Talktable

The talktable is a master file containing all text strings that appear in the game. Other files in the game use a string reference or hash to look up the matching string in the talktable. This is done for localization purposes, to make it easy to translate and replace all of the text in a game by altering only a handful of files.

Eclipse Engine games have two talktables (core and module) for every module registered in the game, which includes mods in add-on format so you can add your own. xoreos can decompile those talktables to and from xml format.