About goblin town names
Snarled clusters pile up in results like "Ghiutrukreck" and "Grorthet thumduhk", while plainer compounds such as "Grubpoint" sound like a camp named after whatever happened there. All of them read scavenged rather than founded, which fits warrens, junk forts, and raider camps on a campaign map. Harsher spellings signal meaner tribes at a glance.
How goblin town names are built
Five patterns of different shapes. One join pairs a 90-entry bank with a 35-entry bank to make a compound like Crashguard (crash + guard), while the others stack small syllable banks (8 to 92 entries) into longer coinages such as Jennithis and Kluthetass. Fragments are stored lowercase and the output capitalizes the first character.
Jennithis
j + e + nn + i + th + i + s
syllable banks stacked
Crashguard
crash + guard
word bank joined to word bank
Ghiutrukreck
gh + iu + tr + u + kr + e + ck
syllable banks stacked
Naming notes
The syllable-stacking patterns are the structural signature, piling short fragments from several small banks (of 37, 57, 92 and 8 entries, and so on) into long strings. The compound pattern is the only one that joins two larger word-like banks, so it yields blunt compound results. The smallest stacking bank, at 8 entries, recurs most often within those forms.
Questions about goblin town names
- Why do some goblin names look long and clustered?
- Most patterns stack short fragments from several small syllable banks into longer strings like Ghiutrukreck.
- Why is Crashguard so different from the rest?
- It comes from the compound pattern, which joins a 90-entry and a 35-entry word-like bank into a compound rather than stacking the small syllable banks.
- Which fragment recurs most within the stacked names?
- The smallest stacking bank holds only 8 entries, so its fragments repeat most often inside the syllable-stacked forms.