Though Nurgle is often associated with slothfulness and indolence, his followers represent all aspects of disease – including the mania induced by fever. Rotswords are warriors trapped in a constant state of spasming and twitching, their reeking bodies hot to the touch and covered in the sweat of a terminal ague. With rusted swords they slice open flesh, attempting to proliferate their suffering to others.
Rotswords are oddly belligerent and hasty for followers of Nurgle, and relish wading into the thick of combat where their noisome odour causes foes to recoil and become confused. Unlike their bloated betters, they have yet to burst out of their armour, and so they view the hallowed ranks of the Putrid Blightkings as aspirational, bolting antlers onto their helms in reverence.
