1.6?

Sure, go ahead

I'll just link to your mod and rework my names list to work with your format

oh shit what a great idea. I guess it's quite easy to do too, I should fix gendered Empire surnames in More Descriptive Words and Names

real cool stuff.

Good call! Having proper nordic names in Vikings would be an awesome detail.

@Leaguenet
Very cool. I'm sure Ludeon and the VE Team would appreciate your help.

As an aside, that also bothered me a lot with VFE - Vikings, seeing all those women identifying as sons (Sigurdsson etc. when the proper female form, as kindly indicated by Anya below would be -dottir). But since I understand VFE Medieval is getting a remake and VFE Vikings is getting rolled into it, I feel I can pitch in there to help correct that in the newer version.

@Hykal you know what, your comment prompted me to search language files of some translations; of course first I went to Greek, only to find that Royalty has no Greek translation (unlike the core game). Oh well. But then I went through Slavic languages, and saw that Russian translation has exactly the same I did in regard to Stellic names - while Ukrainian (a language with a very similar grammar when it comes to genders) doesn't. I guess it depended on individual translators' enthusiasm more than knowledge (as I have no doubt a Ukrainian translator knew about feminised surnames), and you are right in that the devs probably don't know.

You could probably go to the official RimWorld server and present your findings there. This is pretty cool, I had no idea about the feminisation of names like this.

Just to add some context, Ireland used to have this too.

Ó Conaill son of Conaill
Uí Chonaill daughter of Conaill

Largely just anglicized as O'Connell now for men and women

@Dizzy_Dares in many languages, there are separate masculine and feminine forms for last names. This is counter-intuitive to English speakers, but actually quite common. Most Slavic languages have that as well - for instance, a Russian married couple with the same surname might be Petr Ivanov and Maria Ivanova.

Same with Greek - the mod description actually has a historical example, a father and daughter from Komnenoi dynasty. Interestingly enough, the feminine form in modern Greek is different from the one used in Byzantine times - the mod uses the Byzantine form.

Just because...an example of a feminized name for those asking, though not of Stellic culture: Jorgenson. Son of Jorgen. Jorgensdottir. Daughter of Jorgen. Many cultures have it.

i need an example
i dont understand how a last name can be feminized.

Neato!

Awesome stuff 👍