About eldar names
Liquid l and r sounds thread through results like "Celrys", "Faenrena", and "Idranshin", soft enough for poetry but stately enough for a Warhammer 40,000 battlefield. Use them for Aeldari characters in fan fiction, kill team rosters, or a painted army's named exarchs and rangers. Append a craftworld of your own invention to ground each name in a history.
How eldar names are built
Each name is a single given name synthesized from two syllables. Male names join a head bank of 75 forms to a tail bank of 75 forms; female names join their own 75-form head bank to a 75-form tail bank. There is no surname, so the only variable is which gendered bank pair feeds the head and tail slots; the four equal banks give thousands of combinations.
Edanshar
Edan + shar (male given, two syllables)
open vowels and soft consonants give the graceful, ancient sound
Abarthysha
Abar + thysha (female given, two syllables)
Kaunatenla
Kauna + tenla (male given, two syllables)
Naming notes
The fragments lean on flowing vowels and soft consonants (Edan-, -shar, Riba-, -nen), which makes the names sound graceful and ancient rather than harsh, a contrast to their corrupted kin. They are invented syllables with no real-language meaning, so the lyrical sound alone carries the register. For fan fiction or tabletop, the single melodic given name reads as a full personal name; add a path or title of your own if you want more.
Questions about eldar names
- Are these official names?
- No. These are fan-made names in the Eldar style, not official names, for original characters and fan creations.
- Why do these sound smoother than the Dark Eldar names?
- The syllable pools favour flowing vowels and soft consonants, so the names read as graceful and ancient. They are built from sound, not from any real language.
- Do male and female names differ?
- Yes, each gender uses its own pair of syllable banks, but both share the same two-slot head-plus-tail shape.