Battles and roleplaying locations are not random places. They have names. This can be seen in publications from Games Workshop (e.g., Lion's Gate spaceport on Terra), through to Dungeon and Dragon's Forgotten Realms setting. So, following on from my posts about random names for both English / Anglo-Celtic sites and Norman / French sites, I thought I'd have a tilt at some high fantasy names for towns, villages and other sites.
Below is a list of nouns. To generate a random name for a high fantasy site, simply take two of the components and run them together. Some may require them to remain as two words, or perhaps even add an apostrophe-s to the end of the first word to make them work. But in general, I think this will work very well.
Arbour
Black
Black
By
Cairn
Candle
Castle
Chain
Crown
Crystal
Dagger
Dale
Deep
Desert
Desert
Dragon
Edge
End
Fang
Fell
Forest
Gate
gods
gods
Hall
High
Hold
Hollow
Home
Ice
Home
Ice
Iron
Keep
Land
Lion
Moon
Moot
Mountain
Old
Reach
Reach
Rift
Ring
River
Road
Rock
Run
Sea
Sea
Shadow
Silver
Star
Stone
Storm
Summer
Tide
Tower
Town
Under
Vale
Wall
Wall
Ward
Water
Way
White
White
Winter
The observant amongst you will be able to pick out some "famous" sites (assuming you're familiar with the source materials in question!) such as:
Daggerdale (Forgotten Realms -- there are lots of other "Dales" in there too)
Waterdeep (Forgotten Realms)
Lion's Gate (Warhammer 40,000)
Ice Reach (Dragonlance)
Whitestone (Dragonlance)
Crystal Desert (Guild Wars 2)
Bywater (Lord of the Rings)
Winterfell (Game of Thrones)
Castle Black (Game of Thrones)
There's also some real world names in there too, such as:
Silverstone (famous for its racetrack; located in Northamptonshire, England, UK)
Blackwater (a name shared by several places in England, Ireland, Australia, Canada and the United States of America)
Summerland (a name shared by several locations in Canada, the United States of American and Australia)
Mountain Gate (California)
I'm drawing the line at "Ring Road" though….!
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