Genealogy

// Query

culture: The naming tradition the roster draws from — an ancestral Earth lineage (American, Arabic, Yoruba and the like) or an off-world tradition such as Mars Colony or Self-Chosen.
gender: Which given-name pool is drawn from; 'Mixed' takes either one per name. The off-world traditions are gender-neutral and disregard it.
count: How many names the roster holds.
method: How each given name was produced:
Curated — drawn intact from the period pool.
Drifted — a curated name eroded toward a worn, later-era form.
Synthesized — a novel name grown in the tradition's sound from the whole pool.
Era-blended — the three mixed in the proportion the era calls for.
heuristic: The seed that drives the whole draw: a number, or any phrase folded into one. The same heuristic always reproduces the same roster; left blank, a fresh one is rolled and shown here.
father line: The father's culture, for a mixed-heritage roster. Left to inherit, the line follows the child's own culture; set it to fold a second naming tradition into the surnames.
mother line: The mother's culture, for a mixed-heritage roster. Left to inherit, the line follows the child's own culture; in dual-surname traditions it supplies the second family name.
father name: An optional full name for the father. Supply it and the roster reads as his children, inheriting the family surname.
mother name: An optional full name for the mother. In dual-surname cultures her family name becomes the child's second surname.
scenario: The settling history the roster reflects: 'convergent' drifts toward the shared common pool, while 'fragmented' isolates a colony so its names diverge.
density: How many parts a name stacks up — 'short', 'standard' or 'long' — from a bare given-and-family pair up to a fuller string of patronymics, surnames and origins.
distinction: The wear on the forms: 'plain' keeps modern spellings, while 'archaic' hardens them into older, weathered variants.
lineage: Whether the roster lists distinct individuals or one office held in succession — a title or post whose entries are each the next holder of the same seat.