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[TheBeardyMan]

It appears that adding [CASTE_NAME]s and [CHILDNAME]s to [CASTE]s is the right way to do this, but these features aren't used very consistently. For example, some [CREATURE]s have [CASTE_NAME]s directly within the [CREATURE] section instead of a [CASTE] subsection; can these be safely removed? And some [CREATURE]s have one [CASTE] with a [CASTE_NAME] and one [CASTE] with no [CASTE_NAME]; is this likely to cause problems?

[Shurhaian]

If something is in the [CREATURE] section, not [CASTE], that means(if you go by the write-up with dwarves in creature_standard) that it applies to the whole race; caste level attributes can go there too, and are automatically inherited by any caste beneath it. That inheritance can presumably get overridden by reusing that tag specifically in the [CASTE] section in question - that is, you could have lions and lion cubs, but under the female caste, give them the name of 'lioness'.

Treat the [CREATURE] section as being a 'default caste' of sorts and it might make a little more sense to see when one caste has an attribute and another does not.