500 Random Spells for the Dying Earth

In Jack Vance's classic Tales of the Dying Earth, the nomenclature for the magical spells seems curiously archaic. Xarfaggio's Physical Malepsy ... Arnhoult's Sequestrious Digitalia ... The Spell of Forlorn Encystment ... Khulip's Nasal Enhancement ... The spell names occasionally evoke a decadent arcane humor. The Excellent Prismatic Spray ... Phandaal's Critique of the Chill ... Below, you will find 500 spell names of aleatoric provenance, which after careful redaction may be suitable for use in the wonderful The Dying Earth(*) Role-Playing Game.

Do you have any comments about this program? I'm aware of the problems with the adjective/noun database, but it is too large to correct either all at once or as I notice inappropriate items. I'll tweak it gradually over the next few years ...

Oh! I should add that the spell generator was inspired by a long-lost program written by my friends John Marron and Les Hill. Furthermore, I have to thank John for showing me that, if you are interested in exotic worlds and well-crafted sentences, there's always more and more to like in the work of Jack Vance.

There are other name generators on the Name Generation Page.

(*) "The Dying Earth" is a trademark of Pelgrane Press Ltd. It is used here without permission.


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Updated: Tue Feb  9 22:31:01 CST 2010

Gerniko's confluent denudation
Ettor's acrid vicinity
Iskoadi's niggardly scale
Anserliac's deliberate day
The pattern of left acquit
Hurdarrum's recombinant vestry
Maores's diffident orbit
Landi's equitable sermon
Zerdi's vacuous joint
The charm of punctual thought
Medei's polyglot last
Milan's flush twilight
Kilixidus's contemptuous intellectual
Ospielick's exultant seal
The charm of immune bias
Vexis's defensive pervasion
Lazkounif's heavy blow
Aztert's numerable bloom
Kalgrag's sectarian decrement
The pattern of cold prison
Karol's carbonaceous cover
Estio's almighty face
Nolizkin's illegitimate exclusion
Kyrelgum's pastoral organ
The pattern of vernal assumption
Faratsun's avaricious perspicuity
Tinerresk's superficial circumstance
Uzusk's humble occasion
Errassane's resident dunce
The spell of inclement penchant
Luzeam's irksome burst
Sequa's rude inception
Jatusko's shallow excuse
Bermon's dynamic balk
The agency of reciprocal shareholder
Leiorofox's intense disturbance
Novalulfa's mature moisture
Daidur's weak bustle
Pryffwyd's inadequate content
The charm of hideous virtue
Shamint's separate option
Andes's evergreen sobriety
Garroa's exceptional monk
Laitzaizi's awful conveyance
The pattern of sear immersion
Zadaleko's discordant idiom
Garnin's spurious opacity
Dhannerra's even inventor
Hyssoizea's prophetic thought
The agency of instant student
Krangio's republican gray
Pulch's pure difficulty
Kolga's livid resumption
Lehorna's concurrent debate
The call of the collateral charity
Nissops's ascetic homogeneity
Zohon's extemporaneous mycology
Ampentea's shrunk product
Leina's awkward decomposition
The charm of hollow tarnish
Gazhnaio's lifelike obstinacy
Ambabizar's inclement part
Maunitzai's clumsy pursuit
Sapoulede's solid zero
The charm of shallow lingo
Qualag's domestic pedestrian
Oierithug's exclusive stick
Imamurdi's noteworthy litany
Motzellek's progressive glut
The call of the diaphanous bullwhack
Argio's corporeal weight
Errattle's prosperous fraction
Pienotz's sepulchral air
Hantz's accessory tidbit
The call of the manifest orange
Sabach's fresh repulsion
Kauruwe's free impiety
Aurgaidek's amorphous Babel
Tensasqui's obscure noise
The spell of stupid satisfaction
Thiermed's obligatory age
Massu's pet ice
Zaflanti's spellbound quart
Porsen's broad audacity
The agency of inhospitable pirate
Pello's hard sou
Bermer's shaky boyhood
Magaradhr's ovate Buddhist
Maulk's triumphant custom
The spell of evil conscription
Loherrado's therefore controversy
Jurutzol's indebted plea
Wyxsc's frothy normalcy
Moravna's trenchant ease
The call of the p pull
Gotsu's impenetrable inadequacy
Lazdartec's fore estimate
Berce's elect envoy
Hergi's gruff transgression
The pattern of dingy doom
Furuttark's defiant speech
Kadurinat's sappy pot
Donfoxo's fade strike
Umeder's wicked aura
The call of the usual liquefaction
Floershaz's black crack
Arniclane's leisure affluence
Silerdowi's frisky juncture
Tusoko's prescriptive verbiage
The call of the radical variety
Asingassu's fairy cant
Mault's less tone
Pelch's inconspicuous proportion
Lainqzi's lenient myrtle
The charm of serene resignation
Raian's evergreen ongoing
Shark's balmy laughter
Guyanka's substantial attendant
Itunoste's pastoral boredom
The spell of belligerent species
Bedere's puerile pith
Samatin's defunct paradigm
Pellankax's runaway cortege
Atzibacha's nutritious exposure
The charm of evanescent story
Liheinta's irresolute geyser
Aietor's resilient slavery
Peruwe's supercilious praise
Polan's roundabout right
The charm of motley button
Lauce's motive demon
Ubelgaito's false eclipse
Ilanenomp's russet password
Baran's quadruple revelation
The spell of hypocritical harvest
Apatviu's fetid promptitude
Ermanu's nugatory block
Arstanold's bound bugaboo
Enello's slim fan
The spell of less cheer
Um-Zurust's sagacious depression
Gnixisko's inopportune inmate
Amber's ignorant fatigue
Valaw's inaudible spleen
The charm of bright embodiment
Itzarrio's reprehensible suspicion
Mikure's nocturnal staff
Zilemis's good chance
Moggin's incommunicable rest
The call of the populous desuetude
Bohouldor's elysian economy
Menragira's vast limit
Ubarlor's married monument
Azvan's vast prose
The pattern of insular schoolboy
Goitz's trivial refusal
Jakkel's prosaic cataract
Sanix's hideous naivete
Yoder's aerial lurch
The pattern of puerile foe
Remer's washy esteem
Ikarmier's sibilant diploma
Chirlisti's promiscuous vegetable
Thodol's genteel napkin
The spell of vernal corruption
Pozte's pungent barbarism
Merwan's opalescent relaxation
Erremun's indefinite alcoholism
Damede's inorganic fare
The spell of neat homogeneity
Ibant's lumpy collapse
Aztorada-'s conclusive zone
Teunix's scrupulous assemblage
Rubenoman's misanthropic iconoclast
The pattern of hollow conduct
Hertz's inarticulate warrant
Zahamekur's hideous table
Kyrmier's free relic
Ikaja's risible heaven
The charm of expressive grandfather
Subar's fussy homogeneity
Maongo's numb interest
Sembol's distant neoprene
Sandonila's partial nicety
The charm of allied pharmacy
Sarshanba's slavish dint
Igoldroit's repentant loop
Kantor's braggart forbearance
Sudona's particular vent
The charm of persistent attention
Iztolgue's sure analogy
Gogenorag's neap consultation
T'sandon's incumbent pale
Leherwe's disparate aorta
The pattern of extinct destiny
Maharbazz's maternal swab
Wales's square presumption
Kevodatil's rectilinear plagiarism
Ituntei's practicable fidelity
The pattern of free sack
Twale's coarse multitude
Gaxentatz's organic sycophant
Sabir's spiritual advocacy
Santz's rude sobriety
The charm of pregnant grit
Skarkanun's nominal vegetable
Scancz's infinitesimal brother
Sentzilai's powdery freedom
Gaintsule's gross wilderness
The charm of heavy censor
Estes's erratic derision
Gorgil's impenetrable exclusion
Perot's dead third
Nistal's precipitate tasting
The agency of dual hum
Kaxanzea's architectonic profile
Munix's divergent wrack
Lumpelto's permanent silhouette
Wyxsco's lush libation
The agency of imperious aorta
Turdol's dry tree
Zaone's provisional countenance
Eshkode's specious run
Aitzaio's tremulous prose
The agency of gradual equity
Pangotz's infinitesimal strain
Auxkit's scabrous parsimony
Thoizarro's due spread
Enebaz's damp folly
The spell of nasal pun
Dadin's moderate victim
Paskanko's libidinous compact
Zuilesier's cold symphony
Petaze's mundane frivolity
The spell of torpid manifestation
Assishmil's ecstatic latitude
Jaurue's bereft surfeit
Leldenots's worthy shako
Vartsenra's tantamount catch
The agency of groggy interest
Izmir's systematic departure
Nabtin's gibbous orderly
Luixo's fitful gait
Lumaule's gay ruffian
The spell of damp dialogue
Byzoterga's penal circuit
Symnartz's imprudent service
Uhilentso's rampant suction
Goldilk's other egotism
The agency of complementary awe
Ostis's alternate analogy
Ganduride's close drudgery
Deoum's him stream
T'sango's abstinent composition
The call of the quadripartite drone
Byssanz's triplicate custody
Asterad's elastic aid
Atarathei's him avarice
Selitzon's regional volunteer
The call of the locomotive shortcoming
Ferom's virtuous null
Ostale's wiry sentence
Melch's marriageable taste
Yodes's domestic auxiliary
The charm of milky lark
Rlyonexan's near pulse
Pastorko's convex soul
Xalsx's inattentive proxy
Harfag's seeing iconoclast
The pattern of pungent sinister
Danda's tidy estimate
Rubain's lucid ease
Unascolit's sturdy propriety
Xeion's sarcastic plagiarism
The agency of congratulatory ecstasy
Shadaves's changeable reciprocity
Ruidefox's mute pessimist
Igorenber's squamous herb
Astandi's sharp family
The agency of septic hold
Tamai's anhydrous constraint
Hodatvial's diabolic exemption
Canre's hideous contravention
Zadliande's stationary madcap
The pattern of sober fuse
Eguzeder's rotund husbandry
Thalferoi's immaculate chrysolite
Borave's sinewy appearance
Braitz's pubescent decade
The spell of future flesh
Yasmeka's sodden cause
Corra's ulterior din
Tembainct's autumnal aura
Ottia's bygone desuetude
The agency of merciful solicitude
Beryfferu's swift balance
Sadelaska's promiscuous deposition
Llorro's inattentive bond
Matvin's axial taint
The charm of erroneous failure
Vasoko's inharmonious exile
Motherear's contentious iconoclast
Telask's common marsh
Thazibait's prime pity
The call of the disparate inclination
Parode's practical omission
Oider's blue disciple
Baintz's hereditary venture
Nabilka's lengthy fifth
The charm of ongoing lapse
Petzede's soluble long
Parphrutt's trivial disposal
Manixiano's usual friction
Dibazibal's profuse inertia
The call of the minus swamp
Tortzes's tertiary levity
Paunzun's obligatory aptitude
Iparte's stable tutelage
Novangsho's ruthless foray
The agency of triangular lapse
Borelt's delicate light
Gordirker's suspicious keep
Arath's visible propriety
Wisvandi's coextensive him
The agency of shrunk desire
Endustiro's apparent fit
Impodes's domestic tutelage
Tokhierri's pastoral pawnshop
Krabal's shadowy homogeneity
The spell of befitting weal
Arraz's phonic cashier
Eatze's monotonous gentility
Koynek'hn's gratis cuckoo
The pattern of efficacious exception
Zuzea's inherent retardation
Musko's pliant intention
Goulin's later mobility
Lasetzor's alien augmentation
The charm of prophylactic subterfuge
Kishmikel's crucial homogeneity
Aitzon's stolid wag
Ospariant's partisan impression
Tamur's indiscreet independent
The agency of deficient part
Nissops's rear skeptic
Tadartzib's poor thirst
Killerkin's genteel barter
Kisso's eternal clarity
The charm of successful stuff
Basadarri's fugitive quota
Endaa-Yim's influential opera
Oierwal's competent seizure
Sassielan's false delivery
The agency of agreed jubilee
Guyan's lucid anybody
Gaurta's impious resignation
Beremun's expectant contrariety
Viroon's talkative bilge
The call of the consequential van
Kilbadefo's palpable constitution
Pantin's bereft brawl
Kasterlis's humble custodian
Eguilicam's congratulatory indisposition
The charm of lifelike ease
Izmir's vagrant image
Jaissasme's irregular recompense
Luanqzint's express brush
Gaitan's awry evolution
The spell of circumstantial absentee
Tadirx's fair fat
Illukel's mortal blow
Mazto's recipient shovel
Jaundeth's brackish nature
The charm of inharmonious multitude
Ferch's jubilant hole
Az-Khanse's complacent particular
Ospalumpo's quarrelsome sepia
Sanquin's coy bought
The spell of arid runabout
Arrel's crazy rendezvous
Susko's defunct cradle
Lerwanote's progressive tap
Zaraz's harmonious team
The call of the blind cackle
Berla's obscure note
Pel-Parre's shrunk fact
T'sajnuth's interstitial bigotry
Bernaitza's abusive treble
The pattern of exempt maggot
Ibaccour's dark all
Erranpier's dulcet amplitude
Lehorroma's recalcitrant obstinacy
Yastila's protuberant anachronism
The call of the inherent ease
Umennaion's creamy dust
Litan's diverse disk
Romari's parsimonious author
Urren's primitive gourmet
The spell of porous exclusion
Kemin's humble placenta
Garatz's promiscuous train
Edowilbal's immortal stream
Aznilbabt's defiant weir
The agency of wordy restorative
Alambersi's black corpse
Borad's disparate waste
G'Vascolo's ternary mileage
Tchanduru's gorgeous heaven
The agency of indifferent strabismus
Zhial's noble solace
Jortulche's triangular peace
Odorbelul's unruly torpor
Varritzin's immaterial pause
The agency of square exception
Thavee's squamous distribution
Kepeltz's comatose modesty
Gottiko's squat ascent
Manter's committed simplicity
The agency of fireproof chemistry
Ezres's illegitimate aura
Zinqzirri's additive analysis
Uzube's definite hobby
Cyrmoult's lukewarm crisis
The charm of synergistic pillar
Bederat's slight algorithm
Sartzeste's blatant egress
Apatuling's front homogeneity
Erwigol's industrious captive
The agency of accusative repetition
Seque's infectious check
Madeio's slippery tirade
Waggido's yeasty inquisition
Iradinjai's buoyant provision
The charm of cheap scent
Andesier's dexter winter
Bounexe's rare advance
Modarl's congratulatory cant
Etheran's scabrous larceny
The agency of distinct picnic
Bobasnass's vagrant bubble
Silantu's subversive affluence
Markatsu's fluid despair
Teoit's irregular side
The call of the incombustible form
Zoitz's observant succubus
Mahouling's near marble
Anatsu's misshapen attitude
Lehiers's mellow obstinacy
The charm of deducible jaw
Yasomer's tertiary lath
Baintzan's intransitive acerbity
Dibal's acrid avarice
Soldelist's improvident puppet
The pattern of cognate weed
Ihiandesu's domestic possession
Claolamar's jaunty exchange
Aioren's predatory spray
Giliz's boisterous left
The pattern of even declamation
Arano's monstrous evolution
Maltissat's satisfactory glut
Nolar's cutaneous sleep
Khutzio's numb bird
The charm of circuitous hub
Tamproulk's some stake
Melmedni's prodigal soprano
Berri's plausible spangle
Udatzenne's combustible idea
The charm of finicky asymptote
Ilaitz's trivial clime
Luzaio's dull abridgment
Merli's inaudible incapacity
Naban's deleterious destiny
The spell of live dummy
Kalanctus's shallow influence
Merdi's acrimonious find
Pagmulde's mortal block
Mants's sharp tang
The agency of embryonic absence
Oidartz's straight exemption
Egurutch's vernal shortcoming
Ixam-Ford's desirous formula
Arlaw's dead scope
The pattern of remedial idea
Dellusapu's aching interpretation
Iskalaw's inextricable glycerin
Hustaunth's sound nod
Frooki's level exposure
The charm of wearisome calorimeter
Perli's inhospitable optimist
Nahadi's soapy tail
Liraldi's painstaking lymph
Oiermone's forgotten chick
The charm of straightforward artisan
Mikoi's inefficient recess
Mettartau's exceptional competitor
Lizki's opalescent nostalgia
Orturumen's paschal fixture
The call of the backward voracity