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Brythonic names for sims

There's probably altogether something like three people out there who might be excited about this, but as I already made it for myself, why not share? An override of the names the game generates for newly made sims, both in CAS and in game.

Based on:

this amazing page (most of the names are given in a newer form, but many of them come with a possible reconstruction of what they might've sounded like back in Common Brythonic times);

names appearing on actual coins from the British iron age (and shortly afterwards);

those couple of names the Romans were kind enough to write down;

my own attempts at tracing some medieval Welsh names back to their ancient roots (as shared here and here);

as even after said attempts I ended up with 4 pages of male names and not even 1 of female, I tricked the system by simply 'feminising' a bunch of male names, i.e. swapping the male -os ending for female -a. I tried to avoid the names ending in nouns, but the ones ending in adjectives have all been indiscriminately gender-swapped. I make zero claims to their historical accuracy, but at least they have the right vibe... I guess?

For your casual townies only. Any sims with special names (natives of San Myshuno, Mt Komorebi, Sulani, Selvadorada, Chestnut Ridge, Tomarang and what not), servos and animals will source said names from their default (EA) lists.

Should work for all languages (many thanks to @kyriat-stories for testing!).

However!

This is achieved by tweaking the simspawner tuning so that all languages would source their name lists from English. That means any of the special sim-types listed above will show up in your games with English-template names, not the ones you used to have. That applies mostly to animals; as for the world-specific sims, I guess you shouldn't notice any difference unless you've been using non-Roman-alphabet-script until now.

Will likely break when EA releases another DLC with world-specific names. If we're really getting fairies soon, I'm afraid they might do just that. I'll try to keep the mod updated (as long as I hear no reports of disastrous bugs after the game update, that is). In case I don't, in my experience name mods rarely turn dangerous; the worst that can happen is that the game gets confused and spawns townies with no surnames etc.

Not compatible with any other name replacements. Duh! (including kuttoe's Townie Demographics mod, judging by the comments section.)

Oh, and two linguistic notes:

all male names on my list end in -os. I don't care what the Romans thought or wrote - they might've just assumed it's the same ending they were using in Latin, or thought that's how proper names 'should' look like so they kept romanising them on purpose; and as for the coins, endings tend to be cut off anyway (cause otherwise the names wouldn't fit, lol). I haven't seen that accursed -us ending in any linguistic sources, so... yeah. Os it is.

surnames are male names in their genitive form: -os turned into -i, meaning basically 'of X'. Short for 'son/daughter of X', which would be too long. TS4 is like those ancient coins, apparently. Too long names don't fit. The game rebels if you dare to try it.

Let me know if anything doesn't work as intended. The chosen three, enjoy!

I think I finally have an idea for a @greatbritishsimchallenge save. Which means Henford-on-Bagley for the most part, and even though it's supposedly the Cotswolds and nowhere near Salisbury, I needed a Stonehenge. And while 40-some odd miles might separate them, I absolutely need the Uffington Horse too.

... as Ruby Rhod might say ...

Warnings: Adultery, Child death Landen of course took power of the lands as he was Krarbad's heir. Alongside his wife, who became a great advisor. They sent out the news of his court's need for new courtiers and servants, as the family scrambled to organize the chaos that had been left in the wake after Krarbad's death. A lady, whom seems from very far bowed at the sight of the couple.

"Hello. My name is Leoflaed Brookes, I am from a land far from here- where the ground can't grow any crops. My father who has been the chieftain of my tribe, could not find me a suitable husband and sent me on this way, to find a suitable place to settle. I promise to be a loyal courtier, and my skills are perhaps suitable for your highness" Landen seemed to smile in approval.

"Of course. You are welcome to join us. Antonia, would you help them find the womans quarters..?"

She smiled placatingly, though she seemed to get a bad feeling about this.

The interest her husband had shown in her.. and truly, she was beautiful, she felt jealousy at the competition but felt somewhat lost. She knew her husband was kinder than most- and perhaps she should be grateful.

It seems even the greatest of people, kind as they may be, had their shortcomings when their head was filled with the promises of power.

her fears hadn't been for nothing.. as they began to have an affair.

So far, the marriage between Landen and Antonia had not been very fruitful in the matter of heirs. She had only gotten pregnant twice, her second pregnancy resulted in a stillborn, and seemed to struggle greatly with fertility for quite some time. They had gotten help from the master herbalist and spellcaster, Agah, Landens great aunt. It seemed the potion had worked afterall, as soon she was with child.

To complicate matters further, Valora also came to be with child shortly after. The news were hard on Antonia, as she had confirmation of her husbands escapes with the woman..

But despite her wishing to be able to hate on the woman, she could not help but also be thankful for her presence. She was a great help with the household, naturally good with children and also did all the chores around the gardens, and home dutifully. She was certainly a better cook. It gave Antonia time to spend on her real passions, weaving and knitting arts. She made beautiful rugs for the halls of their settlement, and clothing for the babies been born soon.

Thankfully, her eldest & first son and heir to Landen, Aethelbald, seemed to be doing great. He survived most of his childhood rolls in a breeze, and it gave hope to his poor mother.

"Alright Aethelbald, blow the candles son!" Him and Aethelbald in fact had a good relationship, he spent more time with his son than was even expected of him as a ruler, but he wanted to take part in his education.

His happy childhood proved to be fruitful, as Aethelbald grew into a child, he rolled for the 'good' trait, showing that he would at the very least be an empathetic ruler one day.

Justina also gave birth to another son, whom has survived to infancy.

And a few days later, so did Leoflaed. To a son....

Hi everyone! I thought I would do a post to reemerge from hiding haha. I have been on a bit of an extended hiatus from posting due to computer issues and life in general.

I've finally worked up the courage to go back to my roots and start the Great British Sim Challenge (credit to @greatbritishsimchallenge of course). When I tell you I have had this story in my head for so many months and am excited to actually get to play it.

Anyway, if you don't know me, I'm Dayle and I hope you enjoy the story. I can't promise I'll have a regular schedule for posting because life happens and creativity wanes, but I'm just glad to be able to share at all!

If you think anyone will be interested, feel free to like, reblog, or comment :)

Dawn was breaking as they approached the house.

“Dad!” Angus called, his voice suddenly animated, “Come see who I found!”

“Angus, will you stop the screeching? You’re louder than the bleeding birds. I’m not that deaf, I -” Maddox the Younger, now an elder, stopped in his tracks, “Kennedi?”

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