| abstract | - The blackest, filth-choked lagoons and lightless sumps of the Plague-Father's realm have served as a spawning ground to all manner of daemonic beasts and foul creatures. Among the lesser of these blasphemous creatures, although by no means the least nightmarish, are the Plague Toads, also known as rot-eaters and sewer-kin. They are toad-like bags of brackish filth and pus whose wide maws can swallow a man whole.[1a] These semi-sentient Daemon-vermin are, by some reckoning, bloated Nurglings swelled by indulging their appetites and wallowing in the worst noisome decay. Others maintain they are devolved and accursed Plaguebearers, punished for their failure to maintain Nurgle's tally. In either case they are victim of the petty abuses and ire of Nurgle's other get. As well as being draggged along like pestilent flies in the wake of Chaos summonings and daemonic incursions, these maligned Daemons are drawn to places of disease and decay in the mortal world such as the dank reaches of sewer-pits and stagnant mires, devouring the unwary that cross their path and finding sustenance in suffering and befoulment. It is in such locales as these that those well-versed in the lore of the Plague Father can corral the beasts and bind them to their will, offering them the chance to glut their appetites on yet uncorrupted flesh.[1a]
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