About enchanted gear names
Item plus "of" plus property is the whole grammar, producing transparent titles like "Axe of Attack" and "Gauntlets of Magma" beside stranger pieces such as "Pendant of Laughter". That transparency is the appeal for loot tables, since players know what they grabbed before the appraisal roll. Sprinkle in an ambiguous result occasionally to make identification scenes worth playing.
How enchanted gear names are built
The whole grammar is one item-"of"-property template, joining 52 item nouns (Aventail, Dirk, Mantle, Buckle) to 436 property nouns (Dominion, Sloth, Oath Keeping, Omens). With 52 items times 436 properties the bank spans well over twenty thousand transparent combinations. Outputs include "Aventail of Dominion", "Dirk of Sloth", and "Mantle of Oath Keeping".
Aventail of Dominion
Aventail (item noun) + Dominion (property noun)
Dirk of Sloth
Dirk (item noun) + Sloth (property noun)
Dirk of Unflappability
Dirk (item noun) + Unflappability (property noun)
Naming notes
Transparency is the point: the item word names the slot and the property word names the enchantment, so a player reads "Gauntlets of Magma" and knows the effect before any appraisal roll. The same item noun pairs with wildly different properties (Dirk of Sloth versus Dirk of Unflappability), which is what makes a single bank cover armor, weapons, and trinkets at once. Drop in an ambiguous property like Omens occasionally to make an identification scene worth playing.
Questions about enchanted gear names
- What is the structure of an enchanted-gear name?
- A single item-"of"-property template pairs one of 52 item nouns with one of 436 property nouns, as in "Aventail of Dominion" or "Buckle of Omens".
- Why are these names so literal?
- By design: the item word states the slot and the property word states the effect, so loot reads its function on sight, which suits drop tables where players want to know what they grabbed.
- How many distinct results are possible?
- 52 items combined with 436 properties yield over twenty thousand pairings, so the same item noun can carry many different enchantments, like Dirk of Sloth versus Dirk of Unflappability.