About wizard names
Rounded scholarly results like "Enulius" and "Wunorim" sound at home on a library plaque, while harder forms such as "Vruzahr" suggest magic learned somewhere less reputable. Use the Latinate ones for academy mages and court advisors, and the guttural ones for warlocks, recluses, and the kind of caster your players were warned about. The vowel-heavy results also age well into honorifics.
How wizard names are built
A wizard name is a single mononym assembled from tiny phoneme banks, with nine gender-keyed templates layering optional prefixes onto a vowel core and a suffix. Female forms close on a 100-entry female suffix bank as in "Otrixi" and "Eni"; neutral forms use a separate suffix bank as in "Zuzith"; male forms can stack a prefix and doubling consonant, building "Arrorin" and "Ezulenor". The vowel bank sits at the center of every template, gluing the prefix to the suffix into one flowing word.
Ulalles
u (prefix) + l (linking consonant) + a (vowel core) + lles (suffix)
Ennane
e (vowel core) + nnane (female suffix)
Hagiay
h (neutral prefix) + a (vowel core) + giay (suffix)
Naming notes
Length and gravity scale with how many optional slots fire: a bare vowel-plus-suffix build gives a short, light name like "Eni", while the full male form stacks a prefix, doubling consonant, vowel and suffix into a weightier "Ezulenor" suited to an archmage. The doubling consonants produce the rolling "rr" and "z" sounds that read as arcane ("Arrorin"). These are invented single-word names, so use one as a mage's working mononym and reroll for a longer form when you need extra grandeur.
Questions about wizard names
- Why are wizard names a single word?
- The generator builds a mononym by gluing a prefix, a vowel core, and a suffix into one flowing word like "Arrorin" or "Otrixi". There is no separate surname; the whole name is the mage's arcane handle.
- How does gender change a wizard name?
- The suffix bank switches: female names close on the female suffix bank as in "Otrixi", neutral names on the neutral one as in "Zuzith", and male forms can stack extra prefix and doubling-consonant slots for a longer build like "Ezulenor".
- Why do some names sound grander than others?
- More optional slots fire in the longer templates, so a bare "Eni" stays light while a fully stacked "Ezulenor" reads as an archmage. Reroll for a longer form when you want extra gravity.