Wood Elf Name Generator

About Wood Elf Names

Wood elves are the wilderness branch of elvenkind. Where high elves built libraries and spire-cities, wood elves stayed in the deep forests their oldest ancestors first walked, and their cultures shaped themselves around bow, hunt, root, and season. A wood elf is generally taller and more weather-beaten than a high elf, dresses for the forest rather than the court, and finds the high elven obsession with formal language and ceremonial introduction slightly amusing.

A wood elf grove is rarely a city in any human sense. It is a network of carefully maintained groves, hidden lodges, hunting trails, and seasonal moot-grounds, often spread over an area larger than a human kingdom but holding only a few hundred elves. Wood elves know every tree of their territory by sight, every river by sound, and most of the larger animals by personality. They will let a respectful traveler pass through entirely unnoticed; they will quietly herd a destructive one off a cliff and into a swamp without ever raising their voice.

Wood elves get on well enough with outsiders who earn it. The earning is slow. A wood elf may know you for thirty years before they decide whether to call you a friend, and they will keep track in that interval of every small kindness and every small carelessness you display in their forest. Make their long memory work for you, not against you, and you gain an ally for centuries.

Wood Elf Naming Conventions

Wood elf names use the same musical roots as other elven names but with softer textures and more nature-elements — frequent sounds suggesting leaf, stream, root, dusk. Male given names: Aelar, Berrian, Carric, Drannor, Erdan, Galinndan, Hadarai, Heian, Immeral, Ivellios, Laucian, Paelias, Peren, Riardon, Rolen, Soveliss, Tharivol, Theren, Varis. Female given names: Adrie, Althaea, Anastrianna, Andraste, Birel, Caelynn, Chaedi, Dara, Drusilia, Enna, Faral, Felosial, Ielenia, Jelenneth, Mialee, Naivara, Quelenna, Quillathe, Sariel, Shanairra, Silaqui. House names are usually translated from Elvish into Common: Amakiir (Gemflower), Amastacia (Starflower), Galanodel (Moonwhisper), Holimion (Diamonddew), Ilphelkiir (Gemblossom), Liadon (Silverfrond), Meliamne (Oakenheel), Naïlo (Nightbreeze), Siannodel (Brook), Suncatcher.