Every demon needs somewhere to come from. This demon realm name generator names infernal kingdoms, layers and circles of a hell, and the fortress cities that rule them, with new names rather than the Nine Hells and abysses of other settings.
Hells in myth and literature
Writers have been mapping hell for a long time, and most of the vocabulary for demon realms comes from a handful of sources:
- Dante's Inferno (early 1300s) divides hell into nine circles, each for a different sin, with the walled city of Dis guarding the lower ones.
- Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) invented the word Pandemonium, "all the demons", as the name of the capital the fallen angels build.
- Gehenna was a real valley outside Jerusalem, whose name became a word for hell. Tartarus was the Greek pit beneath the underworld.
Pick Circle or layer for names in Dante's style, like the Eighth Gate of Ice or the Circle of Chains. Pick Realm for a whole kingdom, like the Ashen Dominion.
Cities and fortresses of the damned
A demon realm needs somewhere to rule from. Choose Infernal city for a fortress or capital, from a bare name like Xulmor to the Citadel of Vorgoth or the Weeping Palace. The made-up names use hard sounds (k, g, th, z) so they sound unfriendly when read aloud.
Whoever lives there will need names too: try the Demon Name Generator and the Demon Epithet Generator for its rulers, and the Tiefling Name Generator for anyone who escaped.
For more of the underworld, see all the fantasy name generators.