Alien Artifact Name Generator

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Generate alien artifact names for science fiction stories, tabletop campaigns and space games: survey designations like Object Theta-9, crew nicknames like The Doorstop, relics like The Ouvren Lattice and Orrery of the Drowned Moon, and alien words with a gloss such as Zhal'ket, the listening stone.

About alien artifact names

An alien artifact in a story usually has more than one name, and each name tells you who is speaking. The survey team logs a designation such as Object Theta-9 or Shard K-117. The dig crew, who have to live with the thing, call it The Doorstop or Big Quiet. Once someone reads the inscriptions it gains a name of its own: Zhal'ket, the listening stone, or That Which Counts the Tides. Famous examples such as the Monolith of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Stargate and the Prothean beacons of Mass Effect show how much a plain, confident name can carry.

This list holds 1,000 names, mixed so that each reroll crosses styles. It covers catalogue entries, crew nicknames, alien words with a gloss, relics credited to vanished species (The Ouvren Lattice, Ekhuunet Tide Engine), devices, monuments and megastructure fragments, weapons and keys from a precursor war, grown or living objects, quarantined finds, finds named for the person or camp that dug them up, everyday objects and recovered messages.

The alien words, species names and glosses are made up and are not taken from any real language. Pick the layer that fits your scene: a designation for the first report, a nickname for dialogue, a translated name for the moment the artifact starts to answer back.

How to choose alien artifact names

  • Give an important find two or three names from different groups. Object Theta-9 in the report, Big Quiet in the mess hall and a translated name in the last act tell readers how much the crew has learned.
  • Match the name to the finders. A military or corporate survey files designations, academics name finds after people and camps (The Okonkwo Sphere, Hadley's Lens), and salvage crews reach for nicknames like The Doorstop.
  • Use a gloss name when translation is part of the plot. Zhal'ket, the listening stone can turn out to be a mistranslation, and the corrected gloss becomes your reveal.
  • Scatter small finds around the big set piece. A Six-Fingered Glove Mold or a Child's Orbit Puzzle makes a dig site feel lived in before anyone reaches the vault.
  • Before you publish, search any invented word yourself. A coined name can match one in a book or game we have never seen.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a good alien artifact name?

A good name says who named the object and how much they understand. Flat designations such as Shard K-117 suggest a find nobody has explained yet, while The Singing Obelisk or Orrery of the Drowned Moon suggest legend and long study. Names that hint at a purpose without stating it, like The Armistice Lock, give players and readers something to investigate.

How is this different from the Artifact Name Generator?

The Artifact Name Generator is a fantasy list of magic relics, with wands, crowns and enchanted blades. This page is science fiction only: every entry reads as something built or grown by a non-human civilization, or as the label a survey team gave it. You will find entries like Marrow Station Cylinder and The Breathing Reef here, not enchanted items.

Do the alien words and their meanings come from a real language?

No. Words such as Uvquenda and Zhal'ket are made up, and the glosses beside them are our own invention too. Feel free to keep a word and write a new meaning that suits your setting.

Can I use these names for dangerous or quarantined finds?

Yes, one group of the list is written for exactly that. The Sleeper in Vault Two, Do Not Wake and The Red Hum read like labels from a containment log, and they pair well with a dry designation for the official record.

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A: 30 names

  • A Bowl for Catching Time
  • A Letter Folded Into Stone
  • A Place to Put the Sky
  • Abernathy's Third Find
  • Abrexuu, the folded road
  • Achterberg's Egg
  • Aenhuul Light Scale
  • Ahn-sollu, the mother of keys
  • Aishpar, the seed of engines
  • All Roads Curve Back
  • Almanac of Favorable Eclipses
  • Amber Nerve Bundle
  • Amber-Sealed Swarm
  • An Apology in Nine Parts
  • Anchor of the Tideless Sea
  • Anghuveil
  • Anomaly 7 Sigma
  • Anomaly Tau-Blue
  • Answer to a Question Not Yet Asked
  • Antler Array
  • Aqh'lurr
  • Arch of the Broken Orbit
  • Archive of the Seventh Migration
  • Arming Key, Left Half
  • Artifact Class III, Number 6
  • Aruummet
  • Ash of the Burned Archive
  • Atlas of the Sunken Colonies
  • Atuu-shen, the ash clock
  • Aurora Condenser

B: 23 names

  • Baorrik, the stubborn gate
  • Baptiste's Orb
  • Battle Standard Projector
  • Bell of the Frozen Shoal
  • Bhrennokh Forge Seed
  • Bhrennokh Smelter Heart
  • Big Quiet
  • Black-Tagged Cylinder
  • Bloom of the Ninth Spring
  • Bob the Sphere
  • Bone Garden Trellis
  • Bones of the Sentinel Moon
  • Borehole Object 2
  • Bowl With No Inside
  • Brask-ani, the gift refused
  • Breath of the Methane Sea
  • Bressalune
  • Bridge Pier in Open Vacuum
  • Bright Ledge Hoard
  • Brightwater Borehole Coin
  • Bulwark Generator Stub
  • Burial Thread Spool
  • Burn Before Reading Stone

C: 53 names

  • Calendar Stick, 400-Day Year
  • Camp Verity Disc
  • Canyon of Machined Walls
  • Capstone of the Gas Giant Ladder
  • Cargo Tag 38-Unknown
  • Carrier of the Last Number
  • Carrowai Road Post Stub
  • Cartilage Harp
  • Carved Seat for a Coiled Body
  • Catalogue Entry 9-Null
  • Ceasefire Beacon, Never Lit
  • Census of a Dead World
  • Ceremonial Hull Rivet
  • Chair of the Aukethi Regent
  • Chandran Site Capsule
  • Chaqqet, the tooth of the sun
  • Chart to Somewhere Colder
  • Chief's Folly
  • Child's Orbit Puzzle
  • Chitin Logic Plate
  • Chivvaneh
  • Chord of the Aligned Planets
  • Chorus Mask With Four Eyeholes
  • Chrono-Sealed Archive Drum
  • Chrysalis Engine
  • Cinder of the Mother Star

C, continued

  • Cipher of the Glass Desert
  • Clay Token Stamped With Orbits
  • Clock of the Final Tenant
  • Coil of the Storm Harvesters
  • Cold Anchorage Spindle
  • Colossus Without a Face
  • Command-Strike Needle
  • Compass of the Starless Reach
  • Component Unknown 0.7
  • Containment Sphere Marrow
  • Cook's Plasma Ladle
  • Coordinates That Keep Changing
  • Coral That Counts Primes
  • Core Sample 18 Black
  • Core Sample Omicron
  • Countdown With No Zero
  • Counting Beads for Three Hands
  • Courtship Light Bracelet
  • Covvhurel
  • Cracked Voice Whistle
  • Cradle Bell, Inaudible Range
  • Cradle of the Twin Suns
  • Cradle Song Cylinder
  • Crew Loss Item Three
  • Crown-Gear of the Clockwork Sun
  • Cup of the Last Ouvren
  • Cylinder C-3

D: 33 names

  • Dauphar Census Wheel
  • Dawnline Collector
  • Dead Hand of the Second Front
  • Deadfall Beacon
  • Death Mask of a Odrossai Captain
  • Decoy Egg
  • Deed to the Third Moon
  • Deep Chord Emitter
  • Deep Find Omega-2
  • Deep Mantle Borehole Collar
  • Deep Storage Regret
  • Dented Dave
  • Dhessavoq
  • Diplomat's Scent Fan
  • Disc Zeta-4
  • Do Not Lick
  • Do Not Wake
  • Do-Not-Translate Tablet
  • Dock Worker's Mag Hook
  • Dol'vaat, the sky anchor
  • Dormant Unit, Eyes Closed
  • Drevaquint
  • Driessa, the folded choir
  • Drift Object 73
  • Drifting Capstone
  • Drum of the Deep Listeners
  • Dry Sea Tablets
  • Dubois Survey Stone
  • Dulquomet
  • Dusk Rectifier
  • Dust of the First Engine
  • Duumite Border Stake
  • Dvaruni, the root of signals

E: 27 names

  • Early Aukethi Hand Tool
  • Ebbanite Surgeon's Kit
  • Echo Cistern
  • Echo of the Founding Signal
  • Echo Source 19
  • Echo Source Upsilon
  • Echo Tape From the Deep Probe
  • Eelqu, the drowned compass
  • Egg Tooth of a World-Ship
  • Ekhuunet Tide Engine
  • Embargoed Find Nightjar
  • Ember of the Homeworld
  • Embrivaal
  • Emitter E-9
  • Encirclement Key
  • Entry 0000
  • Eothummel
  • Epitaph for a Star
  • Eth'kori, the bridge unbuilt
  • Evacuation Notice, Never Posted
  • Every Door at Once
  • Exclusion Zone Centerpiece
  • Exhibit X-1
  • Eye of the Wandering Comet
  • Eze's Clockwork Leaf
  • Ezhurrak
  • Ezzhul, the still flame

F: 25 names

  • Far Terrace Lens Pair
  • Faraday Cage Tenant
  • Farewell Stone of the Ekhuunet
  • Farmer's Spore Sower
  • Farsight Aperture
  • Fenhtu, the shell of thought
  • Fenwick's Regret
  • Field Guide to Their Home Sky
  • Field of Standing Needles
  • Final Argument, Unsent
  • Final Broadcast of the Mneshuri
  • Find 31-Lambda
  • Fishing Lure for Methane Seas
  • Five-Meter Rule Object
  • Flagship Heart, Cold
  • Fleet Command Sigil
  • Folded Sky Chart, Pocket Size
  • For the Ones Who Come After
  • Fossil That Has a Pulse
  • Fragment 7 of 7
  • Fragment Q-9
  • Front-Line Translator, Scorched
  • Fungal Choir Mat
  • Furnace of the Unborn Star
  • Fused Tower of the Dayside

G: 21 names

  • Garden of the Iron Rain
  • Gate of the Returning Few
  • Genealogy Coil of the Hive Queens
  • Gennakh, the mouth of the well
  • Ghennut Mourning Bowl
  • Ghezzura
  • Ghiolle, the map that forgets
  • Gift of the Departed Hosts
  • Gill-Slit Ventilator
  • Glass Flats Trove
  • Glassblower's Zero-G Pipe
  • Glovebox Specimen, Restless
  • Graduation Knot, Untied
  • Grandma's Radio
  • Grandparent Stone, Family Etched
  • Grave Goods of the Sovhellin Navigator
  • Graveyard of Tall Antennas
  • Graviton Plumb Line
  • Gravity Sextant
  • Greeting in Eleven Wavelengths
  • Greywater Shelf Vessel

H: 33 names

  • Hadley's Lens
  • Haldane Expedition Crate Four
  • Half-Life Unknown
  • Hand Loom for Conductive Thread
  • Hand of the Absent Makers
  • Hands Not Needed
  • Harbor Light of the Quiet Shoal
  • Harmonic Well
  • Hartigan Salvage Lot B
  • Harvest Sickle, Monomolecular
  • Hatchling's Star Mobile
  • Hazard Object Lullaby
  • Heart of the Silent Flotilla
  • Hessovaar
  • Hexagon Fields of the Southern Plain
  • Hinge of the Turning Sky
  • Hjelmari Ice Archive
  • Hjelmari Winter Lantern
  • Hluumbe, the swallowing bell
  • Hold Item 300
  • Holder of the Cold Fire
  • Hollow Mountain Engine
  • Honey of the Machine Hive
  • Honeycomb Cliff
  • Hourglass of the Red Dwarf
  • Hovaluu, the many-eyed plate
  • Hovvaquell
  • Hruunmal
  • Hull Scraper With Bite Marks
  • Hull Section the Size of a Sea
  • Husk of the Garden Mind
  • Hwaleth, the gathered hush
  • Hymn of the Quarried Moon

I: 20 names

  • Ikhonne, the breath of glass
  • Ikkalune
  • Illqam, the wound in the map
  • Illuveqt
  • Immerine Dream Recorder
  • Immu-tsol, the patient lamp
  • Inchtavu, the loom of orbits
  • Infant's Tooth Ring in Ship Alloy
  • Ink That Writes in Ultraviolet
  • Instructions, Missing Step Four
  • Instrument for Measuring Grief
  • Ion Hourglass
  • Ioshtren
  • Isolation Cell Seven Contents
  • Issuraine Marriage Knot
  • It Holds the Orbits Still
  • It Moved Again
  • Item 0417-B
  • Item Nine, Shelf C
  • Iyer's Paradox Box

J: 2 names

  • Jhommaki
  • Jorrveq, the unfinished word

K: 16 names

  • Keel of the Ghost Tanker
  • Keeper of Small Gravities
  • Kelp-Woven Data Rope
  • Kestrel Deep Engine Block
  • Key Ring of an Unknown Custodian
  • Key That Opens Both Sides
  • Key to the Ninth Sun
  • Keystone of the Blockade
  • Khodduve, the bowl of echoes
  • Kill-Tally Obelisk
  • Knock Twice
  • Knot of the Rope-Speakers
  • Kolquista, the mirror that owes
  • Krauveth
  • Kwellish, the singing knot
  • Kwevaddu

L: 40 names

  • Ladder of the Patient Climbers
  • Lagrange Arch Fragment
  • Lamp for the Blind Stars
  • Lamp of the Farthest Outpost
  • Lantern of the Lost Convoy
  • Larval Navigator, Preserved
  • Last Round of the Long War
  • Last-Era Vellusk Lamp
  • Late Ouvren Signal Vane
  • Lathosi Pilgrim Beacon
  • Lathosi Wayfinder Cone
  • Lattice Sample L-08
  • Launch Cipher of the Outer Fleet
  • Layer Six Inclusion
  • Lead-Lined Item Twelve
  • Leash of the Hostage Star
  • Ledger of Debts to the Tide
  • Ledger of the Vanished Fleet
  • Leftover Bolt
  • Lemmudh, the bone of the ship
  • Lens of the Outer Dark
  • Lesson Nine of Many
  • Letter Never Decoded
  • Lhuirrand
  • Light Saved for Later
  • Lindqvist's Folly
  • Listener With No Mouth
  • Little Quiet
  • Living Hull Graft
  • Lluvesse, the quiet inheritance
  • Lodestone Relay
  • Lommaqui
  • Lone Pylon on the Salt Flat
  • Longshadow Camp Antenna
  • Loom-Frame of the Orbit Weavers
  • Lot 204, Origin Unknown
  • Lot 61, Unattributed
  • Low Ridge Assemblage
  • Low-Light Reading Slate
  • Lullaby Broadcast, Still Transmitting

M: 37 names

  • Maker of Level Horizons
  • Map of the Unlit Systems
  • Marrhoun Harvest Gauge
  • Marrow of the Ringed Giant
  • Marrow Station Cylinder
  • Marrow-Grown Antenna
  • Mask of the Thousand Pilots
  • Mass Reading 9, Solid
  • Mast Stump of the Vellusk
  • Maveshtu, the lantern of bone
  • Mebbroshk
  • Medic's Suture Beetle Case
  • Membrane Sail Fragment
  • Memory Kiln
  • Memory of Standing Water
  • Memory-Loss Plate
  • Meridian Resonator
  • Message Addressed to No Species
  • Message Bottle From Low Orbit
  • Message for a Colder Age
  • Mhalessk
  • Mind-Hazard Slate, Face Down
  • Minefield Shepherd Node
  • Miner's Singing Pick
  • Mirror Farm Remnant
  • Mirror-Hall Amplifier
  • Mister Buzz
  • Mneshuri Memory Reef
  • Mnessit, the sleep of iron
  • Mokoena's Lantern
  • Monument to an Unknown Sum
  • Moon Nine Cache
  • Moon-Cracker Trigger Housing
  • Morrukt, the judge of orbits
  • Moss That Remembers Faces
  • Mourner's Pressure Flask
  • Musician's Vacuum Flute

N: 25 names

  • Nacre Memory Plate
  • Nakamura-Obi Lattice
  • Naqsivel, the vow in metal
  • Navarro's Black Tablet
  • Navigation Hymn on Wire
  • Navigator's Worry Stone
  • Needle of the Northern Nebula
  • Neutrino Weathervane
  • Nhaori Counting Frame
  • Nhaori Tally Stones
  • Nine-Sided Gaming Die
  • Ninth Camp Mosaic
  • Niquorrem
  • Nnaru-ve, the egg of maps
  • Nnimbreth
  • Node 17 Inactive
  • Noisy Norbert
  • Non-Natural Body 3
  • Non-Terrestrial Object 19
  • Not a Bomb, Probably
  • Not Yet, Not Yet
  • Null Lance Barrel Segment
  • Null-Field Cradle
  • Nuombriss
  • Nursery Gravity Top

O: 31 names

  • Obbhesk
  • Object 51-Gamma
  • Object Kappa-Null
  • Object Theta-9
  • Odrossai Burial Lens
  • Odrossai Hatchling Rattle
  • Oduya's Humming Brick
  • Off-Center Otto
  • Okafor's Second Opinion
  • Okt'arrim, the ninth finger
  • Old Humphrey
  • Old Reliable Mystery
  • Ombwesh, the weight of names
  • Ondruquell
  • One Seed, Many Skies
  • One Who Waits at the Threshold
  • Open Only in Starlight
  • Oqtenne, the nest of numbers
  • Orbit Tuning Fork
  • Orbit-Cutter Blade
  • Orbital Find 5
  • Orbital Guillotine Rail
  • Orbital Spinneret Frame
  • Orrery of the Drowned Moon
  • Orrimah Weather Loom
  • Orrowe, the far ear
  • Orruvine
  • Oskaline Fold Wrench
  • Oszhreme
  • Outer Shoal Pillar
  • Ouvreth, the door that waits

P: 34 names

  • Paired Drinking Tubes
  • Palluthene Hearth Core
  • Parallax Spindle
  • Park's Doorframe
  • Passenger Token, One Way
  • Pauquille
  • Pearl That Dreams
  • Peshtali, the remembering salt
  • Pet Tether With Name Tag
  • Petal of the Glass Lotus Station
  • Pha'lun, the second shadow
  • Phase Loom
  • Phorrim Tide Gong
  • Phuvenne
  • Pilgrim Shelf Canister
  • Pillar of Unread Script
  • Pilot's Lucky Knot
  • Pilot's Rest Shards
  • Pioveth, the window inward
  • Planet-Scourer Focusing Ring
  • Plate 14 of the Kellan Dig
  • Pod Nine, Still Green
  • Polished Carapace Mirror
  • Portrait in Radio
  • Postcard From Before the Dimming
  • Prism of the Violet Shift
  • Probe Plaque, Sender Unknown
  • Promise of the Seed Fleet
  • Proof Sheet of the Great Theorem
  • Proof We Were Loved
  • Prosthetic Feeler, Silver
  • Pulse Granary
  • Pulse of the Sleeping Armada
  • Pylon Row Seventeen

Q: 6 names

  • Qarrodesh, the tide counter
  • Qelluvane
  • Qissau, the frost archive
  • Quarantine Lot Nine
  • Quommerit
  • Quorum Engine

R: 25 names

  • Rampart at the Edge of Air
  • Rasmussen's Tuning Stone
  • Ration Tin Stamped in Spirals
  • Recipe Plate in Raised Script
  • Reckoning Dial
  • Recording of an Empty Room
  • Recovered Unit Phi
  • Recovered Unit Sigma-3
  • Red Mesa Signal Stone
  • Reference Body Iota
  • Remote Handling Only
  • Rendhuul, the hand of many
  • Return When You Understand
  • Return-to-Sender Capsule
  • Rhaqquessa
  • Rib of the Hollow World
  • Ring Segment 3 of 19
  • Ring Shepherd Beacon Tower
  • Rod 22-A
  • Roll Call of the Ark Sleepers
  • Root of the Orbital Tree
  • Root That Follows Starlight
  • Rrisbek, the forgetting stone
  • Ruined Flare-Catcher Dish
  • Ruo-mekt, the wall between hours

S: 87 names

  • Saathquen
  • Sable Crater Cluster
  • Sail of the Solar Shepherds
  • Salvage Claim 7119
  • Salvor's Luck Hull Plate
  • Sauthrenne, the long answer
  • Scale of the Weightless Court
  • Scent Letter in a Sealed Tube
  • Scorch-Pattern Template
  • Scribe's Acid Pen
  • Seal 4, Unbroken
  • Seal of the Last Embassy
  • Sealed Crate, Do Not Scan
  • Second-Strike Keyring
  • Seed of the First Builders
  • Seedcase of the Wandering Forest
  • Seedling Pot of Ship Ceramic
  • Sentry Without a Master
  • Shadow of the Larger Machine
  • Shaovellir
  • Shard K-117
  • Shard of the Bright Exodus
  • Shard Series M, Piece 4
  • Shell of the Tide Makers
  • Shell That Regrows Its Script
  • Shemquil, the lullaby engine
  • Shepherd's Asteroid Crook
  • Shield Plate, Sector Unknown
  • Shin Breaker

S, continued

  • Ship's Manifest in Scent
  • Shipwright's Curved Ruler
  • Siege Mind Fragment Six
  • Signal for a War Already Over
  • Signal Hearth
  • Signal Lamp Code Card
  • Signal Origin 44
  • Silk Processor Skein
  • Sinew Bridge Segment
  • Sir Ticks-a-Lot
  • Sivvoqueth
  • Six-Fingered Glove Mold
  • Skeliot Bone Radio
  • Skeliot Marrow Flute
  • Skyline That Does Not Erode
  • Sleeper Cell Lattice
  • Sleeping Niche Night Dial
  • Small Sun for a Long Night
  • Soldier's Folded Shelter
  • Solstice Projector
  • Somebody's Car Keys
  • Song of the Pressure Depths
  • Song Without a First Note
  • Sovhellin Weaver's Shuttle
  • Specimen 5 Dormant
  • Specimen XA-204
  • Sphere Designate 6
  • Spindle of the Slow Collapse
  • Spine of the Elder Leviathan

S, continued

  • Spoke Nine of the Broken Wheel
  • Spore Library of the Low Caves
  • Squeaks at Midnight
  • Ssomeiru, the last ledger
  • Stair to No Moon
  • Stalker-Drone Brood Case
  • Standby Light, Still Blinking
  • Star Catalogue, Entries Scratched Out
  • Star-Quencher, Unfired
  • Stargazer's Eye Cup
  • Starlight Sieve
  • Stasis Coffin, Occupied
  • Stellar Lifter Vane
  • Still Not a Chair
  • Stone That Agrees
  • Stone That Faces the Core
  • Stratum 9 Intrusion
  • Stroud's Borrowed Key
  • Structure Epsilon Minor
  • Structure Nine-Alpha
  • Student's Practice Tablet
  • Stylus of the Sky Surveyors
  • Sun-Spear Emplacement Core
  • Sundered Docking Ring
  • Suqqelo, the debt of light
  • Survey Mark 2219
  • Survey Mark Delta Deep
  • Survey Notes of the Other Explorers
  • Survey Ship Wren's Splinter

T: 358 names

  • Tablet T-611
  • Tagged Find 1,004
  • Tally Rod, Half Used
  • Targeting Eye of the Lost Armada
  • Tchavoleen
  • Tchemmek, the splinter of noon
  • Tendril Clock
  • Tentacle-Grip Stylus
  • Terrace of Ten Thousand Sockets
  • Tessaly Trench Rod
  • Tessera 12-West
  • Tessera 83
  • That Which Counts the Tides
  • The Adeyemi Cone
  • The Aenhuul Prism
  • The Agreement Between Stars
  • The Amber Repeater
  • The Anemone Dish
  • The Aphelion Gatepost
  • The Apology Stele
  • The Armistice Lock
  • The Aukethi Spindle
  • The Bad Idea
  • The Barnacle Constellation
  • The Basalt Amphitheater
  • The Bellweather Sphere Pair
  • The Birdbath
  • The Black Box of the Colony Ship
  • The Blueprint With No Scale
  • The Borrowed Certainty
  • The Borrowed Time Engine
  • The Boundary Treaty Slab
  • The Braided Circuit
  • The Breadbox
  • The Breathing Reef
  • The Bright Mistake
  • The Broken Truce Tablet
  • The Brood Comb
  • The Budding Gate

T, continued

  • The Budget Killer
  • The Calloway Seam
  • The Callus Door
  • The Calyx Reactor
  • The Carrowai Gate Fragment
  • The Castellano Helix
  • The Children's Primer
  • The Chosen Distance
  • The Cinder Protocol Disc
  • The Coat Rack
  • The Cold Flask
  • The Cold That Spreads
  • The Conscript Maker
  • The Copper Oracle Drum
  • The Coral Circuit
  • The Corner Piece
  • The Correct Darkness
  • The Counter-Orbital Spar
  • The Counterweight Sphere
  • The Counting Thing
  • The Courteous Refusal
  • The Crater Organ
  • The Dauphar Tablet Set
  • The Deserter's Compass
  • The Diary Etched in Ice
  • The Dictionary of Pressures
  • The Don't-Touch
  • The Door That Opens Inward
  • The Doorstop
  • The Dreaming Mine
  • The Drowsy Polyp Engine
  • The Duumite Seal
  • The Ebbanite Coil
  • The Ecliptic Arcade
  • The Ekhuunet Drowned Clock
  • The Ekstrom Bowl
  • The Elder Arithmetic
  • The Elephant in the Lab
  • The Emigrants' Tally
  • The Equatorial Causeway

T, continued

  • The Extinction Ledger
  • The Eyespot Tile
  • The Faithful Copy
  • The Farewell Chorus Disc
  • The Farrow Deep Bell
  • The Faultless Scale
  • The Filing Cabinet
  • The Find We Reburied
  • The Flowering Transmitter
  • The Folding Compass
  • The Forgiving Lock
  • The Forty-Ton Maybe
  • The Founders' Voiceprint
  • The Frozen Fountain Array
  • The Fruiting Obelisk
  • The Gentle Instruction
  • The Germinating Key
  • The Ghennut Reliquary Pod
  • The Gift Shop
  • The Gift With Teeth
  • The Glass Abacus
  • The Glass Plateau
  • The Glass Rain Canister
  • The Grafted Lens
  • The Grant Proposal
  • The Great Mooring Post
  • The Halcyon Engine
  • The Half-Built Shell
  • The Halloran Torus
  • The Harbor Pilot's Notes
  • The Harbor With No Sea
  • The Heartwood Core
  • The Hibernating Orchard
  • The Hollow Core
  • The Holmquist Node
  • The Homeward Bearing
  • The Honest Mirror
  • The Honest Warning
  • The Horizon Splitter
  • The Hum Thief

T, continued

  • The Humdinger
  • The Hungry Geometry
  • The Hush Bomb
  • The Imanishi Pearl
  • The Immerine Mirror
  • The Indigo Translator
  • The Infectious Song
  • The Inheritance Clause
  • The Issuraine Choir Plate
  • The Itch Behind the Eyes
  • The Jukebox
  • The Kindness Left Behind
  • The Lantern Coil
  • The Last Admiral's Seal
  • The Last Forecast
  • The Last Good Idea
  • The Last Thing Dr. Amadi Opened
  • The Latticework Heart
  • The Lawn Ornament
  • The Leaning Spire
  • The Lichen Map
  • The Lindgren Prism Stack
  • The Listening Hazard
  • The Long-Count Metronome
  • The Longest Held Note
  • The Looping Distress Call
  • The Lullaby Reactor
  • The Lung Stone
  • The Lure
  • The Marchetti Wafer
  • The Marrhoun Dial
  • The Meridian Wall
  • The Mile-High Chime Rod
  • The Mimic Shard
  • The Mirror That Looks Back
  • The Molting Statue
  • The Moonlet Lantern
  • The Mute Antenna
  • The Mutiny Key
  • The Mycelial Archive

T, continued

  • The Naming Wall Rubbing
  • The Nesting Doll Bomb
  • The Night Light
  • The Nine-Part Key
  • The Ninefold Archive
  • The Ninth Silence
  • The Nursing Tree Graft
  • The Oathbound Detonator
  • The Obsidian Switchboard
  • The Okonkwo Sphere
  • The Opaline Register
  • The Opposite of a Weapon
  • The Orbital Keystone
  • The Orchid Resonator
  • The Orrimah Cradle
  • The Oskaline Manifold
  • The Ostrowski Needle
  • The Ouvren Lattice
  • The Overtime Machine
  • The Oyelaran Cube
  • The Pale Beacon
  • The Paper Jam
  • The Paperweight
  • The Parley Lantern
  • The Patient Cocoon
  • The Patient Geometry
  • The Patient Trap
  • The Peace That Failed
  • The Pearl Interlocutor
  • The Penumbra Dial
  • The Perihelion Clock
  • The Petrov Fragment
  • The Pilot's Final Log Crystal
  • The Pinned Comet
  • The Plain Truth, Engraved
  • The Polar Lighthouse
  • The Polite Contagion
  • The Pollinator Swarm Jar
  • The Pretty One

T, continued

  • The Pulsar Calendar
  • The Pupating Vault
  • The Quarantine Enforcer
  • The Quickened Clay
  • The Quiet Before
  • The Quiet Frequency
  • The Quiet Transmitter
  • The Quintanilla Drum
  • The Radial Promenade
  • The Recurring Dream Device
  • The Recursive Lock
  • The Red Hum
  • The Refrigerator
  • The Rehearsal for an Ending
  • The Reprisal Engine
  • The Retreat Gate Token
  • The Ribcage Station
  • The Ripening Beacon
  • The Rock That Stares
  • The Route of the Slow Fleet
  • The Ruiz-Halvorsen Slab
  • The Sap-Sealed Archive
  • The Scar-Tissue Seal
  • The Seamless Plinth
  • The Seed Vault Inventory
  • The Seventh Oscillator
  • The Shape of Our Leaving
  • The Shared Breath
  • The Shattered Ringwall
  • The Shedding Pillar
  • The Shieldbreaker Chord
  • The Ship That Was a Sentence
  • The Siege Seed
  • The Silencing Lance
  • The Singing Obelisk
  • The Singing Rail
  • The Skeleton Astrolabe
  • The Sky-Hook Stump
  • The Sleeper in Vault Two
  • The Sleeping Colonnade

T, continued

  • The Sleeping Tuber
  • The Sleeping Verdict
  • The Slow Alarm
  • The Slow Torpedo
  • The Slow Yes
  • The Sorensen Wedge
  • The Souvenir
  • The Sovhellin Thread
  • The Spiral Regulator
  • The Sporecast Message
  • The Stalemate Machine
  • The Standing Order
  • The Standing Wave Wall
  • The Star Map With One Error
  • The Star-Shade Petal
  • The Still Turbine
  • The Sum of All Departures
  • The Sundial That Isn't
  • The Sunward Buttress
  • The Surrender Stone
  • The Symbiont Collar
  • The Tall Induction Harp
  • The Tanaka Filament
  • The Tessellated Valve
  • The Tether Root
  • The Thaw Switch
  • The Thawing Clock
  • The Thing in Bay Four
  • The Thing That Learns
  • The Third Shift Surprise
  • The Thirteenth Warhead
  • The Thornquist Tetrahedron
  • The Thought That Outlived Us
  • The Thousand-Kilometer Rib
  • The Thousand-Year Receipt
  • The Three-Day Headache
  • The Tick Box
  • The Ticking Garden
  • The Tidal Lock Bollard
  • The Tide-Fed Lantern

T, continued

  • The Tin Can
  • The Trade Tongue Key Tablet
  • The Treaty Breaker
  • The Triune Prism
  • The Twin Pendulums
  • The Ugly Vase
  • The Ulluan Anchor
  • The Unanswered Knock
  • The Unasked Favor
  • The Unblinking Aperture
  • The Unbroadcast Verdict
  • The Unbroken Count
  • The Unfinished Sphere Segment
  • The Unhappy Egg
  • The Unhurried Machine
  • The Uninvited Signal
  • The Unreadable Almanac
  • The Unspent Arsenal
  • The Unwinding Capacitor
  • The Useful Silence
  • The Vanterpool Seed
  • The Vasquez Plate
  • The Vellusk Orrery
  • The Victor's Lock
  • The Victory Monument Fuse
  • The Vigil Cylinder
  • The Wandering Gyroscope
  • The War That Sleeps in a Box
  • The Warm Egg
  • The Warning in Pictures
  • The Weeping Bark Tablet
  • The Weeping Dynamo
  • The Whisper Hazard
  • The Whispering Gallery Moon
  • The Whistler
  • The Witness Recording
  • The World-Spine
  • The Wrong Shape
  • The Yamashiro Coil
  • The Yuvesk Cylinder

T, continued

  • The Zielinski Vane
  • Third Proof of Distance
  • Thirteenth Vessel of the Orrimah
  • This Side Toward Home
  • Thiummavel
  • Thorn Lattice
  • Thosqua, the lamp for no one
  • Thossimet
  • Thread of the Long Crossing
  • Threshold Annunciator
  • Thuun-il, the cold thread
  • Tidal Lens Array
  • Tide Table Etched on Shell
  • Tiller's Moon Stylus
  • Tolmerresh
  • Tongue of the Hollow Planet
  • Tool for Mending Days
  • Tooth of the Void Whale
  • Toy Fleet of the Issuraine
  • Toy Lander, Wind-Up
  • Trade Weight Shaped Like a Moon
  • Tran's Midnight Find
  • Traveler's Salt Tablet Case
  • Trellis Around a Dead Star
  • Trench Find 40
  • Trench Find 6B
  • Tripod Stool for a Larger Body
  • Tripwire Relic
  • Tseppuol
  • Tsirriq, the needle that sings
  • Tsolene Glass Garden
  • Tsolene Seed Vial
  • Tsuvaan, the hour eater
  • Tuesday's Problem
  • Tulveqa Pilot's Thimble
  • Tulveqa Star Ledger
  • Tuning Peg From a Hull Organ
  • Twelve Doors Facing Nothing
  • Twelve-String Rail Harp
  • Two-Key Storage Item

U: 12 names

  • Ukh'venna
  • Ukkoveth, the storm jar
  • Unclassified Device 33
  • Unfired Kiln Tile With Claw Print
  • Unknown Body 12
  • Unknown Game Board, 81 Hollows
  • Unknown-Alloy Comb
  • Unsent Letter of the Tulveqa
  • Urrmagh, the slow hammer
  • Ussolbrin
  • Uvhol, the keeper of doors
  • Uvquenda

V: 17 names

  • Vacuum Bellows
  • Vaelummikh
  • Vaenthrul Merchant's Abacus
  • Vaenthrul Trade Token
  • Varga's Unfinished Find
  • Varrqol, the watcher's coin
  • Vault Door of the Inner Sea
  • Vein-Marked Megalith Shard
  • Verdict of the Orbital Court
  • Verdigris Calculator
  • Veshk'oma, the borrowed voice
  • Vessel of the Borrowed Dawn
  • Vessel of the Middle Voice
  • Voice Kept for the Departed Sea
  • Voice of the Buried Fleet
  • Vomrashe
  • Vrrhet, the cut in the dark

W: 27 names

  • Wake Us When It Is Safe
  • Warden's Burden
  • Wauhlit, the voice under ice
  • Waveform Reliquary
  • We Were Here First
  • Weather Report for a Vanished Sky
  • Weaver's Photon Bobbin
  • Welded Hatch Contents
  • Welkari Brood Warmer
  • Welkari Nesting Shell
  • Wendrimah, the cradle that hums
  • Weqquavar
  • Wethrunai
  • What Remains When Counting Stops
  • What the Dark Was For
  • Wheel of the Nine Tides
  • Where the Voices Are Stored
  • Whisper Gate
  • Whitcombe's Splinter
  • Why Is It Warm
  • Windowsill Sun Catcher, Hexagonal
  • Wing of the Crystal Emissary
  • Witness to the Dimming
  • Womb of Small Machines
  • World-Lock Tumbler
  • Wrath Coil of the Burned Fleet
  • Wreck Item 9-Port

X: 3 names

  • Xenotech Sample 14
  • Xenotech Sample 77-Cold
  • Xollimar

Y: 6 names

  • Yavhrenn
  • Yedh'ra, the unlit star
  • Yellow Line Artifact
  • Ylleshqua
  • Yoke of the Tamed Singularity
  • Yuvesk Emigrant Chest

Z: 9 names

  • Zemmurhal
  • Zero-Contact Find Osprey
  • Zero-Point Brazier
  • Zhal'ket, the listening stone
  • Zhev'ali, the gravity loom
  • Zomriel, the hinge of worlds
  • Zophyr Storm Compass
  • Zophyr Wind Harp
  • Zunneqa