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I'm thinking of doing something pretty plot-twisty right now, I just need to find a way to implement it...

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:
I'm thinking of doing something pretty plot-twisty right now, I just need to find a way to implement it...

You aren't me... You can't pull the "Raela is an Eldar card and it actually makes sense" card or the "Hassassins planned the fall of Fyragh to the point that they camped out where he would go" card.

But go give it a go

 War Kitten wrote:
It would certainly be interesting to see. I could try and come up with an apprentice for Lilliana. The Path of the Eldar book has some good bits about Elder Farseers mentoring the younger ones (and it's also a great place to get Eldar names)

Raela?

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
It would certainly be interesting to see. I could try and come up with an apprentice for Lilliana. The Path of the Eldar book has some good bits about Elder Farseers mentoring the younger ones (and it's also a great place to get Eldar names)

Raela?

That would be incredibly funny. I'll keep it in mind. I'm just scared of what Smudge will do, my forces aren't in a great spot at the moment (Marines have an entire planet full of Orks bearing down on them, Eldar are playing chicken with Chazz and a planet full of cultists)

 War Kitten wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
It would certainly be interesting to see. I could try and come up with an apprentice for Lilliana. The Path of the Eldar book has some good bits about Elder Farseers mentoring the younger ones (and it's also a great place to get Eldar names)

Raela?

That would be incredibly funny. I'll keep it in mind. I'm just scared of what Smudge will do, my forces aren't in a great spot at the moment (Marines have an entire planet full of Orks bearing down on them, Eldar are playing chicken with Chazz and a planet full of cultists)

She's like a foreign intern with a funny accent.

Thanks, yes Petra will train up a promising female knight.

Thanks, yes Petra will train up a promising female knight.

She was training up the serfs as part of a program with Shepard and alenko. Hand to hand training and such.
Shepard was running military aspects.

But I wanted to give her something more compelling.

I did not have her sat all day reading

 jhe90 wrote:
Thanks, yes Petra will train up a promising female knight.

She was training up the serfs as part of a program with Shepard and alenko. Hand to hand training and such.
Shepard was running military aspects.

But I wanted to give her something more compelling.

I did not have her sat all day reading

I am stealing your idea a little and Sylus is going to train up a small force of convicted women to redeem themselves. May or may not be the "Suicide Squad" of 40k

Archarus still needs to go home and find his planet covered in hybrids. Just need to finish writing some stuff up first though.

And my Histans might not survive a plot twist, aside from the fact that everyone has plot armor. If course, I'm still eager to see what it is, and to try and find a way to counter it.

As far as naming goes, I used this http://www.rirekon.com/namegen.php for Scion names, and some arabic name generator for Tallarns. According to their Codex, Scions get mind wiped soon after their training starts, and their names are changed to some High Gothic name of a famous Scion, however the process isn't perfect and some Scions regain some of their memories, such is the case for Riley, who took back his pre-Scion name. The Codex mentions this isn't rare, so I'll probably roll out more Scions with Low-Gothic/more comon names.

No problem, my program was to train up newly recruited serfs to a level of guard at the least. But skilled guard.

Your probbly full spec ops, scion grade training.

My program is not as advanced yet. Starting at guard level and then higher.

My Ultramarines are relatively easy to name. I just look for Roman-sounding names. I've taken some inspiration from the Codex Alera series (I think I got that name right), for my squad names.

Mine are crusade names, cities, castles, leaders for some templers
Ulf is norse
Reaper, sentinal are relating to personality, one a butcher, one a near statue at times.
Brook us from firefly

Irontooth is a "catchan" name , metal jaw in part.

Etc etc

Ships, well my main 3 are templer themed
Destroyers are named after gods, mars, Thor etc
Heavy destroyer leaders, asgard, Olympian etc.

Death korps have no name, there faceless, they are nameless only ranks.

Every character I name from my UM is a model in my existing army. I can just pick one out from the squad to flesh out/kill.

And yes, every member of the Battle Company is named. Yes, I had far too much spare time.

Taihkromn Ryus is made of smashing a keyboard (Taihkromn) and splicing parts of my name together (Ryus)

Sylus is... Sylus.

Apart from Suolyn'ne, all my female names end in -la. Annala, Raela, etc.

I usually have no set system to how I make names.

Now I remember, a few where ment for a short story of templers in a fight vs a inquisitor who went rogue on a planet and toook over as a private empire.

They where tasked to bring him to heal.

Never happened but the crew and marines you see are from that.

Fairfax is named after a scandalous Lord, to play on "Rogue" of Rogue Trader.
Selka is an IKEA lamp. His homeworld is "Lorindech" which is short for "Colour Index Catalogue".
Dekkal is because my friend says I pronounce Decal wrong.
Angela and Allarm (Alan) are my older friends who I talk to about books.
Edward was just as close to "Steward" as I could think of.

I don't think I'm going to get a post up today, I have an inner ear problem that's causing me to overbalance and walk like a drunk, so I'm in bed.
Will do some roll requests before napping though.

Most of my names were just on the spot. Abram sounds commanding enough (slightly like Abraham, a small nod to Lincoln in its own way) Detta is close to Vendetta, and the others were also to vary up the name list. No reason for Vayden, Lars, or Derek as names. Severus (first name of Vayden) sounds nice with Vayden, and nods to the Harry Potter series.

Falkon was because my friend wanted me to name someone that. (I'm trying to get him a power fist, so he can literally do Falkon Punches )

Lastly, Archarus was made because it is similar to arachnid, and Achilles, both of which can be intimidating, and arachnids have their one connotations.

Hope you feel better BC, ear infections suck. (Had a middle and inner ear infection last summer, in the same ear.) You have my sympathy for that, and I wish you a speedy recovery.

So next chance I get to write I’m doing Pavus’s mission into hybrid space, so far I think only Aurelius is joining if anybody else wants in on some space adventures post it here, if you already said yes my bad.

Oh and Nox is going to be en route to help a new friend

So Sylus is now old enough to be a chapter relic.

He's got Julius beat by a hundred years or so.

And he also looks like Jesus because he hasn't shaved. I got Julius beat, son.

Well, I literally fell asleep midway through writing my roll requests, so they may be rather incoherent. No rush dealing with them, as I'm not sure I can sit and type.

Someone should probably be on escort duty, I've yet to see a blurb where frosteel doesn't end up stolen.

I think it's a little late. Me and Chazz probably looted the place dry by now. I suppose you got off lightly, since I didn't have the time to gather prisoners during my raid. It was only a minor victory, after all.

I'm tempted to return and send more dirges into random ships

Would anybody mind if I borrowed the Imperial fists for a bit. And do they have any named characters?

ok, yes. Details later. No, time for now.

Templet ideas got new life.

Captain Marko ramius
3rd company
Full battle company
First +10th support
Strike cruiser. Red October... Lol, no ot needs a name. Can be red October if you want lol
Destoyer escorts, a few for outer picket etc.

That's them, I made them, so go with it. (a ehile ago and try kinda npced)

TS won oldest crusader, Karak and vargos are only about 300!

Young chapter master.

That works chazz