Names Fury 
Every map needs more than towns. It needs the river the towns are built on, the wood nobody walks through after dark, the pass that closes in winter and the inn at the bottom of it. Those names are harder to invent than character names, because a place name has to sound like it was … Read more
Explore 800+ kitsune names with meanings! Cool, unique & powerful Japanese fox spirit names for characters, DnD, anime & gaming inspiration.
There was never a halfling. There was a hobbit, and then there was a letter from a lawyer. The original 1974 edition of Dungeons & Dragons called this species hobbits. In 1977 the holders of the Tolkien rights sent a cease and desist, and TSR quietly rewrote its books: hobbit became halfling, ent became treant, … Read more
The word guild has nothing to do with craft, trade or brotherhood. It means payment. Old English gield meant a service, offering, tribute or compensation, and it comes from Proto-Germanic geldja-, a contribution. The earliest guilds Tacitus describes were sacred banquets that you had to pay into to attend. The word for the subscription became … Read more
Tolkien taught Anglo-Saxon at Oxford for twenty years, and it shows in one detail most readers never notice. The Rohirrim do not call their country Rohan. That is what Gondor calls it. Among themselves it is the Mark and the Mark is Mercia. Mercia was a real Anglo-Saxon kingdom covering the English Midlands. Its name … Read more
Here is something most Victorian name lists get wrong: Victoria was not a popular Victorian name. In 1844, English birth registers recorded over 63,000 girls named Nancy. Victoria got 148. The Queen’s name was considered too grand for ordinary families — so while Albert climbed steadily after the royal wedding in 1840, Victoria never did. … Read more
Drafting Baker Mayfield means you have already accepted a certain amount of chaos, so your team name should reflect that. He is the guy who planted a flag at midfield in Ohio Stadium, got cut by two teams in one calendar year, and then threw 41 touchdowns in Tampa. There is a lot to work … Read more
A pixie name should sound like it was overheard rather than introduced. That is the whole trick. The pixies of Cornish and Devon folklore were never formally named to anyone — farmers learned what to call them from the sound they made in the hedgerow, or from whatever went missing that week. That gives you … Read more
Mongolian last names do not work the way last names work almost anywhere else. There is no inherited family name passed from father to son down the generations. Instead, your surname is your father’s first name — which means it changes with every generation, and your children will not carry the name you carry. This … Read more
Discover 800+ Dark Souls names for characters, knights, mages, bosses & more. Cool, funny, fantasy names with meanings + name generator tool.
