Naming Fortresses, Governments, and Symbols
What approach do you guys take?
I tend to overthink it.
My last fortress was The Golden Goose-Nest, which I thought was cute. Their government was The Crystalline Egg, and the symbol, The Wings of Hope, was a goose embracing an oval cut gem. Was pretty proud of that theming. Also, naturally, they embarked with geese.
With small dwarf civilizations with a low population, I like to go with hopeful names associated with new begins, like "hope", "dawn", "seed", "new", etc.
Or I like to go with classic dawrfish hopes related to wealth. Themes of gems and gold and whatnot. Sometimes I'll be semi-random, repeatedly randomizing until I like something, then theming other names after it.
And if you have any favorite names, chosen or random, share away!