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Player Naming Inspiration

Random Name Generators and Name Lists:

The following resources have been compiled to help give inspiration for player names.

These are all external websites, please take care. This list was last checked on 14/9/2022. Unfortunately over time these sites may go offline or even be taken over and used for 'other' purposes.

• 20000 Names (with regional lists):
  • http://www.20000-names.com

• Behind the name (random name generator)
  • http://www.behindthename.com/random/
  • The main page also has a lot of general information about names that might be useful: http://www.behindthename.com

• http://www.barrowdowns.com/middleearthname.php

• Big variety of name generators:
  • http://www.seventhsanctum.com/

• Another page with a number of generators (not as exhaustive as Seventh Sanctum)
  • http://www.rpginspiration.com/index.htm

• More Name Generators:
  • http://www.rinkworks.com/namegen/
  • http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/
  • http://www.squid.org/tools/names/

• Find your Viking name!
  • http://www.thequarter.org/Media/VikingName.php

• Orc name generator:
  • http://www.orcs.ca/orcsmain/resourcename.html

Race Specific resources:

It's always a good idea to do some background reading if you want to create a really authentic Warhammer-world team. Often, Games Workshop's Warhammer world draws on real-world mythology and history. Of course, Games Workshop draws even more heavily upon the works of J.R.R. Tolkein, writer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and associated books such as the Hobbit and the Silmarillion.

General

• Encyclopedia Mythica:
  • http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html
• Mythology in Wikipedia:
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology
• Encyclopedia of Arda:
  • http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.asp
• Ardalambion:
  • http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/

Amazons - Based upon the Amazons of Greek myth:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons

Lizardmen - GW based the Lizardmen fluff on Aztec, Inca and Mayan history/mythology:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_mythology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_mythology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_mythology

Norse - Draws upon real Norse mythology (maybe that's why so many Scandinavians play BB?)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology
• http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONNames.htm

Elves - Based very much on the Elves of J.R.R. Tolkein. He even created two Elven languages, Quenya and Sindarin (you hear it spoken in the Lord of the Rings films!)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quenya
• A course in Quenya - http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/qcourse.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindarin
• Sindarin dictionary and search engine - http://www.jrrvf.com/hisweloke/sindar/

Khemri - Derived from Ancient Egyptian mythology (and loads of Mummy films!):

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt