About gem names
Appraisal language anchors each result, sizing "This Tiger's Eye with a radiant cut" at a lime or noting a Topaz "in rugged condition" before rumors of "cooling properties" surface. Cut, fruit-scale size, demand, and rarity arrive in a fixed order, handy for loot tables where players ask what the stone is actually worth. Trim any stray formatting between the two halves before use.
How gem names are built
This describes a gemstone and its lore in a single block, not a gem name on its own. One template carries everything: the stone's species, its cut, its size compared to a familiar object, its condition, its demand, its rarity, then a magical property and what artifact it suits. It pulls from 8 banks, including an 80-entry species pool, a 20-entry cut pool, a 30-entry property pool and an 18-entry use pool. Each roll yields one appraised stone.
The appraiser logs one Reldenstone, lightly flecked and dressed in a pillow cut that holds it near the size of a fingertip. By reputation it is back in demand after a long lull and can be found by anyone willing to dig, while the gem itself is alleged to dampen a wearer's fear, and on that strength alone it would serve as a healer's ring touched to the brow of the sick.
feature: appraisal + traits: species + cut + size object + condition + demand + rarity + property + use
the appraisal fixes species, cut, scale, condition and how rare it is
This Vossarite shows a wedge cut, no larger than a marble, and is feathered with internal cracks; championed by a single influential house and is common enough to bargain over. The stone is claimed to ease the ache of old wounds, which makes it well suited to a courier's seal pressed into hot wax.
feature: appraisal + traits: species + cut + size object + condition + demand + rarity + property + use
size compares to a marble; demand and rarity can pull against each other
This Kithralite shows a tier cut, no larger than a sparrow's heart, and is fogged with age; quietly favored by old families and has not been cut fresh in decades. The stone is supposed to keep a flame burning in the wind, which makes it well suited to a courier's seal pressed into hot wax.
feature: appraisal + lore + traits: species + cut + size object + condition + property + use
the closing clause ties a magical property to a suggested artifact use
Naming notes
Size is anchored to everyday objects (a thimble, a marble, a cherry pit, a walnut), so a reader pictures scale without numbers. The reputation clauses can pull in tension, a stone passed over by most buyers that has not been cut fresh in decades, which makes good appraisal flavour or a haggling hook. The closing property line (dampening fear, slowing poison, humming near buried metal) ties the stone to a use such as a healer's ring or a courier's seal, so lift it as loot text and treat the magic as suggestion, not a fixed rule.
Questions about gem names
- Does this name gems or describe them?
- It describes them. The output appraises a stone by species, cut, size, condition, demand and rarity, then adds a magical property, rather than coining a unique gem name.
- Why is size given as a fruit or a fist?
- Size is compared to a familiar object, a marble, a thimble, a cherry pit, a walnut, so a reader grasps scale at a glance without needing carat weights.
- Can I use the magical properties in my game?
- Yes, as flavour. The property and use clauses (dampening fear, easing old wounds, a healer's ring, a courier's seal) are evocative hooks for loot text rather than balanced mechanics, so adapt them to your system.