fantasy spell names
This page covers only the naming grammar for magic-effect names: verb plus target, noun compound, liturgical phrase or pseudo-Latin root, the 4 styles the spell generator runs under the hood.
Verb (Summon) plus element (Necrotic) plus an effect from the 70-word offensive/defensive pool (Annihilate); that specific branch alone adds up to 52 elements times 70 effects times 20 verbs, over 72,000 combinations.
Two Latin roots from the 90-entry pool: 'Mors' (death) and 'Anima' (soul), read together as 'death-magic that touches the soul'; the plain root-plus-root pattern alone totals 8,100 pairs.
Ritual noun (Catechism) plus a fixed poetic qualifier ('of the Hollow Moon'); with the optional solemn prefix (here 'Sacred'), this pattern multiplies the 144 base pairs by 6.
The names are generated as creative reference, not tied to any specific system. You can adapt them freely to whichever system you're using.
From a 90-word pool of real and pseudo-Latin vocabulary organized into 9 thematic families of 10 each; 'Mors' (death), 'Anima' (soul), 'Fulmen' (lightning) and 'Ignis' (fire) are genuine classical Latin, while forms like 'Spellum' are invented coinages built with the same endings so they sound consistent with the rest of the pool.
Invoke always opens with a verb out of 20 options (Summon, Weave, Rouse) followed by the target, like a command; Ritual has no verb at all, it builds a noun phrase with the preposition 'of' linking a liturgical noun to a fixed poetic qualifier, reading like grimoire text instead of a casting order.
No: the generator's 4 styles (Invoke, Compound, Ritual, Archaic) are sentence-structure categories, not official schools of magic; a name from the Invoke style can just as easily describe a healing effect as a damage one, so the style is not a substitute for a tabletop ruleset's school classification.
The engine rolls two full phrases and then merges them word by word: for names with more than one token it swaps the last significant term of the first for the counterpart from the second; for single-word names it blends the two internally (the front half of one, the back half of the other) to create a new word that neither roll alone would have produced.
All names are generated locally in your browser.