Clan Name Generator
This page opens the fantasy name generator on its Clan style, so clan names are on screen before you touch anything, whatever style you last used here. A clan here is a thing rather than a person, and every draw is one clan word inside a plain English frame. Two frames are in play: an emblem in front, as in The Crimson Amberhold or The Obsidian Emberfell, or a noun behind, as in Hearthstone Covenant [COVE] or Mistkeep Wake [WAKE]. The eight emblems are Ashen, Crimson, Verdant, Obsidian, Silver, Thorned, Gilded and Stormcut, and the eight nouns are Wake, Covenant, Vanguard, Accord, Pactline, Bulwark, Ember and Crown, which puts 704 clans in the set: 44 clan words behind each of eight emblems, and the same 44 in front of each of eight nouns. Those 44 words are English compounds rather than invented syllables, frost and keep, yew and hollow, oath and stone, so a clan name here reads as a phrase rather than as a coined word, and a few of them existed long before this tool did: the questions below say which, and what that means for a name you are going to publish. The bracket at the end is a four letter tag taken from the last word of the name it sits on, so an emblem name tags its own clan word, The Gilded Grimhold [GRIM], while a noun name tags the noun instead, which is why two clans in one grid can both come back [ACCO]. Length is not a size control on this style, because the clan word is a single word at every setting. What it changes is the frame: Short never tags an emblem name, Long tags every name it makes, and Medium is the only setting with all three shapes in play. One consequence is worth knowing before you lean on it: with a seed word typed in, Short and Long draw the same clan words in the same order and differ only in the tags, so Medium is the setting to switch to when you want a different list out of the same seed. The small line under each name reads the clan word alone and leaves The, the emblem and the noun untouched. It is not cut at a join here, because a clan word is a single word with nothing attached to it: the cue applies the tool's letter rule instead, which is why keenspire comes back KEENS-pire rather than KEEN-spire. Ask for up to 100 names a press, star the ones worth keeping, and type a seed word when you want the same clans back next week. Nothing you type is uploaded and no account is asked for.
Building names
The chips choose the style, and each one is a different syllable set: Clan builds place and thing names. Type a seed word to make a run repeatable, or leave it empty for a fresh set every press. The line under each name is a reading cue for the invented word the name is built on, cut at the joins the generator used.
Common questions
- Can I use one of these as a clan tag in a game?
- The bracket at the end of a name is already that shape: four letters, in capitals, taken from the last word of the name. The Gilded Grimhold gives [GRIM] and Mistkeep Wake gives [WAKE]. Two things about it are worth knowing. It follows the last word rather than the clan, so every name built on the noun Accord comes back [ACCO] and one grid can hold several of those; set Length to Long if you want the tag on every name, and take an emblem name, The Ashen Xelmoor [XELM], when you want the four letters to read off the clan word itself. The other is that nothing here checks whether a tag is free. The page fetches nothing and knows nothing about any game's roster or tag list, so the four letters are a suggestion rather than a reservation, and the game itself is the only place that can tell you whether they are taken.
- Are these clan names invented, or do they come from somewhere?
- They are assembled in your browser from 44 words that live in this tool, and no other of the 31 styles here shares one of them. What is fair to say about this style in particular is that it does not invent syllables the way the elf set or the orc set does. Every one of the 44 is two ordinary English elements joined: frost and keep, yew and hollow, oath and stone, blood and oak. Ordinary English words already exist outside this tool. A hearthstone is the stone in front of a fire, an ashfall is what a volcano drops, a long barrow is a real class of burial mound, and Ravenswood was a place name on real maps and in published fiction long before this page existed. A few of the 44 also read as names already in circulation in games. So a clan name from here is not a coined word you can assume nobody is using, and one that is going on a team page, a logo or a cover is worth a search before you commit to it. We place no restriction on using a name you generate, and the tool claims no meaning, no history and no etymology for any of these words: what it does is arrange them.
- What does the Length control change for a clan name?
- Not the size of the name. The clan word is a single word at Short, Medium and Long, with nothing attached to the front or the back of it, so Longbarrow is the same length whichever setting you are on. What changes is the frame around it. Short gives either an emblem name with no tag, The Thorned Flintwood, or a noun name with one, Coldspire Accord [ACCO]. Long gives the same two shapes with a tag on both, so every name in the grid arrives tagged. Medium is the only setting that has all three shapes in play, which is also what makes it the odd one out under a seed: with the same seed word, Short and Long return the same clan words in the same order and differ only in the tags, while Medium draws a different list. If it is the number of names you want to change rather than the shape, that is the Count field, which takes any whole number from 1 to 100.
- Can I get the same clan names back tomorrow?
- Type a word into Seed word. The same seed on this style at the same length returns the same clans in the same order, on this machine and on anyone else's, so a warband you named for a campaign or a roster you drew up last week comes back rather than being lost to the next press. You can send other people the seed word instead of the list. Leave the seed empty and every press of Generate draws fresh from the browser's cryptographic generator, which cannot be replayed; a seed of only spaces counts as empty. The style is part of what a seed replays, and this page opens on Clan however you last left the tool, so a seed you noted here gives the same clans when you come back to this URL.
- How many different clan names are there, and will I see the same one twice?
- 704 different clans: 44 clan words behind each of the eight emblems, and the same 44 in front of each of the eight nouns. Counted as strings it is 1,056, because the emblem form comes with a tag at some lengths and without one at others. Inside one press the generator redraws when it lands on a name it has already made in that run, up to sixteen attempts, so a grid of 100 comes back without a repeated name. A clan word can still turn up more than once in one grid under a different emblem or noun, Emberfell as The Silver Emberfell and again as Emberfell Vanguard, and across separate presses with no seed word there is nothing holding a name back from returning. Asking for the full 100 shows you roughly a seventh of the clans this style can make, so if none of them fit, pressing Generate again is worth more than scrolling.
- How do I keep the ones I like, and does the bracket tag come with them?
- Press the star beside a name and it drops into a kept list under the tool, each entry showing Clan and the reading cue for its clan word. Copy kept copies that list as plain text, one name per line, Copy all copies the whole grid the same way, and clicking a name copies just that one. The tag is part of the name rather than a decoration on it, so it comes along with every copy: delete the bracket by hand if you want the clan on its own. The kept list belongs to this tab and goes when you close it, so copy anything you care about before you leave. The style, length, count and seed word are remembered in this browser instead, and the Start over button at the top of the page forgets them.
Every syllable set here is written for this tool and assembled by rule, so a name can land near a real one by chance but is never copied from a published character list. The pronunciation cue is built from the same syllables, so it is a reading aid rather than a claim about any language.