Appendix — Names of Merretia

A player- and GM-facing name generator for the world of Sulamir and the continent of Merretia.

The tables are built by mining the world’s real names and inferring their patterns. Every coined element here is consistent with the naming canon in sections 5 through 5.7 (the master reference), (great Houses), (the eighteen guilds), and the place rosters in and. When a table and the master canon disagree, the master canon wins; these tables generate new names, they do not overwrite locked ones.

How to use, in one line. For a throwaway NPC, roll one given name (Section 2) and stop. For a named minor figure, add a surname (Section 3). For a noble, swap the surname for a House (Section 3) and add “of House ___”. For a legend, a boss, or a rumor, stack an epithet on top (Section 4). Places and organizations have their own generators (Sections 5 and 6).

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1. How Merretians Are Named

Read this first. It is what makes a rolled name feel Sulamiri instead of generic, and it tells you which register to reach for.

The two names everyone carries: Sul-name and Am-name

Almost every person on the continent carries two names:

• The Sul-name is the outward name — the one on the registers, spoken by strangers, councils, courts, and the public. It is the name a writ of debt records and a marriage covenant is sworn in. It often carries lineage, title, or place. Cylenna of House Corveliss is a Sul-name.
• The Am-name is the inward name — the one family, lovers, chosen-kin, and the very closest friends are permitted to use. It is usually shorter, softer, older: a childhood sound, or a contraction of the Sul-name that has earned its own weight. Cyl is an Am-name; only Olandra, Oen, and a vanishing few may use it. Anne is Olandra’s Am-name against her public Olandra.

For play, this is a relationship dial, not extra bookkeeping. Give an NPC a Sul-name from the tables. If a scene turns intimate, coin a one- or two-syllable Am-name from it (Section 2 has a table for this, or just clip the Sul-name: Sethran → Seth, Marenna → Mar). A stranger who uses an Am-name uninvited has committed a real offense — in Tonja or Bolanbi it ends the conversation; in Hakkar it may earn a physical correction. A peer offering their Am-name is offering an alliance. Roll the name once; the choice of which name to speak does the worldbuilding for free.

House-names versus common surnames

• Great-House nobles append “of House [X]” in formal introduction and carry long, multi-syllable Sul-names with patrician vowel-work (Cylenna, Fidi’olliana, Elacole, Fitran Mihran). The House name is the load-bearing part; the given name is often classical (Founding-Tongue, Hellenic, or Latin) even when the House’s home province is coded otherwise — which is why Latinate Cylenna sits inside Anglo-Saxon-coded House Corveliss. Use Section 3’s House generator, and note that a Fused House carries its guild, its province’s senate seat, and a Council seat as one bundle — the seventeen who are their guild.
• Common folk carry short, punchy given names (Kane, Mo, Vaz, Gren) and, where they have a surname at all, an occupational or feature-compound surname rather than a House: Ashwaller (grandmother walled ash-pits), Trapper, Kettledottir (a matronymic built the “wrong way on purpose” — the father is not discussed). First-name-only is the working-class default. A common name plus a big given name is a joke the street understands: Cyneric (“kingly-power”) for a laundress’s son.

War-names and earned epithets — the third register

Some figures carry a third name between Sul and Am: an earned name used in public daily life, while the Sul-name retreats to writs and the Am-name stays intimate. The canonical case is the Hakkari Mason war-name: Callum Stoneheart (Sul) is publicly Kane (earned, hereditary to whichever Stoneheart reaches Mason-Leader stature) and privately Cal (Am) to Tara. Tara Trapper’s own war-name is Roan. Julin sailors earn kennings the same way — Sea-walker, Stone-cold, Last-to-leave — outward epithets won by deed. Yiskii nobles let a title swallow the Sul-name entirely: Lady Summer is addressed and recorded by title; her true Sul-name sleeps in a Vasilek vault. Temple of the One ordination suspends the Sul-name outright (the surname is retired); Niska is only Niska now. Use Section 4 to earn a figure a war-name or a legendary “the ___ of ___” title.

Deep, surface, and frontier — three feels for one continent

The register you reach for should match where the person is from and how high they live. This is inferred from the canon, honestly marked where it goes past hard data:

• Surface / city-noble (grounded). Long, patrician, multi-syllable, House-appended, often classical. The higher up the vertical city a family lives, the more elaborate the register. Reach for Section 3’s House generator and the longer given names.
• Frontier (grounded). The eastern provinces — Tonja, Hakkar, Nolekkelon — run plain, blunt, occupational: Anglo-Saxon kennings and trade-surnames (Eastreach, Stoneford, Trapper, Ashwaller). “A Hakkari does not waste a sentence,” and does not waste a name either. Blunt given names, meaning-bearing surnames the speaker still understands.
• The deep / Steam-Worker (light inference — one hard data point). Our only firm sample is Oen, raised in the Steam Tunnels: short, plain, single-syllable, vowel-simple, and carrying no House. Extrapolating from that one name and that culture, deep names read worn-smooth and toolish: one or two syllables, often ending on a hard consonant, sometimes drawn from the grid they tend (Vosk, Kell, Dren, Slag, a Lampwright). They rarely carry “of House”; belonging is to a tunnel-community, not a lineage. Use the Either / worn-smooth given-name table (Section 2) and a deep-coded surname or none. This feel is a reasoned inference, not locked canon — treat it as a strong default, not a rule.

Honorific epithets — the legendary “the ___ of ___”

Legends, bosses, and rumors travel under a title, not a name. The canon shows the shape: Haymond the Scorpion, the Hulk of Hakkar (Tara), the Red Octopus (a whole guild), the Last Zar (Valareth), the city under the mountain (Aldasen). The pattern is “the [descriptor]” optionally tagged “of [place or domain]”. Section 4 builds these. Hang one on any figure the table has already named and they stop being an NPC and start being a story.

The polyglot rule

Sulamir is a continental melting-pot of eighteen province-registers under one dome, so a mixed table is the most canon-faithful “generic Sulamiri” table. The given-name tables below deliberately span registers — a single roll gives you a plausible citizen of the capital. When you want an NPC to read as being from a specific province, lean the name toward that province’s coding using the Provincial Register Key at the end of Section 2, and localize any place name with the suffix key in Section 5.

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2. Given Names

Three d20 tables. Most entries are coined in the established style; a few canon names are seeded in (marked ✦) so the register stays anchored. These are Sul-names unless you decide otherwise. For an Am-name, either clip the Sul-name to one or two syllables or roll on the short Either table.

2a. Masculine-coded given names (d20)

d20	Name	Leans toward
1	Aeldric	Tonja (Anglo-Saxon)
2	Beorwin	Tonja (Anglo-Saxon)
3	Corvan	patrician / Founding
4	Cyneric ✦	Tonja
5	Darzhan	Sahthan (Persian)
6	Emeric	patrician
7	Fyrran	patrician / Creko
8	Gethran	Tonja / frontier
9	Halgrim ✦	Julin (Norse)
10	Ilmar	Nolekkelon (Uralic)
11	Jorenn	frontier
12	Kaveth	Sahthan (Persian)
13	Lievan	Frewna Nurrelle (Provençal)
14	Marek ✦	Yisk / pan-Slavic
15	Naozen	Entoyo (Japanese)
16	Ostvar	Yisk (Slavic)
17	Pellric	frontier
18	Renjic	Entoyo
19	Sethran	patrician / pan
20	Vosk	deep / Steam-Worker

2b. Feminine-coded given names (d20)

d20	Name	Leans toward
1	Aelswyth	Tonja (Anglo-Saxon)
2	Berina	pan / patrician
3	Cylla	patrician (Cylenna-adjacent)
4	Dravna	Yisk (Slavic)
5	Emesa	Ahlgenadin / pan
6	Faina	Yisk (Slavic)
7	Haldis	Julin (Norse)
8	Illiana	Founding (Fidi’olliana-adjacent)
9	Kaori ✦	Entoyo (Japanese)
10	Larisska	Yisk (Slavic)
11	Mirenna	patrician / pan
12	Nadara	Ahlgenadin (Arabic-Andalusian)
13	Olwenna	Tonja / patrician (Olandra-adjacent)
14	Pravaya	Yisk (Slavic)
15	Rosavell	Antodinera (Iberian)
16	Sirkka ✦	Nolekkelon (Uralic)
17	Talvi	Nolekkelon (Uralic)
18	Vessna	Yisk / Founding
19	Yalira	Ahlgenadin (Arabic-Andalusian)
20	Zaryn	Yisk (Zaryanoye-adjacent)

2c. Either / ambiguous given names (d20)

Short, worn-smooth, single-syllable-leaning. Read equally masculine or feminine, and are the strongest default for Steam-Workers, frontier commoners, and single-name figures (the register of Oen, Mo, Vaz, Gren). Double as Am-names.

d20	Name	d20	Name
1	Aze	11	Kell
2	Bael	12	Lir
3	Cael	13	Mo ✦
4	Dren	14	Nael
5	Esk	15	Oen ✦
6	Fenn	16	Pell
7	Gael	17	Riss
8	Hark	18	Sael
9	Ineth	19	Ven
10	Jesk	20	Vaz ✦

Provincial Register Key (for leaning a name toward a homeland)

When you want the name to say where the NPC is from, don’t roll — pick from the province’s coding:

• Julin — Norse (Erlend, Sif, Halgrim, Astri); hard consonants, dropped final vowels.
• Yisk — Slavic (Vasili, Mira, Tatya, Lyov); long vowels, -ov/-ina endings, affectionate diminutives.
• Entoyo — Japanese (Hisayuki, Kaori, Renjiro, Akimi); even cadence, softening sentence-ends, -san/-dono suffixes.
• Nolekkelon — Finnish/Uralic (Aino, Kalevi, Tuuli, Ilmari); long vowel runs, doubled consonants.
• Frewna Nurrelle — French/Provençal (Mireille, Geraud, Solene, Cosme); rising clause-ends, elaborate politeness.
• Pogus — Greek/Hellenic (Theron, Kallista, Ariston, Phylo); clean vowels, discipline-signalling names.
• Sahthan — Persian (Darius, Roshan, Shirin, Kaveh); rolled r’s, dense courtesies, -zadeh / -i.
• Hakkar — English-frontier (Kane, Tara, Quinn, Reed, Mae, Rye); blunt, wide flat vowels, no wasted words.
• Lupan — Italian/Renaissance (Lorenzo, Bianca, Cosimo); musical, gesture-completed, titles Don/Donna/Maestro.
• Ockallaka — Polynesian (Akela, Mahina, Keone, Lani); open vowels, resilience-proverbs, Am-name is the daily register.
• Ahlgenadin — Arabic/Andalusian (Karim, Layla, Tariq, Nadira); ibn-/bint-, courtly, closest to Sulamir Standard.
• Creko — Latin/Roman (Quinton, Aurelia, Marcus, Livia); tripartite formal names, clipped percussive delivery.
• Tonja — Old English/Anglo-Saxon (Edmund, Hild, Wulfric, Olandra, Searlis); kennings, meaning-bearing surnames.
• Merjaya — Sanskrit/Hindi (Singh, Arjun, Devika, Rohan); rolling r’s, mantric repetition in oath-speech.
• Antodinera — Spanish/Iberian (Esteban, Mariella, Diego, Catalina); rolled r’s, diminutives -ito/-ita.
• Bolanbi — West African / Yoruba-Akan (Kwame, Kizza, Adjoa, Sefa); day-names, proverb-first speech.
• Illibill — Korean (Joon, Hanae, Suhyun, Yeji); age-graded honorifics, harmony-coded compounds.
• Udlimill — Mongolian/Central Asian (Bataar, Saruul, Temujin, Naran); clan-prefixes, silence at sentence-ends.

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3. Surnames & House Names

3a. Common surnames (d20)

Working-class surnames run on four logics, all represented below: occupational compound (what the family did), feature/place (where they’re from), patronymic/matronymic (whose child), and deep-coded (grid- and tunnel-work). ✦ = canon.

d20	Surname	Logic
1	Ashwaller ✦	occupational (walled ash-pits)
2	Barrowman	occupational / feature
3	Coalwright	occupational
4	Deepford	feature/place
5	Emberkeel	occupational (Julin, sea-fire)
6	Fallowmark	feature/place
7	Greavesward	occupational (armorer)
8	Ironkeel ✦	feature (Julin coast)
9	Kettledottir ✦	matronymic (“the wrong way on purpose”)
10	Lampwright	occupational (grid / Steam)
11	Millbrand	occupational
12	Nethergate	deep-coded
13	Oakenshaw	feature/place
14	Quarryman	occupational (Hakkar)
15	Redearth	feature (the rust-red soil)
16	Slagwright	deep-coded (mining / smelt)
17	Tideson ✦	patronymic (Julin)
18	Underdon	deep-coded
19	Vellman	occupational (parchment)
20	Weatherall	feature

Localizing a surname. Swap the ending to match a province register: Norse patronymic -son / -dottir (Julin, Tonja); Slavic -ov / -ina (Yisk); Iberian -ez (Antodinera); Greek -idis / -opoulos (Pogus); Persian -zadeh / -i (Sahthan); French de- prefix (Frewna Nurrelle); Arabic ibn- / bint- (Ahlgenadin); day-name overlay (Bolanbi: Yaw Mensah = “Thursday-born of the Mensah line”).

3b. Fused-House / great-House generator

Great-House names are a patrician stem + a Founding-tinged ending. Roll a prefix (d20) and an ending (d20) and read them together; sand off or double a letter so it flows. The endings carry the old -liss / -lith / -ir Founding-Tongue morphemes that mark lineage and covenant, which is what makes the result sound old.

d20	Prefix		Ending
1	Corv-		-eliss
2	Aeb-		-elith
3	Bram-		-astor
4	Dol-		-aggle
5	Esh-		-achus
6	Fen-		-irast
7	Gael-		-une
8	Hald-		-adus
9	Ilv-		-oval
10	Jarn-		-enna
11	Kesh-		-eck
12	Lorn-		-ariss
13	Mal-		-olan
14	Nyr-		-weth
15	Oth-		-orne
16	Perr-		-eshan
17	Sil-		-avel
18	Tarn-		-undis
19	Vess-		-amar
20	Wyr-		-yst

Worked examples. Corv- + -eliss = Corveliss (you have rolled a real House — treat it as a cousin-branch). Mal- + -achus = Malachus. Vess- + -irast = Vessirast. Bram- + -astor = Bramastor. Tarn- + -undis = Tarnundis (kin to canon House Tarnus). Sil- + -eshan = Sileshan. Ilv- + -enna = Ilvenna.

Extra gravity. For the oldest, most sacred-sounding lines, insert an apostrophe at the seam the way the Founding-Tongue guild-names do (Alyu’amare): Nyr’oval, Esh’irast. For a House whose whole identity is a single deed or trade, use the Stoneheart mold instead — a plain [Noun]+[Noun] compound (Stoneheart, and by the same logic: Ironvow, Ashford, Coldwater, Vowkeeper).

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4. Bynames, Titles & Epithets

Build a legendary “card-title” in two parts: a descriptor (“the ___”) and an optional tag (“of ___”). Stack it on any name from Sections 2–3. For the earned single-word public name (war-name / kenning), use table 4c.

4a. Descriptor — “the ___” (d20)

d20	Descriptor	d20	Descriptor
1	the Silent	11	the Quiet Hand
2	the Unbroken	12	the Undrowned
3	the Scorpion	13	the Straight-Spoken
4	the Kind	14	the Cold Lamp
5	the Vengeful	15	the Unhoused
6	the Patient	16	the Ledger
7	the Gilded	17	the Last-to-Leave
8	the Ashen	18	the Iron-Willed
9	the Twice-Sworn	19	the Half-Seen
10	the Ruinous	20	the Merciful

4b. Tag — “of ___” (d20)

Places and domains, mostly canon locations so the title plants a flag on the map.

d20	Tag	d20	Tag
1	of Old Reach	11	of Hokuden
2	of the Long Rent	12	of the Broken Charter
3	of the Eastern Wall	13	of Olmenfjord’s Piers
4	of Landavilks	14	of the Rhydin Levels
5	of the Deep Tunnels	15	of the Counting-House
6	of the Nine Gates	16	of the Mother Hall
7	of Vissett	17	of the Standing Dome
8	of the Red Dragon	18	of the Waste-Land Watch
9	of the Sunken City	19	of the Frontier
10	of the Maw	20	of Ylothiahoketh

Worked examples. Sethran the Unbroken, of the Eastern Wall. Cylla the Quiet Hand of Landavilks. Vosk the Half-Seen of the Deep Tunnels. Nadara the Merciful of the Mother Hall. Drop the tag for a tighter street-name (Haymond the Scorpion); keep both for a legend on a rumor-sheet.

4c. Earned war-name / kenning (d12)

Single-word public names won by deed — the register of Kane, Roan, and the Julin kennings. Slot one in between a figure’s Sul-name and Am-name.

d12	War-name	d12	War-name
1	Kane ✦	7	Warden
2	Roan ✦	8	Kettle ✦
3	Scorpion	9	Vigil
4	Anvil	10	Breaker
5	Gale	11	Ash
6	Sever	12	Standfast

Or build a Julin-style two-word kenning from a deed: [element/place] + [verb-agent] — Sea-walker, Stone-cold, Last-to-leave, Storm-wise, Rail-born, Vault-quiet.

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5. Place Names

Merretian place names are prefix + root, optionally closed with a provincial suffix that localizes the name to one of the eighteen homelands. The bare (unsuffixed) form reads Anglo/frontier — which is correct for Tonja, Hakkar, and Nolekkelon and neutral enough for anywhere. Add a suffix to key a settlement to another province.

5a. Place prefix (d20)

d20	Prefix	d20	Prefix
1	Old	11	Far
2	East	12	Low
3	High	13	Wind
4	Deep	14	Salt
5	Grey	15	Cold
6	Stone	16	Kell-
7	Iron	17	Vas-
8	Ash	18	Hild-
9	Red	19	Corve-
10	Nether	20	Bram-

5b. Place root (d20)

d20	Root	d20	Root
1	-reach	11	-fell
2	-ford	12	-vale
3	-mere	13	-keld
4	-hold	14	-crag
5	-watch	15	-drift
6	-march	16	-moor
7	-barrow	17	-shel
8	-gate	18	-ken
9	-run	19	-stead
10	-wick	20	-lith

5c. Provincial suffix (optional, d12)

d12	Suffix	Province register
1	(none — bare form)	Tonja / Hakkar / neutral
2	-fjord	Julin
3	-vik	Julin
4	-oye	Yisk
5	-ilek	Yisk
6	-uden	Entoyo
7	-nik	Nolekkelon
8	-paa	Nolekkelon
9	-zheng	Sahthan
10	-umqi	Pogus
11	-lipia	Merjaya
12	-hoketh	Udlimill

Worked examples. Old + -reach = Old Reach (you rolled a real village — reuse it or nudge a letter). Deep + -ford (bare) = Deepford. Grey + -keld + -nik = Greykeldnik (Nolekkelon). Salt + -march + -fjord = Saltmarch-fjord (Julin). Vas- + -ilek = Vasilek-adjacent (Yisk); Corve- + -lith = Corvelith (canon Corveliss homeland — a cousin-holding). When a suffix collides awkwardly with a root, keep whichever half sounds right and drop the other; the goal is a name a native would actually say.

5d. Districts, holdings & seats (pick, don’t roll)

• City district = province-adjective + Quarter: the Tonjani Quarter, the Merjayan Quarter. Every province has exactly one district in the vertical city.
• Great-House seat follows the province register: the [House] Hold or [House] Hall (Tonja/Hakkar: Corveliss Hall, the Stoneheart Hold), Casa [Name] (Lupan/Antodinera: Casa Esteban, Casa Lupan), House of [Name] (Sahthan: House of Mihran), the [Clan]-yurt (Udlimill: the Bilegt-yurt), [Name] compound / Estate (Creko: the Stoneward Estate).
• Landmark = [The] [descriptor] [civic noun]: the Drum Tower of First Voice, the Stone Garden of First Question, the River-Mouth Lighthouse, the Great Hospice, the Watch Hall, the Ahntyr Monument. Build one as the [Noun] of First [Noun] or the [Adjective] [Hall / Vault / Gate / Garden / Tower].

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6. Guild & Company Names

Sulamiri organizations fall into four molds, all drawn from the eighteen guilds and the outlaw orders. Pick a mold, then fill it.

Mold A — “The [Plain Noun].” The Masons, The Hand, The Core. Terse, working-class, confident. Just take a trade or object and put “The” in front.

Mold B — “[Modifier] [Noun].” Iron Coin, Red Dragons, Blue Cross, White Legion, Abyssal Fires, the Red Octopus. A colour / material / quality word plus an animal / object / element / virtue. This is the workhorse; roll it below.

Mold C — a framed order. Order of the Spider, Heralds of the Sunborn, the Sulamir League, the Iosan Serpents, Prodigus Group. A frame wrapped around a symbol.

Mold D — a Founding-Tongue compound. Alum-sidek, Bavit-vita, Alyu’amare, Emphemere, Multani, Torrus Ectos. Two old stems fused, the oldest carrying an apostrophe. Reserve these for ancient, sacred, or self-consciously venerable institutions.

6a. Mold B generator — Modifier (d20) + Noun (d20)

d20	Modifier		Noun
1	Iron		Coin
2	Red		Dragon
3	Blue		Cross
4	White		Octopus
5	Black		Legion
6	Golden		Fires
7	Ashen		Hand
8	Silver		Spider
9	Grey		Serpent
10	Crimson		Anvil
11	Brass		Lantern
12	Deep		Ledger
13	Bright		Compass
14	Cold		Thorn
15	Emerald		Crown
16	Copper		Wheel
17	Pale		Gate
18	Bound		Vein
19	Salt		Chorus
20	Verdant		Vigil

Worked examples. Brass + Compass = the Brass Compass. Salt + Lantern = the Salt Lantern. Emerald + Ledger = the Emerald Ledger. Cold + Vigil = the Cold Vigil. Copper + Wheel = the Copper Wheel. (Roll 1+1 and you get the Iron Coin — a real guild; re-roll or treat your company as one of its fronts.)

6b. Mold C frame (d12)

Wrap it around a symbol (an animal, an object, a virtue, or a Mold-B result):

d12	Frame	d12	Frame
1	The ___ League	7	House of the ___
2	Order of the ___	8	The ___ Concord
3	Heralds of the ___	9	Sons/Daughters of the ___
4	The ___ Group	10	The ___ Compact
5	The ___ Company	11	The ___ Circle
6	The Sons of ___	12	The ___ Hall

Worked examples. Order of the Thorn. The Copper Concord. Heralds of the Pale Gate. The Salt-Lantern Company. Daughters of the Vigil.

6c. Mold D — Founding-Tongue compound (d10 + d10)

For ancient or sacred orders. Join stem A to stem B; for the oldest names insert an apostrophe at the seam.

d10	Stem A		Stem B
1	Alu-		-sidek
2	Bavi-		-vita
3	Alyu-		-amare
4	Emphe-		-mere
5	Vael-		-ectos
6	Torru-		-une
7	Ilyr-		-ossa
8	Nheba-		-avel
9	Zar-		-ast
10	Sula-		-ir

Worked examples. Vael’une. Ilyr-ossa. Nheba’vita. Zar-avel. Sula’ir. (Remember -ir means “sworn-together” — a name ending in it claims a covenant, which is exactly the flavor the oldest institutions want.)