Typhus, the Herald of Nurgle and host of the Destroyer Hive, is a towering and monstrous figure among the Chaos Space Marines, a relentless and unholy champion of decay. Once known as Calas Typhon, the First Captain of the Death Guard Legion, he betrayed his Primarch Mortarion and his Legion during the Horus Heresy, fully embracing the gifts of Nurgle, the Chaos God of decay and pestilence. Typhus’s body is a vessel of disease, teeming with the foul and parasitic Destroyer Hive, a swarm of horrific plague insects that infest his rusted Terminator armor. His aura spreads corruption and rot, and those who come near are often infected with agonizing, life-draining diseases. He wields the Manreaper, a colossal scythe steeped in the power of the Warp, cutting down enemies with cruel precision and leaving only disease-ridden corpses in his wake.
As a chosen servant of Nurgle, Typhus spreads pestilence and death across the galaxy, serving as a plague-spreading harbinger of his master’s will. He commands the Death Guard’s plague-ridden warriors with ruthless efficiency, leading them in campaigns to infect and ruin entire worlds. Typhus is not only a brutal warrior but also a skilled and cunning strategist, utilizing the relentless resilience of the Death Guard to outlast and overpower his foes. His power as a sorcerer is immense, enabling him to conjure plagues and warp-spawned afflictions that sap the strength of even the mightiest foes. His allegiance to Nurgle is unwavering, and he takes a perverse pleasure in spreading disease and decay, embodying the inevitability of entropy and the twisted blessings of Papa Nurgle.