits Khorne.

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    Sonderling said:
    I disagree with the you on that. His Slaanesh didn't bear any marks associated with said god, threw snakes in there for no reason, and to me it just says "generic succubus" and not Slaanesh. Genzon's attempts MIGHT be explained as being Daemon Princes, but none of them so far say "I am Nurgle." If anything, this one loosely befits Khorne.

    Though Khorne does not wear intestines around his waist, and he certainly wasn't bloody enough to be Khorne.

    I think Genzo is trying a 'when Nurgle decided to stop mucking around in his own filth, get up and lay down a smackdown' look, but that really isn't very Nurglish thing to do.

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    Mincemaker said:
    Though Khorne does not wear intestines around his waist, and he certainly wasn't bloody enough to be Khorne.

    I think Genzo is trying a 'when Nurgle decided to stop mucking around in his own filth, get up and lay down a smackdown' look, but that really isn't very Nurglish thing to do.

    he must be desperate

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    Mincemaker said:
    Though Khorne does not wear intestines around his waist, and he certainly wasn't bloody enough to be Khorne.

    I think Genzo is trying a 'when Nurgle decided to stop mucking around in his own filth, get up and lay down a smackdown' look, but that really isn't very Nurglish thing to do.

    The Nasty Imperium has been bullying and picking on Nurgle's children so long that he finally decided to stand up for them. Since his gifts weren't working fast and effective enough, as that conniving Eldar wench of his wife has secretly been whispering cures to humanity the whole time, he wasn't going to let his kids suffer like this. Therefore, he shed all his bloated, pus-filled, infection-ridden, bile-spewing skin; distributed it all to his followers, picked up his Plague Sword and went to work. He is the Grandfather, after all.
    The End.

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    Xhydralisk said:
    The Nasty Imperium has been bullying and picking on Nurgle's children so long that he finally decided to stand up for them. Since his gifts weren't working fast and effective enough, as that conniving Eldar wench of his wife has secretly been whispering cures to humanity the whole time, he wasn't going to let his kids suffer like this. Therefore, he shed all his bloated, pus-filled, infection-ridden, bile-spewing skin; distributed it all to his followers, picked up his Plague Sword and went to work. He is the Grandfather, after all.
    The End.

    So, will this be a plot for Nurgle's Wrath? Or was it God of Pestilence? Perhaps Chaos-siders?

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