Grey Knight Names

[Rurik the blessed]

Hello Brothers,

I found something that i want to share with all of you.

 

This weekend i was finishing some PAGK that i have forgotten in the warp. And i thought ... what name shall i put to each one?

 

then i did a search through a lot of sites, and i found this one...

 

http://www.20000-names.com/male_latin_names.htm

 

 

There is a bunch of very good names that we can take and their meaning.

 

 

so... what will you take? please share.

 

 

 

 

 

[jeffersonian000]

That's a neat site, true enough. Personally I go with variants of biblical names, because I'm all about bringing on the righteousness. Smite makes Right, after all.

 

SJ

[Reclusiarch Darius]

I'd definitely be on the hunt for names with biblical, Roman or Greek origins. A lot of the existing list of named characters in the canon draw upon such sources. They're supposed to be High Gothic names, which is itself (in both in-universe and RL terms) inspired by links to the distant pre-Unity past of Terra. 

 

Apparently Knight names are also formed around mathematical concepts. Below is an excerpt from 'Kaldor Draigo: Knight of Titan', a short story from Black Library;

Kaldor Draigo. The Saviour of Acralem. Supreme Grand Master of the Grey Knights. Both titles ring hollow, now – what have I saved, truly? And of whom am I the master anymore? Exiled from reality itself by my nemesis, the thrice-accursed daemon prince M’kar, I am alone. Alone in the hearth-realm of daemonkind, and the dark lords of Chaos. Alone with those who seek my destruction with every fibre of their immortal beings. Was it hubris that brought me here? Vainglory? Perhaps, though in the beginning it had seemed like something more noble. Some might say that the signs were there all along, and that my destiny was… confused from the beginning. True enough, beyond the cautious counsel of my fellow Grand Masters – Fenrick, Kai, Mordrak – the prognosticars on Titan openly condemned my ascension to Chapter Lord. After the humbling of Mortarion at Kornovin, I stood before them in the augurium and demanded to know the reason why.

 

Only one of them would meet my gaze. His face lined with decrepitude beyond his transhuman years, Sighted-Brother Verus pursed his lips. I could only guess at what he saw when he looked at me. ‘You have come far, Master Draigo,’ he said, ‘but this is not your path to follow. You led the Sixth Brotherhood. Six hundred and sixty-six – the number of our Chapter, and one that has had many meanings throughout the history of mankind. Six times six, thirty-six. The total of the numbers from one to thirty-six? Six, six, six. One hundred and twenty-one primes, squared to eleven. Eleven primes in thirty-six. There is a pattern here, you see.’ I frowned, his meandering riddles lost upon me. ‘Numerology, and circular coincidence. I do not understand.’ ‘Your name, according to the old divinations, is a killing word, though it was not for the daemon primarch Mortarion. Kappa, the decadive, in opposition to Mu, the twelfth. A-L, in conjunction. Mal to Kal, cancelled by the second. Delta, Omicron, Rho – the D and the R combine to a symmetry greater than the Quaestor. There is a pattern here too…’ After much deliberation and more arcane babble that I did not fully understand, I left the augurium and never returned there in person again. It seemed that the basis of their objection was that I had been destined for something greater, and yet now I had usurped that which rightfully belonged to another. To their sight, I was a soul with two incompatible destinies, and the time would come when I would have to risk everything in order to pursue either.

 

Of course its handwavium at its finest, but if you wish to create original names, something to consider. I'm sure the more mathematically gifted amoungst our number could make similar patterns with a name.  

[Dread]

I just plain ol' like it! When I need a name for a chacater, POOF I find one. Thanks for the share.