Pestigor
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Pestigors are Beastmen in Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40000, or Age of Sigmar who have dedicated themselves solely to the worship of Nurgle and been rewarded with his Mark for their feats. While its fairly obvious to guess why they aren't called Nugors or Nurgors (say it out loud), its less clear why they aren't called Nurglgors given the nice phlegmy sound it has.
Lore
WFB
Nurglgors Pestigors are exactly what you'd expect. Full of disease, have bloated bellies and puss-filled sores giving them a highly asymmetrical shape, extra thick hide they can't feel, have one horn and a recurring image of threes in the details, wear the heaviest armor and can be seen poking through its rusted parts in places, and have no loss of vigor from it all. Unlike the rest of Nurgle's kin, Nurglgors Pestigors are not darkly cheerful in their happy hopelessness. Quite the opposite, they're possibly the most civilization-hating rabid monsters of all the Beastmen. For contrast the Tzaangors are kept organized by the direct whim of Tzeentch, Khorngors appreciate the discipline and craftsmanship their god centers around, and Slaangors hate themselves for loving the pleasures of ordered races. Nurgle's Beastmen just want to see the world rot, to an obsessive degree; if anything Nurglegors Pestigors represent an even more extreme version of the standard Beastmen hat trope. It helps quite a bit that most of the Beastmen named characters are clearly Nurglgors Pestigors. In particular, that's pretty much all the Beastmen centered around in End Times.
Despite ALL THAT...lore states that they are more organized than most Beastmen. Khorngor get more organization, Nurglgor Pestigor get more armor. Both defy the trope of their species a small amount. Most likely the "organization" is more akin to Nurgle's disease-counting than actual military drills.
40k
Beastmen mutations are not automatically Chaos in 40k, but at the same time Beastmen aren't a dominant and uncontrollable force so most Nurglgor Pestigor are just considered Chaos Mutants and lumped in with human Cultists. Way back in the day, when Chapters were first being created and released, each one would get a list of how many Beastmen slaves they had access to; obviously any Chapter of Chaos Space Marines that was devoted to Nurgle had Nurglgor Pestigor.
AoS
Nurglgor Pestigor have not appeared yet. Just like in End Times, being a Nurglgor Pestigor is just kind of how most Beastmen operate despite the new lore saying that most Beastmen bands have abandoned the worship of gods in favor of Chaos as a concept. But just like Khorngors Nurglgor Pestigor are almost certain to eventually appear.
Crunch
WFB
For most of WFB history they didn't really have their own stats, and existed as models (until they were squatted and replaced with generics for all varieties) that represented what Marks your forces had.
In the Beasts of Chaos armybook, the only Nurglgor Pestigor were Bestigors, chariots (ridden by Bestigors), and Characters, since only they could take the Mark of Nurgle, presumably because they were the only ones to prove themselves. In all cases the Mark made whoever had it Immune to Psychology and given Beastmen Leadership (and the items it unlocked), that wasn't bad.
Variety was gutted when Chaos was split into three armies and somebody took Marks away from the Beastmen, then retconned the fluff to say that Beastmen were never given and could never have Marks.
40k
AoS
(Pending)
Gallery
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Carelessly shaving off the mold lines could result in lead shaving splinters that could give you an infection or cancer. Papa Nurgle approves!
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The later models.
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Tony Ackland's Pestigors.
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More of Ackland's.
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A Blanche Pestigor.
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Extra heretical Pestigors.
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