Locathah Name Generator

Locathah have been in Dungeons & Dragons since the original Monster Manual: fish-headed, fin-backed humanoids who live in warm coastal shallows, fish with nets and spears, ride giant eels in older lore, and mostly want to be left alone. The 2019 Locathah Rising supplement made them a playable race with traits like Leviathan Will and Natural Armor, and Ghosts of Saltmarsh put them on the table as a peaceful people squeezed between sahuagin raiders and land-dwellers. What no official book gives you is a list of names, so tables have to invent a sound for them.

The convention this generator follows is a language shaped by gills and open water. Given names are short, heavy on long vowels (oo, aa, uu) and soft consonants (l, th, h, m), with hard k and glottal catches for emphasis: Oolah, Thessum, Ka'lu, Ghulloh. Because locathah are tribal and practical, most adults also carry a byname in Common that records a job, a feat or a home water, such as Kaloo Eel-Rider, Thessum Three-Nets or Ulvah of the Sunken Reed. Tribes are named for the shoal, reef or current they follow. Pull a single name for a fisher NPC, a full name for a player character, and a tribe name to give that character somewhere to come from.