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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 |
|---|---|
| Greenwake ¹ | See: Gurggl Greenwake. [WHFB Lizardman Slann] |
| Gurggl Greenwake ¹ | "Gurgle", a bubbling sound + "green" + "wake", a gathering to remember someone dead. [WHFB Lizardman Slann] |
| Kroak | "Croak", to make a sound like a frog, and also a slang word meaning "to die". [WHFB Lizardman Slann AoS Order Seraphon] |
| Slann | Slan (1946), a science fiction novel by A. E. van Vogt. The Slan are a race of psychic super-beings that are persecuted by humanity. [WHFB Lizardman Slann AoS Order Seraphon WH40k] |
| 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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