About female norn names
How female norn names are built
Norn names build in the style of Guild Wars' giant-blooded northerners, pairing a personal name with one of three family forms. Female personal names come from a 297-entry bank, male names from a 1095-entry bank. Family forms include a patronymic (a parent name plus son or dot, as in Ribirson and Sansyrdot), a compound nature surname (Stone + steel), or an epithet (as in the Just).
Metha Ribirson
Metha + Ribir + son
personal name plus patronymic (parent name plus suffix)
Hythed Stonesteel
Hythed + Stone + steel
personal name plus compound nature surname
Vahe the Just
Vahe + the Just
personal name plus epithet
Naming notes
The male-name and patronymic-root banks are huge (over a thousand entries each), while the small patronymic suffix and 80-entry epithet bank recur sooner. The mix of -son and -dot patronymics, compound nature words, and the-epithets gives the set its saga flavour. Good for hunters, spirit-touched heroes, or original characters in that Norse-styled register for fan work.
Questions about female norn names
- Are these official Norn names?
- No. They are fan-made names in that style, assembled from personal-name and family-form banks rather than any official source.
- Why do some results end in an epithet like 'the Chaotic'?
- One family form draws an epithet from its own bank instead of a surname, producing saga-style by-names.
- What are the -son and -dot endings?
- They are patronymic suffixes from a small bank attached to a parent-name root, giving Norse-styled parentage names like Gadbrason and Sansyrdot.