Nurgle’s Plague Fleet: A Voyage of Decay
Very cool Oldhammer painting. It shows the richness of colours and is a great piece of Art.
The Plague Fleet of Nurgle on the High Seas
This Oldhammer artwork captures a chaotic and apocalyptic scene aboard a corrupted warship, part of a dreaded Plague Fleet of Nurgle. The scene is brimming with a sense of motion and destruction, as if the ship has just emerged from a violent storm or is heading into one. The sky is a swirling mass of purple clouds, punctuated by flashes of eerie lightning, suggesting the influence of the Warp. The ship itself is a nightmarish vessel, its sails tattered and festooned with sigils of Chaos, bearing the unmistakable marks of rot and decay. This is no ordinary fleet, but a cursed armada that sails both real and immaterial waters, spreading Nurgle’s gifts of disease and corruption wherever it makes landfall.
The Dreaded Role of a Plague Fleet
A Plague Fleet of Nurgle is one of the most terrifying forces in the Warhammer universe, a festering force of destruction that sails not only the seas but also the void of space. These fleets spread pestilence across planets, bringing civilizations to ruin with slow, insidious infections before their warriors even set foot on land. In the context of Warhammer Fantasy, this ship could be part of a great Chaos incursion, a harbinger of doom making landfall on an unsuspecting empire’s shores. In Warhammer 40,000, such fleets roam the galaxy, turning planets into rotting wastelands, their ships carrying the foul diseases of Nurgle through the Warp. Whether in space or on water, the sight of a Plague Fleet is a dire omen—one that promises a slow, inevitable death rather than swift destruction.
