Tuesday 15 November 2011

Did You Know?


That the Dark Angel Space Marine Chapter, has a selected pool of names, that gets recycled as new Brothers join their ranks. Ezekiel, Gabriel, Belial and Naaman are just some of the famous names you may have heard!

In other words, no new name ever enters the rosters of the Dark Angels, that way they can remain loyal to the neames of the heroic brothers who lived during the time of the Heresy!

8 comments:

  1. That is a cool bit of fluff to know.

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  2. At first I thought "well, that must get confusing." Considering (at least in the fluff) that Space Marines die by the one or two even on massive engagements (World purged of ten billion heretics, Dark Angels losses were a staggering THREE BATTLE BROTHERS!), it must get weird when newly promoted brother Danyael replaces recently fallen brother Danyael.

    But then I remembered that the Dark Angels were a legion, so what is now a chapter of 1,000 should realistically have a pool of almost 10,000 names to draw from.

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  3. Yup, in fact, i believe at the battle for kadilus, i think it mentions that Naaman was the 39th or the 29th battle brother to carry that name :)so 10000 years and only 40 recycles! Go Green Angels! (Pun intended)

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  4. Interesting tidbit of info there Alex! And I thought they had a random name generator from the old testament on their computers.

    MoD! Where have you been man? What happened to your blog? I just realised it's back again so I am following now.

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  5. I had no idea about this, a very interesting bit of info. I'm now wondering if anyone has compiled a collection of DA names?

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  6. The Dark Fortress has a DA name resource. By no means 10,000 names but pretty useful if you're looking for fluff names for your squads. It's what I use ;)

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  7. @ The Antipope - Last semester of university has been crazy. Six assessments due in 8 weeks followed by 6 weeks of clinical placements and then another 2 assessments last week. Been busy the last few days publishing the posts that I never got around to doing.. so looks like I was never gone lol. Blog url changed as well.

    http://imagination-incorporation.blogspot.com/

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  8. What can I say, I hate studying (you can't say "studying' without saying "dying" or "diet" without saying "die", that's what I always say). Good to see you back!

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