Floraverse Character Generator Data

The dataset used in the Floraverse Character Generator. It is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA license.

The directory images contains various images from (or based on images from) the Floraverse website.

Files

The files and their format is described below.

calendar.json

Contains the description of the calendar year and astrological signs.

The root is an object containing two fields:

• months (list: month): the list of months
• astrological-signs (list: sign): the list of astrological signs

A month object has the following fields:

• number (integer): the numerical representation of the month in dates
• name (string): the name of the month
• days (integer): the number of days in the month
• named-after (string): the origin of the name

A sign object has the following fields:

• name (string): the name of the sign
• symbol (string): the path to the image of the symbol of the sign
• from (object: date): the starting date of the astrological sign
• to (object: date): the ending date of the astrological sign

A date objects used in the astrological signs has the folowing fields:

• month (integer): the month of the date
• day (integer): the day of the date

genders.json

Contains the description of (english) genders. Mostly for grammatical use when generating sentences.

The root is a list of gender objects.

A gender object has the following fields:

• name (string): the name of the gender
• title (string): the honorific used to indicate the gender of a person
• title-abbreviation (string): the abbreviation of the title
• subject-pronoun (string): the 3rd person subject pronoun corresponding to the gender
• object-pronoun (string): the 3rd person object pronoun corresponding to the gender
• genitive-adjective (string): the 3rd person genitive adjective corresponding to the gender
• reflexive-pronoun (string): the 3rd person reflexive pronoun corresponding to the gender
• plural? (boolean): indicate if verbs should be conjugated in plural when the subject pronoun is the subject of a sentence

sexes.json

Contains the description of biological sexes. Used when generating ancestors or descendants.

The root is a list of sex objects.

A sex object has the following fields:

• name (string): the name of the sex
• context (string): a description indicating in which context to use that object.
• mother? (boolean or the string "maybe"): indicate if individuals of that sex are described as biological mother.
• gender-distribution (distribution: gender): indicate the default distribution used when generating gender for individuals of the given sex.

A distribution of gender is described as a map object whose keys are the name of a given gender and associated values are number giving the corresponding weight in the distribution.

elements.json

Contains the description of magical elements. Used for affinities.

The root is an object containing the following fields:

• none (element): an element value used for a lack of elemental affinity
• primary (list: element): the list of primary elements
• secondary (list: combined-element): the list of secondary elements

The element object has the following fields:

• name (string): the name of the element
• affinity-description (string): a string used to describe someone or something having an elemental affinity
• related-nouns (list: string): a list of nouns that can be used to convey the idea of the element
• related-adjectives (list: string): a list of adjectives that can be used to convey the idea of the element

The combined-element object has the following fields:

• components (list: string): a list of primary elements that compose a combined element; each string correspond to the name of a primary element
• result (element): the resulting element of the combination

mottos.json

Contains various mottos and a way to generate variations.

The root is an object containing the following fields:

• prefix (list: string): a list of prefix for making variations of prefixable mottos.
• prefixable (list: string): a list of prefixable mottos.
• unprefixable (list: string): a list of unprefixable mottos.