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[kiro,,]

@starry
Oakfrost
Branchheart
Branchfrost
-they could all be toms or shes

[Dinolil1]

@Starry

Oak-
Birch-
Alder-
Pine-
Bramble-
Bracken-
-Frost
-Whisker
-Pool
-Face
-Patch
-Foot
-Claw
-Fang
-Flight

[Chamrosh]

I haven't done a ramble in a while so let's do this
@Starry okay, so, in my system, the valid suffixes are:

-star - self explanatory
-paw - self explanatory
-kit self explanatory
Skill names or direct value to clan nanes

-claw - a very skilled fighter
-face - a very attractive cat - indicative of good health - likely to have healthy kits
-fang - a cat reasonably skilled in two areas, normally hunting and fighting, but can be others occasionally
-fish - a very skilled fighter. -fish as in the verb. (I made this because valuing swimming but not fishing is dumb, given fishing is inherently more valuable)
-flower - sign of being a good mother, or being valuable for raising kits
-foot - fast runner
-leaf - denotes incredible skill as a medicine cat
-nose - a very skilled tracker
-path - a cat with the signs of being a good mentor
-step - correlating - walks like their prefix. Pretty limited to mammal, insect and bird prefixes. Could potentially denote a cat with a very weird gait.
-stream - a very skilled swimmer
-tail - a very agile cat or a good climber
-whisker - a very skilled hunter
Personality

-cloud - a gentle cat
-dash - a hasty cat who can make quick decisions in an emergency (I made this as an opposite to -stone)
-heart - a cat with a strong sense of morality
-scar - a cat who suffered grievous wounds as an apprentice but still had the perseverance to become a warrior
-stone - a cat who is cautious and in good control of their emotions
-storm - basically, they're bi-polar

Jacks of all trade

-fur - favoured on long-haired cats, but that is not a strict rule
-pelt - favoured on short-haired cats, but that is not a strict rule
-stripe - favoured on tabbies

And anything else not listed is probably a name-change name: they have to reflect the injury.

Most other suffixes seem insulting to me when you think it through, so a lot of them will be used to denote murderers and criminals in Gustclan... Once I reach that stage.

I can't copy and paste from my archive of good prefixes, but some general grey prefixes that you could use (assuming a northern british setting) are ;

Osier
Myrtle
Grey
Blue
Slate
Pebble
Streak (purple hair-)
Darter (dragonfly)
Gull
Seal
Cinder
Silver
Soldier (water -)
Sedge (but clan name!)
Chub
Hammock (water - spider)
Kite
Nettle
Vendace
Lilac
Cloud
Rock
Dace
Pendicular (sedge)
Budleia
Chaser (dragonfly)
Logger (-head turtle)
Dust
Wall (dry stone -)
Brocade
Desmona (maybe?)
Shade
Minnow
Reed
Merlin
Sparrow
Salmon
Mouse
Heron
Boulder (v. Common)
Indigo
Columbine
Aquilegia
Pigeon
Turtle (refers to 2 things)
Ash
Birch (silver -)
Quill
Squill
Shadow
Eggar (baby eels)
Rush (rushes plant)
Osprey

Yes, I've used quite a lot of these - that's probably why I can remember them - but a lot are ones I plan to use, so should be unique or at least pretty rare.
Though, shotgun on Horsetail (horse- after the plant Horsetail)






@Adiebaby
I think how our naming systems are different is kinda interesting. In my system, absolutely no names are gendered except -flower can only be given to a female cat or a male cat who is willing to adopt random kits.
I really dislike -vixen because there's so little difference between a dog-fox and a vixen appearance-wise that I doubt the cats would have separate words for it, whereas ram-, stag-, etc. could denote more than the general term for the animal, if the difference is a head pattern. Eg ram- is a fluffy white cat with black ears or stag- is a brown cat with white ears.
Also, I wouldn't use branch- because, to me, that suggests that the territory only has one type of tree, if the cats can just assume that any branch is a specific shade, that probably means all there branches are a similar shade, which is most likely if there're all from the same tree. In certain environments (eg farms, human grown tree colonies, areas away from trees so the cats only have a faint recollection of different shades, tundra with only pine trees, high mountains with only spruce trees, etc.) using branch- can be an interesting way to reflect the territory, but it's down to the clan whether I would deem it a valid prefix, essentially.
But those differences are pretty interesting to me over all.

[Dinolil1]

@Chamrosh

I too have different ways of naming!

Step and Toe - Bestowed on the stealthy ones
Foot - Bestowed on the fast ones
Leap - Bestowed on the jumpers
Whisker - Bestowed on the hunters
Nose - Bestowed on the seekers
Claw - Bestowed on the fighters
Fang - Bestowed on the those that hunt and fight
Flight - Bestowed on those that glide over the hills
Stream - Bestowed on the swimmers
Stone - Bestowed on the sturdy
Heart - Bestowed on the outspoken
Blaze - Bestowed on the brave
Cloud - Bestowed on the unruffled
Storm - Bestowed on the fierce
Feather - Bestowed on the gentle
Pool - Bestowed on the calm
Berry - Bestowed on the gatherers
Leaf - Bestowed on the healers
Wing - Bestowed on the dreamers
Tail - Bestowed on the climbers
Pelt and Fur - Bestowed on the remarkably average
Belly and Flower - Bestowed on the carers
Rain - Bestowed on the self-sacrificing
Face - Bestowed on the beautiful
Strike - Bestowed on the really good fighters
Frost - Bestowed on the hardy
Gaze - Bestowed on the wise

Is it okay if I add some of your prefixes to this list?

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*stares at all the name possibilities*
*eye twitch*
Uh
Is too much help possible? ^^;;;;;

[kiro,,]

@chamrosh
That's really interesting!

[Chamrosh]

@Dino
Of course! There's genuinely no way that I'm going to use up all the unique names, and especially not all the unique names with all the ways they sound good/decent
I like the idea for something stealthy so I might add one for that, if that's alright too?

@Starry
Not never! Well, hardly ever!
I have no idea what that's a reference to, but my brothers loudly sing that to mean "basically no"

@Adiebaby
I always find it pretty interesting how differently people interpret the naming system.

So I'm pretty harsh on suffixes, but because all my rules for prefixes being able to be used are ; must be related in a clear way to a trait visible at birth that is likely to be permanent, the prefix is not insulting, the prefix is not blasphemous against Starclan (as sun-dewtail would have been) and it must not contain two potential prefixes (eg strawberry is not allowed, because straw and berry are both separate concepts; however raspberry is allowed in the form "rasp" because berry is a separate thing, but rasp is not, so rasp must refer to a raspberry); but because so many animals and plants are in a form where the raspberry treatment works, I get a ridiculously thorough total list. I can also replicate ideas, eg the matchstick fungus is also called the British soldier, in reference to beefeaters: so a cat named after it could be match-, british, brit-, soldier-, beef- or eater-. In practice, I'd probably only use match- but that doesn't mean I couldn't use the others.
Argusheart is my only current cat who that splitting thing applies to; her prefix refers to the Northern Argus Butterfly; butterfly is in strawberry form (butterwort not actual butter) so cannot be used, and north refers to something else, so argus is what's left.
And because of a my weirdness with prefixes, I've probably ended up with a unique naming system, as have probably a lot of other people.

[Dinolil1]

@Cham

Yeah sure, feel free to add it!
I know people for some reason hate the canon name 'Daisytoe' but maybe -toe is based off to TIPTOE w/ it meaning stealthy.

[kiro,,]

I can't wait see who one the Summer Event cat! Good luck to everyone!

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@cham - I blame my mom's Hallmark obsession for me knowing that song.