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Never heard anything about Tau, Eldar or Dark Eldar being corrupted by Nurgle, which is weird because Nurgle corruption spreads through diseases not by temptation. Sure, they are resistant to Chaos, but not all Nurgle's diseases are warp-based.

Also, how the hell do melee units survive an encounter with Nurgle worshippers? Nurgle's worshippers are hosts to dozens, if not hundreds of different viruses and bacterias, shouldn't they be bathed in diseases being so close to them?

One more thing, those diseases don't just attack flesh and bone, they also corrupt weapons, armor, equipment etc.

Unless every encounter with army of Nurgle is fought by bombarding them and shooting from 100 meters away, I don't understand how any of this works.

They aren't immune to Nurgles diseases I imagine. But his diseases are a different thing to being corrupted by Nurgle. Tau also aren't immune to Khornes axe, but they wouldn't fall to Khorne.

Isha manages to get cures out secretly to the eldar after Nurgle tests his diseases on her. I know I've seen that in fluff before. That being said they still aren't 100% immune to everything. I think you don't see these races effected like humans because they simply resist chaos a bit better than humans can

We have a case where Orks were infested with Nurgle's... something, and became sacks full of nurgling eggs. Xenos (non-human species) are susceptible to Nurgle's influences on different levels. Although there does seem to be a distinct lack of Nurgle fluff on non-human species.

As for melee units, for example, in the HH novels the Space Marines who encountered Daemons of Nurlge don't usually get infected unless their armors were cracked open or their helmets blew away. Therefore in an isolated battlesuit, Nurlge's diseases can have a hard time penetrating.

Another example is from the new, eh, Tempestus Scions codex, Tempestor Brellius of the 68th Deltic Lions was infected with some Nurglite AIDS or some thing because a Great Unclean One vomited on him after breaking his mask. Note that the planet they are fighting on is "no more than a hundred miles in circumference", which means the density of that planet must be extremely high, why anyone would live there is anybody's guess. But I digress. Anyways as long as a soldier don't get into physical contact with infection sources, they will likely be fine. And if they do get infected, they get executed, no doubt.

Also Nurgle's disease don't infect equipments instantly. They warp the shapes and probably abilities of those equipments slowly, usually because they are very close the infection source for a very long time (like the armors and weapons Death Guards carry), they can be salvaged by the usual sterilization methods, post battle.

Lastly, it is often said that a Daemonic Incursion usually involves some form of post-battle culling. Taints are to be sort out and removed, and the minds of those more valuable are wiped. So every Daemonic Incursion is a great event where quarantines are to be set up and huge amount of lives lost, which would make sending countless warriors to death even easier. I'd assume for the specialized fighting forces like the SM, SOB and TS, their infected will first be isolated, probably treated. Those who cannot be saved or not worth risk saving are granted "The Emperor's Mercy", their equipments incinerated and infected medical devices, including medicea servitors are shot into a dying sun or something. Kind like how to deal with highly infectious diseases now, 'cept for the dying sun. Just wear protection gears and hope for the best.

Chaos corruption is actually pretty extremely rare by the way; else there would be chaos worlds all over the place. You pretty much need psykers around.


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Come to think of it, how can you be corrupted by a disease? Logically, being a thing of the warp, the disease should have a hard time maintaining itself in realspace and vanish quickly.

Alcibiades wrote:
Chaos corruption is actually pretty extremely rare by the way; else there would be chaos worlds all over the place. You pretty much need psykers around.


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Come to think of it, how can you be corrupted by a disease? Logically, being a thing of the warp, the disease should have a hard time maintaining itself in realspace and vanish quickly.

Nurgle doesn't corrupt mortals by diseases -- he uses it a tool to incite despair, the fear of death in mortal's hearts. He just really, really loves using disease for that, probably because holding a knife in front of someone to scar said person involves giving power to some other Gods of Chaos.

There are examples of orks bearing nurgles rot in the artwork, and nurgle corruption of dark eldar(ish) in the Paths of The Dark Eldar trilogy.

As said earlier, Nurgle's chief emotions are despair and fear of mortality . These are both emotions that are in abundance in humanity, so Nurgle finds more fruitful endeavors in humanity than other species like the Eldar.

 Mr Nobody wrote:
As said earlier, Nurgle's chief emotions are despair and fear of mortality . These are both emotions that are in abundance in humanity, so Nurgle finds more fruitful endeavors in humanity than other species like the Eldar.

I would imagine that the Eldar would be quite vulnerable to Nurgle, what with their fear of dying and all

 dusara217 wrote:

 Mr Nobody wrote:
As said earlier, Nurgle's chief emotions are despair and fear of mortality . These are both emotions that are in abundance in humanity, so Nurgle finds more fruitful endeavors in humanity than other species like the Eldar.

I would imagine that the Eldar would be quite vulnerable to Nurgle, what with their fear of dying and all

Eldar don't have the same level of fear for their mortality that humans do, though. Mostly because they live so long. Eldar are more afraid for what happens after they die, what with Slaaneshi Daemons lining up to eat their souls.

Orks don't fear death and are one of the few xenos societies where they are content in almost every way so long as they get a good fight in every once in a while (which is practically guarantee so long as you have at least two boyz to bash heads with). Their actual body composition is also hardy and resistant to most contagions, there are of course several cases where they have been infected but the only time I've seen people bring up corrupted Nurglite Orks is waaay back in the 3rd ed Daemonhunters Codex where they supposedly mixed up a shrine of Nurgle for that of Gork/Mork and got corrupted that way. I see that as more as a "what if" situation than hard evidence of Orks being easily or readily corruptible by Nurgle.

Anyway if a ork sensed something in orky in another. Odds are they would kill the infected one.

Ork ways of doing things may limit the spread of anything.

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 dusara217 wrote:

 Mr Nobody wrote:
As said earlier, Nurgle's chief emotions are despair and fear of mortality . These are both emotions that are in abundance in humanity, so Nurgle finds more fruitful endeavors in humanity than other species like the Eldar.

I would imagine that the Eldar would be quite vulnerable to Nurgle, what with their fear of dying and all

Eldar don't have the same level of fear for their mortality that humans do, though. Mostly because they live so long. Eldar are more afraid for what happens after they die, what with Slaaneshi Daemons lining up to eat their souls.

Eldar also have the soul stones which guarantee them some form of afterlife. Humans have only faith and hope that some afterlife might exists.