Elemental Name Generator

Elemental names work best when you can hear the element in them before you know what it is. Fire names lean on hard consonants and hissing sounds (Pyralis, Ignathor, Cinderfax); water names flow with liquid l, r and long vowels (Maristel, Undinella, Thalassar); earth names are heavy and blunt (Kragmoor, Geodrik, Basaltar); air names are light and breathy (Zephyrelle, Aeolith, Sylphrane). Ice, lightning, metal, shadow and light each have their own palette too, and this generator covers all of them.

The names draw on the roots writers have always used for elementals: Greek and Latin (pyr, ignis, aqua, terra, aer, fulgur, glacies), the classical winds (Zephyrus, Boreas, Notus, Eurus), the old elemental spirits of Paracelsus (salamanders, undines, gnomes, sylphs), and the plain English compounds that D&D and Pathfinder use for primordials and genasi, such as Flamebrow, Stillwater and Frostmantle. You will find single-word true names for bound spirits, given-name-plus-epithet forms for elemental lords, and short human-style names for genasi or elementalist characters.

Use them for an efreeti's lieutenant, a water weird guarding a well, a storm primordial sleeping under a mountain, or a fire mage who wants a name that matches her spell list.