A name with footnotes
Wizard names accrete like bibliographies. The given name picks up an academy affiliation, then a specialization, then an epithet conferred by colleagues who needed to distinguish this Maron from the other two in the conclave: Maron of Silverhall, Maron the Evoker, eventually just the Gray Sage if the career goes well. Unlike a sorcerer's name, every addition was earned on paper. A full wizard name is a resume read aloud, and wizards absolutely know it.
The grammar of arcane epithets
Wizardly epithets follow old conventions worth respecting. Color epithets imply seniority and a certain genre weight. School epithets, the Abjurer, the Diviner, work like academic titles. Place epithets, of the Western Tower, claim territory and tenure at once. The generator above grants them at a stingy rate because the culture does too: a young wizard with a grand epithet reads as a fraud to every other wizard in the room, which is itself a fun character to play.
Naming the ambition
Pick the epithet your wizard is reaching for rather than the one they hold, and the name becomes a engine. The apprentice who introduces herself with a title she has not earned is announcing her ambition and her insecurity in four words. The archmage who refuses all epithets and goes by a bare first name is flexing harder than any title could. Roll a few names above, then decide what your wizard wants carved on the tower door in forty years.
This generator's wizard flavor includes epithets like the Learned, Spellweaver, the Studied, and titles like Archmage, Magister, the. About a third of rolled names carry one; the rest stay clean. Click any result to copy it.