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+//! Artifact names: what a thing looks like when you find it, and what it's
+//! called once a scholar has told you what it is.
+
+use rand::RngExt;
+
+use super::{Culture, pick};
+use crate::seed::Rng;
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct Artifact {
+    /// What you see when you find it: "a humming ochre lattice".
+    pub unidentified: String,
+    /// Its true name: "the Lacquered Orrery of Teshemond".
+    pub true_name: String,
+}
+
+pub fn artifact(rng: &mut Rng) -> Artifact {
+    let look = format!("{} {} {}", pick(QUALITIES, rng), pick(COLOURS, rng), pick(SHAPES, rng));
+    let article = if look.starts_with(['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u']) { "an" } else { "a" };
+    let unidentified = format!("{article} {look}");
+
+    let object = pick(OBJECTS, rng);
+    let culture = Culture::ALL[rng.random_range(..Culture::ALL.len())];
+    let true_name = match rng.random_range(0..5) {
+        0 => format!("the {} {object} of {}", pick(MATERIALS, rng), culture.word(rng)),
+        1 => format!("the {object} of {}", culture.place(rng)),
+        2 => format!("{}'s {object}", culture.word(rng)),
+        3 => format!("the {} {object}", pick(EPITHETS, rng)),
+        _ => format!("the {object} {}", pick(CLAUSES, rng)),
+    };
+    Artifact { unidentified, true_name }
+}
+
+const QUALITIES: &[&str] = &[
+    "humming", "warm", "weightless", "faintly singing", "ice-cold", "flickering", "whispering",
+    "slowly turning", "perfectly still", "pulsing", "dust-caked", "oddly heavy", "tarnished",
+    "ticking", "breathing",
+];
+
+const COLOURS: &[&str] = &[
+    "ochre", "verdigris", "bone-white", "umber", "cerulean", "oxblood", "iridescent", "smoke-grey",
+    "jet-black", "saffron", "rust-red", "pearlescent", "cobalt",
+];
+
+const SHAPES: &[&str] = &[
+    "lattice", "spindle", "disc", "knot", "sphere", "prism", "coil", "shard", "ring", "cube",
+    "cylinder", "helix", "lens", "rod", "tessera",
+];
+
+const MATERIALS: &[&str] = &[
+    "Saltglass", "Black-Iron", "Lacquered", "Bone", "Star-Ivory", "Verdigris", "Voidsteel",
+    "Smoked-Glass", "Amber", "Obsidian", "Gilt", "Quicksilver",
+];
+
+const OBJECTS: &[&str] = &[
+    "Orrery", "Reliquary", "Astrolabe", "Censer", "Lattice", "Mask", "Crown", "Key", "Sigil",
+    "Codex", "Lens", "Spindle", "Compass", "Chalice", "Engine", "Bell", "Heart", "Mirror", "Loom",
+];
+
+const EPITHETS: &[&str] = &[
+    "Weeping", "Ninth", "Hollow", "Unspoken", "Last", "Sleeping", "Burning", "Patient", "Seventh",
+    "Silent", "Drowned", "Unfinished", "Forgotten", "Inverted",
+];
+
+const CLAUSES: &[&str] = &[
+    "That Remembers", "That Was Promised", "Which Does Not Turn", "That Sings at Dusk",
+    "That Counts the Dead", "That Opens Inward", "That Waits", "of Unmaking", "of Seven Silences",
+    "Beneath the Sun",
+];