Targetlock Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Hi all, I've started work on a shattered legion combining loyalists from several traitor legions and before starting some background to explain my force as ive been thinking over what to name my characters. the novels have given a rough idea of the name style of each legion. ive done this before this my previous marine forces (such as how my iron wardens have names of russian and slavic origin) and heres what im thinking: Sons of Horus: Roman names, mainly roman commanders and generals. Iron Warriors: Ancient Greek, from the illiad and odyssey and other sources. World Eaters: Barbarian, like from old fantasy novels and characters. what have you fellow warriors come up with your names, would be fun to hear and give me further inspiration :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
God-Potato of Mankind Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Salamanders - Apostrophes Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikhalLeNoir Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Dark Angels: Just search fpr jewish angel names names. Sons of Horus: Really Roman? I don't think so. Horus is egypt, Abbaddon could be middle eastern as well. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580131 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halandaar Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Sons of Horus: Roman names, mainly roman commanders and generals. Not sure I agree with that; if you look at some of the main Heresy SoH characters, a lot of them have names derived from the middle east; Jubal, Tarik, Horus, Abaddon, (and Ezekiel/Ezekyle). Really only Nero Vipus stands out as being roman in style. Roman names is something i much more associate with the Ultramarines. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580134 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrieker Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Raven Guard terrans: Asian eg Soukhounou, Balsar Kurthuri deliverancians: monosyllabic last names. Eg Branne Nev, Nevar Hef, Aloni Tev, Solaro An. But that's not a hard and fast rule, 'Arkhan Fal' is a terran and 'Gerith Arendi' is deliverancian. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
helterskelter Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 2000ad's Blackhawk might give you some gladiatorial names as well as killer and maybe mean arena, bad company and the VC's are pretty good inspiration too Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Loss Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 SoH names are predominately not Roman. Sejanus, for example, is Latin, but there's a difference between Latinised Greek/Hebrew and Latin source: I study Classics and for the sake of my mental health I will not waffle on about this EDIT 2.0: FW make a far greater effort to be more consistent in their use of names than the earlier HH novels, where I think Legion culture wasn't taken into account as much Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580207 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huggtand Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Vlka fenryka - scandinavian names Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calas Typhon Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 World Eaters were supposedly Scandinavian and Germanic themed Emperor's Children were Latin Dusk Raiders, Storm Walkers and Night Lords Terrans would have a lot of British/English themed names, as they were mainly recruited from there. (Shadrak Meduson was called Smith or Smyth, Nathanial Garro as examples) Sons of Horus had a hebrew, Latin theme, as pointed out by Marshal Blood Angels and the Dark Angels were named through Angels and Latin themed. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580343 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balthamal Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 To be honest I think every Legion has it's spread of names. Abaddon for example is a fallen angel in christian mythology, same with ahriman whereas that particular theme is attributed to the Dark Angels. It's true that Legions with a more Greko/Roman feel such as the Ultramarines, Emperor's Children and Iron Warriors have some names that lean in that direction but they're hardly the exclusive preserve. Bottom line, if you come up with cool names run with them. The vast majority of Legions drew recruits from a wide base so a fairly significant breadth of cultural variety is inevitable. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 The disconnect comes from legion characters created without a cultural foundation in the early days of the game. So Ahriman and Abaddon have names from mythology, and everyone else is consistent in some form or fashion. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theradrussian Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Meanwhile Alpha Legion names.... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580489 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calas Typhon Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Meanwhile Alpha Legion names.... Seem to have a German theme too if the these two names are to go by: Pech and Herzog Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plaguecaster Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 What about word bearers names Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 What about word bearers names They tend to be harsh, guttural two-part names with hard consonents - lot's of K's, G's and Q's by the look of the dramatis personae of The Unburdened. Asides from sounding vaguely Mesopotamian (and even then I'm probably missing the mark with that guess by a fair margin) the names seem to be more along the lines of made up as they've gone along rather than stuck to a culture. Again, plenty of room for me to be wrong about that. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyIvan87 Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 For Word Bearers I have always thought of them sounding close to Klingon names in Star Trek.... :P Cheers! /CrazyIvan Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calas Typhon Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Word Bearers seem to follow an "Evil deity"/Hebrew/Middle Eastern naming scheme Erebus, Marduk and Eliphas are three pretty big names that spring to mind. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 White Scars all have Asian names, even the Terrans. As part of their final initiation into the Ordu, they take a Chogorian name typically drawn from myth. Hence Torghun Khan is actually nordic in appearance. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4580897 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Targetlock Posted December 3, 2016 Author Share Posted December 3, 2016 Thanks for all the feedback guys, very helpful :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/328390-legion-character-names/#findComment-4581494 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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