Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-7232811-20130506192751/@comment-8881468-20161227124651

vulcan correspinding to hephaistos (terrible to look at, smith), yet he is hanging around a world of "celtic" tribes --> clan structures and f.e. avernii-> french tribe of celts, today the region Auvergne  or you take the Lago d'Averno, which is according to the Aenaid of Vergil (or whatever it is called in English, the entrance to the underworld.

Ferrus Manus, the Gorgon, terrible to behold as well, so the Hephaitos/Vulcan myth can work, too, though both represent different types ways of getting things done. With Vulcan being more the artisan, whilst Ferrus is the inustrial one.

The Fists and Dark Angels both have strains of medieval knight culture, especially the knightly orders in them.

Sidenote. the sagittarius might please Horus most, yet it epitomizes the Khan more than it does Lupercal, as Yagatai does represent those aiatic horsemen with bows far more than Horus.

Thousand Sons: ancient egypt + Iran/Iraq

Nurgle= Nergal god of the assyrians

Lorgar is basiccally every religeous zealot, though I presume him to be based on late medieval to renaissance christian church with all thse wars of faith, religeous purges, dogmatism and iconoclasts.

Perturabo is ancient greece but also a good chunk of renaissance italy with their inter city warfare and sieges (going up to WW 1)

Mortarion, the death spectre of medieval (plague) times