About material names
Crafting stock here pairs a mood with a mundane base, as in "Utopian satin" and "Feigned steel", with French oddities like "Cuivre d'Infini" mixed in. The adjective does the worldbuilding, implying who refines the stuff and why it costs so much. Slot these into crafting trees, merchant inventories, and alchemy recipes, and keep the strangest entries rare enough that players ask questions.
How material names are built
Ten templates produce a crafting material as either a single word or an adjective-plus-base pair. Single-word branches draw straight from one pool, giving bare results like "Tether", "Flax", and "Rubané". Paired branches join a mood or base with a second word, or fuse them into one, giving "Organza Ourlé" and "Floe mica". The modifier pools run 105 to 221 entries, and the base pools hold 60 each.
Tether
Tether (single-word draw)
Organza Ourlé
Organza (base) + Ourlé (French adjective)
Floe mica
Floe (modifier) + mica (base)
Naming notes
The split between the English pools and the French branches is the texture here: "Laine Ourlée" and "Mordoré" stay recognisably French, though agreement can slip ("Verre Suppurante"), while the English branches give plain stock like "Tether" and "Flax". The adjective slot does the worldbuilding, implying who refines the material and why it is rare, so reserve the strangest pairings for high-value crafting tiers. Use the bare single-word draws as common stock and the paired draws as named or enchanted variants. Keep one language per material family so a merchant inventory does not read as inconsistent. Neutral as labels; the French forms are flavour, not reliable grammar.
Questions about material names
- Why are some materials one word and others two?
- The generator runs ten templates. Several pull a single token from a pool for plain stock like "Tether" or "Flax", while others pair a modifier with a base for results like "Floe mica" or "Organza Ourlé".
- Why do a few materials look French?
- The French branches hold French stock and adjectives, producing "Mordoré" and "Laine Ourlée", though gender agreement can slip, as in "Verre Suppurante". The other branches stay English, so the language depends on which template fired.
- How do I decide which materials are rare?
- Let the adjective do it. A neutral base like "mica" reads as common, but a mood modifier or a French ornamental form implies special refinement, so save the strangest pairings for the high-value tiers of a crafting tree.