Aboleth Name Generator

How these aboleth names are built

The sound is designed to be almost sayable and never comfortable. The bank runs on sibilants and liquids (s, sh, zh, l, r, th), keeps every vowel dark (o, u, oo, ou, au) and allows no bright front vowel at all, and it forbids a plosive at the end of a word, so nothing ever snaps shut. Names trail off into -th, -sh, -ss or -l, the way something said under water would.

The glottal seam is built in rather than decorative. Each name ending arrives with its own apostrophe or hyphen (’oloth, ’ssaur, -vuloth, -lassh), so the break falls where the grammar puts it and every name has the same seam in the same kind of place. Those endings are glossed too: ’oloth is that remembers, ’ssaur is of the first ocean, -shullos is that was never young.

The canon hook is that an aboleth has perfect racial memory, inheriting everything its ancestors knew. A name of that kind is really a title, so the full form here appends a claim about what this aboleth holds: Who Remembers the Drowned City, Who Tasted the Thoughts of Kings, Who Counted the Bones of the Reef. Each is glossed with what the claim actually means.

Use the short true-name when something in a scene has to say the name aloud, which few surface creatures manage without help. Use the full remembered title for the aboleth itself, for the cult that worships it, or for the line a scholar finds carved in a place that used to be a harbour. The two forms are built from the same grammar, so the short name still reads as the beginning of the long one.

Example aboleth names

A fixed sample from the generator above, so you can see the range before you press the button. Every list you generate is different; every link you copy reproduces its list exactly.

• Uslo’mool, Who Remembers the Shape of the Continent
• Shasovou’ssaur, Who Remembers the First Tide
• Shuslosa’oloth, Who Remembers the Gods That Failed
• Zhowothu-vuloth, Who Was Old When the Elves Were New
• Looshu’ssaur, Who Was Old When the Elves Were New
• Zhoovass’zhal, Who Remembers the Shape of the Continent
• Shluslosvoth’oloth, Who Counted the Bones of the Reef
• Shlonluzhoon-vuloth, Who Remembers the First Tide
• Nosha’mool, Who Remembers the Drowned City
• Maslushlooss-vuloth, Who Remembers the Name of the Deep
• Lanuthruthlo, Who Remembers the Shape of the Continent
• Zhooromaush-shullos, Who Names the Trenches
• Sloothrosloo-vuloth, Who Remembers the Second Drowning
• Rulsooslolzhour, Who Remembers the Sun Before the Sea
• Slorouthath-vuloth, Who Remembers the First Tide
• Vosloothzhath, Who Names the Trenches
• Wuzhur-shullos, Who Remembers the Third City
• Shlooluwu’norruth, Who Remembers the Second Drowning
• Ousho’mool, Who Keeps the Fallen Tower
• Mouthvushoo’oloth, Who Remembers the First Tide
• Wothvas’ssaur, Who Ate the Cartographer