Archdevil Name Generator

Archdevils are the rulers of Hell, and their names carry a very different flavor from rank-and-file demons. The Lords of the Nine in Dungeons & Dragons (Asmodeus, Dispater, Mammon, Belial and Fierna, Levistus, Glasya, Baalzebul, Mephistopheles, Zariel) were lifted almost entirely from real demonology: Asmodeus from the Book of Tobit, Mammon and Belial from the New Testament, Dispater from the Roman god of the underworld, Mephistopheles from the Faust legend. The result is names that sound old, pronounceable and faintly Latin, Greek or Semitic.

The second great source is the Ars Goetia, whose 72 spirits come pre-ranked as kings, dukes, marquises, presidents and counts. Bael, Paimon, Beleth, Astaroth, Stolas and Marchosias arrive with a title, a number of legions and a described form, which is why they slot so neatly into an infernal aristocracy. Gnostic archons (Yaldabaoth, Sabaoth, Saklas), the fallen Watchers of Enoch (Shemyaza, Azazel, Gadreel) and the Malebranche of Dante's Inferno round out the historical material.

The original names here follow the same rules: two to four syllables, hard consonants softened by a Latinate ending, and an optional title or epithet that hints at a bureaucratic role, since archdevils rule by contract rather than by rage. Malzephar the Ledger-Keeper and Chancellor Amrodel feel at home beside Mephistopheles; a name like Skullcrusher does not.