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So for some odd reason, I'm at a complete loss as to what I should name my Chaos Legion. Normally I can come up with names for stuff pretty much on the fly with no problem, but when it comes to naming my beloved anarchists, my brain either freezes up or gives me names that would only work with super Khornate legions. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. A bit of fluff to help you out in helping me out:

The Chaos Legions I'm playing is technically undivided, but have a lot of Slaaneshi leanings. They believe that to serve one of the Dark Gods is to serve them all. Let's say you're out on the battlefield and slaughtering those weak fools of the Imperium/Alien Scum/Robots/What have you, and you're thoroughly enjoying it (If you know what I mean ) In that case, my Legion believes that you're both spilling blood for Khorne and engaging in senseless debauchery of a sort for Slaanesh. Furthermore, did bodies just make wonderful vessels for many diseases, not to mention the degree of knowledge required to actually be effective in fighting. Each one of them also hopes to experience every emotion and feeling possible, from the most unbridled of wrath to the deepest love, and all those petty feelings in between. They see beauty in essentially everything, especially the absolute destruction monuments revered by others coupled with the agony that goes with said monument's destruction. Don't get them wrong, however; they frequently revel in the simplistic joy of butchering a man in the most basic and brutal ways possible. They are also known to be much less, well, LOLEVULZ (Though not exactly good, obviously) than the other Chaos Legions, typically allowing foes the chance to surrender and join their ranks (Usually without being dicks and sacrificing them or something). Also, I'm liable to use green stuff/bitz to add a female Chaos Marine here and there for variety's sake. To explain this, I'll go with "We figured out how to calibrate the geneseed to work with females," or some such.

I'm going to assume that my short summary of their fluff is a bit ADD, as I tend to space out and skip around to different subjects as they come up in my memory. Also, I'm a lazy ba*d and don't feeling like reading it over.

SirDakkalot wrote:. . . I'm a lazy ba*d . . .

http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/misc.php?do=page&template=chaoslegiongenerator

Leez wrote:

SirDakkalot wrote:. . . I'm a lazy ba*d . . .

http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/misc.php?do=page&template=chaoslegiongenerator

Well, the thought is nice, and I appreciate the sarcasm (If that's what it is) but this doesn't really help me out very much.

I explain my females as the dark gods found them to be superb worshipers and so endowed them with the power of the Space Marines.If you make all the females in one squad, they could just be a gift from another warband, their origins being unknown. (That's the approach I'm using with the used squad I picked up, until/unless I decide to make them female to fit in with the rest of my army.)

Is your warband/Chaos Legion all from the same place? Are they all from the same loyalist chapter? What ties them together? (The simple story of what ties mine together is that they are all female. And thus the only time I have to draw up specific origins is for random guys I throw in sometimes.)

Good suggestions there. Don't know why I didn't put that in :/ Now I'll just dredge through my memory banks trying to remember all my fluff for them, and I'll get back to you in an edit or something...

EDIT: The Legion (I should probably use Warband instead) started with a highly esteemed Assault Marine Sergeant of the Blazing Angels (A DIY chapter of mine which I think actually shares a name with a real chapter, lol) named Obelix. It was no secret that the Blazing Angels weren't exactly fond of the Imperium of Man itself, nor did they ever venerate the Emperor as a God, instead seeing him as an exceedingly powerful warrior and psyker, much like the Space Wolves. They, in fact, found the notion of religion in general to be laughably absurd, a fact which frequently irritates the Inquisition. The main, and possibly only, reason for them even serving the Empire was due to a deep sense of duty to its civilians. In order to keep the Inquisition off their backs, the Chapter just stayed on the move, being based on a large fleet, and never allowed Inquisitors to catch up to them. The Chapter was also forced to modify its geneseed to accept females in order to increase the amount of potential recruits, as the Chapter, being very melee centric, had a very high mortality rate. Now, Obelix was on a mission to purge a Slaaneshi Cult that had cropped up on a planet they happened to be passing by. Never ones to leave something potentially dangerous alone, they decided they could stop to take care of this (And gain recruits in the meantime). The cult was fairly small, and was easily purged. However, Obelix and his squad had actually performed the last step in a Daemon Summoning ritual the cult was involved in: A mass sacrifice. The bodies and their assorted parts pooled together at the center of the small abandoned church the cult was occupying and formed together in a large, two-headed Daemon, it's body that of a beautiful female who's skin constantly writhed and changed colors. Obelix and his squad immediately charged the thing, but an array of tendrils ripped out of its body and latched onto them, holding them in place. It proceeded to speak to them, telling them it had created the cult several months before their arrival, and orchestrated their learning of it, and that they were its chosen ones. At first, the attempted to shut it out, but the creature managed to coerce Obelix and his squad to become its champions. Obelix returned to the fleet, pretending to still be loyal, and, using the powers of the his newly acquired Daemonic consort, slowly corrupted nearly the entire fleet, those few who did not convert being cast out. They were not killed, however, as their former battle-brothers still deeply respected them and still thought of them as close friends. The fleet fled into the Eye of Terror for some time after the Inquisition caught wind of their treachery, and drew from the renegades dwelling within it as recruits.

I suck at summaries, and really, the only way I could probably do an accurate history and explanation for them would be through a fanfic, but there you go.

While you're doing that, I'll tell you how I came up with the name for my army, in case it helps.

I was laying in bed awake one night and was thinking of words I liked the sound of. 'Star', 'Doom', 'War', 'Space', 'Battle', the usual things. And a word occurred to me that I've only ever heard once. 'Starcrossed' as in 'Romeo & Juliet: A Tale of Starcrossed Lovers'. It occurred to me that that fit really well with my army being women, because what led the first one to fall is want for the strength of a space marine, which is denied to women, as a rule. And the origin of others has to do with the death of their child. The fate of my army was Starcrossed from the start, and is only maybe somewhat better being allied to Chaos. (And Legion was just a term that seemed to flow well.)

I'm not absolutely positive I'll keep it, but I think that's just because of how indecisive I am. Especially since I have an idea for a banner for it already. lol

Also think about how your army got started, fluff-wise. What triggered their changing over to Chaos? (Or even what made you want to play Chaos.) For example: my fiance's Chaos Lord's colors might be featured in my banner design because he got me playing 40k in the first place.

FyoraSilverwolf wrote:While you're doing that, I'll tell you how I came up with the name for my army, in case it helps.

I was laying in bed awake one night and was thinking of words I liked the sound of. 'Star', 'Doom', 'War', 'Space', 'Battle', the usual things. And a word occurred to me that I've only ever heard once. 'Starcrossed' as in 'Romeo & Juliet: A Tale of Starcrossed Lovers'. It occurred to me that that fit really well with my army being women, because what led the first one to fall is want for the strength of a space marine, which is denied to women, as a rule. And the origin of others has to do with the death of their child. The fate of my army was Starcrossed from the start, and is only maybe somewhat better being allied to Chaos. (And Legion was just a term that seemed to flow well.)

I'm not absolutely positive I'll keep it, but I think that's just because of how indecisive I am. Especially since I have an idea for a banner for it already. lol

Also think about how your army got started, fluff-wise. What triggered their changing over to Chaos? (Or even what made you want to play Chaos.) For example: my fiance's Chaos Lord's colors might be featured in my banner design because he got me playing 40k in the first place.

Heh, very interesting. I like the name a lot, actually. Quite original. As I said in the other post, I'm just terrible with summaries, so I might add some stuff here on my Legion as well, lol.

They're mainly connected out of what I guess you could say is friendship, respect, and a will to survive. As a whole, the legion also wishes to free humanity from the clutches of the ignorant and iron-fisted rule of the Imperium, allowing them to revel in absolute freedom. They like to consider themselves above morality, thinking of it as an archaic and simplistic system that only has meaning because people give it meaning.


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Don't mind me, just shamelessly bumping here.

EDIT: Or apparently not.


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So guys, while waiting, I came up with a few names I might use. They are:

Scions of Liberty
Progenitors of Freedom
Children of the Twin Lady (Who I'm liable to make a Daemon Prince model for)
I'm also thinking of something involving the word "Sensation" but am having a hard time finding a phrase it could go with.

It sounds kinda strange, but cool to me, so how about:

The Will of the People?

Other ideas:
Scions of Enlightenment
The Enshrouded
Shadows of Enlightenment (kinda contradictory, but it's chaos *shrug*)

If you're old enough, and there's going to be at least 2/3 Slaanesh-related units, a kind of lol-worthy name would be:
Children of the Beast with Two Backs

Color scheme might also help figure out your name? My fiance's little brother has themed the name of his regular SM army around the fact that he used Hunter Green on them. (He used Apple Barrel paints, not Citadel.) And my fiance named his SM army 'The Midnight Crusaders' *partially* after the Midnight Blue he used.

I want to make a black/dark purple model/unit with white/glow-in-the-dark spots to make it like a starry night sky. But that's beyond my painting skills right now, I think. lol

FURTHER EDIT: Disregard that, I was thinking of something else.

I'm liable to go for either quartered white/black or quartered white/dark purple, but I don't have any models handy to actually look at and ponder. The Blazing Angels, after all, are Quartered White/Orange.

EDIT: Forgot to add this in. I was also thinking of going with maybe Scions/Children of Excess or Scions/Children of Passion. I'm hoping to be able to come up with something other than the usual "Something of Something" formula, but for some reason that's all I can think of, maybe along the lines of "Something's End".

Have you heard of Malal? People are always mentioning him to me, he's usually offered as a deity for Chaos Glory/Undivided. I mentioned it to my fiance because he has a single squad of CSMs that are painted black and white (not quarters, all different arrangements) that he named the Oreons.

Malal could offer some inspiration for names, or you could even put 'Malal' in the name if you wanted...
Scions of Malal maybe? You'd have to mesh the Malal fluff with your own though.

Shadows of Enlightenment seems rather appropriate with a black/dark purple quartered with white.

I'll keep thinking, but I might be out of ideas, sorry.

EDIT: !! Shadow's End? Sounds more like a place to me though.

It's no problem, and yes, I've heard of Malal. As far as fluff goes, I'm a walking encyclopedia. I was wondering if, keeping in Blazing Angels tradition, I might make them a close-combat fast attack army. I'm wondering if I should say that they just go howling into melee or remain completely silent, even if they're charging something, as a psychological tactic. That could possibly provide an influence for their name. I would certainly have to re-work their fluff quite a bit if I wanted to go Malal, but it could be interesting.


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Perhaps I could call the Daemoness/Daemon Princess Echidna in a reference to the Greek Echidna, who was said to be the mother of all monsters, and then call them Children of Echidna or something to that effect, or maybe The Eyrmanthians, in reference to the Eyrmanthian Boar, and call the Daemon Princess Theron (The Goddess who controlled said Boar.)

EDIT: Incidentally, as far as paint schemes go, I'm tempted to pain them all different colors to represent that they're all from different legions or renegade marines, and also to show off their individuality, but that could be hard work and rather costly. Every single one of them won't be a different color, though, as some could have joined with a buddy or two.

I think a low hum, or a universal 'Ohm' sound would be more disturbing than howling or silent. But either way, a trademark war-cry or some such thing would be a great origin of a name. My fiance pointed out to me when I was trying to come up with the name for my Chaos army that with armies like Chaos, the name they bear may very well come from their enemies instead of the warriors themselves, because a lot of the fluff is written from the perspective of the Imperium. (That's why one of my squads is nicknamed/referred to as 'the Pretty Marines', and I might informally call my Chaos Lady 'the Duchess')

It has probably been done, but Children of Lillith? Lillith shares the title of 'mother of monsters' with the Greek Echidna apparently.

Very interesting thought. That could add a bit of a cool spin to it. I don't really like the sound of "Children of Lillith" though. But yeah, take a look at my recent edit concerning paint scheme, and also other name ideas. But yeah, I'll try to think of way I could name them from an Imperial perspective.

EDIT: Well, I'm going to go to bed now. I highly expect this thread to be dead by the time I wake up, but whatever. Maybe I can come up with a name in my dreams or something odd like that. Hell, maybe I'll come up with completely different fluff while I sleep. It's a work in progress, after all.

Regarding the paint schemes: I wouldn't suggest all of them being different colors, as that would get very difficult after a point. And some combinations just don't look good. But from what I understand, it's perfectly acceptable to paint each squad of Chaos Space Marines in completely different colors. And HQ choices can of course have their own personal scheme.

Ex: I don't have the pictures on my blog yet, (except for my cultist squad which is Scorpion Green, Liche Purple, and Dark Angels Green) but all of my squads thus far are different colors. My Havoc squad is Chaos Black & Sunburst Yellow (and some weird yellow mix I made using water & my fiance's old Sunburst Yellow), my Berzerkers are Dark Angels Green & Shining Gold, you can see my Daemon Princess in the avatar, and my plan for my Chaos Lady is Warlock Purple, Liche Purple, Boltgun Metal, and Shining Gold.

Though, one of my Possessed squads looks like each member might be different colors in the end. I regret it though and will not make that same mistake on my next squad. (I was trying to do my own version of my fiance's Possessed that each use a different Loyalist scheme just to taunt regular Space Marine players he knows.) I've ended up having to mark the squad as one on its base. Which is not what I want to be looking for when I field them.

As to names, I still don't have any more input for you yet.

Hey there SirDakkalot,
I liked your insight that the pleasure Khornate worshippers attain in slaughter is possibly the one thing they share in common with Slaaneshi folk. Your explanation of why they are Chaos Undivided/Slaaneshi is cool

Sounds like you're having fun with it, post some pics when you can?

--- Frankie

Thanks for the compliments. I haven't thought about my Chaos Boys in a while and figured I'd get around to establishing fluff for them, though it's VEEEEEERY late at night where I am, which is probably making me not think very clearly. Tomorrow, when I'm energized and somesuch, I'll probably sit down and just make their fluff, then make a new thread asking what people think of them. Thanks for the input, guys, er, I mean gals, I guess. It's been very helpful.

I just want to quickly say how great that name generator is. It came up with "Purple Devastation" which is almost as cool as Space Sharks.

Also Dead Heretics was pretty funny

edit: forgot Dead Immortals, that was a good one

asimo77 wrote:I just want to quickly say how great that name generator is. It came up with "Purple Devastation" which is almost as cool as Space Sharks.

Also Dead Heretics was pretty funny

edit: forgot Dead Immortals, that was a good one

Oh God, I know, right? I found some pretty hilarious ones as well.

Some of the funnier ones include Space Rangers, Subconscious Zealots, Doom Tomahawks, Crying Criminals, and Psi Marines. It's just beautiful.

I found Cavaliers of Khorne especially hilarious, though, and hold a special place in my heart for Alpha Krakens. It's not just a Kraken, it's a mother fething Alpha Kraken.

Oh wow those are all great, now I know how I'm going to spend the next 10 minutes : P

On a more seroius note my CSM are the Golden Inheiritors. It's one of those names that sounds neat but by the time you realize it doesn't mean anything it won't matter any more : P



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Oh lawd I hate to double post but this one was too good: Amethyst Cerebellum of Horus

Some other funny ones:

Gamma Spiders
Word Advocates
Perilous Confessors
Cyber-Adversity (seriously wtf at this one)
Defiant Hallucinations of Lorgar
Laser Messengers

I vote for Soul Gorgons. I don't know why, its just a badass name.

Forgot to mention that I decided on going with either Desolators or Lords of Desolation. I changed a good bit fluff wise, but don't really want to go into too much detail as I'm still working out the kinks. A very short, general, and basic summary of what I've got so far would be, "Some powerful champion of Chaos Undivided goes about preaching his message about why one should serve all the Dark Gods (see above) and how they aren't truly Gods, but manifestations of emotions and that we should try our hardest to make them more powerful to in turn make ourselves stronger with his small warband of renegade marines. Other Chaos Marines and renegades/heretics in general start thinking "Oh wow this guy has the right idea we should join him," and then BAM he's getting a big and tough warband." I'm probably still gonna have him come from the Blazing Angels and keep the Daemon Prince/ss in there, but with a good bit of details changed.

EDIT: Also, Stealth Horrors need to be added to the Daemons of Chaos Codex.