Nephalem Name Generator

In Diablo lore the nephalem are the children of the angel Inarius, the demon Lilith and their renegade followers, and the first generation carry the weightiest names in the setting: Rathma (born Linarian), Bul-Kathos, Esu, Vasily, Philios, Lycander and Kalan. Uldyssian ul-Diomed and his brother Mendeln, who awoke during the Sin War, show the Seram habit of a given name plus a patronymic with the ul- prefix. Every human in Sanctuary is a diluted nephalem, so Diablo 3 calls the player the Nephalem and names its heroes by homeland: Sonya of Arreat, Valla the demon hunter, Nazeebo of the Umbaru, Kharazim of Ivgorod, Li-Ming of Xiansai, Johanna the crusader and Xul the necromancer.

A convincing nephalem name therefore does one of two things. Either it sounds ancient and slightly alien, halfway between an angel's -iel ending and a demon's hard consonants (Linarian, Kalan, Esu), or it reads as a mortal hero from a specific region: guttural Norse-Slavic for Barbarians, Slavic for Ivgorod monks, hyphenated Chinese-inflected names for Xiansai wizards, Swahili-style names for Umbaru witch doctors, Persian and Arabic for Kehjistan, and plain medieval English for Khanduras and Westmarch.

The list mixes canon names with originals built on those patterns, for Diablo characters, fan fiction or any setting where mortals carry celestial and infernal blood.