Personal Names
Nordic names favor harsh consonants, single toponyms, and honorific surnames tied to deeds or lineage. Given names are often monosyllabic or compound-hard. Surnames may be patronymic, occupational, or earned.
Examples: Ulfric Stormcloak, Ragna Bear-Blood, Bjorn Icevein
Patronymics: -son, -dottir (regional)
Epithets earned through deeds are common.
Place Names
Geographic, descriptive, and austere. Often combine terrain + function.
Suffixes: -hold, -stead, -watch, -hall
Examples: Whiterun, Windhelm, Dawnstar
Titles
Practical and martial. Jarl, Thane, Shield-Brother, Skald.
Personal Names
Latinized, formal, and hierarchical. Given name + family name, with titles indicating rank.
Examples: Lucius Septimus, Aurelia Valeria
Noble Houses emphasize lineage continuity.
Place Names
Classical and monumental; often named after founders, saints, or geography.
Suffixes: -ium, -polis, -ford
Examples: Imperial City, Bravil, Cheydinhal
Titles
Bureaucratic and legal: Count, Primus, Legate, Magistrate.
Personal Names
Romance-influenced with elven bleed-through. Flowing given names with hereditary surnames.
Examples: Alard Montclair, Yselle Dufort
Noble surnames often tied to estates.
Place Names
Feudal and poetic, frequently ancestral.
Suffixes: -mont, -court, -haven
Examples: Wayrest, Daggerfall
Titles
Feudal stratification: King, Duke, Baron, Castellan, Magister.
Personal Names
Given name + House name, often sharp and sibilant. Ancestral reverence is explicit.
Examples: Nerevar Indoril, Almalexia
Ashlanders use clan-based identifiers.
Place Names
Ancient, ritualistic, and layered with meaning. Apostrophes and compound phonemes common.
Examples: Vivec, Ald’ruhn, Narsis
Titles
House and Temple-centric: Hortator, Councilor, Archcanon.
Personal Names
Fluid and story-based. Names may change over a lifetime. Often melodic and natural.
Examples: Ereval Green-Whisper, Linwen Root-Singer
Surnames are earned narratives.
Place Names
Organic and living. Names describe relationships with the Green.
Examples: Elden Root, Silvenar
Less permanence; locations may rename themselves.
Titles
Spiritual and communal: Spinner, Treethane, Green Lady.
Personal Names
Formal, polysyllabic, and lineage-heavy. Given names reflect ancestral pride.
Examples: Calionwe Aurelion, Larethian
Titles often outrank surnames.
Place Names
Architectural and exalted, implying perfection.
Suffixes: -lor, -riel, -meris
Examples: Alinor, Lillandril
Titles
Scholarly and hierarchical: Kinlord, Sapiarch, Justiciar.
Personal Names
Yokudan-derived, strong vowels and honorific chains. Lineage and deeds matter.
Examples: Azhar ibn Rihad, Saadia al-Hatu
Use of ibn/bint (son/daughter of) common.
Place Names
Descriptive and geographic, often ancient.
Examples: Sentinel, Rihad, Taneth
Titles
Martial and noble: Ansei, Sword-Saint, Vizier.
Personal Names
Translational names in Tamrielic tongues; original Jel names are contextual.
Examples: He-Who-Watches, Walks-Through-Mud
Names can and do change with life events.
Place Names
Fluid and environmental. Often functional.
Examples: Stormhold, Thorn
Jel names rarely translate cleanly.
Titles
Spiritual-functionary: Sap-Speaker, Root-Walker.
Personal Names
Moon-phase dependent prefixes with flowing suffixes. Identity tied to lunar birth.
Examples: J’zargo, M’aiq
Prefixes: J’ (adult), S’ (youth), Ra’ (elder)
Place Names
Poetic and desert-inspired.
Examples: Rimmen, Senchal
Titles
Spiritual and societal: Mane, Moon-Bishop.
Personal Names
Short, forceful, clan-based.
Examples: Ghorbash gro-Dushnikh
gro- (son of), gra- (daughter of)
Place Names
Fortified and utilitarian.
Examples: Orsinium
Titles
Strength-based: Chief, Wise-Woman.
People: Reflect culture, lineage, and belief systems first.
Places: Describe function or myth before aesthetics.
Titles: Convey authority source (martial, divine, bureaucratic).
Change: Names may evolve with events, especially among Bosmer and Argonians.
Tamrielic naming is not cosmetic—it is identity, memory, and politics made audible. To name a person or place correctly is to anchor them within history, belief, and power. Use these conventions to ensure consistency, immersion, and narrative credibility across the world.