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...are you really trying to link the two based only on the word "Storm"? Because that is the only evidence here; the fluff is otherwise completely dissimilar.

The origin of the name "Stormcast Eternals" is self-evident; 'cast' in the sense of casting metal, except in this case it is magical lightning or 'storm' and 'eternals' because they are immortal, being reforged and returned to the fight if they die.

johnpjones1775 wrote:
Well blizzard did steal Warcraft from GW so the similarities are pretty strong.

Wrong subforum, gunna want to post that here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/forums/show/9.page

 Overread wrote:
So its all one big melting pot.

Yup. Countless times I have seen causality ascribed to the matter as if inspiration was a single chain of events when it is really more like a pot of eternal stew; ingredients continually thrown in, mixed around, and sipped on.

There's also a really strong tendency to claim correlation between things based on superficial aspects when they are actually quite different (40k-Starcraft comes to mind) and/or just aren't that original a concept. I suspect a lot of such 'factual' ideas trace back to someone going 'I wonder if...' and just started getting taken as basic truth along the way. I certainly have fallen victim to many a theory like that.

Yeah. But on the other hand that seems too nuanced for the internet and too rational for the 21st century

Given that is one opinion on an extremely subjective topic, it seems unjustified to phrase it as fact.

The concept of the term as an insulting one does speak to a certain mentality--and speaks poorly. Like yeah, they are sigmarines in the sense that they mimic a number of broad design aspects of Space Marines. It taking a design that obviously has a lot of appeal and adding it to their fantasy license with enough remixing to make it distinct and unique... there is nothing bad about that. That is one thing GW more or less did perfectly. Some individuals seem to... take offense to it almost? I don't fully understand it.

 Geifer wrote:
Eh, Sigmarines have the misfortune of being Kirby's last play. They're fine in the context of AoS, but they were the face of AoS and a blatant attempt to sell Space Marines to fantasy players. The idea that the old setting got squatted for them has created a lasting image problem that doesn't really have anything to do with Sigmarines as an army, concept or visual design.

That's just a community invented concept. SCE could have definitely been added into the WHFB fluff after End Times where Sigmar became incarnate for the Wind of Azyr like halfway through. There were a lot of rumors going around in early AoS, tons of people were convinced Slaanesh was getting squatted despite explicit evidence to the contrary, for example.

Oh no I do not at all mean to cast shade on the frustrations experienced by the community--I only fault where those frustrations turned into people peddling falsehoods. The idea that the entire WHFB setting was blown up just to make SCE is unsubstantiated to begin with, then utterly buried under the number of other known & plausible factors.

As the real world has shown us, when legitimate frustration turns into circulation of illegitimate information it only makes everything worse for everyone involved.