Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-72.15.97.37-20121205193921/@comment-27518460-20190708002132

If the Iron Hands were Scottish, their Primarch Ferrus Manus would be renamed O'Ferrium McManus and they too would have a temper. Their rites of passage would be Iron Games. I see them as more Germanic in that they want to replace flesh with machinery. High quality mechanisms that ushered in the age of the Assault Rifle far back in the 20th Century; the STG-44. Iron Hands are the 41st millenium's early 80's goth. They probably have the lead singer from Bauhaus; Peter Murphy interred in a Venerable Dreadnaught chasis and pull him out for special occassions (Peter Murphy is English though, but he can be honorarily Germanic to fit the Iron Hands image)

Space Wolves Scandanavian themed. The wolves are a tribute to Odin's two wolves; Geri and Freki. Leman Russ' Wolves are of the same name. Odin also has two ravens; Huginn and Muninn. It also stated that "The Rus were a Nordic people heavily involved in the early history of Russia". Fenris is of Old Norse origin and it is used mainly in Scandinavian. Fenris is one of the three chidren of the Norse God Loki and the Giantess Angrboda. Fenris in Norse Mythology is a giant wolf (think the Marvel movie Thor: Ragnarok).

Cthonians are actually worm-like monsters from the Cthulu mythos written by H.P. Lovecraft.