Wanted: Creative explanation for Imperial personal names that make little sense in the setting

If you just want the flavour, go for something like Greimizzio

Arnebelinda wrote:This is perhaps overly esoteric, but anyway: sometimes Empire characters have been given names that are "German" in the sense that real-life German people have had and do have such names, but that in the Warhammer setting really should not exist. These include Johann, Hans and Michael, names of ultimately Hebrew origin spread through Christianity, but in the Warhammer world there is no equivalent of the Hebrew language or people, much less of Christianity.

So, any good ideas as to how it can be justified that Imperial people are named thus?

These names come from the Land of Ebram which was absorbed into the Nehekharan Empire during the reign of Neferata. When the Nehekharans spread north, many Ebramites settle in the area that would one day become the Empire.

Fucking EASY, man.

SteveD wrote:These names come from the Land of Ebram which was absorbed into the Nehekharan Empire during the reign of Neferata. When the Nehekharans spread north, many Ebramites settle in the area that would one day become the Empire.

Sounds a little bit familiar....

Didz wrote:Ok! so I got it wrong it seems.

Chatting with Andy Law, you may well not be. He says that it pretty much depends which map you actually look at whether the globe is bigger or much smaller than our own planet.

Strange really, normally the Warhammer Maps are so consistent.....

I read something similar about the Kislevian word "tsar."

In Russian, "tsar" is an abbreviation of "tsezar", which means "Caesar." In the Warhammer world, there was no Caesar...

On the other hand, as a surname, Caeser probably just meant 'hairy' anyway

IIRC one of the very few words in English which is actually English, (I.e. Not proven to be taken from another language,) is Dog.

jadrax wrote:If you just want the flavour, go for something like Greimizzio

Ah, something to work with. A bit obvious, but the idea is a good starting point...

Simple answer:

Those names given are the names in Riekspiel translated to English (which the book is published in).

Karl Franz is actually: þ=f² 9×©AÑ?DA@?>=á

However obviously that doesnt mean much to those not fluent in Riekspiel.

Much like we do not actually mount a horse, rather the proper name is £k}?

Again likely doesn't mean much to most of you.

However to folks here, 'Imperial German' sounding names conjure up an imagine the is a rather good translation to what somebody from the empire would be like....

If you ever have the privilege of meeting þ=f² 9×©AÑ?DA@?>=á (Karl Franz), you very likely would say, hmm he looks like a Karl Franz.