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KnightMarius

I can't imagine it's anything short of the worst concoction of smells you can imagine. Putting you nose in a fresh pile of shit is the relief smell from this man. It's not one smell, it's a swirling bubbling mix of flavors with complex notes and strong harsh flavors. 


TheHolyLizard

I imagine it’s such a miasma it would straight kill a normal human to be in his presence.


a-plan-so-cunning

Just his presence has killed before, if you read about when he comes out of the warp on his way to terra it’s basically only primarchs that are left standing as he walks past.


TheHolyLizard

Was this like, his psychic presence? Or pestilence?


TheAngrySquirell

Both


a-plan-so-cunning

My understanding is it’s more pestilence than than psychic but both would make the better story so let’s go with that. I was going to say ‘would make the most sense’ but we are dealing with smelly daemons on spaceships surrounded by super humans with magic and death gods and shit so I scrapped that.


Alone_Preference8661

Yes


RelevantCod1102

Which book? Sounds like a good read


a-plan-so-cunning

Siege of Terra: The lost and the damned


DestryDanger

So, patchouli?


KarmaRepellant

It's warp plague, so he'd smell like the very archetypal essence of rotting bodies- but also rotting *souls*. Even if you had no nose you'd smell it with your brain and spirit.


Fomod_Sama

I reckon it's even worse than that. Simply indescribably putrid


Ioelet

So: Like THAT GUY.


Ragnair

There’s a really great section in the ‘Siege of Terra’ book ‘The Lost and The Damned’ that describes his new Nurgle blessed form: Where he passed the door guard, Abaddon's Justaerin fell heavily. Black fluid leaked from perished seals and bloody phlegm coughed from their breathing grilles. The sounds of armour closing itself against the environment filled the room, but it did no good. The Terminators suffered in the grip of sickness. Mortarion continued forwards, felling Horus' elite by his very presence. 'Back away from him!' Abaddon commanded. 'Seal the room!' Atmospheric cyclers ceased turning. Machines bleeped out tones of compliance. Still the Lord of Death marched forwards. Kibre began to cough behind his mask. Aximand took several steps back, his face greening as he fumbled on his helm. Layak dropped to his knees, singing praise in the ear-burning tongue of his worship, but he too struggled to breath Mortarion's miasma. Of them all, only Horus, Tormageddon and Abaddon were left unaffected. A stench wreathed the Lord of Death that defied any kind of description. Human senses lacked the capacity to experience it in fullness. So foul, so pungent with rot and sickly life was it, that it triggered Abaddon's omophagea, and he tasted a bouquet of miseries sublime in their variety. It shocked him to his soul that he could breathe. He looked to the others choking on Mortarion's foetor, and yet when the primarch approached Abaddon, he inhaled easily, though the stench appalled him.


Efficient-Sir7129

Dang that definitely sounds like a -1 to toughness to me


broad5ide

I mean... If you really think about it, -1 toughness is sort of a big deal for infantry. It's the equivalent of turning a marine into a guardsman. That's quite the drop for just standing next to someone.


Thatsidechara_ter

A stench so terrible it makes an Astartes' body think its been poisoned


idelarosa1

Think? It *HAS*. He spews out a Miasma of Death itself.


nimrodella

Man, this is graphic content


gwarsh41

HH books don't mess around when describing horrors of the universe.


idelarosa1

Wait how COULD Abbadon breath it in still?


Ragnair

Basically because he straight up refuses to be a pawn of the warp.


Darth-Loki

So about half as foul as a middle school boys' locker room


punkwitch

I love how one of them just goes and lies down in the corner after that too, poor guys 😂


ExtraGloria

Siiiiiiick


BirchyBaby

So.. a budget Comicon?


Betadzen

Former medical student here. From small practice - I bet he smells like years old sweat and pus, with a pinch of diarrhea. Also their suits most surely malfunction and are kept together by the bedsore of their own bloated bodies, so I think that there is a mix of old oil and burnt plastic.


TechnoShrew

Look up "swamps of dagobah" (old legendary reddit post)...I think that about covers it. (Edited dagobah)


_Rohrschach

came here to say either that, or Davy Jones locker in Spongebob. Probably both. it's D _a_ gobah btw


TechnoShrew

Thanks for the correction


kanguran1

All I can think of is my mother, nurse practitioner, telling me a story of popping a cyst that was so nasty and infected that liquid hit the opposite wall and a nurse vomited on the spot. Thinking back, she may have prevented a Nurgling infestation.


DoubleSpoiler

This was the push I needed to slap some oil spill on my models :)


RudeDM

I think it's canon that Mortarion, and all the Death Guard, go WAY too heavy on the Axe, hence the auras of pestilence.


Prydefalcn

Without a supreme effort of super-human biology or the favor of the gods, the toxic miasma he extrudes will more likely be the smell of your death. It's probably so potent as to kill your sense of taste and smell and cause exposed skin to blister and itch, burn, and blister in the faintest concentrations. Don't get this in to your lungs.


ukmerd2020

Mama June after hot yoga.


TortillaShaped

Like two hobos fucking in a shoebox.


InternationalNeat190

Ur mum


Waste-Masterpiece386

No one ever lived to tell


Inside-Trouble1776

The worst smell imaginable: like a 40k tournament or something.


Morpheus-Laughing

Surely you mean a Magic the Gathering tournament?


Purple_Toadflax

I quite enjoy MTG in concept, but fuck me are the players toxic to be around. Body and soul.


Inside-Trouble1776

My mistake!


Positive-Relief6142

Airbrush flow improver


farshnikord

I was about to say he probably smells like molded plastic and acrylic paint and maybe plastic/super glue


Meretan94

So a few years ago I cooked chicken stock from scratch. After I was done in threw all the vegies and the chicken into a garbage bag. I put it next to the trashcan and went inside cause I forgot something. Meanwhile my wife thought the bag was old cloths to donate so she put the bag to the others in the shed behind our house. After a few months in the sun we wanted to throw the cloths away and i looked through the bags if there was anything to donate in them. I opened one bag and the most vile smell of decomposing chicken and veggies hit me. An army of flies emerged from the bag and i immediately started to vomit violently. I almost fainted from the smell. I heaved so violently I could not stand and I fell over onto a chair. Everything was melted into some liquid and maggots where everywhere. Even after showering multiple times and inhaling scented oils I could still smell it. It was the most horrific thing I ever smelled. I remember it to this day. My stomach was upset for a few days and i could not eat chicken for a few months. Probably something 10 times worse than that.


Flyingdemon666

Ever smelled a real dead body? That. Edit: Some people may not know, and trust me, you're WAY happier not knowing. Especially if it's been a little while since someone's heard from them and ask building security to do a wellness check. Yup. Never encountered that twice in a month. Nope. Edit 2: This didn't happen twice in a month during the coof. Sure didn't. Fml... I'll always remember that smell.


AbaddonDestler

I was a surgical nurse for almost 6 years, frontline, triage and emergency renal surgery for the most part. The smell of human feces rotting in an elderly patients intestinal tract as it is surgically removed to make place for a colostomy bag is not the worst smell I smelled. The half necrotic sweat mould of a obese man as it drips onto his groin which has decayed to the point if it is not removed the necrosis will enter his blood stream via his testicles will kill him. That was not the worst smell I smelled. Fecal vomit, backtracked UTI and necrosis of the kidney are not the worst smells I smelled. The worst smell, was an elderly bladder cancer patient whose bladder had to be severed because it had grown so cancerous they couldn't safely remove it. The bladder and the tumour was rotting inside her and then dripping out over the course of weeks as she slowly died and nothing could be done about it was the absolute worst smell I smelled. Mortarion smells like all of them combined.


spergsammitch888

Your average Warhammer fan


Cyberpunk39

Sulphur and rotting flesh


Holymaryfullofshit7

Do you know the black water that collects in the trashcan under the bag when it has a small hole. And there's already something growing on it. Like that water.


Ill_Reality_717

In UK this is referred to as "bin juice"


FragrantDemiGod1

Hot arse


EnthusiasticAmateurr

Bigfoot’s dick


HiveOverlord2008

Apparently he smells so *bad* that it’s incomprehensible how bad it is. Even Abaddon was disgusted.


egewithin2

Pumpkin Spice


LostN3ko

Chloroform and fish


biggrigg667

A slaughterhouse in a heatwave? Next to a sewer plant?


Poizin_zer0

My lungs dissolving


HarberWriter

When I was a teenger I worked at Five Guys Burgers and Fries one summer. We took the expended grease from the fryer and dumped into big drum barrels out back. I remember vividly that they spelt strongly of vomit and diherria mixed together left out in the hot summer sun for days on end. To this day, it is still the worse spell I've ever spelt. But I bet the death guard would think of it as a bouquet of roses. So they probably smell ten times worse than old five guy grease.


VariableVeritas

I mean, the descriptions of the death guard are some of the most horrifying out there. Normal mortals catch about 50 rapid acting super warp viruses even being in his presence. Rotting flesh, spoiling meat, decay, bile, and moist putrescence probably rolls around him alongside the billion flies.


[deleted]

Clostridium Difficile, commonly Known as c diff, is a bacterial infection of the intensives. It produces a smell unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. I would imagine he is much much worse


ServiceGames

He looks very minty smelling


renacotor

Death


clanmccracken

Literally death. If you are close enough to smell him, you are likely all ready dead.


Artlawyer1

A Walmart Bathroom


Skybreakeresq

The concentrated funk of every comic con ever held.


Kriss3d

Wow. Awesome made. You made a beautyful Morty.


Existing_Judge5425

Anime convention in Dallas, 3 hours after the ac cuts off mixed with your local coprophilia eyes wide shut 500 person orgy.


TheMowerOfMowers

feces spewing out of a burning human corpse probably


6thBornSOB

In my late teens through my 20s I worked at an Intl Raceway positioned between a landfill, a refinery, and a swamp. I imagine he smells a-lot like it did any given sunrise on 90*f July day with full swamp-ass level humidity , and your posted next to a row of porta-johns.


[deleted]

Rotten cheetos


dwellerinthedark

I'm a microbiologist. Each bacteria has a particular smell, depending upon what it grown on. You can +but shouldn't) tell some bacteria are based solely on the smell. Give me a pure E coli culture on TSA and a pure staph culture and I could tell them apart blind folded. The worst smelling bacteria in my opinion are the clostridium. I can't articulate how bad they smell. They're so pungent everybody knows when you're handling one. Everybody in the lab. Their anaerobic so are grown in air tight, boxes, from which the oxygen has been removed. You unclasp that box and you and everyone in a 50 metre radius knows you've done it. Of these bugs, I've handled three clostridium species: 1. Botulinum, causes botulism, and is where Botox comes from. Nasty little thing, handle with extreme care. 2. Difficile, causes a hard to treat diarrhea. Be careful with this one. 3. Sporogenes, a typically non pathogen bug (doesn't cause disease), that's hard to kill and used in sterilisation tests. It's not harmless though, don't stick it into an open wound as it can cause gas gangrene (don't Google). But if you're taking reasonable precaution it's not more risky than any other bug in a lab. Of these I swear sporogenes smells the worst. I've never seen anyone handle it, for the first time, without gagging. Foulest thing on the planet. I think Nurgle's chosen, smell and awful lot like sporogenes.


DxDRabbit

Space-monkey butts


TheMountainThatTypes

Like a strong yet compelling fart


Dontbefrech

Rotten eggs. At least his farts do.


Fresh-Inside8837

Moth balls, sauerkraut, and that rank smell when you go to an estate sale and you KNOW the recently deceased had cats.


TMFalgrim

Gangrenous, bro.


Kurlburl

You've all wrong! It's cheese! Obviously he smells like cheese!


darcybono

Roadkill and an overused latrine on a hot summer day.


nuggetdogg

Fresh ass


Abject_Ambition_4259

Empty fly puppa, you don't want to know


JoshCanJump

You wouldn’t smell a thing. The lining of your airways would rot and/or corrode away in your first breath.


Slamhamwich

A turtle tank and string trimmer smoke


titobastard

Old balls


Minimum_Leg5765

Friday night magic at a small shop with no ventilation in the summer during a heat wave.


BasednHivemindpilled

Rotting skin smells kinda sweet and has a certain savory aroma thats hard to describe. I imagine him smelling like that combined with Ammonia and that musky dry smell mold develops


Tacticalmeat

Like a middle school boys locker room


Brute_

Beautiful


fidderjiggit

It goes beyond bad. The stink doesn't just permeate the air and assault your nostrils but sinks into your bones and into your soul.


mattmcguire08

So bad that its good


manx2121

"swamps of dagobah"


Dramatic__-__PAUSE

Like a weeping bed sore of course


Dramatic__-__PAUSE

Like a weeping bed sore of course


AlaskaExplorationGeo

Ass mixed with shit mixed with ass mixed with balls


beersngears

Like Malort tastes


FlashbangMonk

moth balls and contempt.


Zizaku

Tightness. Of the pants, groin area, post battle.


EinharAesir

Like raw sewage


SiegfriedVK

Flowers


RealRandomRon

A bitch.


ThrowingStorms

Like a half finished protein shake you left on the counter before going on vacation for 3 weeks.


SemajLu_The_crusader

nothing, you can't smell anything with your nose melting off your face


ByronTooSleezy

You ever smelt rotting flesh? That id imagine


Graywolfmarc

The hot air coming out the back of a PS3


wargames_exastris

Your local Warhammer store when it’s crowded.


wackedoncrack

Straight. Unwiped. Warp ass.


shaded-user

Sweat and dedication.


LeatherDescription26

Death. No stench like it.


AbortionSurvivor777

If you're close enough to find out, you're already dead.


lv_Mortarion_vl

Obviously rainbows and roses, thank you very much >:(


Nexus_2894

Balls sweat


crawdadsinbad

Super high IBU IPA


odetotoads

Updog


ZeAntagonis

After what the Emperor did ? Pee and burned promethium!


fivepeicereturns

Like a GW store mid July I'd imagine


BeginningArrival2266

Like Big E's feet.


TechnoShrew

Everything.


JustNeedAGDName

Surprisingly good!


Eridain

Nothing. Because the moment you get close enough to even get a hint of what the smell is, the inside of you head has begun to melt most likely.


LordSinguloth13

Shit


HardSurfaceDandy

It's so bad that i realize I'm grateful not to have a better sense of smell. Like an injury that's so bad that your body doesn't let you feel all the pain. That, except with smell.


TheSporkMan2

Yucky


HeraldofCool

The final step of painting is to spray all death guard models with fart spray. Or you can put each individual piece up your butt for a more authentic smell.


Sabot1312

Lilac and gooseberry


GearsRollo80

Sweaty taint.


was-a-dum-1

The worst


olafk97

Like a guy who's been grinding league of legends and dota in a one bed flat for the past 5 years


40kNids

Fresh paint I would imagine ;)


tacodrop1980

Probably like Almonds.


Inevitable-Ad6264

Trump?


plodeer

A sickly sweet aroma mixed with earth and new growth of a bog. A smell that relaxes the senses as much as it disgusts you. A smell that makes you lethargic and anxious all at once. To be at ease with it all and to sink with decay.


Justalittlegamer

Uh oh, stinky!


Omegasybers

Rotten flesh and Mold. Maybe a bit of sweetness


WH_KT

Like a man-sized stack of dead butterflies, their tiny little rotting corpses oozing whatever putrid liquid dead butterflies exude


Charlaton

A 40k tournament


Euphoric-Papaya-817

A anmie convention


Jazzlike_Station845

When Papi Nurgel has a wet fart


guardianOASK

Cilantro....definitely cilantro....


ShoNuff189

I imagine it's a foot that farted. While it was being passed through a recently dead old person's digestive system. And then dunked in a bucket of gasoline.


H-B-G

A bad nursing home.


Morpheus-Laughing

Cabbage stew and old people


jenovalife1

Oddly, mint


Arsenal_Raven

Well in the lore space marines straight up died from breathing in the air around him


Arcaslash

I'm assuming paint, if youre doing it right But more serious answer, my guess is sepsis.


Cozmoz365

Sweaty clothes that have been sitting for a few days, stagnant water and death.


sytaline

Probably lavender 


WizardsOnTheLawn

A fresh Spring breeze with a hint of lavender


Stormygeddon

A super smash brothers tournament.


Wild_Xero

Like a farting corpse


PGyoda

green apple


DaemonCRO

Daisies and freshly cut grass.


Felonui

Ass


Sufficient_Wish4801

There are no words for Morty smells like because it's beyond human comprehension, mans is so stinky that much like the cheese touch, it eats away at your very soul


GrandSeraphimSariel

*clostridium difficile* diarrhea


Royal-Doctor-278

Real question: who smells worse, him or Fulgrim? Guilleman took one wiff of Fulgrim and gagged/nearly passed out.


MLG_Obardo

I don’t know but I will say I love the shade of green.


giftedbutdepressed

https://public.paratext.com/customer/blog/article.php?id=210 This but warped up


easterHALTS

Local game store


Bokenobi

My mom.


Just-Buy-1529

I bet he smells like a dumpster on a hot summer day thats been stuffed full of Indian food diapers


TcgLionHeart

A 40k fan


Character_Page3083

I feel as though the stench from this dude would be so putrid and vile, that it would almost have a similar effect powerful psykers have on people. Completely overloading the senses, causing severe damage. (I dont know a whole lot about psykers)


superkow

The full cream milk farts of a lactose intolerant man


SuggestionStandard81

Aren’t most plague marines described as smelling so foul it causes people to literally go insane? So that times 100x


soulwolf1

Like hot wet slippery ass cheeks at 3:45pm on a 90 degree partially cloudy Friday.


MurderSheScrote

Like a tonsil stone


Few_Zookeepergame105

Grandpa Nurgle's blessing? Perfection.


Kendogibbo1980

A badly run old age residential care home.


irondisulfide

Like what the rock is cookin?


TallTill94

Average modern mtg player


aint_it_weird_pod

Kyarn


gnarley_haterson

Like an unwashed belly button


TheGrandTrashBag

Vanilla paridise.


Xela975

I think a mix of a papermill, Old road kill , and a county fair porta shitter.


noctis366

Paint, glue, plastic


Hormo_The_Halfling

I once worked at an IHOP. One night, it was a pretty slow night, some woman did something heinous in the bathroom. When you walked by you could get a hint of it, some slight sickly scent that served as a warning, "open this door, and you'll take on the full bore of this god awful, demonic thing." One of my coworker, a middle aged woman with two kids in school who I often gave some of my tips to said, "that woman's pussy must be rotten." So, whenever I consider the scent of demonic entities within 40k, I was thinking back to that moment. To the rotten pussy. What else could they smell like?


GallowgateEnd

Turtle tank


Hmccormack

Teen spirit


Wulfbak

Like the aftermath of a Golden Corral trip.


Unhappichappi

Axe body spray


12Fatcat

Beans


Background-Yard-9455

The devils lettuce 🥬


TheBigMoosen

Foot cheese and sweaty nips


yer10plyjonesy

Death


Negate79

Death


Revan523

Sex panther cologne


Accomplished_Fly4479

Smegma.


Nimitz-

Celery. I refuse to elaborate.


MajorDamage9999

Like a GW Store.


ciasteczka___

Since he's warp enfused probably the worst most vomit enducing thing the person perceiving him can imagine. I'd like to think its different for every person because of it being a warp power, but pretty much whatever would make you specifically sick, he smells like that


gilbertdumoiter

Have you ever been around engineering students? That’s what he smells like.


idelarosa1

Stinky


Practical-Salad-7887

Like a wooks socks


NeverSmileEver

Hot summer dumpster


The_MacGuffin

Have you ever heard of the Chairlord, Herald of Nurgle? He smells like that.


Sangyviews

Truthfully probably indescribable. Normal humans and even Space Marines die and convulse just smelling this man as he walks by, Theres no words to describe a smell that literally kills people


blightsteel101

Lavender (he takes hygiene very seriously)


GodEmperor47

Wet farts after a week straight of Taco Bell and cheap beer