Tainted Grail Name Generator

Grim Arthurian names for the Fall of Avalon

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Generate names that fit the dark Arthurian world of Tainted Grail: Welsh, Irish, Cornish and Breton given names, patronymics like ap Cynan and mac Neill, mud-and-menhir commoner names like Maggot and Hob, fallen knights of Kamelot, Wyrd-touched hermits and Fore-Dweller echoes from Celtic myth. For the board game, Conquest, the Fall of Avalon RPG and your own grimdark Britain.

About Tainted Grail names

Tainted Grail takes the Arthurian legend and lets it rot. In Awaken Realms' board game and the Conquest and Fall of Avalon video games, King Arthur led his people out of a dying Britain to Avalon generations ago, the Menhirs that hold back the Wyrdness are guttering out, and the heroes are not knights but villagers from Cuanacht: Beor, Ailei, Arev and Maggot. The naming follows that split. Old names from Welsh and Irish legend (Gwythyr, Peredur, Medrawd, Fiach, Niamh) sit alongside blunt Anglo-Saxon ones (Beor, Godric, Hild) and nicknames that sound like insults (Maggot, Scab, Mudge), because Avalon is a place where a child is named for whatever its mother could see from the hovel door.

The generator mixes several registers so you can pick the right one for the character. Pure given names from Brythonic, Gaelic, Cornish and Breton sources suit ordinary Avalonians; patronymics (ap, ferch, mac, ni) suit families with some standing; Sir and Dame names with bleak epithets suit the decayed knights of Kamelot; hermits, monks and the hooded figures of the Wyrdness get titles instead of names; and the Fore-Dwellers and their kin draw on Fomorian and Mabinogion names like Balor, Tethra and Arawn. A byname such as Menhir-Keeper, Red-Death's Orphan or Wyrd-Marked ties a character to the setting in a single word.

How to choose Tainted Grail names

  • Pair a soft Celtic given name with a hard, ugly byname (Eluned Pale-Hands, Cadoc the Unshriven). The contrast is the Tainted Grail tone in miniature.
  • For villagers, keep it short and earthy: one syllable or a nickname (Sef, Hob, Burr, Wick). Save the long Welsh forms and patronymics for heads of families, priests and the occasional surviving noble.
  • Knights of Kamelot should sound like a memory of something finer. Use a canonical Round Table name or a Welsh form (Bedwyr, Gwalchmai, Peredur) and undercut it with an epithet of failure: Halfheart, Oath-Broken, the Last.
  • Tie bynames to the setting's nouns: Menhirs, the Wyrdness, the Red Death, fog, salt, reeds, barrows and drowned chapels. Avoid generic fantasy words like shadow and doom.
  • For Fore-Dwellers or Wyrd spirits, reach for Irish and Welsh myth (Balor, Cethlenn, Gwyn ap Nudd, Arawn) or give them a title rather than a name, such as The Crone of Tuathan or The Pale Ferryman.

Frequently asked questions

What kind of names does Tainted Grail use?

A deliberately mixed Dark Ages Britain: the four base-game heroes are Beor (Anglo-Saxon), Ailei and Niamh (Gaelic), Arev (Brythonic-sounding) and Maggot (a peasant nickname). Places and factions are Welsh and Irish flavoured (Cuanacht, Tuathan, Kamelot with a K), and the Round Table knights keep their legendary names. This generator follows the same mix.

Can I use these names for my character in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon?

Yes. They work for a player character, for companions and NPCs in your own stories, and for tabletop campaigns set in Avalon. If you want your character to feel like a prisoner from the Horns of the South rather than a lord, pick a plain given name or a nickname and skip the patronymic.

Are these names from the board game or the video game?

Only the handful of canonical names (Beor, Ailei, Arev, Maggot, Niamh, the Round Table knights and places like Cuanacht and Kamelot) come from the games. Everything else is original, built from the same Welsh, Irish, Cornish, Breton, Pictish and Anglo-Saxon sources the setting draws on, so it fits without being copied.

What makes a name sound dark Arthurian rather than standard fantasy?

Real early-medieval roots and low ambitions. Use genuine Welsh and Gaelic spellings (Gwenhwyfar, not Guinevere; Medrawd, not Mordred) and bynames about illness, weather, work and loss instead of power: the Lame, Fog-Walker, Red-Death's Orphan, the Unburied. Grandeur belongs to the Kamelot that fell, not to the people living in its ruins.

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A: 26 names

  • Abbot Cadfan
  • Aelfgifu Sallowes
  • Aelfric
  • Aelfric Coldstream
  • Aethelflaed Penrith
  • Aethelred Marlowe
  • Aglovale
  • Agravain
  • Ailei
  • Ailei Fairhair
  • Aine
  • Aine Ash-Eyed
  • Aldhelm
  • Aldhelm Thorncroft
  • Aldous
  • Amr
  • Anchoress Wenna
  • Angharad ferch Owain
  • Aodh
  • Aodh Bitterwell
  • Aodh mac Conaill
  • Arawn
  • Arev
  • Arev the Stone-Reader
  • Arianrhod
  • Aziliz Guivarch

B: 42 names

  • Balan
  • Balin
  • Balor
  • Bebhinn
  • Bebhinn ni Fhearghail
  • Bebhinn of the Reed Cot
  • Bedwyr
  • Bedwyr Wyrd-Eye
  • Bellangere
  • Beor
  • Beor Hardhand
  • Beorn
  • Beornwulf Stanhope
  • Blanchefleur
  • Bleddyn ap Maredudd
  • Bleoberis
  • Blodeuwedd
  • Bors
  • Bramble the Goatherd
  • Bran
  • Bran of the Grey Ford

B, continued

  • Bran the Blessed
  • Brand the Torchbearer
  • Brannoc
  • Brannoc Stormcalled
  • Brannoc Tyack
  • Branwen
  • Branwen Greymantle
  • Brastias
  • Brennius
  • Bres
  • Briar the Hedge-Witch
  • Brieuc Le Moal
  • Brigid
  • Brigid Hearthless
  • Brock the Badger-Hunter
  • Brother Ansgar of the Red Death Ward
  • Brother Illtud
  • Brother Teilo
  • Brother Tewdrig
  • Burr
  • Burr the Tanner's Boy

C: 50 names

  • Cadoc
  • Cadoc ap Gwyn
  • Cadoc the Unshriven
  • Cador Rosemergy
  • Cadwallon ap Cadfan
  • Cai
  • Cai Scar-Cheek
  • Cairn the Stone-Hauler
  • Calogrenant
  • Caoimhe
  • Caoimhe Last-Light
  • Caoimhe ni Dhubhain
  • Caradog
  • Caradog Ironsleep
  • Cathal
  • Cathal mac Eoghain
  • Cathal Oxbreaker
  • Cerdic
  • Ceridwen
  • Ceridwen Cauldron-Keeper
  • Cethlenn
  • Cian
  • Cian the Unburied
  • Ciaran
  • Ciaran Deepfog

C, continued

  • Cillian
  • Cillian Hawthorne
  • Cinder the Smith's Widow
  • Clodagh
  • Clodagh Hexmender
  • Colm
  • Colm the Mapless
  • Conall
  • Conall Fenstrider
  • Conall mac Ultain
  • Conand
  • Corantin Le Goff
  • Cormac
  • Cormac mac Airt
  • Crow
  • Crow the Beggar
  • Culhwch
  • Cunedda
  • Cuthbert
  • Cuthbert Ravenhill
  • Cynan ap Brochfael
  • Cyneburh Thorne
  • Cynfael
  • Cynfael the Forsworn
  • Cynwyl

D: 30 names

  • Dagonet
  • Dame Angharad of Cuanacht
  • Dame Branwen Grey-Spear
  • Dame Eluned of the Menhirs
  • Dame Gwenllian Stone-Sworn
  • Dame Heledd Ironveil
  • Dame Morwenna of the Cliffs
  • Dame Nest Fogbane
  • Dame Rhiannon the Quiet
  • Dame Sorcha Crow-Crowned
  • Dame Tanwen Hawkmantle
  • Deacon Padarn
  • Deirdre
  • Deirdre Sorrowborn
  • Demelza Carne
  • Diarmuid
  • Diarmuid mac Murchadha
  • Diarmuid Thistlecrown
  • Dinadan
  • Dindrane
  • Donnchadh
  • Donnchadh mac Briain
  • Donnchadh Wyrd-Marked
  • Drystan
  • Drystan ap Meurig
  • Drystan of the Hollow Oak
  • Dubhan
  • Dubhan Blackthorn
  • Dyddgu ferch Hywel
  • Dylan Eil Ton

E: 32 names

  • Eadburh Rawlins
  • Eadgyth Hallam
  • Eadric Hollowell
  • Ealdgyth Corbyn
  • Ealga
  • Ealga Moonwake
  • Eamon mac Cuill
  • Ector
  • Edwy Harrowgate
  • Efa ferch Madog
  • Efnisien
  • Einion ap Collwyn
  • Eithne
  • Eithne ni Ruairc
  • Eithne of the Broken Weir
  • Elaine
  • Elatha
  • Elowen
  • Elowen of the Nine Stones
  • Elowen Tregear
  • Eluned
  • Eluned Pale-Hands
  • Elystan ap Glodrydd
  • Emrys
  • Enid
  • Enora Quemener
  • Eoghan
  • Eoghan Red-Death's Orphan
  • Erwan Le Guen
  • Etain
  • Etain ni Cheallaigh
  • Etain Wintershade

F: 18 names

  • Faolan
  • Faolan mac Ronain
  • Faolan Wolfhide
  • Father Brioc
  • Father Dyfrig
  • Fearghal
  • Fearghal the Menhir-Breaker
  • Fen the Eel-Catcher
  • Fiach
  • Fiach Crowfeeder
  • Fiach mac Neill
  • Finbar
  • Finbar mac Fintain
  • Finbar the Lamplighter
  • Fintan
  • Fintan Oldwater
  • Fionnuala
  • Flint the Knapper

G: 37 names

  • Gaheris
  • Galahad
  • Gareth
  • Garwen
  • Generys ferch Cynan
  • Gereint
  • Gereint Fog-Walker
  • Girflet
  • Godgifu Penhale
  • Godric
  • Godric Ashworth
  • Gorlois
  • Gormlaith
  • Gormlaith Iron-Tongue
  • Gormlaith ni Neill
  • Gorse the Shepherd
  • Goulven Le Roux
  • Grainne
  • Grainne ni Mhaille
  • Grainne Stonefast
  • Gristle
  • Gristle the Butcher
  • Gruffudd ap Seisyll
  • Gwalchmai
  • Gwalchmai Hawkfall
  • Gwenddydd
  • Gwenhwyfar
  • Gwenllian
  • Gwenllian Ashmantle
  • Gwenllian ferch Gruffudd
  • Gwenole Kerouac
  • Gwerful ferch Einion
  • Gwithian Bolitho
  • Gwydion ap Don
  • Gwyn ap Nudd
  • Gwythyr
  • Gwythyr One-Hand

H: 13 names

  • Hector de Maris
  • Hedrek Tregoning
  • Heledd
  • Heledd of the Burnt Hall
  • Hengist
  • Hereward
  • Hereward Fenn
  • Hermit Gildas
  • Hild Carrow
  • Hob
  • Hob Sallowfield
  • Hob the Gravedigger
  • Hywel ap Caradog

I: 7 names

  • Idwal
  • Idwal ap Cynan
  • Idwal Bonecarver
  • Igraine
  • Indech
  • Iorwerth ap Owain
  • Iseult

J: 5 names

  • Jago Polglaze
  • Jory Kellow
  • Jowan
  • Jowan Penhallow
  • Jowan the Grave-Warden

K: 8 names

  • Katell Pennec
  • Kay
  • Kenver
  • Kenver Ashlock
  • Kenver Trevithick
  • Kerenza Rosewarne
  • Kitto Trezise
  • Knap the Mason

L: 24 names

  • Lamorak
  • Lancelot
  • Leodegrance
  • Leofgyth Wardell
  • Leofric Stanmere
  • Liadan
  • Liadan ni Chonaill
  • Liadan the Wanderer
  • Lionel
  • Llacheu
  • Lleu
  • Lleu Ninefingers
  • Lleucu ferch Tudur
  • Llywarch ap Elidir
  • Locryn Pascoe
  • Lorcan
  • Lorcan mac Fearghail
  • Lorcan of the Salt Road
  • Lot
  • Lot of Orkney
  • Lowenna Hosking
  • Lucan
  • Lugh
  • Lunete

M: 37 names

  • Mabon
  • Mabon Wolfbane
  • Madog ap Rhirid
  • Maelgwn
  • Maelys Ar Bihan
  • Maeve
  • Maeve of the Low Moor
  • Maggot
  • Maggot of the Midden
  • Mallow the Wet-Nurse
  • Malo Riou
  • Manannan
  • Manawydan
  • Marared ferch Llywelyn
  • Mark of Kernow
  • Marrow the Bonesetter
  • Massen Trembath
  • Math ap Mathonwy
  • Medrawd
  • Medrawd the Doubter
  • Melyor Nankervis
  • Merlin
  • Midir
  • Mildthryth Greaves
  • Mire the Peat-Cutter
  • Morgan
  • Morgause
  • Morwenna
  • Morwenna Nancarrow
  • Moss the Woodcutter
  • Mother Melangell
  • Mudge
  • Mudge of the Midden
  • Muirenn
  • Muirenn Greyfeather
  • Muirenn ni Dhomhnaill
  • Myrddin

N: 10 names

  • Nessa
  • Nessa ni Thiarnain
  • Nessa Sallowgrove
  • Nest ferch Rhys
  • Nettle the Herb-Wife
  • Niamh
  • Niamh Greyveil
  • Nimue
  • Nolwenn Le Bras
  • Nuada

O: 18 names

  • Odhran
  • Odhran Pale-Ash
  • Ogma
  • Oisin
  • Oisin Bonefiddle
  • Oisin mac Cianain
  • Old Mother Gwerful
  • Old Sef
  • Olwen
  • Orla
  • Orla of Cuanacht
  • Orla Thorn-Tongue
  • Oscar
  • Osric Wendover
  • Oswin
  • Oswy Blackhurst
  • Owain
  • Owain Saltmarsh

P: 11 names

  • Palomides
  • Pellam
  • Pelleas
  • Pellinore
  • Percival
  • Peredur
  • Peredur the Unready
  • Pike the Ferryman
  • Prior Beuno
  • Pryderi
  • Pwyll

R: 13 names

  • Rhiannon
  • Rhiannon of the Long Fog
  • Rhodri ap Tewdwr
  • Rhys ap Tewdwr
  • Ronan
  • Ronan Weirkeeper
  • Rook
  • Rook the Bone-Picker
  • Rozenn Lagadec
  • Ruairi
  • Ruairi Halfblind
  • Ruairi mac Cathail
  • Rue the Mourner

S: 51 names

  • Safir
  • Sallow the Basket-Weaver
  • Scab
  • Scab the Rat-Catcher
  • Seaxburh Wyke
  • Sedge the Reed-Cutter
  • Sef
  • Segwarides
  • Seisyll ap Dyfnwal
  • Senan
  • Senan mac Odhrain
  • Senan the Quiet
  • Sir Aglovale Greywake
  • Sir Bedwyr Halfheart
  • Sir Brastias of Kamelot
  • Sir Cadoc the Grey
  • Sir Caradog Longshield
  • Sir Cynfael Oath-Broken
  • Sir Drystan of the Hollow
  • Sir Eadric the Unbowed
  • Sir Gereint Wyrdhunter
  • Sir Girflet the Younger
  • Sir Godric Fenwalker
  • Sir Gwythyr the Blind
  • Sir Idwal the Gaunt

S, continued

  • Sir Lucan the Patient
  • Sir Mabon the Last
  • Sir Medrawd Black-Bough
  • Sir Osric Redhand
  • Sir Oswin of the Black Bough
  • Sir Owain of the Fens
  • Sir Peredur Ashenfield
  • Sir Sulien Cold-Hearth
  • Sir Taliesin Songless
  • Sir Tor Thistlebane
  • Sir Ulfius the Lame
  • Sir Urien of the Marches
  • Sir Ywain Stormcloak
  • Sister Madrun
  • Sister Non
  • Sive
  • Sive the Barrow-Warden
  • Sloe the Ale-Wife
  • Sorcha
  • Sorcha ni Bhriain
  • Sorcha of the Black Well
  • Sparrow the Thief
  • Stoat
  • Stoat the Poacher
  • Sulien
  • Sulien of the Drowned Chapel

T: 41 names

  • Tadhg
  • Tadhg mac Domhnaill
  • Tadhg the Lame
  • Taliesin
  • Taliesin Cinder-Voice
  • Tallow the Chandler
  • Tamsyn Chenoweth
  • Tanguy Kervella
  • Tangwystl ferch Idwal
  • Tansy the Milkmaid
  • Tanwen
  • Tanwen Emberwright
  • Tarn the Fisher
  • Teasel the Fuller
  • Tegid
  • Tegid Menhir-Born
  • Tegid the Menhir-Keeper
  • Tethra
  • The Bone Abbot
  • The Crone of Tuathan

T, continued

  • The Fog-Shepherd
  • The Grey Piper
  • The Hollow King
  • The Hooded Druid of the Fens
  • The Lady of the Drowned Chapel
  • The Last Knight of Kamelot
  • The Menhir Witch
  • The Pale Ferryman
  • The Red Physician
  • The Salt Hermit
  • The Thorn Mother
  • The Wyrd-Singer
  • Thistle the Goose Girl
  • Tiernan
  • Tiernan mac Colmain
  • Tiernan of the Ruined Mill
  • Tor
  • Tristan
  • Tristan Penwarden
  • Tudur ap Goronwy
  • Twrch Trwyth

U: 8 names

  • Ulfius
  • Ultan
  • Ultan Crowsworn
  • Una
  • Una Bell-Ringer
  • Urien
  • Urien Rookmantle
  • Uthyr

V: 3 names

  • Vivienne
  • Vortigern
  • Vortimer

W: 10 names

  • Wenna Penrose
  • Wick
  • Wick the Candlemaker
  • Wilfrid Ashby
  • Wren the Orphan
  • Wulfrun Shaw
  • Wulfstan
  • Wulfstan Byrne
  • Wynflaed Merrow
  • Wyrd-touched Mael

Y: 6 names

  • Yann Kerguelen
  • Youenn Le Gall
  • Ysbaddaden
  • Ysella Treloar
  • Ysolde
  • Ywain