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''The Death Guard are never perturbed, for there are few things more horrifying than they, and they know the Plague God smiles down upon them.''

Each time a Morale, Leadership, or Fear test is taken for this unit, ignore any or all modifiers.

Each time a Morale, Leadership, or Fear test is taken for this unit, ignore any or all modifiers. When taking these tests, you can re-roll one or both of the dice results.

=== CONTAGIONS OF NURGLE ===

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''Those favoured by Nurgle are inured to pain, their rotting bodies shrugging off all but the most traumatic damage with ease.''

A model with this ability receives the ~~Feel No Pain (5+) special rule~~.

A model with this ability receives the [FEEL NO PAIN] keyword.

==== Contagion Abilities ====

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* This unit counts as having Remained Stationary if it did not Fall Back or Advance in your previous Movement phase.

* If this unit has the '''INFANTRY''' keyword, it can ignore any or all modifiers to its Move characteristic, Advance rolls and charge rolls~~. Their movement characteristic is 5” instead of the normal 6” for Infantry units~~.

* If this unit has the '''INFANTRY''' keyword, it can ignore any or all modifiers to its Move characteristic, Advance rolls and charge rolls.

== DEADLY PATHOGENS ==

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''This pathogen attacks its victim with incredible speed.''

~~Each time an attack is made with this~~ weapon~~, a hit roll of 6 scores~~ 1 ~~additional attack with this weapon~~.

This weapon gains the [Sustained Hits 1] keyword.

=== VIRULENT FEVER ===

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''The pathogen manifests itself as a viscous liquid with a stench so foul it can make lungs bleed. When it seeps into cover or terrain, the landscape is rendered utterly useless to enemy troops.''

~~Each time an attack is made with this~~ weapon, the ~~target does not receive the benefits of cover against that attack~~.

This weapon gains the [IGNORES COVER] keyword.

=== UNSTABLE SICKNESS ===

''Those affected by this pathogen explode in a shower of deeply infected gore.''

Each time an attack is made with this weapon, if any enemy models are destroyed by that attack, roll one D6: on a 3+, that model’s unit suffers an additional S5 AP4 hit. If any models are killed by this ability, this ability ~~does not trigger an additional time~~.

Each time an attack is made with this weapon, if any enemy models are destroyed by that attack, roll one D6: on a 3+, that model’s unit suffers an additional S5 AP4 hit. If any models are killed by this ability, this ability repeats.

=== CORROSIVE FILTH ===

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Each time you roll to scatter this weapon, you can re-roll the result.

== PLAGUE COMPANIES ==

[[File:Dggg.png|center|frame|The Plague Companies, scions of the 14th Primarch's disgusting wrath.]]

== PLAGUE COMPANIES ==

If your army is Battle-forged, '''<PLAGUE''' '''COMPANY>''' units in '''DEATH''' '''GUARD''' Detachments gain access to the following Plague Company rules, provided every model in that Detachment that is drawn from a plague company is drawn from the same plague company. Such a Detachment is referred to as a Plague Company Detachment.

=== TRAITS ===

Each Plague Company has an associated Plague Company Trait. If a '''DEATH''' '''GUARD''' '''<PLAGUE''' '''COMPANY>''' '''CHARACTER''' models gains a Warlord Trait, they immediately gain access to the relevant Plague Company Trait in addition to their normal Warlord Trait. All of these are Contagion abilities.

=== RELICS OF DECAY ===

Each Plague Company has an associated Plague Company Relic of Decay. If your army is led by '''MORTARION''' or a '''DEATH''' '''GUARD''' '''<PLAGUE''' '''COMPANY>''' '''WARLORD''', you can give the relevant Plague Company Relic of Decay to a '''DEATH''' '''GUARD''' '''<PLAGUE''' '''COMPANY>''' '''CHARACTER''' model or a squad leader from your army instead of giving them a Relic of Decay. Named characters (such as Typhus) cannot be given a Relic of Decay. Unlike Relics of Decay, you do not need to pay points for the associated Relic for a Plague Company Trait.

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=== HARBINGERS ===

'''TRAIT: SHAMBLEROT'''

''The strains of the zombie virus carried by the Harbingers slowly but surely break mortals around it. It saps at their strength and their dexterity, rendering them useless before the virus consumes them.''

This '''WARLORD''' has the following ability:

‘'''Shamblerot (Contagion)''': While an enemy unit (excluding '''VEHICLE''' units) is within Contagion Range of this unit, at the start of your opponent’s Movement phase, roll one D6, subtracting 1 if that enemy unit has the '''CHARACTER''' keyword: on a 4+, that enemy unit suffers a S4 AP5 hit; on a 6, that enemy unit suffers D6 S5 AP4 hits instead.’

'''RELIC: INFECTED REMAINS'''

''Contaminated corpses and body parts can be used to despoil sacred sites in the name of Nurgle.''

'''HARBINGERS''' model only. Once per battle, at the end of your Movement phase, you can select one objective marker within 3" of the bearer. While the bearer is on the battlefield, that objective marker has the Contagions of Nurgle ability and is considered to have all the same Contagion abilities that the bearer has.

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=== THE INEXORABLE ===

'''TRAIT: FERRIC BLIGHT'''

''The spreading rust of the Ferric Blight, spawned in the immaterium, can reduce armour of all kinds to nothing.''

This '''WARLORD''' has the following ability:

‘'''Ferric Blight (Contagion)''': While an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of this unit, each time an attack is made by a friendly '''INEXORABLE''' model against that enemy unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.’

'''RELIC: LEECHSPORE CASKET'''

''This armoured, rune-inscribed chest is borne to battle aboard the war engines of the Inexorable. Through unclean sorcery it is bound to the soul of a mighty plague champion; as that warrior reaps a tally amongst the foe, so the casket creaks open and spews fecund spores that use the enemy’s parasitised life force to heal the vehicle’s hurts with putrid mutant flesh.''

'''INEXORABLE''' model only. Each time an enemy model is destroyed as a result of a melee attack made by the bearer, select one friendly '''INEXORABLE''' '''VEHICLE''' model within 18" of the bearer. That model regains 1 lost Hull Point. No more than 3 HPs can be regained per turn due to this Relic.

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=== MORTARION’S ANVIL ===

'''TRAIT: GLOAMING BLOAT'''

''The spores of the Gloaming Bloat find their way into all kinds of crannies and crevices, rendering all kinds of weapons ineffective.''

This '''WARLORD''' has the following ability:

‘'''Gloaming Bloat (Contagion)''': While an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of this unit:

* That enemy unit cannot fire Overwatch or Set to Defend.

* Each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack, the hit roll and the wound roll cannot be re-rolled.’

'''RELIC: WARP INSECT HIVE'''

''As a part of their hellish defensive systems, warriors of Mortarion’s Anvil deploy hives of foul warp insects.''

'''MORTARION’S''' '''ANVIL''' model only. Each time the bearer makes a melee attack, you can re-roll the hit roll and you can re-roll the wound roll or armor penetration roll.

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=== THE WRETCHED ===

'''TRAIT: EATER PLAGUE'''

''The Eater Plague gnaws and bites at enemy armour, burrowing into weak points and making rents and gaps.''

This '''WARLORD''' has the following ability:

‘'''Eater Plague (Contagion)''': While an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of this unit, each time an attack is made by a friendly '''WRETCHED''' model against that enemy non-Vehicle unit, an unmodified hit roll of 6 automatically wounds the target.’

'''RELIC: THE DAEMON’S FAVOUR'''

''This vile, crater-pocked poppet-doll is scrimshawed from diseased bone. It teems with the malevolent essence of the Eater of Lives himself, his power billowing forth in gnawing clouds.''

'''WRETCHED''' '''MALIGNANT''' '''PLAGUECASTER''' model only. The bearers '''Pestilential Fallout''' ability is replaced with the following ability:

‘'''Torrent of Putrefaction''': Each time this model successfully manifests a psychic power, the closest enemy unit within 12" suffers D3 S4 AP5 hits.

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=== THE POXMONGERS ===

'''TRAIT: SANGUOUS FLUX'''

''Bleeding sores erupt all over enemies afflicted by the Sanguous Flux, the wounds never clotting or healing.''

This '''WARLORD''' has the following ability:

‘'''Sanguous Flux (Contagion)''': While an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of this unit:

* Subtract 2 from the Leadership characteristic of models in that enemy unit.

'''RELIC: IRONCLOT FURNACE'''

''Comprising an ever-burning alchemical engine lodged within the bearer’s armour and an array of rune-carved, coiling tubes and exhausts that spill from it, this foul artefact churns out warp-charged pollutants that coat nearby Daemon Engines.''

'''POXMONGERS''' model only. The bearer has the following ability:

‘'''Ironclot Furnace''': In your Command phase, you can select one friendly '''POXMONGERS''' '''DAEMON''' '''ENGINE''' unit within 6" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase, models in that unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.’

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=== THE FERRYMEN ===

'''TRAIT: THE DRONING'''

''The Warlord is surrounded by a cloud of fat plague flies, who harass the Death Guards enemies and eat away at round casings, coolant vats and fuel containment canisters.''

This '''WARLORD''' has the following ability:

‘'''The Droning (Contagion)''': While an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of this unit, at the start of your opponent’s Movement phase, halve that enemy unit’s Move characteristic until the end of the phase.’

'''RELIC: FERRYMAN’S SCYTHE'''

''This grotesquely oversized weapon lops great chunks of armour and flesh from its victims, each lumpen gobbet taken as payment for ferrying the victims soul through the veil and into Nurgle’s malignant garden for all eternity.''

'''FERRYMEN''' model equipped with a manreaper only. This Relic replaces a manreaper and has the following profile:

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|'''Range'''

|'''S'''

|'''AP'''

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|Ferryman’s Scythe

|<nowiki>-</nowiki>

|<nowiki>+3</nowiki>

|2

|Melee, Two-Handed

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=== MORTARION’S CHOSEN SONS ===

'''TRAIT: NURGLE’S FRUIT'''

''The strange lumps that form on victims of Nurgle’s fruit, also known as the boilblight, lumpen splatter or Crawling Pustulence, are easy to spot at distance for the Death Guard.''

This '''WARLORD''' has the following ability:

‘'''Nurgle’s Fruit (Contagion)''': While an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of this unit, each time an attack is made by a friendly '''MORTARION’S''' '''CHOSEN''' '''SONS''' model against that unit, the target does not receive the benefits of cover against that attack.’

'''RELIC: VOMITRYX'''

''This gruesome weapon contains a microscopic warp portal that leads directly into the festering guts of the Great Unclean One Ku'Gath. When its nozzle is opened it spews ferocious gouts of the Daemons highly corrosive bile.''

'''MORTARION’S''' '''CHOSEN''' '''SONS''' model equipped with a plague sprayer only. This Relic replaces a plaguespewer or a twin plague spewer and has the following profile:

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 ''The Death Guard are never perturbed, for there are few things more horrifying than they, and they know the Plague God smiles down upon them.''
-Each time a Morale, Leadership, or Fear test is taken for this unit, ignore any or all modifiers.
+Each time a Morale, Leadership, or Fear test is taken for this unit, ignore any or all modifiers. When taking these tests, you can re-roll one or both of the dice results.
 === CONTAGIONS OF NURGLE ===
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 ''Those favoured by Nurgle are inured to pain, their rotting bodies shrugging off all but the most traumatic damage with ease.''
-A model with this ability receives the Feel No Pain (5+) special rule.
+A model with this ability receives the [FEEL NO PAIN] keyword.
 ==== Contagion Abilities ====
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 * This unit counts as having Remained Stationary if it did not Fall Back or Advance in your previous Movement phase.
-* If this unit has the '''INFANTRY''' keyword, it can ignore any or all modifiers to its Move characteristic, Advance rolls and charge rolls. Their movement characteristic is 5” instead of the normal 6” for Infantry units.
+* If this unit has the '''INFANTRY''' keyword, it can ignore any or all modifiers to its Move characteristic, Advance rolls and charge rolls.
 == DEADLY PATHOGENS ==
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 ''This pathogen attacks its victim with incredible speed.''
-Each time an attack is made with this weapon, a hit roll of 6 scores 1 additional attack with this weapon.
+This weapon gains the [Sustained Hits 1] keyword.
 === VIRULENT FEVER ===
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 ''The pathogen manifests itself as a viscous liquid with a stench so foul it can make lungs bleed. When it seeps into cover or terrain, the landscape is rendered utterly useless to enemy troops.''
-Each time an attack is made with this weapon, the target does not receive the benefits of cover against that attack.
+This weapon gains the [IGNORES COVER] keyword.
 === UNSTABLE SICKNESS ===
 ''Those affected by this pathogen explode in a shower of deeply infected gore.''
-Each time an attack is made with this weapon, if any enemy models are destroyed by that attack, roll one D6: on a 3+, that model’s unit suffers an additional S5 AP4 hit. If any models are killed by this ability, this ability does not trigger an additional time.
+Each time an attack is made with this weapon, if any enemy models are destroyed by that attack, roll one D6: on a 3+, that model’s unit suffers an additional S5 AP4 hit. If any models are killed by this ability, this ability repeats.
 === CORROSIVE FILTH ===
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 Each time you roll to scatter this weapon, you can re-roll the result.
+== PLAGUE COMPANIES ==
+[[File:Dggg.png|center|frame|The Plague Companies, scions of the 14th Primarch's disgusting wrath.]]
+== PLAGUE COMPANIES ==
+If your army is Battle-forged, '''<PLAGUE''' '''COMPANY>''' units in '''DEATH''' '''GUARD''' Detachments gain access to the following Plague Company rules, provided every model in that Detachment that is drawn from a plague company is drawn from the same plague company. Such a Detachment is referred to as a Plague Company Detachment.
+=== TRAITS ===
+Each Plague Company has an associated Plague Company Trait. If a '''DEATH''' '''GUARD''' '''<PLAGUE''' '''COMPANY>''' '''CHARACTER''' models gains a Warlord Trait, they immediately gain access to the relevant Plague Company Trait in addition to their normal Warlord Trait. All of these are Contagion abilities.
+=== RELICS OF DECAY ===
+Each Plague Company has an associated Plague Company Relic of Decay. If your army is led by '''MORTARION''' or a '''DEATH''' '''GUARD''' '''<PLAGUE''' '''COMPANY>''' '''WARLORD''', you can give the relevant Plague Company Relic of Decay to a '''DEATH''' '''GUARD''' '''<PLAGUE''' '''COMPANY>''' '''CHARACTER''' model or a squad leader from your army instead of giving them a Relic of Decay. Named characters (such as Typhus) cannot be given a Relic of Decay. Unlike Relics of Decay, you do not need to pay points for the associated Relic for a Plague Company Trait.
+{| class="wikitable"
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+=== HARBINGERS ===
+'''TRAIT: SHAMBLEROT'''
+''The strains of the zombie virus carried by the Harbingers slowly but surely break mortals around it. It saps at their strength and their dexterity, rendering them useless before the virus consumes them.''
+This '''WARLORD''' has the following ability:
+‘'''Shamblerot (Contagion)''': While an enemy unit (excluding '''VEHICLE''' units) is within Contagion Range of this unit, at the start of your opponent’s Movement phase, roll one D6, subtracting 1 if that enemy unit has the '''CHARACTER''' keyword: on a 4+, that enemy unit suffers a S4 AP5 hit; on a 6, that enemy unit suffers D6 S5 AP4 hits instead.’
+'''RELIC: INFECTED REMAINS'''
+''Contaminated corpses and body parts can be used to despoil sacred sites in the name of Nurgle.''
+'''HARBINGERS''' model only. Once per battle, at the end of your Movement phase, you can select one objective marker within 3" of the bearer. While the bearer is on the battlefield, that objective marker has the Contagions of Nurgle ability and is considered to have all the same Contagion abilities that the bearer has.
+|}
+{| class="wikitable"
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+=== THE INEXORABLE ===
+'''TRAIT: FERRIC BLIGHT'''
+''The spreading rust of the Ferric Blight, spawned in the immaterium, can reduce armour of all kinds to nothing.''
+This '''WARLORD''' has the following ability:
+‘'''Ferric Blight (Contagion)''': While an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of this unit, each time an attack is made by a friendly '''INEXORABLE''' model against that enemy unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.’
+'''RELIC: LEECHSPORE CASKET'''
+''This armoured, rune-inscribed chest is borne to battle aboard the war engines of the Inexorable. Through unclean sorcery it is bound to the soul of a mighty plague champion; as that warrior reaps a tally amongst the foe, so the casket creaks open and spews fecund spores that use the enemy’s parasitised life force to heal the vehicle’s hurts with putrid mutant flesh.''
+'''INEXORABLE''' model only. Each time an enemy model is destroyed as a result of a melee attack made by the bearer, select one friendly '''INEXORABLE''' '''VEHICLE''' model within 18" of the bearer. That model regains 1 lost Hull Point. No more than 3 HPs can be regained per turn due to this Relic.
+|}
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+=== MORTARION’S ANVIL ===
+'''TRAIT: GLOAMING BLOAT'''
+''The spores of the Gloaming Bloat find their way into all kinds of crannies and crevices, rendering all kinds of weapons ineffective.''
+This '''WARLORD''' has the following ability:
+‘'''Gloaming Bloat (Contagion)''': While an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of this unit:
+* That enemy unit cannot fire Overwatch or Set to Defend.
+* Each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack, the hit roll and the wound roll cannot be re-rolled.’
+'''RELIC: WARP INSECT HIVE'''
+''As a part of their hellish defensive systems, warriors of Mortarion’s Anvil deploy hives of foul warp insects.''
+'''MORTARION’S''' '''ANVIL''' model only. Each time the bearer makes a melee attack, you can re-roll the hit roll and you can re-roll the wound roll or armor penetration roll.
+|}
+{| class="wikitable"
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+=== THE WRETCHED ===
+'''TRAIT: EATER PLAGUE'''
+''The Eater Plague gnaws and bites at enemy armour, burrowing into weak points and making rents and gaps.''
+This '''WARLORD''' has the following ability:
+‘'''Eater Plague (Contagion)''': While an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of this unit, each time an attack is made by a friendly '''WRETCHED''' model against that enemy non-Vehicle unit, an unmodified hit roll of 6 automatically wounds the target.’
+'''RELIC: THE DAEMON’S FAVOUR'''
+''This vile, crater-pocked poppet-doll is scrimshawed from diseased bone. It teems with the malevolent essence of the Eater of Lives himself, his power billowing forth in gnawing clouds.''
+'''WRETCHED''' '''MALIGNANT''' '''PLAGUECASTER''' model only. The bearers '''Pestilential Fallout''' ability is replaced with the following ability:
+‘'''Torrent of Putrefaction''': Each time this model successfully manifests a psychic power, the closest enemy unit within 12" suffers D3 S4 AP5 hits.
+|}
+{| class="wikitable"
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+=== THE POXMONGERS ===
+'''TRAIT: SANGUOUS FLUX'''
+''Bleeding sores erupt all over enemies afflicted by the Sanguous Flux, the wounds never clotting or healing.''
+This '''WARLORD''' has the following ability:
+‘'''Sanguous Flux (Contagion)''': While an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of this unit:
+* Subtract 2 from the Leadership characteristic of models in that enemy unit.
+'''RELIC: IRONCLOT FURNACE'''
+''Comprising an ever-burning alchemical engine lodged within the bearer’s armour and an array of rune-carved, coiling tubes and exhausts that spill from it, this foul artefact churns out warp-charged pollutants that coat nearby Daemon Engines.''
+'''POXMONGERS''' model only. The bearer has the following ability:
+‘'''Ironclot Furnace''': In your Command phase, you can select one friendly '''POXMONGERS''' '''DAEMON''' '''ENGINE''' unit within 6" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase, models in that unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.’
+|}
+{| class="wikitable"
+|
+=== THE FERRYMEN ===
+'''TRAIT: THE DRONING'''
+''The Warlord is surrounded by a cloud of fat plague flies, who harass the Death Guards enemies and eat away at round casings, coolant vats and fuel containment canisters.''
+This '''WARLORD''' has the following ability:
+‘'''The Droning (Contagion)''': While an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of this unit, at the start of your opponent’s Movement phase, halve that enemy unit’s Move characteristic until the end of the phase.’
+'''RELIC: FERRYMAN’S SCYTHE'''
+''This grotesquely oversized weapon lops great chunks of armour and flesh from its victims, each lumpen gobbet taken as payment for ferrying the victims soul through the veil and into Nurgle’s malignant garden for all eternity.''
+'''FERRYMEN''' model equipped with a manreaper only. This Relic replaces a manreaper and has the following profile:
+{| class="wikitable"
+|
+|'''Range'''
+|'''S'''
+|'''AP'''
+|'''Type'''
+|-
+|Ferryman’s Scythe
+|<nowiki>-</nowiki>
+|<nowiki>+3</nowiki>
+|2
+|Melee, Two-Handed
+|}
+|}
+{| class="wikitable"
+|
+=== MORTARION’S CHOSEN SONS ===
+'''TRAIT: NURGLE’S FRUIT'''
+''The strange lumps that form on victims of Nurgle’s fruit, also known as the boilblight, lumpen splatter or Crawling Pustulence, are easy to spot at distance for the Death Guard.''
+This '''WARLORD''' has the following ability:
+‘'''Nurgle’s Fruit (Contagion)''': While an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of this unit, each time an attack is made by a friendly '''MORTARION’S''' '''CHOSEN''' '''SONS''' model against that unit, the target does not receive the benefits of cover against that attack.’
+'''RELIC: VOMITRYX'''
+''This gruesome weapon contains a microscopic warp portal that leads directly into the festering guts of the Great Unclean One Ku'Gath. When its nozzle is opened it spews ferocious gouts of the Daemons highly corrosive bile.''
+'''MORTARION’S''' '''CHOSEN''' '''SONS''' model equipped with a plague sprayer only. This Relic replaces a plaguespewer or a twin plague spewer and has the following profile:
+|}