Valyrian Name Lists Expanded – A Submod for CK3AGOT
Valyrian Namelists Expanded is an unofficial submod for CK3AGOT intended to diversify some of the more limited vanilla namelists, namely High Valyrian, but has expanded to include every namelist in the Valyrian and Ghiscari namelist files. As a linguist, much effort has been made to make these names feel as if they would naturally occur in the ASoIF universe (many created from analysis of suffixes and vowel counts in cannon usage of the Valyrian dictionary AGOT built for the show).
View List Here[docs.google.com](Slightly Outdated)
The initial focus of VNE was to add flavor to longer games by giving more diversity to the High and Westerosi Valyrian namelist while trying to not utterly alter their general naming conventions. VNE namelists are weighted, making the names you would normally see more common, ensuring that while there are more names, they won’t dominate your games. The pool of names most changed is the uncommon list, intended to make new names occur every few generations rather than replace the cannon ones. This helps add to immersion, especially in games stretching more than 100 years, where the Targaryens will no longer solely recycle the same 20 names in the books. The amount of High Valyrian first names names have more than doubled, the dynasty names totally reworked, and the Westerosi Valyrian name list is expanded to roughly 1.5x its vanilla size.
After the Dragon Update, their name list was added to the Valyrian file. VNE expands on it with Valyrian inspired names to flesh out the ‘traditional’ dragon names, akin to Vhagar and Meraxes, and names in the common tongue, akin to Dreamfyre and Sheepstealer. These names, however, are rather uncommon as the vanilla list is already quite substantial.
Eventually I set out to expand every list in the file, even those who are not in the game yet, to add flavor to Valyrians in Essos. This mod initially focused on Essosi Valyrian because they didn’t originally have a namelist but due to some inspiration from Legacy of Valyria I fleshed out all name lists (although all added Valyrians in Legacy of Valyria use the Essosi Valyrian name list at the moment).
After playing Legacy of Valyria I wanted a more in depth namelist for the Ghiscari, which doesn’t have any vanilla dynasty names and included a small name list. Rather than make a separate mod for a niche namelist for cultures not natively present in CK3AGOT, I decided to add it to VNE. This helps flesh out Slaver’s Bay. There are now more than 50 new dynasty names and the namelist is doubled in size. The new Ghiscari names are mostly inspired by Babylonian names which have been altered to fit into the setting of ASoIF.
-Save Game compatible unless there’s an update for CK3 AGOT that restructures namelists
-Compatible with any mod that doesn’t change the Valyrian namelist. If you have mods that change namelists, load this mod below it and it will use this Valyrian namelist instead.
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Credit:
-The AGOT Valyrian dictionary has been an exceptional resource for dynastic names
-Some completely new names (mostly in the Essosi list) were taken from a reddit post by u/izzyobro who made a list of all valyrian name prefixes + all valyrian name sufixes
-The idea for patronymic dynastic names came from this post
-A lot of names were taken or altered from the CKII AGOT name lists
-Legacy of Valyria inspired a lot of additions and expansions to this mod
-Chatgpt did a lot of the heavy lifting with the repetitiveness of the localization
Timeline:
Most Recent Update 19 Feb 2026
I have a newborn so updates will be slow for a while. Will do a playthrough and hopefully fix any mistakes with the localization which always seem to slip through (Error log is bugged for me). Will also cull some lesser quality names.
