Nurgle is a cool chaos god | 40k Lore

he's a fun little guy
So here's some lore about him!
The fine lad who did my Profile pic!
/ scrumptiousbean
Music used:
The Caretaker - A3 - Late Afternoon Drifting
Omori - Spaces Inbetween

[@wedoalittleeco-trolling9126]

Ideal episode to eat my breakfast with

[@wedoalittleeco-trolling9126]

Btw I don't think Nurgle really likes your average slave of death guard. They are miserable all the time.

[@nekoill]

I was watching this while cooking and consooming my dinner On the other hand, it's kinda hard to gross me out, so no biggie

[@oscarackeby2795]

Yes

[@Travelling_Heart15]

​@@wedoalittleeco-trolling9126they are not really miserable, there was an excerpt where a plague marine return from years of battle to a demon world where his home was, he had a pretty homely house, he had a garden he tended to, admittedly the nurgle kind of flowers and plants, he also had pets to play with, admittedly the nurgle kind of pets, he also decorated his home in a very middle age man kind of mentality, admittedly the nurgle kind of mentality.

[@FackFaceMcAcehole]

I'm far too full trying to sleep. We're a fucked fandom aren't we?

[@jesperkarlsson2853]

I love the beasts of nurgle, just big unintentional murder puppies. Also headcannon that Kugath is favoured by Nurgle cause he is happy one of his little nurglings got bigger and stronger and that personal improvment made grandpappy Nurgs proud

[@Xgdtss]

I think of all the chaos factions, Nurgle is interesting since he occupies both horror and levity in warhammer. Honestly joining the other factions seems like that is where the suffering starts, and joining Nurgle is where the suffering ends. He’s really playing the long game.

[@mrpizzacat8273]

The fact that 40k has 2 gods of death (one of battle and one of “natural” causes) is probably the most Warhammer thing possible

[@darthkek1953]

Four gods of death: death by fighting, death by disease, death by betrayal, death by probing.

[@iago110]

Death by laughing and death by suicide (malice - im wrong about this one)@@darthkek1953

[@screamingcactus1753]

@@darthkek1953 Out of all the Chaos Gods, Slaanesh is probably the least likely to kill you. This is not a good thing.

[@PhantomGato-v-]

​@darthkek1953death by snu snu

[@s.k4713]

@@screamingcactus1753this is in fact a very very bad thing.

[@TheCommissarGeneral]

Those Marines that cut off from the Warp happened in two instances. Once in the Siege of terra, and once while fighting the Tyranids with their "Shadow in the Warp" effect. As far as I know, that is.

[@tobi2174]

While Death Guard wasn't my first army it became by far my largest army when 8th rolled out and Nurgle Deamons being a close second, Nurgle really just stuck his gross claws deep into my heart from the moment i saw him ❤

[@shooey-mcmoss]

Ah yes, caretaker music for the god of decay. Perfect synergy of decay

[@TheCreepyLantern]

i'm gonna share my insane personal Chapter/warband here 'cause it's nurgle related and i like talkin' about my boys. "The Remnants of Despair" are a Nurgle aligned LOYALIST bunch of what was originally Night Lords. i know that sounds insane but hear me out because i collect Loyalist AND Chaos marines and wanted to paint them up all to match, i came up with this as an explanation, "A whole bunch of night lords got lost in the warp for like 200 years their time, and much like the Death Guard they fell to Nurgle in order to survive. But still trapped on their ship with nothing to do but rationalise and dwell on things. they've come to the conclusion Nurgle is despair. The imperium is a rotting hell without hope. Therefor the Emperor is Nurgles living avatar. They've emerged back into the galaxy convinced the only way to serve Nurgle is to make sure NO ONE WINS. There is only war. Forever. When they get to a battlefield/war they start attacking whoever's winning, loot both sides for the cause, and fuck off back into space. Trying to recruit Marines from all sides chapters and walks along the way. often by force. no one likes them, but that's fine it just means they too feel despair and so their very existance serves Nurgle that way too!

[@МаксимГригорьев-ъ7ф]

This is about as heretical as some of it gets. Konrad Curze would hate them (because Night Lords problems). Imperium would hate them because this is so heretical, it comes a full circle and then still kicks the pedal through the floor. Other Chaos Warbands would hate them because they are backstabbing bastards who also think themself as loyalists. I wouldn't be surprised if they would even manage to piss off Nurgle's forces in one way or another.

[@TheCreepyLantern]

@@МаксимГригорьев-ъ7ф ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! and intended! Friendless doomed assholes who forever double down on the fact that EVERYONE wanting them dead is the ultimate act of worship. Never ending despair. Forever. Always. 'cause it'll make Papa Nurgle happy.

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

on a nurgle world in the warp... demons inviting chaos marines and worshipers for tea and chess making small talk how everyones various sickness is going etc with nurgle making personal manifestations for those that struggles with them suggesting alternative ones if they cant cope with the current one , ensuring they not feel any pain from it either way etc is the 'chill' my mind conjures up XD

[@RussellTeapot]

6:39 Being sick is sick - Grandpapa

[@SolomonWolfe23]

In one of the old world chaos daemons army books (think the edition they were first reintroduced as their own army), they had a bit talking about how nurglings would be born in peoples' stomachs, and then they would shit them out. And the nurgling would see them as a parental figure, but would kill them via disease unintentionally. Same book had a nurgle parade exert in it, great stuff.

[@whitevader007]

I'm a late bloomer. Bought a few brave marines but in a year found nurgle. I'm very creative and one of my fav things to watch on youtube is fishing. That is why most of my miniatures become fishermen 😄For the nurgle it will be very funny cause they search for rotten fish. Of course I make and add the fishes!

[@Noxims47314]

Mighty Nurgle blesses you all in his grand and magnanimous putrescence. brethren.

[@ParanoidPacific]

Fuck yeah, i love learnkng about my grandfather!

[@XxTheRealMusclemanxX]

Thank you for that end bit I was eating my lunch at work when I saw that. Somehow I lost my appetite lol 💀

[@thadatkins9792]

After all is said and done. There will always be decay.

[@Gr_ywind]

Gotta love me Nurglings, such adorable little homicidal maniacs. 🤣

[@jackrabbit5212]

Jeez man you can't just start your video with a great clean one jumpscare

[@cleanerben9636]

Flies and maggots upon your flesh, I bid you! :D

[@Dap1ssmonk]

I have to say you did miss one thing about nurgles “love”. It’s a jealous, avaricious love. He loves you, but only if you follow him, and if you disagree with his gifts, then you’re just wrong and you should I stem to your grand father because he knows best. At least that’s how the liber chaotica characterized it.

[@AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH365]

just one more scoooore arthur and we will be the richest man alive

[@KnightofEkron]

I think you're wrong on the fear part, he isn't the chaos god of fear, he's the chaos god of despair, life, death, the cycle of life and death, if you want a deeper understanding look up "Samsara" or read Schopenhauer :P

[@thelion2751]

0:02 i hate the fact that the clean one exist...goddam it how ever made that mini deserves nurgles gifts and a kick in the nuts by khorne 😂

[@stamp6166]

May you one day obtain the blessings of Nurgle's garden.

[@hunterjoyce3580]

For some reason, I think it's more disturbing when people clean the nurgle models like THE GREAT CLEAN ONE that is just disgusting looking

[@richardkretzschmar2077]

sane take love grandpapa

[@istvanmitca5691]

The horror the great Clean one in the Intro

[@siamihari8717]

I have a question right out the gate. Could a Great Clean one Exist? It could be Argued Choas reflects your perception of it in one way or another, as Nurgle is effectively Grandpa Nature instead of Mother Nature... could the inverse of the common perception also exist?

[@FishBoneD14]

Love nurgle

[@trunphin]

Just needed this video to verify my conclusions about Nurgle: this faction is Christianity.

[@whitetiana3022]

why am i the only tzeentch worshiper out there? yall can be bloated mutants all you want. i'm sticking with the magical bird.

[@matijasostojic4288]

Gets turned into slug for shits and giggles.

[@EdHandal]

Heresy

[@akumaking1]

“No, you can’t just puke over your Nurgle minis and call it completed!” ~A random sentence in a half-remembered dream

[@rowbot5555]

"watch me"

[@B_4035mn]

Canonically speaking, you can, however, you must at least have ONE disease, either that or put it in a jar, puke in it, THEN cap it and put it in the dampest darkest area for at least *1 year.*

[@chainsawsubtlety9828]

"My girlfriend, at the time, was pretty into Space Wolves." As a Warhammer fan, nothing in that sentence makes sense.

[@Shadowslayer-ty9sl]

She’s a furry that’s what makes it make sense

[@chainsawsubtlety9828]

@@Shadowslayer-ty9sl Immediately, my brain tries to conjure an image of a fat girl, in a cat costume, trying to have secks with a mustachioed skeleton. Thanks for that. 😉

[@angelavery3840]

@@Shadowslayer-ty9sl ah

[@Jawzah]

@@Shadowslayer-ty9sl Everything is canoe and furry in Warphamster 42B.

[@the_inquisitive_inquisitor]

@@Shadowslayer-ty9sl When you say "she" ....

[@Hugme778]

Id argue nurgle's main emotion is apathy. Often times apathy can come across as a sense of acceptence of ones terrible situation which also where the jollyness of nurgle may come from as acceptence of one self or situation can keep your day going. Depression apathey acceptence is cycle of nurgle

[@noisemarine561]

Tzeentch is change, destiny, sorcery, and knowldge. Basically out of all the Chaos gods, he is truly the most Chaotic.

[@dmgroberts5471]

Nurgle is the God of fearing death and the desire to survive.

[@jeremym4451]

​@@dmgroberts5471what living thing wants to die

[@pandacrafty]

'Nurgle is kinda cool actually' Isha: 'What the fuck dude'

[@idontlikerome2744]

Isha be like: Im straight up not having a good time

[@s.k4713]

@@idontlikerome2744bit of a shitty situation

[@BarelyDecentProduction]

It's amazing to think that out of the 4 chaos Gods, Nurgle was the only with enough power to actually effect the real world

[@alastor8091]

Slaanesh has had its grip in the world for generations now. If they existed, it and Tzeentch would be dominant.

[@noisemarine561]

Tzeentch is heavily implied but not known to be involved.

[@digitbit3180]

​. And he wouldn't have it any other way.

[@Saurophaganax1931]

@@noisemarine561 I’m not sure if Tzeentch even knows if he’s involved.

[@sato-kuu]

@@Saurophaganax1931 He does! Source: an actual Tzeentch follower (unnamed)

[@Sara3346]

''Depression is a weird status debuff'' Agreed, it's not only horrible but confusing.

[@cleanerben9636]

But if you keep it long enough it transitions into apathy, which gives 100% protection from all emotional damage.

[@gideonhorwitz9434]

I can’t believe I’m saying this but I really feel for Kugath. When he was a nurgling Kugath accidentally fell into papa Nurgles cauldron and consumed a mighty plague he was brewing becoming a great unclean one since then he’s hard felony of depression guilt and self loathing trying so hard to create the perfect plague so in his mind making it up to papa Nurgle. When in reality Papa Nurgle couldn’t be more proud but for some reason didn’t want to tell Kugath or give give him a hug of reassurance, So Kugath has spent literally centuries ina. Constant state of melancholy and self loathing to the extent he once said he wished he wasn’t born like a guilty 5 year old constantly trying to prefect his plague like a OCD chief.

[@BeeWaifu]

Commas are your friend.

[@anamericangrizzlybear8315]

Probably because he knows that in this he will continue to create great plagues, he's like a child that wants so badly to impress his parent and so goes above and beyond to do so when in reality the parent is extremely proud and he just doesn't know it, Kugath goes above and beyond most Great Unclean ones and is revered by all followers of Nurgle, the shame is all in his head lol

[@d180jnr]

Just as nurgle intended, don't forget he is also the god of despair; which Kugath is in a perpetual state of

[@iago110]

Read cormac maccarthy @@BeeWaifu

[@DeathGaurdPaints]

Poor kugath

[@kristianfischer9814]

Nurgle is absolutely my favorite Chaos god. He’s so jolly and happy in his work.

[@EliCasteel-nw5vz]

He is like a gross Santa Claus crossed with a grandpa

[@reverendbluejeans1748]

Does he have a northern accent.

[@franklinshaki9]

Except that his minions started to shit on people and kills them 🤢.

[@TerrificRallyMaestro]

Nurgle loves ALL life, not just macroorganisms. His children are the viruses and pathogens that we foster in our bodies, the same ones that have their ghosts in our DNA and help us digest food. Embrace the micro and the macro, and know the true bliss that comes from the awareness of the beautiful symbiotic symphony that we are all part of!

[@napalmman8202]

One thing you didn't mention about Plaguebearers is that they are... miserable. They can experience other emotions, but the average Plaguebearer is a shambling, depressed daemon who's purpose is to be Nurgle's main forces AND be his tallymen. They count constantly, tallying how many diseases they have, how many are affecting the planet. They are OBSESSIVE over this counting, for it's in their mind to calculate and account for every disease. It's why Heralds of Nurgle are important. Sure a Great Unclean one is important for his girth, but the mind of a Herald is much needed when Nurgle Warbands emerge to spread his plagues. Gosh don't even get me started on Sloppity Bilepipers and Spoilpox Scriveners... Those are horrifying-

[@pixelperfect9111]

Sounds like a gross dr seuss.

[@bobbobertbobberton1073]

I see him as a lazy stoner. The rest of the Chaos Gods are fighting one another and scheming, while Nurgle is lying back while his diseases do all the work, 'chill bro's its all gonna work out.'

[@James-dk2kx]

First off, you're my new favorite lore channel. The others are great, but yours resonates perfectly with me. It's like having a friend diving hard into the lore and reporting back in with all the cool, weird shit he's learned and is so excited to talk about. Super relatable and warms my heart. Secondly, I think an aspect of Nurgle you didn't touch on is that he's the life, growth, and rebirth just as much as the god of death, decay, and pestilence. The two go hand in hand. We focus on the death part because it horrifies us, but he isn't trying to kill people intentionally. He sees it as developing new life forms in diseases, viruses, molds, and bacteria. It's unfortunate for us that most of the life he wants to create is utterly incompatible with our current situation. The beasts are a perfect illustration. They want to show everyone how much they love them and bring joy into their lives to replace the fear they see them experiencing. The same goes for other gods, too. I get why you skipped that (peeling back the layers reveals a massive rabbit hole of different aspects of everything), but if you wanted a "chaos gods 201" lecture topic, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on it.

[@thegingerwon2795]

Entropy and growth. The cycle that gradfather watches over with pride

[@Alfred5555]

Although that might be part of the esoteric nature of Nurgle, he's also a chaos God, willed into existence by the fear of death, not the love of birth and life but the fear of also losing it. As well as that, contextually he's locked into eternal space war with everything, so his passions for accelerating the birth-death-rebirth cycle as probably always maligned by his need to wage grimdark war on life and chaos. I would like to know what similar redeeming factors you know of about the other chaos gods though? I believe Khorne at least believes in a strict orderly code of honour that is almost chivalric, so life would be and endless purge but at least you know where you stand. Tzeentch I don't really know if you can call evil, he's just unknowable and just as likely to make really good things happen as he is the most horrible things so long as it suits his unknowable desire for constant deception and delirious madness. But Slaanesh surely is just an all out a 21+ Jeffrey Dahmer / John Wayne Gacey / Frank Pazram conobite nightmare

[@spacewolf1313]

HELL YEAH NURGLE IS THE BEST! HE GOT ME INTO 40K ACTUALLY! AT THIS MOMENT I'M WEARING A NURGLE WORK-OUT SHIRT SO YEAH! DEATH AND DECAY!

[@dmgroberts5471]

Grandfather bless you.

[@EliteDrogo]

Of the four, Papa Nurgle is my absolute fave. His followers love him enough to call him grandfather even if he looks like he does. Also a little sad you didnt mention the songs and chants that the nurglings(?) sing. They're just having fun and want to spread the love

[@johnbrennan9617]

I love Granpa Nurgle. I've got enough models to field an army even though I don't play 40k at all. Just love them

[@The_Backman]

Bro introduced himself so smoothly. "I'm Arthur." I then proceeded to say Hi back and namedrop myself

[@kris220b]

my favorite nurgle attack, is the great unclean one in dawn of war 2 retribution fucker uses his intestines, to lash out, grab your marines, and hurl them across the arena its fucking vile, i love it

[@walrusproductions3496]

Nurgle is arguably the best chaos god Plus it's fun to kitbash nurgle stuff. Unfortunately they nerfed the super awesome version of disgustingly resilient in 9th.

[@dmgroberts5471]

Customizing Plague Marines is _the best._ I used to have a squad of hand-made Plague Marines, with things like their yellow, rotting guts hanging out, or mold slowly growing over their entire body. Their Champion was nicknamed "Rotten Ram-Head Guy." I'm sure you can guess why. I need to restart my Nurgle army...

[@danesorensen1775]

I have plans to add a Nurgle force to my Chaos Kitchen Sink Grand Alliance. All three power levels (cultists, marines and deamons) for all five Chaos allegiances. Wish me luck.

[@TacticalReaper56]

Following Papa definitely is like the Team Fortress meet the Pyro.

[@luigi9458]

7:38 "Nurgle??? Please don't turn me into marketable plushies."

[@Fullmetalmatin]

Best part of Nurgle are his little mini Nurgles 😂

[@Svartig4ldur]

I always wanted to start DG. Got both battleforces, combat patrol... boarding patrol... And I thought - 10th edition will be my edition. Mine and papa's Nurgle. Yeah... we all know how that turned out... Still my fav faction tho. Both style -wise and lore-wise.

[@sniffles8672]

DG is maybe hard to play but daemons is good....i play everyting with nurgle blessing. I welcome you Brother

[@Naomerz069]

You have a calm demeanor, your voice is soothing, your outlook is fresh. You make Warhammer 40K fun to learn about. Thank you! (Emperor's Children/Imperial Fists fan)

[@Emajenus]

Nurgle doesn't gain power from a non-emotion based power. He gains power from helplessness, despair, and fear of death. Disease and decay are his adopted visuals simply because they incite these feelings into his victims. It's all in the Liber Chaotica lore book.

[@blastermaster5039]

Actually smart that guy in melta bikes. Like he saw the literal b*llsh*t you're pulling off and does his best to go against it.

[@rootsnootthnute8598]

Yeah, there's plenty of mentioned-once or twice type daemons for all the gods, so sticking to the more commonly encountered ones is fair. Great video!

[@doominator4072]

I love Nurgle and his many wonderful gifts, I’ve got a sizeable death guard army and think his the best chaos god.

[@dmgroberts5471]

Grandfather's Blessings be upon you.

[@blanknull5188]

Good Guy Chaos God. He becomes so plagued, Mobius strips back to health. Somehow becomes the Order God of Medicine.

[@harryknapper1133]

The great clean one is the most frightening daemon

[@arturrodrigues7161]

hey! I'm also Arthur and I love death guard! nice vid, gonna check all the content during the week also I love how everyone in the death guard is just chill dudes BUT Typhus

[@DeathGaurdPaints]

No one is talking about the bald great unclean one in the beginning 😂😂😂

[@Football.Chap11]

10:19 “did I hear… PESTILENCE?” *loads shotgun with malicious intent*

[@Panzerbrandy]

"what do you think about nurgle" Me: currently painting my beast of nurgle... they are pretty dope

[@yeahmansoul]

The Grand Father isn't just my favourite chaos god by far but honestly the only Path of genuine hope and love in the grim dark (grim enough and dark enough for the only hopeful way is to embrace despair to emencipate yourself from hope and join the circle of life -and death- queue to zombie Mustapha to play us off.

[@MMSR_Reds]

grandpa nurgle is pleased with this video. he shall bless the creator with all of his love

[@borisdorofeev5602]

When I see Kugaths cauldron I think of how Asians have the "forever brine". I forgot what it's called but they use the same vinegar/salt/etc to pickle cucumbers, kimchi, etc.

[@dmgroberts5471]

Grandfather's Blessing upon you, Brother! I am also a huge Nurgle fan. I play Loyalists as well, but Nurgle's philosophy genuinely strikes a chord with me. I like Space Marines, but I _love_ Nurgle.

[@andrewmatseshe7343]

This video just earned you a new subscriber. I too am a disciple of the Grandfather

[@Ibian666]

The Great Clean one is the fucking most terrifying thing in all of 40k.

[@SmallFOV]

I love nurgle daemons so much. Their animations in Total War Warhammer 3 are so funny, with the nurglings dancing in poo, popping out of butts, etc. It's so gross, but so funny. And they're all jusy so gosh darn jolly!

[@YOGI-kb9tg]

All of the chaos god have been the most powerful but I find it funny that tzeentch is the only one to actually win the great game in the past but let himself get beaten as he wanted to keep the great game going.

[@morgant.dulaman8733]

Well yea. If he wins and its over, that means no more change, or at least not with quite with the variety as with the other three.

[@MekBoooooi]

When my dad left , papi Nurgle walked into my life!

[@Memiliano_]

Finally a fellow nurgle enjoyer

[@ethanrumley746]

Nurgle's emotion is despair

[@RuneOverW]

I heard in the case of rotflies, every time they get killed they start being more depressed and a tumor starts growing inside. When the Beast of Nurgle dies for the last time the body becomes a cocoon and the tumor bursts open into becoming a rotfly, intent on killing everyone that betrayed him when he was still a loving Beast

[@frozenphoenix5121]

You sir should be a salesman for chaos.

[@stewartthorpe2533]

Nurgle is the closest to a god of love in wh40k

[@AlphariusXXth]

Don't feel bad, I buy the cool stuff and make it work, or lose in style. Cool > meta

[@TheBoneZone40k]

if I could shake your hand I would

[@BelugaChonky]

YES IMPERIAL KNIGHT BUILD EVEN THOUGH I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE F*CK IM DOING cool←meta

[@phillower8806]

This shit some propaganda, Big e is the only man for me

[@Demonz2000]

Bruh imagine being in a tournament and thinking you have a good team and this man pulls up with FOUR FUCKING GREAT UNCLEAN ONES XD

[@alienstar2088]

I enjoy Nurgle but, honestly he ranks third on the Chaos God list, fourth if I include Malice. I enjoy the plagues and just how kind of nice Nurgle is but, it doesn't really come close to the bloodshed of Khorne, the lovecraftian Uno reverse of Tzeench nor the crypticness of Malice if I was to include him. Really, the only Chaos God that is lower than Nurlge is Slaanesh. Wait, do I count Gork and Mork? Because if I do then... Nurlge ranks 5th...

[@uglarinn2715]

Nurgle truly is the greatest chaos God.

[@dmgroberts5471]

Preach it from the rotting mountain of diseased flesh! Wait, that's a Great Unclean One. Eh, preach from atop his head anyway, he won't mind.

[@dukedevlan5457]

So, theoretically, you were somehow immune to disease like a perpetual. Could you just play with a beast of nurgle and make it a pet

[@karamelapple8007]

Yes 😊

[@dukedevlan5457]

@@karamelapple8007 I would wuv him so much

[@omoroburns2172]

Hey that's my chaos god. Deathguard for life and undeath.

[@Averybritishbear]

I personally like nurgle because from certain perspectives he’s just a great grandfather like when kugath fell into his pot and drank his best disease ever but nurgle was just really happy about it when I think about it I might just like some factions in Warhammer because they are really nice but also can be very bad like the salamanders and nurgle

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Most people have been playing since the nineties...

[@SergeantSup]

I'd become a Plague Marine just to pet and hug the Beasts and Nurglings

[@FishMonger849]

@1:55 Your what?

[@---us7qf]

Hahahahaha! The great unclean ones. Muahahahahaha!

[@disgruntledtoons]

The GUO's diarrhea attack has got to be the most undignified way to die.

[@onionhat745]

I've heard people say that they don't understand how anyone could worship Nurgle. I envy them.

[@Wumbumbus]

Oh don’t get me wrong Nurgle is gross, but I find his jovial attitude to be awesome

[@Engifarting456]

u played 40k since 2016? i just started painting this year

[@dogeclark2265]

Arthur is the most polite nurglite cultist I’ve ever seen

[@phokeyu3749]

"Bald Nurgle doesn't exist. He couldn't hurt you. " Bald Nurgle: 00:02

[@TheBoneZone40k]

not a fan of the great clean one?

[@phokeyu3749]

@@TheBoneZone40k Yeah... he looks even scarier after he's cleaned.

[@loremasterhendrix]

Its such a shame that in 10th death guard is terrible, and nurgle daemons aren't much better

[@myonlyfriendtheend4958]

Also how did you not talk about nurgles wife dawg