The followers of Nurgle are not known for their haste, so isn’t it fitting that their latest champion, Festus the Leechlord, has arrived to the Preview Show on a colossal slug?
In life Festus was a healer who wished to have the knowledge needed to cure all illness, but in his study of disease he became unknowingly trapped within Nurgle’s clutches. His voracious appetite for knowledge saw the Grandfather himself become his tutor, and over seven thousand, seven hundred, and seventy-seven years of learning he became a master of maladies and the cankerous arts, earning the rare right to ascend to daemonhood.
He used his learnings to grow the great beast Gathoblyt, which carries Festus and his foetid workshop into battle. A powerful sorcerer with limitless knowledge of poxes and poisons, he leads the Maggotkin into battle with nauseating exuberance, often campaigning in Ghyran where he poisons waterways with the leech-water plague – one of his prized pestilent creations.
