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Great Unclean One

The greater daemons of Grandfather Nurgle — mountainous, laughing avatars of plague whose burst entrails spill fresh contagions and whose good cheer never once falters.

Great Unclean Ones are the mightiest daemons of the Plague God, vast tuns of rotting flesh in which the Grandfather's own jollity is made manifest. Each is a walking garden of disease, split-bellied and buzzing, loops of entrail dragging fresh maladies across the ground, their broad faces fixed in a beaming, avuncular grin. They wade into war with the unhurried delight of a doting uncle come to spoil his grandchildren, ladling out poxes as though they were sweets.

Despite their bulk they are neither slow of wit nor of will. A Great Unclean One is general, priest, and proud craftsman of contagion all at once, forever blending new rots to share with friend and foe alike. One rotten fist hefts a bileblade or plague flail; the other cradles bell and censer to toll the Grandfather's hymns. Cut one down and it dies chuckling, certain its burst corpse will seed a hundred fresh sicknesses — a last, generous joke at the victor's expense.

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