Mack

I got into this because I was frustrated. Every fantasy name generator I tried was doing the same thing: randomly splicing syllables with no understanding of what made a Norse name sound Norse, or why Tolkien's Elvish names have that particular flowing quality.

So I started building my own. The core of LoreNamer is Markov chain models trained on actual historical corpora — I pulled from Old Norse saga names, Tolkien's published linguistic notes and name indexes, medieval English parish records, and Erin Hunter's Warriors series for clan cat naming conventions.

The etymology cards are the part I'm most particular about. Every lore card on LoreNamer either cites an attested etymology or clearly labels it as a cultural-style description — never invented meanings.