DAEMON NAME GENERATOR
Naming your General or Daemon Prince is a simple thing you can do to instantly add some character to your army. To help you, we've put together the Daemon Name Generator, as first seen in the old Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness book. You can pick your names traditionally by rolling on the given tables, or you can generate one randomly.
DAEMON USE-NAMES
Daemons use a number of false names and titles so as to keep their true names a secret. These vary for a single Daemon, according to mood or circumstance (Pinchbottle, Maeltranseer etc). Daemons will apply such 'use-names' to themselves as they think fit or as amuses them.
Generate your own Daemon Use-names Table
Greater Daemons have names that are longer than those of other Daemons. Roll 4 times on the above table to generate a first and a second name for Greater Daemons. Other Daemons and creatures roll only twice, generating only one name.
Re-roll any duplicated results. The elements that are rolled up should be put together in pairs to give the name of the Daemon, for example, grim + belch and chaos + warp = Grimbelch Chaoswarp.
While this table can generate names of any type of Daemon, you may wish to select name elements for some. Daemons of Khorne, for instance, have names which echo nothing but their love of violence and destruction: Warfiend, Thrashblood Hackflesh and Manblight Gnaw-weapon.
Any combination of names can be augmented by -er, -ling, and -or suffixes, or by the providing that these are applied intelligently.
For example, rut + sate (-e)r gives Rutsater, gut + (t)-er + sinew gives Guttersinew, while maggot + spoor + -ling gives Maggotspoorling.
Single or double words from the table can be added as a further description for a Daemon, as in plague + vomit + the + drool + ing = Plaguevomit the Drooling.
DAEMON TRUE NAMES
Virtually all Daemons take great care to keep their true names a secret. Only the most powerful Arch Daemons, who need not fear domination by any other creature, do not bother to hide their true names. The true name of a Daemon is often completely alien and very nearly unpronounceable. Knowledge of a true name grants power, and gives some leverage when it comes to dealing with a Daemon. As a consequence, a Daemon will never voluntarily reveal its true name, nor can it be commanded to do so except on pain of utter and total destruction. Most Daemons will, however, reveal the true name of another Daemon.
Generate your own Daemon True Names Table
The number of elements in a Daemon's name depends upon the number associated with the Chaos God it serves. Furthermore, the more powerful the Daemon, the longer its name will be.
Daemon |
Number of elements in name |
Greater |
1D6 or 2D6 (your choice) x Chaos god's number. |
Other |
Chaos god's associated number. |
Once the number of elements has been determined, the following table can be used to randomly generate the parts of the Daemon's true name. Alternatively, you can simply choose the right number of elements from the table.
Once the elements have been generated they can be used 'as is' to give a completely random name or, in cases where this looks and feels wrong, rearranged.
Apostrophes (') and other punctuation can be added as you see fit to break the name up and make it slightly more pronounceable.
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