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I have been reading recently opinions online of people claiming the name C'Tan is a reference to Satan.
I have never made such connection (both because their backstory is quite different, from the Bible's, the only tie I see being the "War in Heaven" name, and because I, no sure if correctly or not, have always pronounced it as "Ke-Tan", with a hard C). So I ask...is it true, or just a conjecture?

I always pronounce it with 'ssss-tan'; The war in heaven but is compelling though...

I've always pronounced it as "Kuh-Tan", so that probably ruins the idea of the Satan link to me.

However, if the Void Dragon was the Dragon in the St George story, with the Emperor being St George, then I could perhaps see some idea of the Dragon being symbolic of Satan?

Ive also always pronounced it ssstan. It is possible this is where inpirartion was drawn

I've always pronounced the "c" as a hard c (k).

It's not used very often as a "s" sound in English - and is a very redundant letter in a number of cases since both sounds can be made by two other letters anyway.

Just like Settlers of Catan.

Yeah I have always read it as a hard C or when lazy a Cee

Se-tan for me
No relationship with satan at all IMO.

If the War in Heaven and C'tan are a reference to the Biblical stories, then it was a subtle enough reference that I didn't make the connection. Especially since it was the Necrontyr making a deal to get out of a miserable existence into a perceived better one, but ended up regretting it, rather than a fall from paradise.

As for sounding it out, I always figured it was kuh-tahn. The apostrophe indicates a guttural sound is to be made following the first letter, the C. (Then again, I was thinking Guilliman was French in pronunciation: "gwee-ah-man".)

How many words in the English language that start with C are sounded with the "S" pronunciation? My vocabulary may be failing me again, but I can't think of anything.

This pronunciation question is worthy of its own poll I think.

It's purely conjecture.

I pronounce it "Suh-Tahn"

I've always pronounced it Kuh-tan.