Nemeroth

Will you be joining us soon... Brother?

Nemeroth is a Chaos Terminator Sorcerer Lord of the Chaos Warband known as the Chosen of Nemeroth. He is the main villain of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine.

Overview

When Inquisitor Drogan started experimenting on Warp-based weaponry, Nemeroth took a great interest in his work. For Drogan's experiments would have helped in further combating the Imperium and his ambition into ascending into daemonhood. Nemeroth's plan was to send a daemon to possess Drogan, and then use the mysterious power source that he had to power Drogan's weapon known as the "Psychic Scourge" (which would allow the creation of a Warp gate that could allow Nemeroth's Chaos fleet to enter real space). All went just as planned when Captain Titus unknowingly helped the daemon-possessed Drogan in enacting his plan.

As Nemeroth entered real space and incapacitated Titus, Nemeroth fought against Warboss Grimskull and both fell off a balcony during the struggle. After Grimskull got his face blown up by Titus, the Imperial forces focused on the Chaos forces. Nemeroth, wanting the power source, sent his minions to seize it from Titus, whilst he waited in the Orbital Spire (which the Warp gate opened and was starting to enlarge). Titus, however, used the power source to boost the Titan Invictus to destroy the Orbital Spire, closing the gate. However, Nemeroth was still determined, and so killed Sidonus, who had the power source, and took said power source back with him to the ruined spire.

Nemeroth again faced Titus on top of the spire. Whilst Titus killed off Nemeroth's minions, Nemeroth was already ascending to daemonhood. However, Titus plunged the partially daemonized Nemeroth and himself off the spire and commenced in an epic battle taking place during free fall, where Titus crushed Nemeroth's head.

It could also be argued that Nemeroth had planned this aswell and used the experience to corrupt captain Titus, as during the entire game he seems hell-bent on bringing Titus over to the glorious cause of chaos. If that's so, he probably made up that part on the spot after meeting up with the guy, as he admits that Ultrafags weren't in the original details.

Trivia

• He is the first Chaos Sorcerer in a Relic game to make use of Terminator Armor.
• He has likely taken Eliphas' fad of calling Space Marines "brothers", as Nemeroth refers to Titus as "brother".
• His name, when taking out the 'me', reads as Neroth (Sorcerer of the Black Legion and Eliphas' nagging wife). This shows Relic's endless creativity in making names.
• He pronounces 'evolution' like 'evil-lution'.
• Unlike most CSM made by Relic, he doesn't worship Khorne. He never mentions the Dark Gods individually, and has both Bloodletters and Blight Drones (a Nurglite Daemon Engine) in his warband.
• He's not a very physically inclined fighter, like Eliphas or Araghast; both of whom can slaughter terminators by themselves. Nemeroth however can't even take out a Space Marine captain in Artificer armour as a Daemon Prince, even though said captain solo'd a warboss and retinue, killed 1000 plus orks with his hands on the way up, 1 vs 6's bloodletters and chaos space marines along with their traitor guardsmen. Though he did slug it out with an Ork warboss.