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Necromancer Name Generator
Evil Wizard, Death Mage and Death Cult Names with Grave Epithets
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How the Necromancer Name Generator works
This necromancer name generator mixes real naming patterns into new names. Generate necromancer names: grave names such as Mortivane, Ossandra and Vesk Barrowfield, names with an epithet such as Sepulchra the Unburied and Karthos Bonehand, names with a title such as Bone-Warden Ilvane and Gravelord Ozrik Charnwood, names with a crypt or deed such as Thanessa of the Sunken Ossuary and Morgrave, who woke the Nine Winters dead, and cult or order names such as the Order of the Quiet Grave and the Lantern Choir. Choose female, male or either and generate up to a hundred at once.
Necromancer name generator: choosing a name that fits
The necromancer is the wizard who went to the graveyard, and the names are the wizard's names with the grave in them. The grave name is long and sonorous like a mage name but built from words of death and bone, Mortivane, Ossandra, Sepulchra, Thanoric, Cinerea, with a surname that is a tomb, a barrow or a damp field, Barrowfield, Gravesend, Mortlake, Charnwood, Lychgate, some of them shared with the noble houses of this section for the necromancer of good family. The epithet is what the dead call the character, the Unburied, the Twice-Dead, the Cold-Handed, or a compound of bone and grave, Bonehand, Shroudmantle, Tombtongue. The title is the rank in a craft that has its own hierarchy, Bone-Warden, Gravelord, Sexton, Shroud-Mother, Archnecromancer. The crypt is the seat, since a necromancer is known by the tomb the light burns in, and the deed is the story, drawn from the shared events of this section, who raised the drowned of the Salt Wars, who buried the Last King twice.
Grave name gives the name alone, with a surname, or built from a stem and a suffix. Name with epithet adds the reputation or the compound. Name with title adds the rank and often the crypt, Keeper Ravenna of the Weeping Catacomb. Name with crypt or deed gives the seat or the story. Cult or order name gives the group, the Order of the Pale Shroud, the Sleepless Vigil, the Choir of Mortivane, the Bone Bell of the Drowned Necropolis.
The gender option splits the grave-name list and leaves surnames, epithets, titles, crypts and orders shared; the built names are genderless.
The lists are original. The names are coined for this page from words of death and bone or are old European names in the public language, and no name is copied from a published necromancer or death cult; a match with a novel or a game would be chance, and a name intended for commercial use should be searched first.
For the necromancer who finished the work on themselves, the lich page; for the ghost the necromancer keeps, the ghost page; for the wizard who stayed out of the graveyard, the wizard page; and for the crypt as a place, the dungeon page.
FAQ
What makes a name sound like a necromancer?
Words of death and bone dressed as a mage name, Mortivane, Ossandra, Sepulchra, Cinerea, with a surname that is a tomb or a barrow, Gravesend, Charnwood, Lychgate. The Grave name kind gives them from the list or builds one from a stem and a suffix.
What is a deed name?
The story, drawn from the shared events of this fantasy section, Morgrave, who woke the Nine Winters dead, Ilvane, who raised the drowned of the Salt Wars, Vesk, who buried the Last King twice. The Name with crypt or deed kind gives it, or the crypt the necromancer works from.
What titles do necromancers use?
Bone-Warden, Gravelord, Sexton, Keeper, Shroud-Mother, Tomb-Father, Corpse-Reader, Lich-Sworn, Pale Sage, Archnecromancer, along with the plain Master and Magister of the wizard's tower. The Name with title kind joins any of them to a name and often a crypt.
How do I name a death cult?
Use the Cult or order name kind. It joins an adjective to a grave word, the Order of the Quiet Grave, the Pale Shroud, the Lantern Choir, names the cult for its founder, the Circle of Ossandra, or ties it to a crypt, the Cold Vigil of the Sunken Ossuary.
Are any of these names from published works?
No. Every list is original. The names are coined for this page from words of death and bone or are old European names in the public language, and no name is copied from a published necromancer or death cult, so a match would be chance, and a name meant for commercial use should be searched first.
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