User blog comment:FuzzyHamster/The Penguin Herald - Issue 3/@comment-6381948-20141206050519/@comment-4747848-20141206091024

Herald means "a messenger"; when we came up with the initial idea we wanted the name to mean something, and it was Vicyorus I believe who proposed the name; we loved the idea and stuck with it.

I'm not sure what Harold means …