#Warhammer Lore

[tzeentchdaemonsart]

The Dark Tongue, from the Realm of Chaos book 2.

The official language of Chaos in Warhammer.

[mosscoveredrat]

Ok I'm awnsering this cuz funny:

My argument is

- Kor Phaeron (while lorgar is off claiming the last city on his homeworld and before they meet the legion)

- Erebus (in his fucking crib)

These two alone would prevent the heresy as even if lorgar still has to face the burning of monarchia he won't have those two whispering in his ear, this would mean that lorgar would abandon his faith while remaining loyal (as that was almost the timeline he went down except due to kor phaeron and erebus) and without lorgar turning traitor the Chaos gods couldn't get their grip on horus, in fact horus never gets struck down on the moon of Davon or even goes there as that was all due to erebus, this means that magnus wouldn't need to warn the emperah and as such wouldn't break the psychic Ward's around Terra.

The 2nd two are

- Luther (after his banishing to caliban but before he turns traitor)

- The Deamon Blade of the Laer (the one fulgrim carried that corrupted him, preferably this is done right before fulgrim enters the Laer temple)

[yestheantichrist]

Okay so, I don’t think the Emperor was ever Alexander the Great. Since the historical facts simply don’t add up.

Even around the time of the actual historical Alexander’s death there were still other kingdoms and places that he could have conquered. This is just the Emperor lying to his son to seem more cooler than he actually is. But he’s making the mistake of saying that he was a very famous historical figure, since anyone with a good enough knowledge of that historical figure can disprove his claim.

But the quote about Alexander weeping does exist outside of the warhammer novels, specifically here:

So in conclusion, while there’s absolutely no chance that the Emperor was Alexander the Great, there’s definitely a possibility that the Emperor watched Die Hard (1988) and decided to quote it to his son. Which, to me, feels way more in character for him

[autism-special-interest-unit]

I love the dichotomy of necron named characters. "The king that sentenced his entire race to life as soulless machines who worked to relieve them of his grand mistake. The greatest general of the necrons who fights their foolish king to stop him from taking away the one decent thing they have, their immortal bodies and return the Necrons to their rightful place in the galaxy." Vs " The curator of a museum and biggest kleptomaniac in the galaxy, who has to deal with his time bending nemesis and is banned from most dynasties. The other great general of the Necrons who may or may not have essentially dementia(might be a coping mechanism)who actually follows the necron Geneva convention much to everyone else's dismay and is taken care of by his loyal partner and personal gurad."

[soonielo]

One more the little guys. this dude vibing hard. -

The dance enthralled by The Clown. Movement wild as a lover's heart, grace of the cradling sea. The price? A mind entombed in ancient ice.

So dance heartfelt and silly. You young thing have too much celebrate.

[sallymander40k]

Why The Tau Were Never 'Too Good' For 40k

The Tau were added midway through Warhammer 40,000's 3rd edition, though according to some records the idea had been floating around since Laserburn. In the twenty years since their introduction to the 41st millennium, the Tau have remained one of the most consistently reviled and hated aspect of 40k lore, with all complaints around them boiling down to one core issue: they're too good for 40k. By that, people mean that they are too morally good to fit within the grimdark narrative of the 41st millennium. This has always been the primary complaint levied at them, since they were first introduced in 2001. And GW has seemingly agreed with them, and spent the last 20 years trying to inject grimdarkness into the Tau Empire.

The first attempt to grimdarkify the Tau came very early on, with the Tau campaign in Dawn of War: Dark Crusade

It's explained how in the decade following Tau victory on Kronus the remaining human population was subjugated, oppressed, forced to give up their culture, and eventually simply sterilized and allowed to die off naturally to create a Tau and Kroot ethnostate on Kronus. It explains this over images of prisoners of war being fed to Krootox in prison camps and humans huddling together in slums.

This is obviously a departure from the image of the Tau as it was established in Codex: Tau (3rd Edition), as that codex makes explicit mention of the Tau trading and making alliances with frontier human colonies. This is also a departure from... common sense. Why exactly would the Tau accept Kroot, Vespid, Nicassar, Demiurg, Tarellians and many others into their ranks but then arbitrarily draw the line at humans?

This would become a pattern that I like to call "The Grimderp Tau Cycle." It's not exactly a stretch to say that the Tau are easily the most morally good society in the 41st millennium. Their tolerance toward other species alone makes them head and shoulders above almost any other species in the galaxy. So to remind people that there are no good guys in the 41st millennium and that this is a very serious and grimdark setting that you need to take seriously because there are no good guys or whatever, GW will occasionally have the Tau commit a completely out of character, random, and nonsensical atrocity. This was also seen at the end of In Harmony Restored, the short story that came out alongside 8th edition's Psychic Awakening: The Greater Good.

For context, In Harmony Restored is a short story about a group of Gue'vesa soldiers (human auxiliary troops fighting in the Tau military) performing a desperate defensive rearguard action to halt an Imperial advance long enough for Tau reinforcements to come and smash the delayed invasion force. The Gue'vesa are able to do this, though at great sacrifice to themselves, and then when the reinforcing army does arrive and makes quick work of the Imperial army they then continue on to butcher the Gue'vesa soldiers who performed this valiant holding action for... Seemingly no reason? Assuming the Tau forces thought they were more Astra Militarum soldiers, the Gue'vesa step out of cover pleading for mercy, only to be gunned down. With one of the Gue'vesa at the end noting that the language one of the Battlesuit pilots is using is very reminiscent of the way the Imperium talks about those they've labeled undesirables.

The message here is clear: these humans betrayed the Imperium in order to escape from the Imperium's genocidal regime... Only to end up in the equally merciless clutches of an equally ruthless oppressor. But, from a lore standpoint, that defeats the entire purpose of the Tau. It makes them wholly indistinct and, frankly, boring. But that doesn't even scratch the surface of how stupid this is, because it has clearly been stated in the past that the Tau do not hold bigotries toward client species on the basis of their faiths. And that makes sense.

Not only does this contradict previous lore, not only does it render the Tau a boring palette swapped version of the Imperium, it also just defies practical sense. If you're a race like the Tau, who expand primarily through ingratiating yourself with other races and convincing them to join your collective, you'd naturally want as few barriers between potential client races and joining as possible. No human colony is going to voluntarily join the Greater Good if the Tau's version of the Greater Good happens to require that the human population of that planet lose all sense of their heritage and culture through forced reeducation and the abandonment of their faith, and in the long term for that human population to slowly go extinct through gradual forced sterilization and confinement to ghettos and slums.

It's deeply stupid, lazy writing on the part of GW to repair the image of the Tau in the eyes of a fandom who accused the faction of being "too good." Except, uhm, here's the thing: the Tau were never too good to begin with. Lets rewind back to 3rd Edition's Tau Codex, our first introduction to the Tau in the 40k universe. From the very beginning it was very clear that the Utopian idealism of the Tau Empire held beneath the surface a significantly more sinister and malevolent nature, and it all roots from the mysterious and enigmatic fifth caste of Tau Society: the Ethereals.

In 3rd Edition, the Ethereals are spoken of more like mythological beings than the slightly mundane way they exist in modern 40k. All we know about them out of this book is that they are the autocratic leaders of the Tau Empire who inspire radical devotion among the Tau, though are rarely seen or heard from. They reorganized Tau society with pursuit of the Greater Good in mind first. But the specifics of what that means matters a lot. Tau are born into a caste that roughly determines, from birth, what role in society that person will fulfill. Those born into a caste are not allowed to have children with members of other castes, are not allowed to take up any job or position that contradicts the societal purpose of their caste, and generally lack self-determination in regards to things like career choice.

so, bam, the setup for Tau as a flawed and morally ambiguous faction are already present. They're a faction who fight for a better future, for a galaxy where all can exist in harmony with one another, so long as that harmony is kosher by the standards of the Ethereal caste. In that sense they're somewhat similar to the Dominion from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. A multispecies interstellar collective who seek to create a galaxy harmoniously unified... in service to the Founders. Just taken from this vision of the Tau Empire, they're already an autocratic dictatorship who fight in the name of an ideology that declares itself to be for the greater good of all who ascribe to it while also relying on the assumption that the tyrannical power of the Ethereals must inherently be for the Greater Good. I reject the idea that the Tau were ever "too good" for 40k. Rather that they were written with a realistic level of nuance, with an understanding that dictatorships are built upon cognitive dissonance, not on perfectly consistent virtues.

TL;DR THEY'RE NOT FUCKING COMMUNISTS, THEY LITERALLY HAVE A CASTE SYSTEM, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!

[nevesmose]

Nostraman Nature Sucks: An Attempted Lore Post

Ave dominus nox Night Lords fans. I thought I'd take some time to go through the various NL stories I have to hand and see what I could find out about the animals that lived on Nostramo. Might come in useful for something, who knows?

Sharks and Whales

As a child, on several coastal journeys with his father, he had witnessed the eyeless barrasal sharks that would group together to hunt the great whales of the open ocean. (Night Lords Trilogy)

His voice filters into something savage and predatory, as hungry as the eyeless white sharks of Nostramo’s blackest depths. (The Long Night)

Not a big surprise since they talk about them fairly often and have the Space Sharks as a successor chapter but Nostramo does have sharks. Pretty gnarly-sounding sharks if I'm honest.

I didn't know what "barrasal" meant, so I looked it up and only found one thread on r/40klore that had the same quote in it as above. Hmm.

Assuming it's not a typo or a more straightforward reference to something I'm just not getting, I'd venture a guess that barrasal, understood here to mean of or relating to "barras" like with "abyssal" could be connected to the French Revolutionary leader Paul Barras who is mostly remembered for supporting Napoleon's rise to power before being overthrown by him.

So maybe the older barrasal sharks will make use of younger ones as temporary hunting partners only to be inevitably betrayed and consumed by them. Sounds about right I think.

As for the whales, where do I even begin? I would imagine they're "whales" in name only like in Dishonored:

This does imply the possible existence of a whaling industry at some stage in Nostramo's history, though.

Crows

Jago reached into his pockets, offering a handful of breadcrumbs. Come, he said to the crows. Food for tonight. Flesh, flesh, flesh, they called back. He laughed as several of the black birds landed on his shoulders and outstretched arm. (Prince Of Crows)

‘Yes. I’ve seen them in books. Is a crow a type of bird?’ ‘Black of feather and dark of eye. It feeds on the bodies of the dead, and sings in a raw, croaking caw.’ (TLN)

Breaking news - legion that keeps referring to crows in shocking has crows on its homeworld scandal. "This is outrageous," said local Nostraman cutpurse and skin disease enthusiast Verxaglryn Quickstabber, "here we are trying to make a good name for Nostramo as a respectable hellhole, a place you'd be proud to exile your worst enemy to, and yet we're surrounded by some of the most intelligent and curious birds in existence. I was shanking someone in a back alley the other night and suddenly I saw a crow learning how to use rudimentary tools! Not on my watch, I said to the rapidly cooling body, and I threw my shiv at it. But it just flew away." At this point Mr Quickstabber was obliged to end the interview due to having been eviscerated by the Night Haunter.

I know their communication with Sevatar is happening in a dream but I really like the idea of the crows adapting to Nostramo by developing some kind of psychic hive mind that's also able to be understood by human psykers.

Crag Cougars

A beast of my home world. When next you see one of the Atramentar, look to their shoulder guards. The roaring lions on their pauldrons are what we called crag cougars on Nostramo. It was considered a mark of wealth for gang bosses to be able to leave the cities and hunt such creatures. (NLT)

Every single one of them is Scar from the Lion King, isn't it? An interesting hint about Nostramo's geography though, of which more later.

Rats

Groundcars whisked by, headlights brighter than deep-hive rats’ eyes, the occupants snug and safe behind armoured glass. (Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter)

No surprises here either. Where there's people there's rats after all.

Something with tusks?

The older Astartes grinned, wolf-like and keen, as the Atramentar either side of the Exalted’s throne growled through their tusked helms. (NLT)

This isn't that conclusive because a lot of Chaos Terminators have tusks no matter what legion they are, but Nostramo being Nostramo they probably belonged to a species of giant carnivorous mammoth that ate babies and sprayed acid from its trunk.

Cows? On My Sunless World?

‘They are still of standard human stock, and not to be mourned. What does it matter if the cattle fear the herdsman?’ hissed Krukesh the Pale. (KC:TNH)

This one's a real reach on my part as it's very likely just a turn of phrase, but I noticed it because wouldn't it be slightly more typical to use a sheep metaphor here? Plus it supports the existence of Nostraman cowboys/ranchers/vaqueros which is fun.

No bats?

His helmet bore a new, spread batwing crest in blatant imitation of Sevatar’s own. (A Safe and Shadowed Place)

A sole space was neat: a circle around an iron lectern fashioned in the form of a bat’s outflung wings, which carried a heavy book bound in human skin. (KC:TNH)

Although they appear a lot in the VIII legion's iconography and artwork, oddly enough I wasn't actually able to find a direct reference to Nostramo itself having bats. Let's cover my ass by saying this aspect might therefore have been brought in by the legion's Terran component instead.

Some Nostraman geography

The Hill Folk lived away from the cities, eking out an existence in the mountains. (NLT)

What's worse than living in a Nostraman city? Living on a Nostraman hill, apparently. This seems to just be an idea of ADB's that doesn't come up again but I've always found it quite interesting. Were the Hill Folk as scummy as the City Folk, just with more of a down-home Dukes of Hazzard vibe? Seems likely.

This also supports the idea of Nostramo not being completely urbanised like some Hive Worlds are. In my view its continents might have had a geographical layout a bit like Italy or Scotland where the cities are mainly on the flatter coasts with a more sparsely populated hilly/mountainous interior.

What else? (This part is just me making stuff up so feel free to ignore it. I'm not ADB, I'm not even ADB's hat.)

If the rest of Nostramo's marine life is anything like the sharks and whales then it's fucking terrifying. I would imagine, because it's funny, that a lot of Nostraman food features disgusting industrially-processed fish in some way or another. Like the food in Dishonored but even worse.

Is something wrong, dearest offworld husband? You haven't touched your stale bread, whalemeat and jellied eels.

Since all life on Nostramo seems to be comically carnivorous and aggressive, it would make sense in a 40K kind of way for there to be giant predatory penguins living at one or both of its poles. A bit like the monstrous blind albino penguins HP Lovecraft wrote about.

Last known infrared pict-capture of an early Nostraman settler attempting communication with a juvenile specimen of the native penguin species. There were no survivors.

[voices-of-favor]

Personal opinion based on model appearance: Krieg guardsmen should have french accents

La Garde meurt, elle ne se rend pas!

[mouse-romance]

Just noticed something about AOS lore

Kharadron Overlords were born because of the necessity to fight back a Tzeench invasion... They overcame this massacre and evolved into one of the weirdest factions in the realms. They think that they defeated Tzeench and strived for a better future, but if you really think about it... The Chaos God won. He CHANGED them, drastically. He attacked a bunch of duardin miners and he turned them (indirectly) into a steampunk sky pirate type of society. The Kharadon are happy because they "won" (They survived), but Tzeench is happier because he WON (He CHANGED them forever).

[real-british-empire]

Just general lore I think

Ok, so there was a race of species in ancient times called the old ones, they were a race of spacefaring creatures. The old ones went around helping races reach spacefaring potential and were overall chill guys.

Then there’s a race called the necrontyr. They are a very short lived race who desire to live longer and asked for the help of the old ones, who for some reason declined.

This angered the necrontyr, who used a very powerful material known as living metal found on their planet to wage war on the old ones.

The old ones enlisted the help of two races, the aeldari (space aelves) and the krorks (genetically engineered super orks whose beliefs affect reality and are like 14ft tall).

They did this because there was like 50 of them total.

The races warred and it wasn’t going well for the necrontyr, until one day, they found a race of godlike beings called the C’tan who literally eat stars for energy (not in an instant but rather drain them). They enlisted their help and with it defeated the old ones and their allies, but not without a cost.

The C’tan known now as the deceiver tricked the necrontyr into shedding their flesh and becoming living metal robots known as the necron so that the C’tan could feast on their life force.

This pissed off the necron so they killed the C’tan, shattering them and using the fragments like Pokémon to win wars.

With noting left to conquer, they entered a deep slumber in their tomb worlds to one day return and conquer the stars.

Before their extinction, the old ones bestowed access to the webway to the aeldari, a network outside of real space allowing for safe travel across the cosmos where the city of commoragh sits.

The aeldari used their powerful psychic might to dominate in the absence of the necron, and with nothing left to do, they indulged themselves in every pleasure possible. Due to their immensely powerful souls however, the sheer amount of emotion the aeldari were experiencing had an unintended consequence, the birth of a god.

With this, the god Slaanesh was formed, tearing a hole in real space (reality) and went on to kill all but 3 of the aeldari gods, leaving Khaine, god of war, cegorragh, the laughing god, and a goddess who was saved by Slaanesh’s sibling, nurgle (I’ll get onto him later) due to her regeneration (goddess of healing). Some aeldari called farseers foresaw this and fled on ships, to pristine worlds and are called exodites and now ride dinosaurs and stuff.

Others fled on large ships which can sustain communities called craftworlds while the residents of commoragh were unaffected.

All but the residents of commoragh changed their ways and so the residents of commoragh are now known as the drukhari.

A small band also decided to worship ceggroagh and now protect the biggest store of information in existence, the black library. They’re also murderous clowns and they’re called the harlequins.

You may be wondering what happened to the Krorks in this time, well, they devolved into the beloved race of the orks we see in current 40K , and are now far dumber and weaker but still affect reality with their beliefs.

Now we got onto humanities history.

One day during humanities existence, a very special person was born. Only known as the god emperor, they possessed a psychic might on par with creatures such as Slaanesh and pushed humanity into a new age with the great crusade. They also befriended the adeptus mechanicum, who were humans who moved to mars and became cyborgs and work as the engineers of the imperium. Many things happened in this time but I’ll cover important bits. There was a period of time called the dark age of technology where ai became sentient and attacked humanity (I will refer to it as the imperium from now on) and the war was won, but no new technology would be invented from then onwards. There was also the creation of the thunder warriors (think that’s their name) who were the most powerful soldiers, sculpted by the emperor himself to be incredibly powerful. After that came the custodians who the emperor made who are the bodyguard of terra (earth) and ultra-elite warriors of humanity. The grey knights were also made afterwards, who were designed to fight daemons (will cover this with nurgle and the other chaos gods (will also explain that)).

This is where stuff gets a bit complicated.

The emperor created 21 “sons” who were super powerful soldiers designed to lead human kind or something, so he scattered them across the universe so that they could experience life or something idk.

We are missing information on 2 primarchs as they have been completely expunged from all records.

I won’t go into detail on the primarchs because there’s so much lore.

Before I continue with humanity though, I have to cover the chaos gods and the warp.

So the warp is a separate dimension adjacent to realspace (reality) which is shaped by the thoughts and feelings of living beings. These manifest as daemons and warp creatures. Within the warp there are 4 gods, known as the chaos gods who embody common aspects of life.

There is khorne, god of blood, skulls and most importantly, war.

Then there’s Tzeench, god of change, magic and trickery.

There is then also Slaanesh, goddess of hedonism and excess.

Last there is nurgle, god of plagues and disease.

They command legions of daemons who are small fragments of their power manifested but also separate entities from the god with personalities.

There are also unaligned daemons which do their own thing.

Daemons can also be trapped in objects, which is important.

So there’s this mf called Erebus.

Erebus secretly worships the chaos gods (religion is banned because the emperor is aware of the chaos gods). And influences horrus into becoming corrupted.

Horrus amassed a rebellion, comprised of his army of space marines, as well as the primarchs Aangron, Mortarion, Fulgrim (corrupted by a daemon within a sword), Peurterabo, Conrad Kurze, Alpharius, Lorgar, and, eventually, Magnus (there’s too much to explain).

This was called the horrus heresy.

In the aftermath, many primarchs died, these are:

Sanguinius

Ferrus

Horrus (erased from existence by the emperor)

Alpharion (complicated but mostly)

Conrad Kurze

It is important to note that each primarchs has a group of genetically engineered super-soldiers made with their generic template that they lead.

Some of these generic templates have downsides, such as the blood angels of Sanguinius having genetically installed ptsd after he died to horrus and the space wolves sometimes become werewolf dudes called wulfen and have to be locked away.

After the heresy, the emperor was fatally wounded by horrus due to being suped on the power of all the chaos gods and is now on life support and cannot enforce the no religion rule, and is now worshipped as a god much to his dismay.

I suppose I should explain the other small factions that arose post heresy.

The tau empire are the most ethical factions if 40K and do things “for the greater good” and actually practice diplomacy with most factions and even have humans and other races working with them. They are such a small race, they have no warp presence.

Leagues of Votaan are an offshoot of humanity that ditched them to be better. They have these massive machines that help them make high quality tech which is far beyond humanity. Can also call upon their ancestors and hold grudges literally forever due to the ancestral ties.

Tyranids are a hive mind that eats planets. The members of the hivemind have no technology and all of there weapons are living creatures, even the bullets. Whatever the fuck they’re running from, we don’t want to know because true tyranids are so powerful.

In the current day, the primarchs Guilleman has established good relations with the rising aeldari faction the Ynnari who are trying to kill Slaanesh through magical swords, but struggling to get the last one because it’s INSIDE Slaanesh’s palace.

The primarch know as the Lion has returned.

Tyranids are being annoying.

Necrons are waking up too.

That’s a somewhat basic lore overview to get you up to date on current events, if you have any questions feel free to ask.

[tzeentchdaemonsart]

Different marks of Tzeentch from the Realm of Chaos 1990

Maybe Tzeentch bless all who look upon these.

[scp-xxxx]

Unification Timelines

Fun facts!

Maulland Sen’s battle was 126 years ago from the Palace Coup.

This implies Thunder Warriors don’t have mortal lifespans, as we see Ushotan, a living Thunder Warrior, fighting at the Palace Coup. Ushotan was at least 144 years old when he fought Valdor, otherwise he’d be a teenager during Maulland Sen.

Also Ra Endymion was born around Maulland Sen. Ushotan is literally older than Ra.

Now, Valdor also implies the fighting took about a century or so, ending upon Ararat. Therefore, Ushotan spent roughly three decades post-Ararat in hiding, before leading the Palace Coup. 

Ushotan was also explicitly the last living Thunder Primarch, and was absolutely a sassy, cranky, salty old man with cancer when he fought Valdor.

[samselo]

My favorite character in all of 40k has to be Fulgrim.

He is a character so misunderstood and one that causes me to get into many silly debates with a friend of mine because like so many people. He reduces Fulgrim to the result. To the disgusting existence he is in the current setting.

But in doing so he misses the point of the character. You see, with every other traitor primarch we largely see scorned and abused men. Perturabo constantly playing second fiddle to Dorn and suffering the hatred of his brothers, Angron who was looked at as a rabid dog, Kurze who just wanted guidance and became a self made slave to "fate".

Fulgrim was different then all of them. He was potentially the greatest primarch. He was the most artistic and beautiful, he had dueling skills to rival the best of his brothers, he had the tactics and administrative skills second to Guilliman, he had pure love for humanity only dwarfed by vulcan. And he had a gentle heart that once made even Dorn smile.

When we see Fulgrim represented its usually in his Daemon form or after he finds the Laer blade and we see him as an insecure arrogant elitist. And we forget that when he found his sons, two hundred instead of thousands, he gave a speech that made even the emperor tear up. He was grateful to be mentored by Horus and told his sons to follow their own path and become masters of themselves.

He developed the strongest and most loving primarch bond of them all with his supposed polar opposite in Ferrus manus. He captured a planet with 7 marines. Led the fastest campaign in the history of the crusade when he took the Laer.

The point of Fulgrims fall is similar to that of Magnus's fall. It showed us how the emperors caused him to take his sons for granted, that they didn't need to know what he did. They would be fine. He left his sons vulnerable and he deserved their betrayal.

But they didn't deserve it. And yet despite the corruption of the Laer blade. Fulgrim still almost spared Ferrus. In fact if it wasn't for one of his marines giving him his Laer blade when he spotted Horus's ship, he would have ended the Heresy right then and there.

He didn't have a choice in his fall.

Fulgrim could have been the perfect Primarch. More so than even Sanguinius which I find so touching as they are mirrors to each other in a similar way to Ferrus and Fulgrim.

Hes the most underrated and misunderstood primarch similar to Kurze and Angron.

[two-reflections]

From people claiming that Salamanders sire children to others claiming that them having families is all memes and no lore, I've seen a lot of hot takes about Salamander's families over the years. I was pretty sure that they maintained connections with families that might be related to but were not descended from them, but I couldn't remember where I read that. Earlier today, I set about trying to find an actual reference. I cracked open my old copy of Deathwatch First Founding... And there it was. (Also, a lovely bit about them taking in apprentices!)

For a more nuanced discussion of this and other information about the Salamanders' lives on Nocturne, feel free to check out the longer and more thoughtful post I wrote on r/40klore:

[jellyfishinajamjar]

Warhammer Lore Gameshow

Warhammer has many, many named characters, but not all have names that make sense

Answer: number 4, the Rattling Gun

While this is a unit in warhammer, it is present only in Warhammer Age of Simar, not Warhammer 40K. It is a gattling gun created by rats, and therefore is named the Rattling Gun, to the amusement of all

The rest are unfortunately real names of things in 40K