Time Traveller Name Generator

How the Time Traveller Name Generator works

Time traveller name generator: where the names come from

A time traveller is named by what they have lost, who they work for, who they are pretending to be and who sent them, and the generator gives all four. The traveller is the person out of time, a first name and a surname from the shared cast of this section, Ilsa Kepler, Orin Calder, Sela Okonkwo, Maren Voss, Ezra Nakamura, or a name of a long time, Orin of the Long Now, Sela of the Late Hour, Kael of the Lost Century, Vesper of the Borrowed Week, Fenn of the Folded Year, or an epithet, Tamsin Halloran the Twice-Born, Dorian the Unborn, Corvin the Untimely, Nyx the Returned, Petra Thorne the Unwritten, Rook the Punctual, Halla the Overdue, Aldous the Unaged, or a person of a day, the Wednesday Man, the Tuesday Woman, the Midnight Girl, the Leap-Day Stranger, the Autumn Lodger, the Yesterday Clerk, or a person from a time, the Woman from the Hour, the Man from the Century, the Passenger from the Winter, the Clockmaker from Tomorrow, or a name of no time, Mira of No Year, Cass of No Morning, Lark of No Tuesday, or an epithet person, the Belated Visitor, the Recurring Guest, the Forgotten Tenant, which is a name that says the person is from somewhere but not from here. The agent is the one who works for the service, an agent and a chosen word, Agent Sorrel, Agent Ledger, Agent Argent, Agent Cassia, Agent Hesper, or an operative and a numbered surname, Operative Quade-7, Operative Marrow-3, Operative Farrow-9, or the word alone, Ledger, Pell, Quill, Ember, Slate, or a word and a number, Tallow-41, Rue-88, Linnet-17, or a surname and a number, Holt 52, Kepler 04, or an agent of a day, Agent Wednesday, Agent Midnight, Agent Noon, or a field agent, Field Agent Wren, Field Agent Juno, Field Agent Tamar, or a full name, Agent Bram Solano, Agent Tessa Ryker, since an agent's name is a word chosen so that it means nothing in any year. The cover identity is who the traveller is pretending to be, a mister of a day, Mister Tuesday, Mister Thursday, Mister Yesterday, Mister Spring, or a period first name, a surname and a year, Henry Ashgrove of 1911, Edith Marrow of 1888, Walter Reyes of 1926, Florence Petrov of 1953, Albert Holt of 1899, Ivy Castellan of 2041, or a doctor of no time, Dr Marrow of no year, Dr Voss of no century, Dr Lindqvist of no season, or the late one, the Late Mr Voss, the Late Mr Draven, the Late Mr Tanaka, or a missus of a year, Mrs Vance of 1937, Mrs Ekwueme of 1962, or a miss, Miss Edith Calder, Miss Mabel Kepler, Miss Winifred Okonkwo, or a professor, Professor Thorne of 1871, Professor Mbeki of 1919, or the one who was never born, the Ernest Halloran who was never born, the Dorothy Onne who was never born, or a mister of a year, Mister Farrow of 1945, Mister Quade of 2109, which is a name that has the right hat and the wrong eyes. The temporal bureau is who sent them, a bureau of a duty, the Bureau of Corrections, the Bureau of Continuity, the Bureau of Small Hours, the Bureau of Lost Days, the Bureau of Mislaid Years, the Bureau of Loose Ends, the Bureau of Late Arrivals, the Bureau of Calendar Repair, or an office of a long time, the Office of the Long Now, the Office of the Last Hour, the Office of the Lost Century, the Office of the Borrowed Week, or a chronal registry, the Chronal Registry, the Temporal Bureau, the Horological Society, the Clockwise Commission, the Causal Archive, the Retrograde Desk, the Pendulum Board, the Hourglass Directorate, or a society of a day, the Wednesday Society, the Tuesday Society, the Midnight Society, the Leap-Day Society, or a duty registry, the Corrections Registry, the Consequences Ministry, the Second Chances Office, the Anomalies Desk, or the three-word one, the Chronal Corrections Registry, the Temporal Records Office, the Diachronic Adjustments Board, the Sequential Continuity Custodians, or a society of a long time, the Society of the Quiet Now, the Society of the Wrong Year, or a registry of a duty, the Custodians of Loose Ends, the Wardens of Lost Days, the Auditors of Consequences, or a numbered one, the Ninth Archive, the Third Lodge, the Hundredth Institute, or the chronal office, the Meridian Office, the Calendar Office, since a bureau that repairs time is named as dully as it can manage.

Traveller gives the person out of time. Agent gives the service. Cover identity gives the disguise. Temporal bureau gives the employer.

There is no gender option, since a time traveller's name is a first name, an epithet, a chosen word or a period alias, and none of those are sorted by gender in the lists.

The lists are original. The first names, surnames and chosen words are the shared cast of this section, the period first names are ordinary Victorian and interwar English names, the years are years, and the long words, times, epithets, days, persons, duties, chronal words and registries are ordinary English and ordinary clock vocabulary of the kind every real bureau is named from; no published time traveller, franchise agency or real institution appears in the lists, a match with a film, a game or a real office would be chance, since every real office is a bureau of a something, and a name intended for commercial use should be searched first.

For the traveller's original name before the epithet, the sci-fi character name page; for the surname the cover identity borrows, the sci-fi surname page; for the codename of the mission the agent is on, the operation codename page; for the dystopia the bureau serves, the dystopian faction page; and for the gadget the traveller carries, the sci-fi gadget page.

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