In Westeros, a Valyrian steel sword is worth more than a castle, and every one has a name. This Game of Thrones sword name generator makes new ones in the same style, to suit the house that carries them: wolves and winter, lions and gold, krakens and salt, dragons and fire, stags and storms, roses and summer.
How Westeros names its swords
- One cold word. The Starks' great sword is simply Ice. Dawn, the Daynes' pale sword, was said to be forged from a fallen star.
- A sigil. House Mormont's bear gave Longclaw its pommel and its name; Jon Snow had the pommel recarved as a wolf.
- A lady. House Corbray's sword is Lady Forlorn; Visenya Targaryen's was Dark Sister.
- A sorrow. Heartsbane, Lamentation and Widow's Wail: these are not happy swords. When Tywin Lannister had Ice melted down into two new blades, King Joffrey named his Widow's Wail.
- A deed. Orphan-Maker and Red Rain say what they did.
Valyrian steel
Valyrian steel was made in the Freehold of Valyria before its Doom, with spells now lost. It never needs sharpening, it's lighter than ordinary steel, and no one alive knows how to make more. A house that owns one keeps its name for centuries; a house that loses one, like the Lannisters with Brightroar, never quite gets over it.
Choose "Name and blade" to say what kind of sword it is: Valyrian steel, or good castle-forged steel for a house that can't afford the real thing.
Naming a sword for your house
- Start with the sigil. A wolf house names swords like a northern winter; a kraken house like the sea. Pick the house style that fits.
- Give it a past. Who forged it, who lost it, who took it back? Westeros swords change hands at weddings, battles and very bad dinners.
- Reforge it. Ice became Oathkeeper and Widow's Wail. A broken or melted sword deserves a new name, and a grudge.