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[Hotaru]

Created a small mod for myself, which features 3 civilizations of stock beastmen, birdmen and lizardmen that build cities, wage war on dwarves and use picks and trap components as weapons (hopefully, just testing it). All these have a social structure similar to dwarves defined, but the positions are variable.

Now, what's really cool is that I went adventuring into a Swanman town. It turns out, all their nobles seem to be named after the sky or flying. I've so far met the High Sky, the First Flier, the Sacred Cloud and the Holy Heaven, which are extraordinarily fitting titles for creatures of the sky.

Their religion is defined as

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[RELIGION:PANTHEON]
   [RELIGION_SPHERE:FISH]
   [RELIGION_SPHERE:BLIGHT]
   [RELIGION_SPHERE:DREAMS]
   [RELIGION_SPHERE:FREEDOM]
   [RELIGION_SPHERE:LIGHTNING]
   [RELIGION_SPHERE:NATURE]

and names as

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   [SELECT_SYMBOL:WAR:NAME_WAR]
   [SUBSELECT_SYMBOL:WAR:VIOLENT]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:BATTLE:NAME_BATTLE]
   [SUBSELECT_SYMBOL:BATTLE:VIOLENT]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:SIEGE:NAME_SIEGE]
   [SUBSELECT_SYMBOL:SIEGE:VIOLENT]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:ROAD:NAME_ROAD]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:TUNNEL:NAME_TUNNEL]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:BRIDGE:NAME_BRIDGE]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:WALL:NAME_WALL]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:REMAINING:HOLY]
   [SELECT_SYMBOL:REMAINING:MAGIC]

so I don't think that caused it. Was the game able to infer from the creature's flying ability that they should have nobles named like this, or is it a fluke?

[jaxy15]

Possibly a fluke. Those are also the priests.

[darkflagrance]

Perhaps the civ is coincidentally dedicated to a deity of lightning, which is causing heaven and sky associations among nobles.

[NW_Kohaku]

Those SYMBOL:WAR things are just how they name wars.  It has no effect on the rest, which is why you had to give an instruction on how to name roads, as well.

And yes, priests will be named from a selection of "sky" related terms if their sphere has to do with the sky somehow, and "lightning" probably just uses the "sky" category because Toady probably didn't want to make new categories for every single sphere and go through a few thousand dictionary terms for each of them.

[Hylas]

DF does seem to scan the creature tokens when matching creatures with gods in the case of pantheon gods that are "generally represented as" an animal rather than a human/dwarf. An olm god, for instance, will likely have the caverns and water spheres, and a hoary marmot or mountain goat god will likely be associated with mountains. It is possible that, since most of the gods of the swanman civ would be generally represented as swanmen, and swanmen have [FLIER], they might have more than the usual sky related gods.
That is all vague supposition, but I'll try my hand at some !!THEOLOGY!! later (i.e., make some animal civs with pantheon religion and see what spheres they get)