Drow House Name Generator

A drow's House name is their surname, their army and their death warrant all at once. In Menzoberranzan and the other cities of the Underdark, a drow is introduced as given name plus House (Quenthel Baenre, Zaknafein Do'Urden), and the House half tells everyone their rank in the city, who will avenge them and who wants them dead. Commoners have no House name at all, which is why a drow who loses theirs, like Drizzt after the fall of Do'Urden, is effectively outcast.

Canon House names follow a few patterns. Some are single sibilant words with doubled consonants (Baenre, Mizzrym, Hunzrin, Xorlarrin, Oblodra); some carry an apostrophe marking an older compound (Do'Urden, Hun'ett, Srune'lett, Teken'duis, Tuin'Tarl); and a few are two words, usually an old title plus a name (Faen Tlabbar, Agrach Dyrr, Barrison Del'Armgo). Sounds like zz, ss, vr, thr, quil and the vowel pairs ae and au appear constantly, while soft surface-elf sounds like -iel and -wen almost never do.

This list mixes the famous Houses of Menzoberranzan, Ched Nasad and Sshamath with hundreds of original names built the same way, so you can rank a city of your own, name a minor House for a player character or give a Bregan D'aerthe mercenary a past they are hiding.