About forest names
English and French woods grow side by side here, from the ominous "La Forêt de la Terreur" to the plainer "Hollow Wilds" and surname-style results like "Attleher Wood". The gentle ones mark foraging grounds and fairy-tale clearings, the dark ones mark where your map should stop being reliable. Let the tone of the name decide the encounter table.
How forest names are built
Forest names span French and English templates. French forms wrap a generic around a descriptor, as in La Forêt plus a descriptor giving "La Forêt de la Terreur", or Les plus a short descriptor plus Bois giving "Les Farouches Bois". English forms pair a descriptor with a woodland word ("Earthy Forest"), or build a creature-led form from a descriptor, a creature word, and a woodland word ("Snow Wolverine Covert"). The generic word sets the register.
Les Farouches Bois
Les + Farouches (French descriptor) + Bois
French template with a short descriptor
Earthy Forest
Earthy (descriptor) + Forest (woodland word)
English descriptor plus woodland word
La Forêt de la Terreur
La Forêt + de la Terreur (French descriptor)
French generic plus a descriptor phrase
Naming notes
The register is set by the generic: Forêt and Bois drive the French templates, while woodland words such as Forest, Covert and Woods (from a 16-entry woodland-word bank) drive the English ones. Two fragment banks (536 and 266 entries) feed a fragment-join before a woodland tail. Keep one register per forest so a single woodland stays consistent in language.
Questions about forest names
- Why do forest names switch between French and English?
- The generator holds French templates built on Forêt and Bois and English ones built on woodland words like Forest and Covert. Each pull lands in one register, so the language varies between results.
- What is the creature-led pattern?
- A template joins a descriptor, a creature word, and a woodland word, as in Snow Wolverine Covert.
- How do I keep a single forest consistent?
- Pick one register and reuse its generic; do not mix the French Forêt forms with the English woodland forms on the same woodland.