How the fantasy name generator works

The point of this tool is coherence. A world falls apart when the hero sounds Norse, the village sounds futuristic and the beast sounds like a brand of paint — so everything is generated from one shared palette.

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   The genre sets the sound

   Choosing high fantasy, medieval, Norse, Celtic/faerie, gothic, desert or cosmic loads a bank of syllables, titles, epithets and place words that belong together. Every name in the batch is drawn from that same bank.

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   Name types decide what gets built

   Pick any combination of characters, towns and villages, lands and realms, worlds, spirits and deities, superheroes, and animals and creatures. Multi-select exists precisely so a whole setting can be named in one coherent pass, and the results are grouped by type.

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   Names are assembled, not drawn from a list

   A character name is a stem built from opening, middle and closing syllables, sometimes carrying a title or an epithet. Places use head and tail words, creatures pair an adjective with a beast noun, and so on — which is why you rarely see the same name twice.

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   Tones narrow the flavour per type

   Each selected name type gets its own row of tone chips — elders, youth, silly or honorable for characters; medieval, coastal or tribal for towns; and so on. Selected tones replace that type's word pool rather than blending into it, so the results actually sound like the tone you picked.

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   You can add tones of your own

   The text box on each row turns any word you type into a tone chip, selected straight away. It feeds your word into the right slots for that type — a title or epithet for characters, a place word for towns — and an × removes it again.

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   Count, regenerate and copy

   Set how many names you want per type, regenerate for a fresh batch, and copy everything on screen in one click. Duplicates are filtered out within each batch.

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