Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-72.15.97.37-20121205193921/@comment-5131965-20121211063610

in response guys to the inital statement, yeah, the Iron hands are both very Greek (Medusa for instance) but also very celtic (different clans that have been known to fight one another to see who is the best, and require very wise elders [usually dreadnaught survivers of Isstvan] to lead them in battle)

but to Deathwings Byzantium comment, your right, they never had a God Emperor, but knowning the Emperors of the Romans, (specifially Constantine founder of the Byzantium, and [big breath] Caligula, Nero, Julius Caesar, Markus Antonius [mark antony], Octavian & Augustus Caesar [the last two are the same person]), who all thought they were gods incarnate, you could call Byzantium the Imperium of man, as it was the last stronghold of true civilisation until its demise in the 14th century.