About gemstone/mineral names
A color word in front of an invented mineral term gives results like "Cyan Davicolite", "Black Scapturine", and "Silver Nitur" the ring of a survey catalog. Endings such as -ite mirror real mineral nomenclature, so these read as field samples rather than fantasy props. Give each stone a hardness and a market value and loot tables stop defaulting to rubies.
How gemstone/mineral names are built
Every result is a color word plus an invented mineral term: a color head followed by two syllables fused into one word. The color bank holds 101 heads, while the two syllable pools are large 1200-entry banks fused without a space to form the stone name, so "Cyan" plus "Davic" plus "olite" yields "Cyan Davicolite" and "Amaranth" plus "Perigard" plus "ite" yields "Amaranth Perigardite". The color always leads; the two mineral syllables always run together.
Cyan Davicolite
Cyan (color head) + Davic+olite (two syllables fused into the mineral term)
Amaranth Perigardite
Amaranth (color head) + Perigard+ite (two syllables fused into the mineral term)
Cerise Idriusonite
Cerise (color head) + Idrius+onite (two syllables fused into the mineral term)
Naming notes
The endings the closing-syllable pool supplies, such as -ite and -ine, are what sell these as field samples rather than fantasy props, since they mirror real mineral nomenclature. Because the two syllable pools each hold 1200 entries, the catalog of possible stones is enormous, so lean on the color head to organize a loot table or survey list by hue. Give each generated stone a hardness and a market value and it stops reading as a generic gem. The large pools mean repeats are rare, which suits a long inventory. Neutral throughout.
Questions about gemstone/mineral names
- Why do these stone names end in -ite or -ine?
- The closing syllable supplies mineral-style suffixes that mirror real nomenclature, so a fused term like "Davicolite" reads as a catalogued field sample rather than an invented prop. That ending is the main credibility cue.
- What is the color word doing in front?
- The color slot adds a head from a 101-entry bank, like "Cyan" or "Amaranth", that leads every result. It gives the stone a visual hook and a handy way to sort a loot table or survey list by hue.
- How many different stones can this produce?
- A very large number. The two mineral-syllable pools hold 1200 entries each and fuse without a space, so the combinations run into the millions and repeats are rare across a long inventory.