As mentioned
yesterday, I am reading Kate Orman's Black Archive
book on Pyramids of Mars,
a serial whose story is rooted in the Universal and Hammer mummy
movies. The army I'm using the most in Warhammer right now is the
Tomb Kings, an army whose entire aesthetic is based on the Universal
and Hammer mummy movies.
I
was having trouble coming up with names for my Tomb Kings characters.
Not
anymore. Orman's analysis of Pyramids
is full of references both to characters from the Universal and
Hammer movies as well as actual historical figures. I'm taking notes.
For
a start my Liche Priest using the Lore of Light (I love that Tomb
Kings are undead who use exorcist magic) will be named Meritaten
after an Eighteenth Dynasty queen consort whose name means “beloved
of the sun god”. The more scheming of my Lore of Nehekhara Liche
will be named Isfet, which is a philosophical term for injustice or
chaos, in the sense of being the opposite of maat (order) which might
end up the name of a nicer Liche because I like dualisms as much as
the next guy.
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