(P.S. Before y'all freak out: my pics are not mods. I just used inspect element to add spaces. They go away upon refreshing.)
It's occurred to me that dragon names don't really seem to be used systematically. Like, they aren't used to generate the dragon's URL; they aren't used to generate the dragon's scry, etc. It's really just their ID numbers that are used.
So, that being said, I don't see why we can't have spaces in names. I'd like to see that if possible, for better readability's sake.
Some preemptive counters:
- "Lore" is not an excuse for the lack of spaces in names. Lore is there for the people who want to play with it so they could have the choice to follow with naming conventions if there are any, whereas others have the choice not to follow naming conventions. Kind of like in FFXIV: there are naming conventions for people to use if they want, but they don't have to. (I don't know if this is a thing, but FR peoples tend to use lore as a shield, so I'm just throwing it out there just in case.)
- If line breaks happen in the offspring list that make it hard to tell one offspring from the other, there is a very easy cosmetic way to address that: bullet points and/or lines that automatically generate for each new offspring so they're still very visibly separated.
- Spaces can be prevented from happening or ignored at the start of a word, so there won't be names that start with spaces.
- I'm not 100% sure about this point, but I do think there are languages that will allow for spaces but not other special characters. A forum I run has this issue where players can't use any apostrophes for example, but they can use spaces. (So... we had to like.. fix that, because it caused problems on our end. But! It's a thing! So, if FR didn't want other special characters, they could probably prevent it the way my forum host prevented it.)
Okay, now I leave. Whoosh!