DIY Mod - Changing Human Characters Names to English-themed names
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 6:04 am
You'll have to replace the entries in Races.xml to these ones. 50% are taken from a 'Colonial English' name list, 25% from an American list, 25% to English.
I would have liked to give it a more international flavor, but the DW2 name generator is a bit barebone and does not handle pairing surname + family name. Aurora does an excellent job on that, if Eliott needs some inspiration on this aspect
Last but not least, these names were taken from the best Name Generator site I know so far, which is this one:
https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/
<CharacterFirstNames>
<string>Simon</string>
<string>Abiel</string>
<string>Noble</string>
<string>Amos</string>
<string>Elihu</string>
<string>Amiel</string>
<string>Edward</string>
<string>Nehemiah</string>
<string>Balthasar</string>
<string>Holmes</string>
<string>Elbert</string>
<string>Richard</string>
<string>James</string>
<string>Gideon</string>
<string>Jabez</string>
<string>Abimael</string>
<string>Ephraim</string>
<string>William</string>
<string>Michael</string>
<string>Spencer</string>
<string>Liam</string>
<string>Peter</string>
<string>Ellis</string>
<string>Kristopher</string>
<string>Simeon</string>
<string>Damien</string>
<string>Augustus</string>
<string>Conrad</string>
<string>Cruz</string>
<string>Ronan</string>
<string>Ryan</string>
<string>Christian</string>
<string>Kairo</string>
<string>Rex</string>
<string>Elis</string>
<string>Jay</string>
<string>Layton</string>
<string>Luke</string>
<string>Danny</string>
<string>Fletcher</string>
<string>Lachlan</string>
<string>Luis</string>
<string>Blake</string>
<string>Lucas</string>
<string>Fabian</string>
<string>John</string>
<string>Dante</string>
</CharacterFirstNames>
<CharacterLastNames>
<string>Wentz</string>
<string>Cowgill</string>
<string>Brady</string>
<string>Anderson</string>
<string>Montgomery</string>
<string>Poole</string>
<string>White</string>
<string>McCalmont</string>
<string>Hopkins</string>
<string>Bennett</string>
<string>Milliken</string>
<string>Lineboro</string>
<string>Davison</string>
<string>Liggett</string>
<string>Woodbury</string>
<string>Barnet</string>
<string>Chambers</string>
<string>Dodson</string>
<string>Nickle</string>
<string>Davis</string>
<string>Clark</string>
<string>Rees</string>
<string>Thompson</string>
<string>Clark</string>
<string>Cote</string>
<string>Foster</string>
<string>Wilcox</string>
<string>Suarez</string>
<string>Reynolds</string>
<string>Perry</string>
<string>Campbell</string>
<string>Gray</string>
<string>Ball</string>
<string>Cook</string>
<string>Phillips</string>
<string>Hall</string>
<string>Roberts</string>
<string>Fox</string>
<string>May</string>
<string>Turner</string>
<string>Dixon</string>
<string>Day</string>
<string>Khan</string>
<string>Barrett</string>
<string>Thomas</string>
<string>Fraser</string>
<string>Woods</string>
</CharacterLastNames>
I would have liked to give it a more international flavor, but the DW2 name generator is a bit barebone and does not handle pairing surname + family name. Aurora does an excellent job on that, if Eliott needs some inspiration on this aspect

Last but not least, these names were taken from the best Name Generator site I know so far, which is this one:
https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/
<CharacterFirstNames>
<string>Simon</string>
<string>Abiel</string>
<string>Noble</string>
<string>Amos</string>
<string>Elihu</string>
<string>Amiel</string>
<string>Edward</string>
<string>Nehemiah</string>
<string>Balthasar</string>
<string>Holmes</string>
<string>Elbert</string>
<string>Richard</string>
<string>James</string>
<string>Gideon</string>
<string>Jabez</string>
<string>Abimael</string>
<string>Ephraim</string>
<string>William</string>
<string>Michael</string>
<string>Spencer</string>
<string>Liam</string>
<string>Peter</string>
<string>Ellis</string>
<string>Kristopher</string>
<string>Simeon</string>
<string>Damien</string>
<string>Augustus</string>
<string>Conrad</string>
<string>Cruz</string>
<string>Ronan</string>
<string>Ryan</string>
<string>Christian</string>
<string>Kairo</string>
<string>Rex</string>
<string>Elis</string>
<string>Jay</string>
<string>Layton</string>
<string>Luke</string>
<string>Danny</string>
<string>Fletcher</string>
<string>Lachlan</string>
<string>Luis</string>
<string>Blake</string>
<string>Lucas</string>
<string>Fabian</string>
<string>John</string>
<string>Dante</string>
</CharacterFirstNames>
<CharacterLastNames>
<string>Wentz</string>
<string>Cowgill</string>
<string>Brady</string>
<string>Anderson</string>
<string>Montgomery</string>
<string>Poole</string>
<string>White</string>
<string>McCalmont</string>
<string>Hopkins</string>
<string>Bennett</string>
<string>Milliken</string>
<string>Lineboro</string>
<string>Davison</string>
<string>Liggett</string>
<string>Woodbury</string>
<string>Barnet</string>
<string>Chambers</string>
<string>Dodson</string>
<string>Nickle</string>
<string>Davis</string>
<string>Clark</string>
<string>Rees</string>
<string>Thompson</string>
<string>Clark</string>
<string>Cote</string>
<string>Foster</string>
<string>Wilcox</string>
<string>Suarez</string>
<string>Reynolds</string>
<string>Perry</string>
<string>Campbell</string>
<string>Gray</string>
<string>Ball</string>
<string>Cook</string>
<string>Phillips</string>
<string>Hall</string>
<string>Roberts</string>
<string>Fox</string>
<string>May</string>
<string>Turner</string>
<string>Dixon</string>
<string>Day</string>
<string>Khan</string>
<string>Barrett</string>
<string>Thomas</string>
<string>Fraser</string>
<string>Woods</string>
</CharacterLastNames>