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FantasticDorf:
Just some more fine controls for adjusting civilization naming conventions for individuals once they reach a notorious or historical status that are set per entity, to go with language & other miscellaneous cultural traits like gem cuttings & hair shape. Supporting the changes toady is implementing, and also alllowing players to adjust their own conventions.


--- Quote from: Toadyone ---(For old hands that noticed: yeah, "<X> the <adjective>" names are possible now. It's not a language rewrite, but I decided to support that form, which was already possible in the existing structure.)
--- End quote ---

Examples


--- Code: ---[NAME_CONVENTION]
[FORENAME]
[SURNAME] //is the most basic convention, one many base typified names, but some may be as brief as to just mention the forename
--- End code ---


--- Code: ---[NAME_CONVENTION]
[FORENAME]
[THE]
[TITLE:FEAT] //For names such as 'Bomrek the Dragon-Slayer' out of megabeasts & [BRAG_WORTHY] people & creatures, sometimes associated with positions, King-Slayer may be a subjective one of them.
--- End code ---


--- Code: ---[MONARCH]
[POSITION_NAME_CONVENTION]
[FORENAME]
[SURNAME]
[OF]
[FAMILY:BLOODLINE] //A slightly more advanced variant used here in a position
--- End code ---


--- Code: ---[CHOOSE_CASTE:MALE]
[NAME_CONVENTION]
[FORENAME]
[SON]     
[OF]
[PATERNAL_FATHER] // maybe your parent was someone important, maybe they weren't, by default without prompting if there is something for a dwarf to gain via notoriety they might use this convention without being explicitly stated for them to do so.
--- End code ---

Azerty:
Good ideas, especially if they could differ between civilizations during generation.

Miles_Umbrae:
I might mention that even though it was very rare it did happen that daughters with some notoriety of her own could be referred to as ".. daughter of [noteworthy parent].
Equally rare but also possible was that if the offspring had a mother of significant notoriety even they could be referenced in this way.

Just saying...

FantasticDorf:

--- Quote from: Miles_Umbrae on August 12, 2018, 05:08:02 pm ---I might mention that even though it was very rare it did happen that daughters with some notoriety of her own could be referred to as ".. daughter of [noteworthy parent].
Equally rare but also possible was that if the offspring had a mother of significant notoriety even they could be referenced in this way.

Just saying...

--- End quote ---

I wasn't denoting any form of inequality or that [PATERNAL_MOTHER] wouldn't be a normally valid choice, when you can easily reference both in the [NAMING_CONVENTION] example structure. Just that historically men usually hold onto titles of power through patriarchal hereditary systems normally just depending on the rules. Dwarven rule or society has no such bias to honor the thirdborn son over the first & secondborn sisters.

It would likely be VERY prominent in gender determinable female led elf society which directly orchestrates itself around queen's & princesses though to heavily namedrop parents in part to their immortality also, or other factors such as the lands they represent or religious belief in the 'force' of the forest they occupy.

Miles_Umbrae:
Just mentioned it for the nitpicks that might come along and question why you did not mention this, that, or those less common variants...

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