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Language SYM.txt/Death

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Usage

Legendary beings, such as a night troll or nightmare, associated with the spheres of blight, death, disease, murder, nightmares, or suicide will have words from this symbol in their name.

Alongside EVIL, NEGATIVE, and UGLY, DEATH is one of the possible subsymbols available to evil biomes.

The slab of a necromancer is always created by a god of death, and as a divine object will reflect the spheres of its creator when being named. Depending on the god's portfolio, other symbols may be added to the list of potential words when naming the item.

SYMBOL:DEATH

This is the [SYMBOL:DEATH] section of the language_SYM.txt raw file. The file defines categories of words, for use with [SELECT_SYMBOL] and [CULL_SYMBOL] arguments in the corresponding entity file to create various pool of words available for procedural generation of game content (for example, Dwarf names). See Language#language_SYM.txt and Entity_token for more details.

Examples

  • [SELECT_SYMBOL:DEATH]
  • [CULL_SYMBOL:DEATH]

Accented characters

The language files are saved in code page 437 encoding. The accented characters in the language files look like nonsense when interpreted as ASCII or ISO 8859-1, which are often the default. On Windows, viewing the language file with the Terminal font is an easy way to see it correctly.

Symbols
Aquatic · Artifice · Assertive · Balance · Boundary · Color · Dance · Darkness · Death · Domestic · Earth · Evil · Family · Festival · Fire · Flowery · Food · Freedom · Games · Good · Holy · Leader · Light · Luck · Magic · Music · Mystery · Mythic · Nature · Negative · Negator · New · Old · Order · Peace · Primitive · Protect · Restrain · Romantic · Silence · Sky · Subordinate · Thought · Trade · Travel · Truth · Ugly · Violent · Wealth · Wild
Raws
AQUATIC · ARTIFICE · ASSERTIVE · BALANCE · BOUNDARY · COLOR · DANCE · DARKNESS · DEATH · DOMESTIC · EARTH · EVIL · FAMILY · FESTIVAL · FIRE · FLOWERY · FOOD · FREEDOM · GAMES · GOOD · HOLY · LEADER · LIGHT · LUCK · MAGIC · MUSIC · MYSTERY · MYTHIC · NATURE · NEGATIVE · NEGATOR · NEW · OLD · ORDER · PEACE · PRIMITIVE · PROTECT · RESTRAIN · ROMANTIC · SILENCE · SKY · SUBORDINATE · THOUGHT · TRADE · TRAVEL · TRUTH · UGLY · VIOLENT · WEALTH · WILD
Races
Divine · Dwarven · Elvish · Goblin · Human · Kobold
Modding
Text Sets
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See Also