Atlas of the Iliac Bay

DESCRIPTION

Atlas of the Iliac Bay is a project aiming to rename all of Daggerfall's locations to more varied, meaningful and lore-friendly names. Using handcrafted names and a vastly expanded name generator than what was used during the game development, we're ensuring there are no duplicates or no location that sound the same. High Rock in vanilla has 44 prefixes, 45 suffixes 16 extra parts (Hamlet, Commons, Spring, etc.) to name its towns. We expanded that to 481 prefixes, 303 suffixes and and 63 extra parts for a total of 145 743 possible combinations excluding the extra parts. Renaming locations with something interesting greatly helps to make the world feel more alive and less generic.

This project is released in parts, with each update covering a few more regions until High Rock is fully covered in 1. 0. 0. As of 0. 3. 0, the regions of Wrothgaria, Gavaudon, Orsinium, Alcaire, Menevia, Koegria, Kambria and Bhoriane are done, for a total of 2962 renamed locations.

You can find the file "AtlasOfTheIliacBay_RenamedLocationsIndex" in your StreamingAssets/Docs folder. The "Progress" sheet lists the old and new names for the covered regions. If you're curious to see what are all the new prefixes, suffixes and all the raw data used to name locations, you can find those in the appropriate sheet too.

Here's an exhaustive list of how new names are choosen (skip below if you're not interested in all those fascinating details) :

Terrain and geographical features

• []Location near a World of Daggerfall mountain or rock (Sunset Peak, Uppervale Heights)[/]

  []Location surrounded by Wilderness Overhaul's forests (Drywind Forest, Fawnwood, Maplemarch)[/]

  []Location on a crossroads of 4 or more intersecting main roads added by Basic Roads (Blankenvale Crossroads, Sladeslide Crossings)[/]

  []Location in a different climate than what the region mostly has (Chillworth Outpost, located in a mountain climate when the region's mostly forest)[/]

  []Location has a port (Widow's Shore Graveyard, Port Dreugh)[/]

  []Location is located next to water (Dunric-by-the-Bay)[/]

• []City specialized in gem stores (Rubystone, Glimmerhold)[/]

  []City specialized in smithies (Steelhaven)[/]

  []Settlement has many taverns (Wayfarer's Crest)[/]

[]Temples located on roads and tracks are named after a relic fitting the patron deity (Sky-Crowned Horn of Kynareth, Blessed Bust of Dibella, True Tongs of Zenithar)[/]

[*]Temples located at a road's end or far from roads are considered monasteries dedicated to one aspect of the patron deity (Skyway Abbey, Rainha