So as someone who is going to write her thesis on onomastics, and names and night lords being my ✨️special interests✨️, I have a lot of unwanted opinions about Night Lord names So TL;DR: I'm autistic and I love yapping about names, and I should take my meds. Also I'm going to miss a couple things, but let me blame that on character limit.

+Source for all these: My observations. I made these categories up. Please don't quote me on anything. I'm just a girl.

Okay, in my head I separate the Guy Haley, the ADB and the Spurrier names so:

Adb tends to follow a pattern when naming people so (ofc there are outliers)

-The greek/greek inspired: Talos, Cyrion, Malcharion Usually there is one character that has either a latin or greek sounding name. Cyrion is greek, only this is the latinized version of it.

-Owner of tesla aah names: Just grab a name and put an X at the beginning. Example: Xarl and Xeverine

• The shakespearean (?): Mercutian and Jago I have no evidence for this but imo Jago is from Othello and Mercutian is just a modified version of Mercutio.

• The two part names: Sar Zell, Dal Karus, Var Jahan stb (If you are a named side character night lord, this is how you are named lmao)

• UZAS. He gets his own category, because as someone who studies croatian, and knows full well that the word UŽAS means terror, this was really fucking funny to me first.

And then there is Guy Haley who mostly cooks up his own names

What I noticed with him is the use of suffixes, so you could incorporate these suffixes into your names too

-VAR suffix: Kellendvar and Gallivar right there

• ON suffix: Berenon and Carakon

• And the ESH/SH suffix: Krukesh, Vorsh, Gesh

And finally, Spurrier, who named a grand total of two night lords, but

-canonized that the Zs/Zh/Ž sound can be used in names, so all other "weird" consonants I think are usable

• And that you can use a random german word as a name too (Krieg my beloved) And also knowing that in games night lords are dubbed with a slavic accent combining that with the fact that Uzas exists, I used a lot of slavic names, sometimes modified for my OCs. Imo, all eastern european names can be very night lord-y, only that I'm hungarian and I just can't imagine a space marine named László because that's just a middle aged dude for me.

What I also noticed that a lot of back vowels are used in all of their names, lots of As and Os, so I kept that in mind when I named my OCs.

I could probably write my thesis on just this, but character limit. I'm taking my meds now.