What are Name Prefixes?

In the Loot contract, some items are given a "namePrefix" and "nameSuffix."

At first, it appeared that the assignment of Names to Items was random and haphazard — it turns out it is not.

<aside> 🤯 The name prefixes have a particular structure and order, and hidden inside the logic of the OG Loot contract, there is a clear model that formulates three distinct, mutually-exclusive, collectively-exhaustive, and perfectly-patterned "sets" of Names for items.

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Read on to learn more!

What do we know about Name Prefixes?

• Some names can only be assigned to some items
  • What is this mapping, and what does it imply?
• Some names can only be assigned to some Orders
  • What is this mapping, and what does it imply?
• Some names are unused and impossible

  • These prefixes and suffixes don't exist and will never exist, even in sLoot:

    

What are the three "sets"?

• It has emerged that namePrefixes and nameSuffixes appear together in three distinct sets. In the below image these have been termed as “lores”:

  

• Every loot item is assigned with a level of greatness ranging between 0 and 20.

• Whether the namePrefixes and nameSuffixes are picked out from lore A, B or C is determined by the item’s level of greatness.

• Items with a greatness of 0-18 are not prescribed with any lore, greatness's of 19 are prescribed with lore A and greatness's of 20 are prescribed with lore B.

  

• Since there is no level of greatness where lore C is assigned, namePrefixes and nameSuffixes in lore C can never and will never be assigned to any item.

• The big question is what happened to lore C.

  • Is there a missing, higher level of greatness?
  • Did something happen to cause lore C to be wiped from another level of greatness?

• The below table shows the lores associated with each level of greatness:

  Greatness Levels vs. Prefix Lore