About plague names
Outbreak titles arrive in two tongues, with French dread like "la Peste Invincible" beside English coinages such as "The Void Scourge" and "The Apex Plague". Drop one into a chronicler's margin note, a quarantine decree, or the backstory of a ruined city. French results work especially well for plagues remembered from an older empire's archives.
How plague names are built
This generator runs two branches. The French branch is a gendered article-plus-noun head from a 15-entry bank plus an agreeing adjective, with the masculine and feminine adjective banks each holding 249 forms so the adjective matches the noun's gender. The English branch puts "The" before a 271-entry modifier plus a 14-entry catastrophe word. Bank outputs include La Pestilence Ratatinée, Le Châtiment Possédé, and The Exodus Culling.
La Pestilence Ratatinée
la Pestilence (article + noun head) + Ratatinée (agreeing feminine adjective)
Le Châtiment Possédé
le Châtiment (article + noun head) + Possédé (agreeing masculine adjective)
The Exodus Culling
The + Exodus (modifier) + Culling (catastrophe word)
Naming notes
The French branch keeps its grammar: the small head bank fixes the article and gender (la Pestilence, le Ravage) and the generator draws the matching adjective from the masculine or feminine bank, so agreement holds even though the head bank is tiny. The English branch pivots on the 14-entry bank of catastrophe words (Culling, Scourge, Plague), which is why those tail nouns recur. Use these as dread-laden outbreak titles for a chronicle or grim campaign, not as defined diseases.
Questions about plague names
- How is a plague name built?
- In French it is a gendered noun head plus an agreeing adjective, as in la Pestilence Ratatinée; in English it is The plus a modifier plus a catastrophe word, as in The Exodus Culling.
- Does the French branch agree grammatically?
- Yes. The head noun carries the article and gender, and the adjective is chosen from the matching masculine or feminine bank so it agrees.
- Why do the English results repeat words like Culling or Scourge?
- The catastrophe slot holds only 14 entries, so those grim tail nouns recur across many different modifiers.