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This article is part of a series on the encyclopedia’s Writing Guidelines

Mysenvar is an ever-evolving setting, and while swathes of its lore remain incomplete there are still articles which cover that lore. Some of this lore needs names, for characters and locations, but names aren’t just arbitrary. Names emerge from language, history, and culture, and that’s lore which may not be complete yet, and so strategies are employed to temporarily fill those gaps until lore catches up. There’s two primary strategies employed:

• Name Code is a standardized placeholder system which ensures consistency, no overlap, and enables easy searching for placeholders;
• Eponyms are placeholders borrowed from real-world figures and places.

Name Code is preferred over the use of eponyms as it is safer and more friendly to editors.

Eponyms

Eponyms, names formed after real people or places, are strongly discouraged. They should only be used in select cases where Name Code cannot be reasonably employed. If an eponym is used it must fall into one of these two categories:

• The thing being named must loosely fit the description of the fictional or antique figure which they are being named after.
• The placeholder will only be used in personal drafts that will not be published to the encyclopedia publicly.

These rules should not be broken. Failure to follow these rules is considered a violation of the encyclopedia’s Code of Conduct and will be treated as such.

Name Code

Name code is a standardized string of characters constructed using information regarding the character or location which it is referring to. The string is formatted as such: <CATEGORY>.<DATE>.<UID>.

CATEGORY is a three-character code which defines what the name code is referencing. DATE is determined by the category and is written in EDTF format. CATEGORY can be any of the following:

• CHR: for characters. DATE is the birth and death date of the character.
• LAN: for languages. DATE is the advent of the language.
• ETH: for ethnicities. DATE is the advent of the ethnic group.
• CUL: for cultures. DATE is the advent of the cultural group.
• ORG: for organizations. DATE is the founding of the organization.
• NAT: for nations. DATE is the founding of the nation.
• CTY: for cities, towns, or villages. Places where people live. DATE is the founding of the locality.
• FTR: for geographical features. DATE is the creation of the locality.

UID is a custom ID generated using the UID Generator program, seeded using the incomplete name code string.