Editing Warhammer 40,000 8th edition (section)

=====[[Death Guard]]=====
*A recap of the history of the Death Guard, including [[Mortarion]]'s early life on Barbarus. Mortarion's "father" is confirmed to be an alien. It's strongly suggested that Mortarion took the Emperor's killing of his foster as a thoughtless dismissal of his life's struggles against the overlords of Barbarus, and that the ensuing resentment was what eventually led him to side with Horus.
*The Death Guard's organization is discussed; much of it is very similar to the old Legion organization, albeit split into groups of 7 instead of groups of 10. 
**Specifically, it is split into 7 Plague Companies, each of which is composed of 7 Sepsis Cohorts. These in turn are split into 2 Maladictums, which are themselves composed of 7 Colonies. In practice, these all tend to deploy as smaller warbands known as Vectoriums. 
**Brief descriptions of each of the Plague Companies are given; each one is led by a Lord Commander that acts as the host of one of Nurgle's foulest diseases. Predictably, Typhus is Lord Commander of the First Plague Company.
*Typhus and the First Plague Company have focused much of their activity around what used to be the Cadian Gate, generally making life miserable for the Imperial forces trying to hold onto it. 
*Typhus and Huron Blackheart duel on the world of Danasar. Typhus wins, but allows Huron to survive as a show of Nurgle's generosity.
*The Death Guard defeats the Iron Warriors to claim control of the Temple of Ascension, with the duel between Mortarion and Perturabo lasting for seven hours.
*During the War in the Rift, [[Ka'bandha]] is banished by Mortarion using the plague-ridden skulls of seven Khornate champions.
*The Foul Blightspawn and Biologis Putrefiers are the Plague Marines tasked with creating new strains of disease for the Death Guard. The Foul Blightspawn creates new illnesses through blasphemous alchemical lore, which are then entrusted to the Biologis Putrefiers to "test" on any unfortunate victims they can find.
*Plague Surgeons were once the Apothecaries of the Death Guard. However, instead of healing their brothers they now bolster the diseases that they carry. Like their Loyalist counterparts, they too harvest gene-seed- both from the Death Guard and from any Loyalist Space Marines they might encounter. Chief among their number is one Nauseous Rotbone, Mortarion's personal physician.
*[[Foulspawn]] gets a mention; while Nurgle was amused by the Chaos Spawn's antics, Mortarion was not. However, he couldn't kill it without angering Nurgle, so instead he had it banished to the Plague Planet. It has continued to grow since that time, and is now the size of a small mountain.
*Even after becoming a Daemon Prince, Mortarion still despises witches and [[Psyker|psykers]]. The only reason he allows them in the Death Guard now is because he is forced to acknowledge their particular powers as gifts from Nurgle.