Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-72.15.97.37-20121205193921/@comment-24579946-20160708220058

86.169.171.43 wrote: I think it is worth pointing out that the current thread lines thoughts are basing the recruitment locations on circa 2,000 AD years of history, specifically and almost soley European.

There has being a pretty massive amount of cultural/political etc changes in just that amount of time.

The Emperor was conducting the unification wars/preparations forthe great crusade in circa 31,000 AD. Resultantly some 28-29,000 approximately years have gone by, worth of history. What is to say that a massive Greco-Roman style civilisation didn't flourish in present/real Norway and last longer than the actual Greek/Romans did, establishing an entirely displaced map.

Coupled with the legions not soley as a rule recruiting from one area (pre-primarch areas especially) then the legion recruits and thus adopted culture is not going to be set to one place fully or certainly not one place we would neccisarily know or understand now.

so i'd not worry too much or try to nail down mist too much. I don't think this is an exercise in thinking too much of where the Legions came from, but more in terms of on what cultures the designers based the Legions on.