About hyborian names
Pseudo-classical builds like "Cephepius" and "Thutonthes" sit next to blunt one-offs such as "Bon", covering both throne room and tavern brawl. The range fits sword and sorcery tales in the Hyborian Age tradition, where Stygian priests, Aquilonian-style kings, and nameless sellswords share the same page. Longer results skew priestly and southern, short ones suit borderland raiders.
How hyborian names are built
A gendered two-piece builder with twenty banks. Each gender has several prefix-plus-suffix pairs, and every name fuses one prefix fragment to one suffix fragment. The many paired banks deliberately span different real-world flavours, so one roll might read Mongol, another Greek.
Bulegu
a male prefix-plus-suffix pair + Bu + legu
Galuba
a female prefix-plus-suffix pair + Gal + uba
Glaciades
a male prefix-plus-suffix pair + Glac + iades
Naming notes
Because the banks pull from varied ancient and pseudo-historical sources, results range widely (Bulegu, Galuba, Chongzheng, Glaciades), evoking the patchwork of cultures in a sword-and-sorcery world. Pick a gender and roll until a name fits the regional flavour you want. Use these for barbarians, queens, sorcerers, and kings across an invented bronze-age map in fan fiction or tabletop.
Questions about hyborian names
- Why do the names span so many cultures?
- The twenty banks are organised into multiple prefix-suffix pairs, each tuned to a different real-world flavour. Across rolls you get Mongol-, Greek-, and other-styled names, matching a varied ancient setting.
- How does a single name get built?
- Each pattern fuses one prefix fragment to one suffix fragment from a matched pair of banks, so Glac + iades becomes Glaciades in one step.
- Are these official Conan or Hyborian-age names?
- No. They are fan-made names in that sword-and-sorcery style. The banks reproduce the prefix-suffix construction, not specific named characters.