About spell names
French and pseudo-Latin mingle in these incantations, so "Bouclier Démoniaque" and "Sceau de Chaos" sit alongside invented constructions like "Repelus Infectarbus". Spoken aloud, they have the cadence of a wizard mid-duel rather than a textbook heading. Group results by language flavor to give each magical school in your setting its own scholarly tradition.
How spell names are built
Spells mix three traditions. A pseudo-Latin branch stitches stems and endings into mock-incantations, two stems each taking an ending, as in Confusendius Spiriteom. A French branch joins a noun to a gendered adjective, with separate masculine and feminine adjective banks, or returns a ready French phrase from a 251-entry bank like Bouclier Démoniaque. A plain-English branch supplies verb-noun forms and of-constructions. Bank outputs include Confusendius Spiriteom, Anathème de Pénitence, and Bourrasque Glaçante.
Confusendius Spiriteom
Confus (stem) + endius (ending) + Spirit (stem) + eom (ending)
Anathème de Pénitence
Anathème (noun) + de Pénitence (of-phrase)
Bourrasque Glaçante
Bourrasque (noun) + Glaçante (feminine adjective)
Naming notes
The French gender split is real: masculine forms (Glaçant) and feminine forms (Glaçante) are kept in separate banks so the adjective agrees with its noun, while the pseudo-Latin branch reuses the same ending bank twice to chain a mock-conjugated incantation. The result spans textbook-cool French (Bouclier Démoniaque) to mid-duel Latin gibberish (Confusendius Spiriteom). Group results by branch to give each magical school its own scholarly tongue: Latinate for academies, French for a courtly tradition, plain English for folk casters.
Questions about spell names
- What language traditions do spell names draw on?
- Three: a pseudo-Latin branch that chains stems and endings (Confusendius Spiriteom), a French branch with gendered adjectives and of-phrases (Bourrasque Glaçante, Anathème de Pénitence), and plain-English verb-noun and of-forms.
- Why do French spells use different adjective endings?
- The bank keeps masculine and feminine adjective forms separate so the adjective agrees with its noun, giving Glaçante with a feminine noun like Bourrasque and Glaçant with a masculine one.
- How do I use the different flavours?
- Sort results by branch so each school has its own tongue: Latinate incantations for a magic academy, French for a courtly tradition, and plain English for folk casters.