Marid Name Generator

Marids (Arabic marid, 'rebellious one') are the oldest and proudest class of jinn in Arabic folklore, the ones most often bound in bottles and most associated with the sea. The Thousand and One Nights gives us Sakhr, the marid who stole Solomon's ring, and the sea-jinn who rise from the waves to trade wishes for freedom; later tabletop games such as D&D and Pathfinder turned them into the water genies of the elemental planes, ruled by a padishah from a citadel of pearls. A marid name should therefore sound grand, wet and slightly arrogant.

The most authentic way to build one is from Arabic sea vocabulary: bahr (sea), mawj (wave), lujj (the deep), madd and jazr (flood and ebb tide), zabad (foam), marjan (coral), lu'lu and durr (pearls), tufan (deluge), khalij (gulf) and qulzum (the Red Sea). Attach a nisba (al-Bahri, al-Ghariq 'the drowned'), a patronymic with ibn or bint, or a kunya like Abu Amwaj, 'father of waves', and you have a name that reads like folklore rather than fantasy filler. Persian tradition adds darya (sea) compounds and the div of the Shahnameh.

This generator mixes all of those registers: single-word marid names, lineages, color and sea epithets, Persian darya-names, and court titles for sultans, emirs and wardens of the drowned cities.