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I might consider this complete! I forgot the nurglings, but maybe that’s what the other flowers are! Budding nurglings!

This Great Unclean One is one based on the parasitic Rafflesia flower. It’s name is Festus the Fragrant. My impromptu lore is that Nurgle created the flowers as an attempt to please Isha in his sort of way, as much as it was an attempt to spread rot to the Galaxy.

The so-called “Pestula Petals’” intoxicantingly putrid stench is known to induce a powerful stupor and to bring a sort of awe and euphoria to the Plaguebearers and Nurglings that flock about Festus.

The microscopic seeds of the flowers root into the bodies of trees, animals, and even the armor of tanks, its roots splitting bones, bark, and steel as it spreads, before finally bursting out as more odorously fragrant flowers. The flowers consume and integrate the genes of its hosts, allowing the flowers to adapt rapidly to even Astartes or Tyranid physiology.

Creatures that have been infested by the Pestula Petals often have their craniums ruptured by the growing flowers, turning their bodies and surroundings into smaller, but no less beautiful, versions of Nurgles’ blessed gardens.

Original colored Here

https://beehaw.org/post/1099615

Linework here!

https://beehaw.org/post/1034644

Sketch here!

https://beehaw.org/post/1000220

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[–] Dee_Imaginarium 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great work and commitment to stick with it! Which program(s) did you use to create this? Also nice lore, very fitting for the 40k universe 😄

Papa Nurgle would be proud!

[–] ArtZuron 2 points 1 year ago

Most of it was done in Rebelle 5, with a bit of help from Krita!

And thank you! I had a lot of fun doing it. The Warhammer wikis are such deep rabbit holes and are fun trying to crawl through.