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Your WarLords Name - Why?; General
Topic Started: 9th August 2005 - 04:13 PM (2,530 Views)
Algernon
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Why did or do you name your WarLord the name you give 'em...... for example mine is "WarLord Southpaw", because I am lefthanded & like baseball alot and it was an obvious lefthanded conversion I did on my figure of 'em, so there ya go, now what significance is there in your name base? :globe:
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SingTheScreams
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Warlord Trisk Reznit, because it sounds like Trent Reznor. <3.
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my assassin Krook, well, i think thats an obvious reference to a "crook", or a thief

my warlock engineer Krackhed... again, crack head... or maybe cracked... i forget.
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no need to worry for soul, instead starts worshipping STS and slaughtering unbelievers in his holy name.
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Thrask Vilepaw
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warlord Skritish cause it sounded cool and Thrask vilepaw my assassin which i cant remember how i thought of the name but i have loved it ever since :P
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Vinshqueek
 
Thrask, for being such a nice squiggly thing!
Giantrat
 
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.

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scrivener
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*toot*

Warlord Morrikk Ashenfur, coz he has grey fur, and Morrikk is my skaveny version of Maurice, from Pratchett's "The Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents", which features "Clan Rats".

Abbot Tifus, 'Abbot' coz for my fluff he leads my monks though he's a plague priest, and well, Typhus, the rat-flea borne disease.
hannanibal
 
*Angry mob assembles*

"WHAT DO WE WANT!!??"
"A THINNISH, WATERY PAINT WITH A GREENER TINGE THAN AGRAX EARTHSHADE!!"
"WHEN DO WE WANT IT!?"
"QUITE SOON PLEASE AS MY LAST POT IS RUNNING OUT!"
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Skagrit
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I am not here to be nice.
Skagrit Swift-paw because... Erm... because... It sounds good! :P

When I made it up, I thought a Skaven should have a name that finished with paw since they tend to have paws ;) .
We are living on this world on rented time and now we can't pay the rent
We have thrown out our garbage into the corridor and we have clogged the toilet
We have annoyed the neighbors and we have pissed off the landlord
We have stolen all the wares from the nature and we have poisoned our veins with greed
We have powered our hearts with a false promise that we aren't so bad and we have told ourself that everything happens for reason
We say that we will be forgiven and that all we do will ok when we die
We do not deserve to be spared and we deserve to burn
For the anquish we have caused this world
We deserve to burn

The Truth
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Baraduribagugar
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I get the name from the book "Bored of the rings". There those hoppits had two-bladed cement trowels orsomethinglikethat. In finnish that is "kaksiteräinen kittilasta". There's this "Kitti" in that word so thats the name of my warlord. In english his name would be Cement, but however his name should had nothing important meaning so he's just Kitti. :P
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Malignus Rodenticus
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Malignus because it sounded cool when 4th Ed. came out, and remains cool to this day.


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Matt
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Warlord Brackenfurr is simply "Bracken" - the Scottish name for which is brambles, a thorny plant which occasionally ripens sweet tasting berries - you just have to be prepared to be stung to get them. The colour of dead bracken is also a distinctive brown colour and gives off in my opinion a really nice smell - and fur which is his outer layer...

basically - brown, prickly outer layer but with a bitter-sweet centre.

as you can guess the name is fluffy - he is from Blaze of Glory but i love him :D

**Sings the guy in that picture is hot :D**

Matt
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"When you run the gauntlet of the Rebellion of Flames, you must expect the unexpected" Warlord Morrik Ashenfur.
"Why is it, that as a culture we are more inclined to death than songs?" Warlord Brackenfurr.
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daionosis
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well, Greyseer Holmoouse comes from the Disney film with a mouse -Sherlock holmes (don't know the english name) and in dutch that is the literally translation. I always liked the film, when i was a kid I watched it like 3 times a week or so.

cheers, Daionosis
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Warlord Gnashik
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Warlord Gnashik cuz rats gnash their teeth (too bad I failed to see there was a goblin named Gnashrak before I named him!)

Grey Seer Hrist is a play on Hisvin and Hisvet from "Swords against Lankmahr."

Warlock Engineer Feerfik Scorchpaw. Feerfik just sounds ratty and Scorchpaw cuz back in 4th edition he always seemed to draw the Scorch spell.

Warlock Engineer Freeket'Chu is a play on Pikachu, the electric mouse Pokemon. Also an electrical rat spirit in Werewolf the Apocalypse.

Assassins Skrix & Skrax are twins and their names just sound snickety.

Plague Priest Hanta Klaws: Hanta virus is a disease spread by rodents. Sounds like Santa Claus, even though I have no intention of painting him red & white!

Rigorot Corpse-Eater was originally the name of a 5th edition special character I designed. If I ever make a Bubonic Court army, he will be a Pontifex.

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Ratphink
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Warlord Ratphink Greentoe

Ratphink because I always liked the term "ratfink" but I fealt I had to skaven it up a bit. Greentoe because earlier in fluff, before he lost both his legs, he had a chunk of warpstone replacing one of his big toes. Therefore, he had a greentoe. Now I think I have to come up with something better. Ratphink Roboshins or something like that. :lol:
Bod... err... I mean UB!
 
Phink, Phank, Phonk, etc.- Ratphinks various split personalities

Award for the Worst joke ever goes to... THRASKITAR for the following:
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Now, now, everybody, let's not lose our heads over this... wink.gif *wink-wink*
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s'nkeep
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Ajax = warpstone juice

Warlord s'nkeep ;)

Greyseer/warlock engineer nibbler, likes to nibble on his own tail

master assassin darkslayer... a shadow of his former self still useful for my battles even as a shadow
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hakoMike
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More grey every day.
I don't typically name characters, but my chieftain in the last Warbands campaign died so many times that we started calling him "Kenny." (And when I say "died" I mean that I rolled "DEAD!" on the character chart! I had to save 25xp from every game just for a reroll.)

I dunno... "Chieftain Kenny" just doesn't have a very Skaveny ring to it...
So old. So so old.
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Saint Anger
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well i was writing my fluff for how i came into the civil war, and i needed a name for my warlord:

and thought, hmmm for quite some time, until i saw that my pc was playing:

Silverstien; Giving Up on You

thus after a little coruption, Silverskien was born, and it was Foeslayer who thought up the honorific title of "fangmaster"

thus my army is led by Fangmaster Silverskien

Venator just happens to be latin for hunter and i thought it sounded cool
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Xh!n Tarat
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(Mostly) Overatted.

Unlike hakoMike, I am a complete fluff junkie, and I do create convoluted hsitories for all my Charatters (and most of my units). As I have 3 Skaven armies currently conquering tabletops or being converted & painted, I'll stick to Charatter names only - and attempt really hard to keep it brief.

Quick note - all my armies are themed so as represent forces from UnderNippon (+ possibly UnderCathay), and I do this visually as well as in terms of fluff:

ESHIN: The EKA NINJRATS
(The real IGA NINJAs fought in the only ever battle to feature Ninjas in open battle - the attack on the Sanada Barbican at Osaka on 4 January 1614 - there is a funny story about that, but I'll spare you. THE SAMURAI was a cheesy black & white TV series of the 1960s based in roughly the same period, and IGA NINJAs were the 'good' ninjas in that amazing show.)

AH ZHAEN (Master Ratsassin) - my initials are R.J.N.
NOR-MAH (Sorcerat) - my wife's name is Norma
LIM-LIM (Sorcerat) - my son's name is Liam
LAH TEH FEH (Sorcerat) - my mother-in-law's name is Latifi.

WARLORD: CLAN RATSHAMON
(The first great samurai film to win a large Western audience was RASHAMON, directed by Akira Kurasawa.)

XH!N-TARAT (Warlord) - SHINTARO was the actual name of THE SAMURAI - I was around 10yo when I saw this show on TV, and it probably sparked my long & deep interest in oriental history
EEKIRA FURASAWA (Engineer) - as in AKIRA KURASAWA, Japanese director of such amazing films as Rashamon, The Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Kagemashu & Ran (and these are just his Samurai films!!!)
FANG XHIMAOS (Engineer) - as in YANG ZHIMOU, director of the fantastic Chinese historical epics, Hero & The House of Flying Daggers.

PESTILENS: The iKKi-iKKi
(The Ikko-ikki were a force of religiously inspired fanatical socio-anarchists who well and truly upset the traditional balance of power in Japan in the mid C15 to late C16. Their core was drawn from fighting monks of the Jodo sect od Buddhism based at Mt Hiei - just the sort of extreme fanatical bigots which seem so very like Pestilens - imo.)

U ZOH (Pontifex) - my nickname in the local tournament scene has been THE OOZEBOSS for around 7 years, usually shortened to OOZE or OOZO. This charatter started as a Sensei of Eshin, but was sacked after I performed Really Badly at a tournament (I renamed all my Charatters after that weekend). U ZOH was sent to infiltrate the heirarchy of The iKKi-iKKi, but he has been converted/ infected and is now effectively a double agent working against Eshi.
ZATSOITCHI (Festering Chantor) - named after the superb film of last year: ZATOICHI, directed by Beat Takeshi (there were a whole mess of Zatoichi films made in the 70s & 80s, but this last version is just terrific)
ZITOICHI (Festering Chantor) - the name is obvious, but the fluff is not. I am using Throt the Unclean to represent U ZOH, and I had left the hole for the 3rd arm uncovered as an open sore. Then I saw a chance for a really sicko fluff piece - Zitoichi is actually a - ahem - 'growth' which grew in U Zoh's armpit until too much exposure to the Cauldron effectively animated it and it left 'home'. I'm using one of the small cowled mice from the Plague Monk boxed set to represent it. [Sorry.]

THE XIIIth PUGURU (Nurglitch) - Just a very sad scatological pun, inspired by the old T-Rex hit song of the early 70s, Metal Guru. Not all of Pestilens went to the Southlands on leaving Lustria. (NB, every Puguru since has insisted that they are the XIIIth.)

I apologise for waffling on so long, but this (seriously) is the abbreviated version.
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