Editing Deathshroud (section)

== Great Crusade & Horus Heresy ==

[[File:DeathshroudTerminator.jpg|200px|left|thumb|The Deathshroud before their makeover...]]

Like most Primarchs, Mortarion had a [[Honour Guard]]. Great secrecy surrounded them; the Deathshroud were chosen from the rank-and-file of the Death Guard by their Primarch personally for their skill at arms, fearlessness and proven endurance; often being the sole survivor still standing when the rest of their squad has perished. As Morty wasn't one of the most social of Primarchs, his introverted social skills seem to spread to his sons as the Deathshroud's identities were basically [[1984|'unpersoned']], since, after being inducted into the Deathshroud, they never spoke, never removed their helmets even in death, and were officially listed as being killed in action which is very convenient after the whole Nurgle fiasco (to be entirely fair, Mortarion was one of the few Primarchs who actually valued his bodyguards instead of seeing them as mere necessary pomp or a hindrance. He just was that bad with people).

Deathshroud bodyguards were clad in specially-made artificer [[Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour|Cataphractii]] or [[Tartaros Pattern Terminator Armour|Tartaros]] Terminator armour that gave them a tall and barrel-chested appearance. They were armed with wrist-mounted [[Alchem Pistol]]s with chem-munitions and like their master, they wielded large [[Power weapon#Power Scythe|power scythes]] known as [[Daemon Weapon#Manreaper|Manreapers]]. Although given the Deathguard's overall lack of care for their own equipment, their prestigious equipment was left to rot and rust away, giving them an appearance of a warrior that had been through countless battles and war. At least two of them never strayed more than 49 paces from their Primarch, a trait they would continue right into the 41st Millennium (And how convenient for Nurgle too, since the square root of 49 is 7, Papa Nurgle's favorite number. [[Heresy|Coincidence?]] Who knows?).

During the event of [[Horus Heresy|Horus' potty tantrum]], the Deathshroud along with their Primarch succumbed to Papa Nurgle's plagues like pussies and became physically twisted by Nurgle's gifts after they accepted their allegiance to the Plague Father.