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[Unelonborro]

Speaking of naming npcs, was Quemaricond's name intentional? Because it means "How Gay" in Spanish.

Uh, where is this NPC located?

Edit: Never mind, I found him. Let me ponder what to do about this.

Edit 2:
I asked around a bit, including getting the advice of one of our Spanish translators and bringing it up to Matsui-san.
First, the name of this character is unintentional and unfortunate in hindsight. There is no intention to have the character be interpreted this way--and as far as I can tell in-game, the character has no text that can be construed as negative stereotyping. Another factor in the decision to have the NPC remain in the game is that we have no Spanish version, either now or historically. Finally, when we checked with a Spanish translator within the department, he said that it might not be the most pristine of names but that it read like an off-color joke rather than an attack on someone.

So for now, our stance is to keep the name in-game as it is.
As to how it got named like this in the first place, no one can remember for sure, but it's likely someone just came up with something off the cuff.

[Raydeus]

Quemaricond's name is funny. And just for the sake of clarity the phrase in Spanish is "Que maricón." Which can be used as "How/So gay" or "How/So cowardly" depending on context.

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But anyway, I'm posting because I'm very curious about how the random names are picked when you are creating a new character. Is this a set list of names that was created all those years ago OR is it randomly generated using a certain set of parameters?

Also, is there any way of knowing such naming parameters? Like with Tarus where Male names have 2 words that usually rhyme while female names tend to repeat the last syllable, etc.