A request for info regarding name generation for NPCs.

[Grant Exploit]

In the article "General:Lore Inconsistencies" (apologies, I don't know how to add a proper link), this is said about the Imperials on the section for Redguard & PGE1:

"The population of the Imperial City itself in Arena is unfinished; the way the game generates the pigment-hue and names of villagers is by selecting from a list of eight hues and eight name generators, which were set up for villagers in the other eight provinces. The Imperial Province was set up as a ninth province, but it was never given a unique hue and name generator data. In place of a ninth hue, the game defaults to whatever data it can fetch first, which was the Redguard racial hue. However, the game did possess data for a ninth name generator, which was intended for Monsters, so when the game goes to fetch the ninth name generator in the data, the villagers in the Imperial City are assigned Monster names."

This gives me a question: Is there anywhere I can find a list of possible names (or name components) for each of these name generators?

This information would be of great help in a personal project of mine to develop fan lore for some barely touched elements of the Elder Scrolls series.

[legoless]

There are apparently 9,454 possible name combinations, so no, we do not list them. The possible combinations are outlined here: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Imperial_City#Population

[Grant Exploit]

This is great! I don't need the whole list, the list of components and how they're combined (as shown in the linked article) is enough.

Do you have this data (whether on-site or somewhere else on the internet) for each/any of the other provinces? That was sorta part of the point of the question.

[legoless]

Yes, we have the same list for every other province. They can be found on the racial name pages. See the Argonian names here, for example: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Argonian_Names

We used to have the Imperial names in this section as well, but it was removed for some reason. Possibly because there is no such thing as an Imperial in Arena; the citizens of the Imperial City appear to be Redguards, and apparently they use the same name generation as monsters.

[Grant Exploit]

Thank you so much, this is exactly what I was looking for!

For the last step, I assumed that as the Imperial City article was used to show the names for "Imperials" in the game, the Province articles would do so for the other races. Also, though I once knew of the "Lore: [Race] Names" articles, my memories of them were irretrievable at the time.

[legoless]

Not a bad idea to include the data on Arena articles as well. Could probably write a whole page on name generation in that game.