| rdfs:comment | - En route to Terra, Decius and a number of his fellow Loyalist Death Guard fought a battle against the reanimated corpses of their former traitorous comrades,who had become the first Plague Marines of Nurgle when the Plague God's influence had insinuated itself through the damaged Eisenstein's Gellar Field while the vessel was travelling through the Empyrean. Decius was grievously injured when he was stabbed by one of the Plague Marine's Plague Knives, and in a vain attempt to halt the vile corruption caused by that Chaotic artefact, he bravely cut off his own arm. The severely wounded Astartes was then taken to the Apothecarion and put under the care of Apothecary Voyen, but alas, there was no cure available in the entire corpus of Imperial medical science that could ease young Decius' suf
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| abstract | - En route to Terra, Decius and a number of his fellow Loyalist Death Guard fought a battle against the reanimated corpses of their former traitorous comrades,who had become the first Plague Marines of Nurgle when the Plague God's influence had insinuated itself through the damaged Eisenstein's Gellar Field while the vessel was travelling through the Empyrean. Decius was grievously injured when he was stabbed by one of the Plague Marine's Plague Knives, and in a vain attempt to halt the vile corruption caused by that Chaotic artefact, he bravely cut off his own arm. The severely wounded Astartes was then taken to the Apothecarion and put under the care of Apothecary Voyen, but alas, there was no cure available in the entire corpus of Imperial medical science that could ease young Decius' suffering. After completing their arduous journey and delivering their message to the Emperor's acting Regent, Malcador the Sigillite, Garro and his men were placed under house arrest and held in solitary confinement in the Somnus Citadel on Luna, under the watchful eyes of the Silent Sisterhood. Their fate was yet to be decided. In the meantime, the mortally wounded Decius finally lost his fight to the Nurgle's Rot that ran rampant throughout his deceased and corpulent form. Giving himself over fully to the offer of Nurgle to end his pain, Decius' body was possessed and metamorphosed into the mutated form of the daemonic entity known as the Lord of the Flies. His twisted body took on a daemonic appearance: it possessed an arachnid-like head with numerous eyes and mandibles in place of his mouth, his decapitated arm grew grotesquely into a great skeletal hand similar to a Power Fist. The Lord of Flies proceeded to wreak havoc inside the fortress, killing two of his former comrades before Captain Garro strode forth and slew the monstrosity outside the fortress on Luna's barren, airless surface, casting the Lord of Flies' daemonic spirit back into the Warp from whence it came.
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