About cave names
French dominates this list, with descriptive dread built into results like "l'Abri Effroyable" and "la Cavité Étroite", while "Portscarres Den" offers an English alternative. The adjectives double as dungeon notes, telling players whether a cave is narrow, rotten, or barren before they light a torch. Label your map's lairs with the nastiest results and save neutral ones for shelter.
How cave names are built
Cave names span English and French templates over several banks. French forms pair a generic from a 33-entry bank with an adjective from a 264-entry bank, and some append a plural ending; other French forms take a de-phrase, as in Le Siphon de Galenes. English forms build "The" plus a descriptor and a generic. Sample output includes The Haunted Hollows and Les Failles Originel.
The Haunted Hollows
The + Haunted + Hollows
descriptor plus generic in the English template
Les Failles Originel
les Failles + Originel
generic plus adjective
Le Siphon de Galenes
le Siphon + de + Galenes
generic plus de-phrase
Naming notes
The generic bank is small at 33 entries, while the descriptor banks hold 264 each, so descriptors vary far more than the leading generic. Plural and adjective endings are added by the template rather than stored whole. The output capitalizes the first character of the assembled string.
Questions about cave names
- How are cave names assembled?
- A generic from the 33-entry bank is paired with either a 264-entry adjective or a de-phrase, and the template adds any plural ending. English templates instead pair "The" with a descriptor and a generic from a separate list.
- Why do the descriptors vary more than the leading word?
- The generic bank holds 33 entries while the adjective banks hold 264 each, so the trailing descriptors cycle far slower than the leading generic.
- Where do the plural endings come from?
- They are added by the template (for example the trailing -s in a plural generic-plus-adjective pattern) rather than being stored on the bank entry itself.