Talk:Orokin/@comment-72.235.140.136-20131116033120/@comment-99.229.103.217-20131223230335

Close, but Oro can also be used in Japanese to mean gold and Kin in Japanese can mean gold but it can also mean akin to, or near to, or close to, or seeming like.

So Orokin could mean akin to gold or seeming like gold, or near gold. I also find that the kin sounds like an inflection of jin meaning person. I believe they meant this to mean Gold like people. See stalkers codex lore entry for his description of "cold and gold" Orokin. Also notice all the gold used in orokin tech.

Tenno also is what the emperor of Japan was called meaning heavenly soverign. The emperor of Japan was believed to be god on earth.