Piglin (plural) live in a matriarchal society, with a healthy older sow running a horde. They don’t oppress their boars, however, it’s just uncommon to see a boar, particularly a young one, in a higher up position. Piglin have unique naming system. While villager and illager names are based off of your profession (villagers having names like ‘Josef of Millet-Town, the Carpenter-and-Mason’, and illagers having titles like ‘The Astrologer’) piglin are more concerned about discerning where you’ve come from and who you’re related to. A nomadic lifestyle means if you run into another horde who’s found a good hunting spot, you might want to figure out what direction they’ve come from — or if they’re hostile to you, you might want to find out what wise guy put ‘em on the job.
Thus, each piglin name starts with their group name (or settlement, e.g bastion) name. Lets say the name of your horde is Oin, which might stand for some kind of fungus that you guys use a lot for medicine. Your head sow would be named OinSow, to show her position as the leader of the group. You might be a skilled strider rancher, so perhaps you got your name from that — OinKurk, based on the croaking sound that striders make. Lets say one of the sows in your horde has given birth to a litter of piglets. What should she name them? Well, since the nether is a terribly dangerous place, there’s a very small chance that many of those piglets will make it past infancy, let alone adulthood, so for now, they’ll all be named OinPiglet until they get big enough to stray from their mother and show some personality. Then they might earn their name — but that is still subject to change when they get older.
Piglin who are divorced from any horde or bastion will lose the first part of their name. In hypothetical piglin you’s case, you would go from OinKurk to just Kurk. A head sow who has been kicked out or left would lose her title as a hordesow and have her childhood name without the first bit — let’s say OinSow’s childhood name was OinPeck, she would simply become Peck.
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