Carcosa-esque Name Generator
There's lots to love & hate about Geoffrey Mckinney's Carcosa, but one feature that never fails to ignite my imagination is the bizarre naming convention used for high-level NPCs in the hex key:
I've been thinking about the utility of eschewing NPC names for titles ever since stumbling across this amazing list of Castles on the ODD74 forum. Titles have superior information-density; saying "These lands are the domain of the Wolf Tyrant" conveys something of the stakes of crossing into her lands, no follow-up questions needed. Aesthetically, titles feel timeless and avoid the fantasy stereotype of cumbersome invented lexicons.
Of course, Carcosa-style names are potentially self-defeating in their wackiness (are we really supposed to get something useful out of "The Shimmering Curtain of Glory"?), but within the setting's otherworldliness & implacable minimalism they I find them beautifully evocative.
Anyways, I threw together my own Carcosa-inspired title generator (all glory to Paper Elemental for the html generator-generator). I would say that it takes McKinney's work as a jumping-off point and goes in its own, slightly silly direction (not every title is a winner), so YMMV if you want to use it for a Carcosa campaign. Personally, I've been using it to generate names for the Proboscidean Princes in my Castle Mordengard campaign, and in other circumstances would use it to name angels, demons, sorceror-kings, balrogs, etc.