More Character Names (For all 24 races)

Tired of seeing heroes and lords with the same name? This mod adds a huge amount of lore friendly names into the name pool for ALL FACTIONS for both the player and the AI. Some factions have received 2x or 3x as many names as the vanilla game. Non player factions also take advantage of the new names, so you won’t see 15 Norscan or Chaos lords all named "Ragnulf Harmaphone" duplicated like you would see in vanilla.

All of these names were reviewed before being added to this mod to ensure there are no duplicates and that the names fit with the ‘themes’ that CA and GW has chosen for each faction.

I’ve added a ton more names since I created the thumbnail artwork, well surpassed the 700 initial names for the playable factions. Now expanded to all the factions. We just need Immortal Empires!

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*Gender note – some factions use the genders for different purposes, like naming special characters. Even for factions with only one gender (such as Ogre Kingdoms).

This should work with basically every other mod ever made. It only touches a loc file and adds new names_table entries. Specifically reviewed for compatibility with major mods:

This mod uses name id values in a range of 100,001 – 107,670
SFO: SHOULD WORK FINE uses range of 1-8
VCO: SHOULD WORK FINE uses range of 21,473,573,645 – 21,473,573,666

It is possible that other NEW FACTION MODS (such as Mixer + OVN) use id values that overlap. If you see anything strange PLEASE POST YOUR FULL MOD LIST IN THE COMMENTS OR I CAN NOT HELP.

CA/GW links names of factions pretty closely to actual human cultures throughout history. By identifying the ‘theme’ of a factions name (such as Tomb Kings = New Kingdom era Egypt) the mod is able to use names from all previous Total War games that fit that culture and theme. For historical cultures don’t have many first names, and for factions with made up names like Nurgle or Skaven or Ogres the existing Warhammer names were fed into a machine learning tool to identify what components and sounds make up those names – then generates an output. All of these outputs are reviewed to make sure they don’t have duplicates or total gibberish (except for some deamon names which are intended by CA to be a little bit gibberish lol)

– Russian translation provided by Gosudar can be found HERE
– Huge thanks to Snek for contributing a list of names (first and last) that he worked on for a personal WH2 mod!
– GunKing WH2 name mods which helped learn the right tables to use.
– Anyone is free to use these names in other mods or other projects.
– If you are interested in learning how to mod yourself, join the Discord at Da Modding Den and say goodby to all of your free time!