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[labouts]

Recently, I added aquatic people (called "Sei") to my game and made their Civilization revolve around water. I noticed that almost all of them had water biased last names:

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My question: What decides their naming pattern?
The wiki says naming is "quite random" and searching didn't reveal any posts on this subject.

[3]

Entity symbols. Symbols and possibly spheres.

More elaborate is the way the game seems to have some built-in algorithm for selecting specific first names for civvers: for example, the name "Urist" is taken from LANGUAGE_DWARF.txt, but it's always a candidate for naming. There's no randomisation of which words are used.

[labouts]

Ah, thanks. I messed with those and it seems only symbols was responsible; I'm a bit annoyed at myself that I didn't think of that immediately. In any case, I'll add that to the wiki.

[Jay]

More elaborate is the way the game seems to have some built-in algorithm for selecting specific first names for civvers: for example, the name "Urist" is taken from LANGUAGE_DWARF.txt, but it's always a candidate for naming. There's no randomisation of which words are used.

Elaborate?
I've seen every single word classified as a noun used for first names before.
Urist = "dagger"
That doesn't seem all that elaborate.

[Knight Otu]

It isn't really more elaborate than the rest of naming. Urist always being a candidate for a name is because the word Dagger is part of the Artifice symbols, from which dwarves draw their names. They should also draw names from the Earth symbols, though a modded race of mine doesn't seem to use selected symbols beyond the first (which was quite noticeable with the Latin language file - too many Conmercios!). You should be unlikely to find a dwarf named Agak unless he's goblin-raised, or a dwarf named Istbar. On humans, you should similarly be unlikely to find an Umpig, but you may find a Tawki (and an Olith, for that matter).