About mage tower names
Towers and obelisks claim names across three languages, from "La Tour Ésotérique" to "El Obelisco de aviwahl" and "The Tower of udijor", where the lowercase word reads as the wizard who raised it. Possessive forms tell players exactly who to blame, while adjective forms keep the resident a mystery. Both shapes earn a spot on any campaign map's danger list.
How mage tower names are built
Mage tower names build on two pattern groups across French, Spanish and English banks. One joins a tower word like la Tour or le Pilier to a modifier, giving La Tour Bosselé and Le Pilier Adamantine, with English forms like The Planar Tower. The other prefixes a spire word plus de to a named feature, producing La Colonne de la Brume Verte and La Tour des Vesces Noires.
La Tour des Vesces Noires
la Tour (spire word) + des + Vesces Noires (feature phrase)
spire word plus de plus a noun phrase
La Colonne de la Brume Verte
la Colonne (spire word) + de + la Brume Verte (feature phrase)
spire word plus de plus a noun phrase
L'Obélisque Livide
l'Obélisque (tower word) + Livide (modifier)
tower word plus a modifier
Naming notes
The spire-word banks store multi-word leads (la Tour, la Colonne, le Pilier, la Torre) and the de patterns attach a real noun phrase (du Marais Bas, des Ammonites) rather than a coined stem. The modifier patterns add an adjective instead. Use this as a mage-tower label, mixing modifier forms with the de forms across a setting.
Questions about mage tower names
- How are mage towers named?
- Two pattern groups: a tower word plus a modifier (La Tour Bosselé, The Planar Tower), and a spire-word-plus-de form where a lead like la Tour or la Colonne precedes a named feature (La Colonne de la Brume Verte).
- What are the spire words?
- Multi-word leads stored in the spire and tower banks, including la Tour, la Colonne, le Pilier and la Torre.
- What follows de?
- A noun phrase naming a feature, so each tower reads as the tower of something: du Marais Bas, des Ammonites, de la Brume Verte.