Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160101143127/@comment-25479664-20160104221015

General Esdeath wrote: "Rook" is Dutch for "Smoke" too. (I would know since I am Dutch.) Makes sense, as the bird is a charred black color, and likes to rest on rooves and in other high-up urban environments. I was referring to "van" which is Dutch for "from" (similarly to how "Christoph von Frankfurt" means "Christoph of Frankfurt" or how "Leonardo da Vinci" means "Lion of Vinci", which actually sounds really badass now that I think of it more).