Unseelie Name Generator

Seelie comes from a Scots word for blessed or happy, so Unseelie means unblessed. In Scottish lowland folklore the Seelie Court were fairies who might help or at worst play tricks, while the Unseelie Court were the malicious host who assaulted travellers at night. Modern fantasy uses Unseelie as shorthand for the dark or winter court of the fae.

Both. Around a fifth are attested beings: Nicnevin, the sluagh, Redcap, Black Annis, Gwyn ap Nudd, the Erlking, Frau Perchta, Baba Morana and dozens of named Scottish and English bogles. The rest are original: invented given names, full names with grim surnames, court titles and names for Unseelie courts, written in a consistent cold phonology.

Seelie and high fae names lean bright and liquid, full of l, r and long vowels with flower, dew and starlight imagery. Unseelie names trade those for hard consonants, short clipped vowels and imagery of frost, poison, rot and scavenging birds. A quick test: if the name would suit a wedding toast it is Seelie; if it would suit a warning carved on a gate it is Unseelie.

Yes, everything here is free to use. The titled names work as archfey warlock patrons or as the rulers of a Feywild winter court, the folklore monsters fit hags and fey encounters, and the full names such as Ysolde Hemlock or Rhydian Gallowsfen are ready for villains and morally grey love interests in romantasy.