Adventurers' Guild Registrar (Fluff feature idea/request)

[Iscah]

I definitely want this for names. Most particularly my Seeker who cringes every time he gets "Master Tia" and my Sea Wolf who would normally be called by a shortened version of her name, but I don't want to change it on her official character name.

I think the simplest route (if implementable at all) would be to have a small set of name references to be referred to instead of the character's default nametag.

I think the key building blocks if you were going to break it down are:
Forename (full/formal)
Forename (standard)
Forename (informal)
Surname
Name to be used with honorific (eg. Miss/Master or GC rank)
Full name

Full name as a separate field would be more effective than assembling Forename Surname because it would allow for variants - e.g. for male Seeker and Plainsfolk the formal first name and the full name would be the same, with nothing further to add. For your Hellsguard example, you'd put the same in formal, standard, last and full names (though there are NPC examples of using just the second half like a surname).

And I think you'd only then use a surname field for building honorifics, though I'm not sure that you need both, but it can't just be surname because for some races that might not be the second half of the name. For Seekers I would probably repeat their first names in this field.

Also - while I don't really know how it works - it seems like this could be something that could be kept client-side so it's not information that needs to be sent to other players, which might give it a better chance of being implemented than other types of new character customisation.

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Pronouns, on the other hand, seem less doable because it's not just a matter of a direct "insert word here". There are sometimes whole sentences that change according to the character's gender. Directly choosing Miss/Mrs/Ms or whatever might be possible, but characters use different terms in different places and they might prefer to maintain that variety. For GC rank it seems like the only people supposed to call you that are fellow GC members, or the script would have people from other GCs address you that way.

It feels like a very separate request to the customisable names, because that one is simply allowing tweaking to get the name right, but pronouns affect the larger script in a complex way.