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Paul

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First Name Translations
« on: August 29, 2008, 07:39:35 pm »

I just did a check through my dwarves first names to see what they were, and I find most of my dwarves are named rather hilariously.

Three of my soldiers are named Vetek (Target), three more are named Rur (Run), two are named Cagith (Cry), and one is named Ubas (Scream). I'm not overly confident in them... Fittingly, one of the Vetek's died after being pincushioned by a couple goblin elite crossbowmen.

I have 6 dwarves named Agak (Anus), 3 named Lidod (Waste), five named Vathez (Virgin), ELEVEN named Othob (Stupid), four named Nizdast (Ignorant) and two named Odthist (Piss). The list goes on. This not even counting some of their really bad last names.

I do have a few that are really fitting, though. A couple of my soldiers are named Ezar, which means Soldier. And funnily enough, a guy that I randomly assigned as a cook is named Rafar (Cook).

Has anyone else taken the time to see what your dwarves' first names mean?
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Re: First Name Translations
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2008, 07:50:04 pm »

Did you change the dwarf naming conventions? It sounds like you did.
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Re: First Name Translations
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2008, 08:23:34 pm »


But I know Urist means dagger.
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...Okay, in an attempt not to be useless:

-Mosus: room
-Urist: dagger
-Lokum: spear
-Cog: boot
-Bomrek: whip
-Logem: paint
-Kubuk: lance
-Kivish: lancer
« Last Edit: August 29, 2008, 08:32:48 pm by Kishmond »
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Re: First Name Translations
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2008, 08:28:07 pm »

I did a lot of modding, and checking the entity files I realise I apparently changed the symbols all around one time or the other. I don't even remember doing that. So thats what controls names? Haha, I guess having UGLY and NEGATIVE as select symbols makes for some really crappy names. I think that's something I did a while ago while playing around with trying to get civs to fight eachother more often.

Nowadays I just set people to being mute so they war constantly.
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Re: First Name Translations
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2008, 08:41:01 am »

Awesome fort is awesome.
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