About Wordhoard

Wordhoard is a themed name and passphrase generator. The name comes from the Old English wordhord — literally "word-hoard" — used in Beowulf and other Anglo-Saxon poetry to mean a poet's stock of vocabulary. It seemed apt for a site whose purpose is exactly that: a curated hoard of words you can draw from.

Why themed passphrases?

Strong passwords are usually pictured as random gibberish (f8K!2pq#x). They are unmemorable, so people write them down or reuse them. Themed passphrases solve this: a phrase like Aelfric-Stormblade-Ravenkeep-2847 is roughly 47 bits of entropy — stronger than most 8-character random passwords — and considerably easier to remember because it tells a small story.

Why themed names?

Picking the right character name for a tabletop game, novel, or worldbuilding project takes longer than it should. The classic fantasy-name-generator tradition is solid for variety, but every name comes from somewhere — and most "fantasy" generators secretly mix in trademarked names from copyrighted works. Wordhoard's word banks are drawn entirely from public-domain sources: Old Norse sagas, Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Arthurian cycle (pre-1928), Greek and Latin classical texts, and real medieval naming patterns.

The wedge

Most password generators do not care what the password says. Most name generators do not care how strong the resulting "name" would be as a password. Wordhoard does both, because the underlying word banks are useful for either purpose. Pick a theme, generate something memorable, use it however you like — it never leaves your browser.

How it works

The site is built in Astro and hosted on Cloudflare Pages. All generation runs client-side in JavaScript; nothing you generate is sent to or logged by any server. There is no account, no database, no telemetry on the values you produce.

Contact

Questions, feedback, or noticed an entry in a word bank that should not be there? Email corey@spiegelweb.com.