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Perturabo I can see being aligned to a single Chaos God, which one is the best suit I am not sure. Perhaps he is elevated by a lesser known power? There is something in the latest book Slaves to Darkness that made me think this. I also had an idea that perhaps he didn't become a Daemon Prince after all. Usually when the traitor Primarchs are mentioned they are the 'Daemon Primarchs' but in the Death Guard Codex he is simply Perturabo. This is unlikely though. After the Iron Cage he offers up the Gene-seed taken from the slain Imperial Fists and gains ascension. Got the idea of how the ritual is carried out from Fulgrim perhaps?

Lorgar is tricky and a solid candidate for Undivided. Would he offer himself up to single power, I don't think so. Maybe it's like willy277 says, he does enough to gain favour with each power to gain ascension, but Be'lakor fluff goes against this. Or, he forces their hand/tentacles/claws. He knows enough ritual probably to force the Gods to do the deed.

In a way Undivided must be hard to pull off and kinda doesn't make a lot of sense. I can kinda see why GW have tried to move away from the idea, even though Undivided is cool.

 Nightlord1987 wrote:
I'm betting that Perturabo will become the Techno-Virus themed Daemon Primarch. It was already listed in the Death Guard codex that he and Mortarion worked together on perfecting the Obliterator Virus. IMO, Perturabo is marked by Nurgle, whether he knows it or not. (Perty should be like a super Obliterator.)

You do have a point here and there does seem to be a connection to this mentioned in Slaves to Darkness. I thought that this might be a lesser known Chaos power but it does seem to be affiliated with Nurgle as the sevenfold path is mentioned, as is the sixfold, I guess being Slaanesh, which apparently has made Perturabo weaker since Iydris.

In the 7th Ed Chaos Codex it's mentioned

P30 The Tyrants of Medrengard:
This planet sized stronghold is the Domain of the Primarch Perturabo - Reincarnated as a mighty Daemon Prince by the Ruinous Powers that guide him.

P38 Word Bearers

As the atrocities carried out in the name of devotion rose to new heights, Lorgar was rewarded by his patrons with the gift of daemonhood. Finally, he truly was the equal of a God, and the birth scream of this newest Daemon Primarch was said by Astropaths to have echoed through the Warp with triumphant vindication.

Slaves Darkness seems to also change the nature of the Techno Virus, but then maybe not.

BrianDavion wrote:


that and the grinding attritional style of siege warfare is totally nurglesque.

This is true, Perturabo and Mortarion also working together to create the Techno Virus would seem to suggest that but as detailed in Rust and Ruin on p23 of the Death Guard Codex

Yet the longer the fighting rages, the more contagious and metaliphage poxes of the Death Guard spread through the Iron Warriors ranks. Ancient Heretics sicken and collapse. Malevolent siege engines seize with rust and shudder, sparking to a halt ...

To me this would suggest that the IW do not have favour of Nurgle.