Gutrot Spume was a reaver captain when the rot came for his ship, and while his crew prayed for deliverance he did something the Plague God found far more interesting: he demanded a promotion. Nurgle's answer burst from his flank as a writhing mass of kraken tentacles, and Spume took the gift exactly as it was intended — proof that despair is for men who lack ambition.
Now he is fleetmaster of the Grandfather's plague fleets and lord of the Drowned Men, prowling the seas of every realm in hulks so barnacled and bloated they have no business floating. His genius is the sea's own: patience, then sudden violence. No coast can garrison against an enemy who can be anywhere the tide reaches, and Spume's fleet announces itself only as a fog bank, a droning of flies, and then the bells. He fights axe in hand while his tentacles crush, drag, and drown, and he holds sorcery in open contempt — honest rot, he reckons, needs no incantations.
Spume measures his worth in drowned harbours and keeps a jealous ledger of the Grandfather's favour, for his ambition has never stopped at fleetmaster. Sailors of the free cities say you smell the Drowned Men a full day before you see them. Few have lived to smell them twice.
Heroes & legends
More Maggotkin of Nurgle
Bloab RotspawnedThe RotspawnedA brooding Maggoth Lord and weather-witch who rides within his own contagious storm, seeing prophecy in the swarms of flies that pour from his mount.
Festus the LeechlordThe LeechlordNurgle's gentlest monster — a fallen healer who could not cure the plague, so he joined it, and now tends the realms with tinctures of blight and a genuine bedside manner.
Morbidex TwicebornThe TwicebornA Maggoth Lord beloved of Nurglings, who rides the great beast Tripletongue at the head of a giggling tide of the Grandfather's smallest daemons.
Orghotts DaemonspewFirst of the Maggoth LordsThe self-proclaimed son of a Great Unclean One — a Maggoth Lord astride the monstrous Whippermaw, fighting to prove his daemon blood is more than a boast.