Realm Names

Guild, company and relic names

Four generators for the groups that hire, hunt or hinder a party and for the treasures they fight over. Each has its own vocabulary: crafts and emblems for guilds, units and beasts for companies, forces and blades for weapons, subjects and book words for tomes.

Guild and order name generator

Craft guilds, sworn orders and secret societies from crafts, emblems and titles.

e.g. Conclave of the Ninth Plumbline / Circle of the Tassel / Covenant of the Founding Mirror

Mercenary company name generator

Sellsword bands named for captains, banner beasts, units and the walls they break.

e.g. Mirek's Orphans / The Negotiable Jackal Pack / The Headlong Bows

Magic sword and weapon name generator

Compound names, heirloom names and legend titles for swords, axes, bows and spears.

e.g. The Slightly Bent Maul / The Entombed Crossbow of Lysander / Rapier of Ruin

Spell book and tome title generator

Grimoires, treatises and handbooks from book words, magical subjects and invented authors.

e.g. Manual of Omens / Saltcraft / The Atlas of Prospera

How to name factions and treasures

A faction name tells players what a group thinks of itself. A guild that calls itself worshipful and chartered wants to be seen as respectable, a company named after a scavenging bird does not care. Decide what the group wants strangers to believe, then pick the mood that says it. The gap between the name and the truth is a ready-made plot.

Groups need a short form. Nobody at a table says a seven-word name twice, so look at what the name shrinks to. An order of the veiled lamp becomes the Lamp, a captain's lances become the Lances. If the short form is dull or clashes with another group, re-roll.

A named weapon or book is a promise that the thing has a history. One-word compound names sound like something soldiers shouted; names with an owner sound like an heirloom; names with a place or an age sound like a museum piece. Choose the pattern that fits how the item was found.

Use the include-my-word box to tie a faction or relic to your own world. Put a town, a founder or a villain into the pattern and the name stops being generic. Then lock that word and generate again to see every way it can sit in a name.

A taste of each generator