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With a rich background stretching back decades in time, the various Warhammer games contain a vast array of names (of people, places, items, and so on). Many of these names are original, but some happen to have a meaning in the real world, as obscure terms, foreign words, or cultural references. This page lists some of these underlying etymologies for your edification. Note that some of these are best guesses (speculative fan theory) rather than confirmed derivations.
Where a name is followed by the symbol ¹, if you hover over or click on that symbol you will see when that name was first mentioned in a publication.
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Locarno ¹ | Locarno, a town in Switzerland that is home to the Astrovia Locarno, a 1:1,000,000,000 scale model of the Solar System. [WH40k Imperial Navigator] |
| Navigator ¹ | Guild Navigator, a mutated human that can traverse vast distances in space in a short time, from the Dune setting first published in 1965 in Frank Herbert's books. [WH40k Imperial Navigator] |
| Nostromo ¹ | Nostromo (1904), a novel by Joseph Conrad. [WH40k Imperial Navigator] |
| Zegenda | Dutch zegende, "blessed" (but as the singular past indicative, not the adjective gezegend). [WH40k Imperial Navigator DeathGuard] |
| Inspiration | |
| Warhammer Setting | The Dark Tongue; Daemonic Names; Lexicon; Short Stories; Cut-ups; Cool Stuff |
| Art | Golden Demon; Nurglesque Music |
| Speculation | Chaos God Correspondence; Dark Heresy Backgrounds; Sevenfold Path; Sevenrot; Seven Deadly Sins |
| Real World References | Nergal in Mesopotamian History; Symbolism of Three Circles; Symbolism of Seven |
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