Nemeroth

My Armies will spill humanity's blood...Across the stars.

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

** WARNING SPOILERS **

When Inquisitor Drogan started experimenting on Warp-based weaponry (apparently not knowing the Empyric Engineers already have this), 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, he pinned Titus to the ground with mageeekha and sent loose half-a-dozen bloodletters on Warboss Grimskull. Pwning them as shit, Grimskull charged the chaos lord, and Brawl Ensued, leading to Nemeroth soundly defeating and pushing the greenskin off the balcony, but the Ork pulled Nemeroth down with him as he fell. After Grimskull got his face blown up by the sheer manliness of Titus's one-liner, 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 Warlord 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. Nemeroth tried to lure Titus to the side of Chaos with promises of untold power and with the Ultramarines dominating the galaxy, with Titus as their head. Titus, being too genre savvy, flatly refused Nemeroth's unconvincing offer. 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. MOTHERFUCKING.AWESOME.

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, and is also heard laughing evilly after losing. 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. Granted, Games Workshop is also guilty of this, having saddled a daemon and a primarch with names playing on the word "anger" and having reused the word "Armageddon" for both a class of battleship and a planet (Edit: The battleship was named after the planet, twit, it's supposed to be cool...).
• His statements of Titus "resisting his touch" make him sound like a molestor. A guy who molests 8-foot tall, superhuman killing machines... with power claws...actually, that's pretty awesome.
• His Power Claws with integrated plasma guns may have been inspired by Huron Blackheart's Flamer integrated Power Claw.
• He pronounces 'evolution' like 'evil-lution'. This is almost certainly intentional. Or a very common English pronunciation, take your pick.
• Unlike most CSM made by Relic, he doesn't worship Khorne, or any of the Dark Gods individually, and he has Bloodletters, Blight Drones (Nurglite Daemon Engines), and Tzeentch Psykers in his warband.
• He's not a very physically inclined fighter, unlike Eliphas or Araghast, both of whom can slaughter terminators by themselves. Nemeroth can't even take out a Space Marine Captain in Artificer armor as a partially transformed Daemon Prince 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. Plus, he easily bitchslaped a fucking Ork Warboss. Barehanded. And, additionally, pretty much everyone is wierded out by that Captain's Warp immunity.
• He uses powerful sorcery to pin his foes in place by holding up his hand.
• Unless the camera is positioned in the front or right side of his face, its quite hard to see if he's smiling (considering that a large chunk of his left mouth is heavily disfigured).
• Unlike the previous Chaos Lords in Relic's games, Nemeroth doesn't appear to aligned with any of the major legions, instead commanding his own warband, "The Chosen Of Nemeroth," with its own invasion fleet.
• Nemeroth is the ugliest Chaos Space Marine ever, which is saying something.

Gallery

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  Will you be joining us soon... Brother?

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  The Partially Daemonized Nemeroth.

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  Nemeroth impaling Sidonus with extreme prejudice.