About graveyard names
Tone splits cleanly between the consoling, like "Willow Park Burial Grounds", and the gothic, like "Wicked Eye Catacombs" or "Forgotten Crypts". The gentler results fit small-town fiction and family plot scenes, while the darker ones mark dungeon entrances and haunted parish maps. Decide first whether mourners or adventurers will read the gate.
How graveyard names are built
Graveyard names use two parallel templates. One joins a place phrase to a ground noun, as in Grand Lake plus Cemetery or Old Forest plus Memorial Gardens. The other pairs a darker compound with a gothic tail, giving Bone Yard plus Graveyard or Skeletalview plus Catacombs. Each opener bank holds 150 entries.
Grand Lake Cemetery
Grand Lake (opener) + Cemetery (tail)
the quieter opener-plus-tail template
Bone Yard Graveyard
Bone Yard (opener) + Graveyard (tail)
the gothic opener-plus-tail template
Skeletalview Catacombs
Skeletalview (opener) + Catacombs (tail)
the gothic opener-plus-tail template
Naming notes
Two templates each fuse an opener bank to a tail bank: one pairs a 150-entry opener with a 6-entry tail (Cemetery, Memorial Gardens), the other pairs a 150-entry opener with a 9-entry tail (Graveyard, Catacombs). Because the tail banks are tiny, the endings recur while the 150-entry openers vary. The Cemetery tails read quiet; the Catacombs tails read gothic.
Questions about graveyard names
- What are the two templates?
- An opener-plus-ground-noun form (Grand Lake Cemetery) drawing a 6-entry tail bank, and an opener-plus-gothic-tail form (Bone Yard Graveyard) drawing a 9-entry tail bank.
- Why do the tails recur so much?
- The tail banks are tiny (6 and 9 entries) against 150-entry opener banks, so the endings come round often while the openers vary.
- How does the tail set the mood?
- Cemetery and Memorial Gardens read as a quiet plot, while Graveyard and Catacombs with darker openers read gothic.