About disease names
Half these results stay in plain English, like "Crazy Chills" and "Marsh Poisoning", while the rest arrive in French, as with "la Grippe d'Arbre". Plagues named this way belong in quarantined villages, ship manifests, and the rumors that empty a tavern. The vaguer the cause sounds, the more frightening the sickness plays at the table.
How disease names are built
This generator runs in two language branches. The English branch pairs a modifier from a 253-entry bank with a symptom word from a 119-entry bank. The French branch pairs a gendered article-plus-noun head from a 162-entry bank with an adjective, the masculine and feminine adjective banks each holding 272 forms, though the adjective's gender is drawn independently of the noun's. Bank outputs include Starling Bends, Equinox Freezing, and La Moelle Envoûtée.
Starling Bends
Starling (modifier) + Bends (symptom)
Equinox Freezing
Equinox (modifier) + Freezing (symptom)
La Moelle Envoûtée
la Moelle (article + noun head) + Envoûtée (feminine adjective)
Naming notes
The French noun head carries its own article and gender (la Moelle, le Crampon), but the adjective draw does not always match it, so mismatched pairs like Le Grelot Croûtée sit alongside agreeing ones. The English branch instead leans on plain symptom nouns (Bends, Freezing), while the French pattern can pluralise its adjective, as in Polirines. Read these as flavour names for fictional outbreaks, not medically defined conditions.
Questions about disease names
- How is a disease name assembled?
- In English it is a modifier plus a symptom word, as in Starling Bends; in French it is a gendered noun head plus an agreeing adjective, as in la Moelle Envoûtée.
- Does the French branch keep correct grammar?
- Not always. The noun head carries its article and gender, but the adjective is drawn from either bank, so forms like Le Grelot Croûtée slip agreement; read them as rustic folk labels rather than textbook French.
- Are these real diagnoses?
- No. They borrow the cadence of folk and clinical disease names but are invented labels for fiction, with no defined symptoms behind them.