>guy named Iron Hand
>has an actual iron hand
>legion is called the Iron Hands
>ship is called the Fist of Iron
who the frick writes this shit?
>guy named Iron Hand. >has an actual iron hand. >legion is called the Iron Hands
>guy named Iron Hand
>has an actual iron hand
>legion is called the Iron Hands
>ship is called the Fist of Iron
who the frick writes this shit?
>Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
>Has only one Sicily.
who the frick writes this shit?
>founds a city
>names it "The New City"
>there are cities founded after it
Sloppy as frick.
Well, it's not called the Newest City, so it's fine.
>Named new city
>Is hundreds of years old
Fricking bullshit writing.
It was written by Arthur Write.
>hey, go find Jim
>who?
>...the guy with the iron hand
>why didn't you just say so?
See how you would never be satisfied?
People with a sense of humour.
>Ultramarines are like marines but better. And blue. But not ultramarine blue.
what do you think about my homebrew chapter then. it's a mix between iron warriors and iron hands. i call it the warriors of the hand.
>ah yes the memorable N'kalatral'Toldolo The Bingwiff'k'k'k and his rivalry with Hegphisg'gigbia'sed'ong
>much better
What's your hometown called?
Wait till OP finds out most names are just "someone famous + profession their ancestors did"
That's just germans.
A lot of Europeans do it.
No we don't. It's only Germans. (Anglo is a type of German. English is German)
I dunno, ask /hhg/
>Legion called the Raven Guard
>they aren't Ravens
>they don't even guard things (in fact defensive positions go against their combat doctrine)
who wrote this
See the case with Corvus Corax and the Raven Guard is actually weird. Corvus was named Corvus by the people of Deliverance. For a long, long while that was his only name. But when he liberated Deliverance from the tech-guilds of Kiavahr, he was additionally bestowed with a cognomen: Corax, or Savior in their language. So he's Corvus the Savior, and his name has nothing to do with birds.
As for the Raven Guard, they were called Raven Guard even before Corvus was rediscovered. Perhaps because they all wore raven armor. And why do they cover themselves in bird skulls and feathers? Well, as part of their initiation they have to capture a specimen of a particular breed of birds native to Kiavahr. They wear the bird crap as proof of their skill as hunters.
So as ridiculous as it sounds the Raven Guard have essentially frick all to do with ravens.
Contrast to the Iron Hands, who are simply named after their leader, who was himself named for his iron hands, which was an instantly recognizable feature of his person and so the most obvious thing to name him for. It makes perfect sense. No fuss or anything.
Most of the primarch names are probably given names, so all of this reddit bickering is nothing but pettiness. BL is still slop, though.
Ok, but why did the Emperor name one of his son "Konrad Curze"? I feel like he set him up for failure with that one
That one actually is a mystery. Konrad didn't take that name for himself, the people of Nostramo just called him Night Haunter and he ran with it (strange in itself since none of them saw daylight anyway), but when they first met the Emperor gave him the name Konrad Curze. Not a clue as to why.
For some reason only a few of these guys got names from daddy. Like, Perturabo always knew his name was Perturabo even though nobody had told him so and he had no idea what the word meant, he just knew that's who he was. Same with Alpharius, he knew that was his name before anyone told him it was. By contrast Lion El'Jonson didn't have a name for himself before Luther gave him one, but even before then Lion knew he was the first of something, though he had no idea what he was the first of.
So yeah sticking that name on Konrad is plain confusing.
>his name has nothing to do with birds.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/corvus#Noun_2
>guy named Angron
>his defining moment is him getting angry
>the guy named Perturbo is perturbed
>the guy named Curze is cursed
>the guy named The Emperor is the emperor
I’m still waiting for the reveal that the Emperor was created by, the brilliant Perpetual Scientist, John Godemperor.
Me. I thought it was cool. People generally seem to agree.
Nothing beats the DA fortress being named after a gaybar.
when they fleshed out the history of the primarchs you could tell towards the end they ran out of ideas, quoth the raven, nevermore
Just be grateful the SW where at the front and had some history
>Child of the Emperor
>Who is the leader of his children
>Named the Emperors Children
>gay of slop
>who posts slop and is a gay
>is called slopgay
>Europe
>has next to nothing to do with ropes, so how can they be eu
Shit worldbuilding.
See, that doesn't work, as the etymology of those words has nothing to do with each others. Meanwhile OP is actual shitty writing. You could have written instead how America was named after a guy who didn't discover shit.
You're right, but the idea me laugh so I couldn't be bothered to change it.
>legion named Ultramarines
>their color is blue
>ultramarine is a shade of blue
>the Ultramarines are not shaded ultramarine blue 99% of the times
>Ultramarines are also space marines
>Ultramarines are the ultimate space marines, beyond other marines, ultra marines
Who writes this shit?
Ultramarine mixed out of synthetic pigments is darker than the one made of natural ones. The difference is like between Ultramarines from 3dr edition with current ones.
I gets worse, I think CRIMSON Fist armor is closer to actual ultramarine blue.
Ferrus Manus is latin for Iron Hand. So Iron Hand who had iron hands, was the leader of the Iron Hands, who give themselves iron hands in honour of the iron hands of Iron Hand of the Iron Hands, whose main ship is the Fist of Iron.
So the Fist of Iron carries the Iron Hands named after the iron Hands of Iron Hands whose chapter symbol is the Iron Hand of Iron Hands while they also have literal Iron Hands
>who the frick writes this shit?
Advertisers. All the lore is a fricking advert designed to get morons to buy overpriced toy soldiers.
>the lord of the rings.
>there is only one ring.
who wrote that shit?
>there is only one ring.
Agshully there's more than just the one ring to rule them all. There are more magical rings in Lord of The Rings the one ring to rule them all is just the most powerful one.
Why didn't any of the kingdoms use the lesser rings to help the Fellowship?
Gandalf, Elrond and Galadriel had the three Elven rings and drew power from them, 4 of the 7 Dwarf rings were destroyed by dragon fire with the remaining 3 rings in Sauron's hands and the 9 Human rings turned their wearers into the Ringwraiths. The 3 bearers of the uncorrupted Elven Rings did aid or participate in the Fellowship while the bad guys had the 12 other lesser rings
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Lore is mostly just farts. Ghostly long dead elf farts in the Warp
The idea is you play the gsme and come up with your owm stuff.