About army names (undead) names
Funereal titles like "The Eternal Army" and "The Cruel Corruption" share ranks with French legions such as "les Crânes Vicié", literally the tainted skulls. Names in this register fit lich retinues, plague-war chronicles, and the faceless host marching on a kingdom's last bastion. Eternal, bone, and corruption imagery repeats, so vary picks when one necromancer commands several legions.
How army names (undead) names are built
An undead force name resolves two ways. An English mold sets an adjective plus a macabre compound noun behind "The", giving "The Eternal Gloomheralds" and "The Eternal Bonechanters". A French mold pairs an article-noun host with an agreeing adjective, sometimes adding a plural or "-ux" ending, producing "Le Linceul Sournois", "Les Épitaphes Envoûtante", and "Le Tribut Blême Tournoyantux".
The Eternal Gloomheralds
adjective "Eternal", macabre compound noun "Gloomheralds", behind fixed "The"
Le Linceul Sournois
French host "le Linceul", agreeing adjective "Sournois"
Les Épitaphes Envoûtante
French host "les Épitaphes", agreeing adjective "Envoûtante"
Naming notes
The vocabulary is grave-and-spectre specific: English compounds fuse gloom, bone, and herald words, while the French hosts use shroud, epitaph, and tribute nouns (Linceul, Épitaphes, Tribut) with eerie adjectives (Sournois, Envoûtante). Use the "The Eternal ..." forms for a named legion of the dead and the French forms for a cursed or foreign host. The two French adjective variants plus the optional "-s"/"-ux" endings handle French agreement and pluralisation, so keep those stored phrases intact rather than re-conjugating them.
Questions about army names (undead) names
- What makes these names read as undead?
- The English banks fuse gloom, bone, and herald words into compounds like "Gloomheralds" and "Bonechanters", while the French hosts use grave vocabulary such as Linceul (shroud), Épitaphes, and Tribut.
- Why do some French names end in "-ux" or "-s"?
- Those are agreement and pluralising endings the template appends, as in "Tournoyantux". Two adjective banks plus the optional endings keep the French gender and number correct.
- When should I use the English versus the French forms?
- Use "The Eternal Gloomheralds" style names for a named legion of the dead in an English-language setting, and the French shroud-and-epitaph forms for a cursed, foreign, or older host.