Editing Typhus (section)

==History==
[[File:Calas Typhon Human.jpg|300px|thumb|right|A [[remembrancer]] sketch from when he was Calas Typhon. Somehow he managed to look just as grimy then as he is now.]]
Back in the heyday of the [[Great Crusade]], Typhus was born as Calas Typhon on the planet Barbarus. He was the first normal human [[Mortarion]] ever interacted with, the one that finally made the young Primarch rebel against his adoptive 'father', the Overlord Necare, in earnest. The two developed a close bond of brotherhood during their war against the Overlords, such that Typhon was one of the few people Mortarion trusted implicitly.

Part of the reason the two bonded so readily was that both, in their ways, were outcasts despite being adulated by the common people. Mortarion, being a [[Primarch]], was simply completely beyond mere humans. Typhon, for his part, was the bastard offspring of one of the Overlords of Barbarus and a human, which set him apart from the others in all but shared hatred of the wretches. It was an open secret that Typhon was a [[psyker]], but Mortarion's distrust toward anything reeking of the Overlords' 'blasphemous sorcery' made it so that Typhon barely ever called upon his powers. The only time it came up in earnest was when it proved impossible to bring the fight to Necare, at which point Typhon suggested using the Overlords' own power against them. Mortarion, disgusted by the idea, forbade it and Typhon acquiesced, never bringing the subject up again. When the Emperor came to Barbarus and got Mortarion to pledge his allegiance to the Imperium, Typhon was among the first Barbarans to be inducted into the XIV Legion, the newly renamed Death Guard.

Typhon started off as a line legionary, though his prior relationship with Mortarion meant that he could generally speak to the primarch with a level of familiarity that no other low-ranking Death Guard could get away with. He was promoted to sergeant during the Conquest of Galaspar and ultimately ascended to First Captain, becoming Mortarion's right-hand man once again. With Mortarion's stance on psykers (officially, the Death Guard had no [[Librarian|Librarius]] and only grudgingly tolerated [[Astropath]]s and [[Navigator]]s); Typhon took those very few unlucky Death Guard that manifested psychic powers under his wing, helping them control and conceal their powers like he did. But concealed doesn't equate to nonexistent, and eventually Typhon formally learned of the existence of the [[Chaos Gods]] from his good friend [[Erebus]] of the [[Word Bearers]] (slimy fuck extraordinaire). Finally 'enlightened' as to his true nature and that of the [[Warp]], Typhon needed little prodding to formally sell his soul to [[Nurgle]], whose murmurs he'd heard since Barbarus but could not understand.

He quietly helped corrupt Mortarion into the traitor camp behind the scenes, then took a large chunk of the Death Guard fleet and fucked off to do his own thing sometime after the [[Battle of Isstvan III]], which really pissed Mortarion off. He spent most of the Heresy roaming the galaxy on his own, serving Nurgle's designs. Along the way, he got into several fights with the Dark Angels and also briefly met up with [[Luther]] and his [[Fallen|faction]] of the I Legion. Finally, just before the [[Siege of Terra]], Erebus instructed him to rejoin the main Death Guard fleet, since it was time for Mortarion to accept his destiny. Typhon planted evidence that the fleet's [[Navigator]]s were closet loyalists and had them all executed. When a very annoyed Mortarion asked him how they were supposed to get anywhere now, Typhon said he could use his own psychic abilities to get them to [[Terra]]. Instead, he deliberately led the Death Guard into a trap and becalmed them in the Warp, where they were left at the mercy of Papa Nurgle, who unleashed the Destroyer Plague and Nurgle's Rot on them and their ships. The Death Guard's innate resilience to diseases and toxins, enhanced by [[gene-seed|Mortarion's genetic legacy]], kept them alive but [[grimdark|left them in a state of constant agony]]. Typhon's response to all this? "MOAR!" Mortarion tried to kill him in retaliation for what he'd done, but the Destroyer Hive entered his body and kept him alive, and thus he became Typhus, Herald of Nurgle. Eventually, after what felt like [[Grimdark|an infinite amount of time watching his sons suffer]], Mortarion gave in and accepted Papa Nurgle "gifts". Greatly pleased, Nurgle turned the entire legion into [[Plague Marines]] and dumped them on [[Terra|Granddaddy's doorstep]].

Then Horus lost them all the Siege and Typhus got scoured into the Eye of Terror, presumably with lots of wet-wipes and handgel.

Over the following ten thousand years, Typhus has brought death and despair to the worlds of the [[Imperium]], slaying those who would reject the love of Father Nurgle by sharing his foul gifts. Others kill themselves at the sight of such a diseased individual, or maybe it's because of the smell. Like plaguebearers, his mission is to hug every living thing; too bad anything he touches (read: walks within 20 paces of) becomes a semiliquid sloppy green slime. While there are [[Honsou|many]] [[Fabius Bile|sick]] [[Urien Rakarth|fucks]] in the galaxy, Typhus should be noted for being one in the most literal form imaginable; being able to liquefy normal men into corrosive disease-ridden slurry before he can make any friends.

While [[Khârn]] has a kill-count in the billions, Typhus and his fleet have killed countless trillions.

He currently leads a large fleet, the [[Plague Fleet]], he looted from papa, spreading the Plaguefather's gifts along his battles like a sick parody of Santa Claus.

He once defeated Huron of the Red Corsairs in a duel ([[Awesome]]!), but lost to Azrael of the Dark Angels ([[Derp|Seriously]]!?!).

Typhus participated in both the [[Black Crusade|13th Black Crusade]] and the [[Plague Wars]].

Recently it looks like he was sent by [[Abbadon]] to conquer the world of Metalica along with the whole of Charadon system, as per new reveals in [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/11/21/warhammer-preview-online-decadence-decay/ the Decadence and Decay stream]