#they're running around on the equivalent of supertankers stuffed with hydroponics

[kaelor0409]

Try throwing some apostrophes in there. That's the standard fantasy cheat, and Eldar are literally space elves. Ti'tania, Tita'nia, etc. If that isn't exotic enough, just move some letters around too. Ti'ana, Tat'inia...

Or, if this is the name she is introducing herself to humans with, maybe it is Titania. That's not her real name, of course, but that's what she tells them her name is. She's an Autarch, after all. She is ancient and has access to secrets humans can't even dream of. She did her homework on her opponents and did it so well she uncovered a 38,000 year old cultural reference, something so obscure even the best scholars of the Imperium wouldn't know about. She came prepared, she knows humans better than they know themselves, and she's telling them that to their faces. But they won't get it, and she knows they won't get it, because humans are ignorant beasts with such short memories they don't even recall their own past. They might even think it means "Master of Titans" in Eldar and start worrying she brought along Phantoms.

It's a boast, an inside joke, a forgotten truth, an insult, and a deception all in a single word, and if that doesn't perfectly sum up the Eldar I don't know what does.

It's not a name she'd use with other Eldar though. A human name would be ugly on Eldar lips, and the point of the joke is that the humans should get it and they don't. That she spent a great amount of time and resources wading through the dreck that is human history isn't something to brag to other Eldar about, any more than you'd brag about a really cool thing you found diving through a dumpster.

Naming things for Warhammer is so hard because on one hand the bar is set so low, but on the other hand I feel like I still need to hold myself to some sort of standard.

Like I want to name a Biel-Tan Autarch after Titania, Queen of the Faeries. It's thematically fitting, but since titans are already such a big thing in 40k, it feels so stupid for a character to be named Titania.

But then sometimes stupid is on brand for Warhammer?