Aron:
Hi,
i need some help for my army banner.
My idea is to base the design on this one:
http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image%3AGWItaliaCDBanner.jpg
I would like to put a heraldic motto or a something like a spell on the empty name plate.
Does anyone have any idea what I could put on there?
Thanks a lot :hat off
Grimbold Blackhammer:
You mean like a Game of Thrones type of house motto? Or a symbol of the house?
Admiral:
“Rule in Pain”
“Hell Hats”
“In Flames”
“Ash & Death”
“Obey Or Die”
“Under the Whip”
“Strength & Cruelty”
“In Chains”
“Lords of Fire”
“Sons of Darkness”
“We Forge Devils”
“Blacksmiths of Chaos”
“To Crush Under Heel”
“In Flames We Trust”
“Through Furnace Fires”
“Into Jaws of Hell”
“Under His Hoof”
“Trample Underhoof”
“Toil Or Boil”
“Flay & Slay”
“Horns Aflame”
“Bull Rampant”
“Wings of Carnage”
“To Shackle Is To Own”
“Mastery Through Madness”
“In His Vision”
“Bull God Triumphant”
“For the Bull Father”
“To Temple’s Might”
“Over Broken Backs”
“Cracked Anvils”
“Cloven Skulls”
“Fiery Lordship”
“As Foretold”
“Dark Omen”
“Rise in Smoke”
“Darkswallow” or “Black Heavens” (allusion to smoky pollution and light pollution eating out the stars in the sky of the Dark Lands)
“Outcast Arisen” (abandoned by Ancestor Gods, ascendant by the will of Hashut)
“Masked Death”
“On High”
“Shadow and Flame”
“Dread Captors”
“Raze and Burn”
“Cursed Fate”
“Torch Aflame”
“Host of Horrors”
“True Torture”
“Ashen Agony”
“We Will Trample”
“Scorched Earth”
“Gates of Hell”
“Howls of Torment”
“None Spared”
“Throne of Torment”
“Great Labours”
“Blood Libation”
“To Sacrifice Life”
“We Brake For Nobody”
“To Stone We Turn”
“Will Over Victim”
“Virtue In Cruelty”
“Unholy Pact Struck”
“Bow Or Burn”
“By His Judgement”
“To Bind & To Break”
“Shattered Hope”
“Bounds Unyielding”
“By Steel and Slaughter”
“He Falls Who Yields”
“He Strikes Who Rules”
“The Harrowed Ones”
“From Flesh To Ash”
“Descend the Damned”
“In Chains Despair”
“Chaos Enthroned”
“Enthroned In Torment”
“Crowned Curseling”
“Foes Feed the Pyre”
“Upon the Altar”
“Throne of Woes”
“Let There Be Doom”
“And There Was Darkness”
“Let Walls Topple”
“And Cruel Be Kin”
“Let Strength Rule”
“And Ruin Reign”
“Hunger For Power”
“Dark Gods Thirst”
“In Might We Trust”
“To Idols Turned”
“Embers Into Inferno”
“Foes Defiled”
“Cast Into Oblivion”
“Woe to the Weak”
“Reveal the Unholy”
“Rend & Tear”
“Grind & Crush”
“Born In Hell”
“A Heavy Burden”
“Brace For Impact”
“Searing Wrath”
“Brakes Are For Elves”
“Stampede”
Kamphre:
Why do you give such temptations to Admiral ? 
Admiral, you’re so productive !!!
Aron:
Thanks a lot. That gave me a lot of ideas.
Have a great day everyone.
Abecedar:
I’d go with “Brakes are for Elves”
Aron:
Thanks. I went with “Strength & Cruelty” and since I find it a bit boring to use English I first thought to use “vi et crudelitate” instead.
Then after thinking about that one I found that Latin quotes would be more something I would expect for Bretonnians but not Chaos Dwarfs.
After a bit of research I found out that Assyrian (CD’s are wearing Assyrian-style armor and beards) is a dialect of Akkadian, an extinct Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia.
I found a dictionary online and decided to go with stɹ�>�<θ �>n kruː�Tltɪ (Strength & Cruelty in Akkadian).
Thanks again for the input.
Admiral:
@Kamphre: Thanks!
@Aron: Good choice, though stɹ�>�<θ �>n kruː�Tltɪ are the English phonetics.
Here are the Akkadian approximations, from Glosbe. I’ve written out their meanings since it’s a hassle to check all on the website itself, and also pasted in simple Babylonian cuneiform translations from this page:
I’d suggest dāmu u kasû as a near-enough translation for strength and cruelty. Literal meaning: Blood and cold.
Other suitable words signifying strength in this case would be mādu = many (as in many heads, many warriors in the army); kabtu = heavy (always appropriate for Chaos Dwarfs!) and labiānu or kišādu = neck (as in muscular neck, strong body). But dāmu = blood, and is a component of this word:
Which seems to be where you’re aiming for.
Also, older types of cuneiform was poor at word-dividing if it occurred at all, so let’s borrow a sign from Old Persian Cuneiform, a simple slash as seen below along with an example of how it’s used:
This is not an exact translation by someone who has studied Akkadian and its sibling languages, just a quick online amateur check. You could write your motto in cuneiform:
Or in Dark Tongue script!
Good luck.
Fuggit Khan:
Why do you give such temptations to Admiral ? ;PIdle hands are not part of Admiral's philosophy (thankfully for all of us!)
Admiral, you're so productive !!!
Kamphre
I'd go with "Brakes are for Elves"Hahaha! :)
Abecedar
