"The Imperium of Man comes to Gensokyo" Discussion thread.

What is the name of the beast?

Also, remember these?

The Juggernaut of Khorne gnu.

You want a wildebeest for a pet? Chabal, I am disappoint; I would have expected you to go for a hippopotamus.

Pet implies domesticated, meaning losing those desirable meteorological qualities. Besides, as fierce as hippos are, they cannot stray far from their aquatic environment, limiting their efficiency severely.

So was Cypher mentioned any more in that book of yours?

Speaking of awesome animals:

Owls are silent death machines, and Scotsmen incomprehensible narrators.

edited 22nd Oct '11 12:28:34 PM by Chabal2

Say, l3wt and lem, I have a question for the two of you: how would you pronounce the name 'Amlodhi', as in 'Amlodhi Skarssen Skarssensson'? Is it "Am-load-ee", or something like that?

Hrm, I'd say pronounce it straight fordward Am-lodee with like a silent "h" in there. The double "e's" are basically how we pronounce most of our "i" sounds anyway. But shit, that's not exactly a name I've ever heard before, though.

edited 22nd Oct '11 3:53:11 PM by l3wt

Well, I wasn't entirely certain if it was a real name or not; it's the name of a Heresy-era Space Wolf, you see, and a lot of the terms they use in that series seem to be Norse or Auld Englisshe in origin—for example, jarl, skjald, wyrd, maleficarum, mjod, etc.

It was partway through asking my question that I realized it might not be within your area of expertise, but I figured it was worth a shot. Thank you for helping, L3wt.

edited 22nd Oct '11 4:03:03 PM by SullenFrog

At any rate, it looks like the name was made up by someone who's not very familiar with the language. "Skarsen Skarsensson" seems kinda reduntant/and or nonsensical if it means what I think it means.

Yeah, I have to admit that the Skarssen Skarssensson aspect does seem a little silly; I mean, does that make him "Amlodhi Skarssen, son of Skarssensson (who is of course the son of Skarssen)"?

I thought the Skarssen part looked weird, does that even mean anything?

No, it's even worse. All those "-sen" endings can be near synonymous with the "-son" endings. I'll leave you to figure out the ensuing lingual mind-screw this leaves us with.

edited 22nd Oct '11 4:18:18 PM by l3wt

No easy way out by claiming it means grandson, I suppose.

I am Skar son of Skar himself son of Skar making me grandson of Skar!

how HIGH do you even have to be have that many dads named Skar

edited 22nd Oct '11 4:20:52 PM by l3wt

I'm pretty sure he's very happy that his own name is Amlodhi.

What planet did The Lion King take place on again?

Still, at least he's not Canis Wolfborn. And imagine if they'd combined the two into Ulf Ulfsson.

Russians are more sensible with those patronymics.

...Well, now I'll never be able to take this character seriously again.

Spehss Ulves are only to be taken seriously when fighting against them, otherwise it's ale, bragging, machismo and wenches more ale.

Also, I may or may not have mentioned this before but the Space Wolves don't refer to themselves as Space Wolves; when not in the presence of other Imperial forces, they call themselves either the Vlka Fenryka or simply the Rout. They also call the Fang the Aett.

The Fang?

Their fortress-monastery, which is built within the inside of a mountain so gob-smackingly huge it makes Olympus Mons look like a small hill in comparison.

Ætt = clan, by the by, as far as I can remember. So I assumed it was their name for a type of unit, not a location...

edited 22nd Oct '11 4:39:52 PM by l3wt

That makes sense, given their clan/tribe mentality; after all, it's the place where the Wolves come to weather the long Fenrisian winters.

edited 22nd Oct '11 4:40:48 PM by SullenFrog

Yeah, was why I asked.

...sounds like GW doesn't take these kinds of things that seriously.

edited 22nd Oct '11 4:55:46 PM by Lemurian

^ A distinction is in order, I believe. If this is information from a codex then yes, GW is to blame, but if this was from a Black Library novel it is the writer and the editor who deserve getting smacked with a newspaper. There's a hierarchy to these things.

edited 22nd Oct '11 4:47:47 PM by l3wt