Every test suite I write ends up needing throwaway names. Faker is great for "John Smith" and "Acme Inc", but the moment I'm seeding a game's NPC table or a fantasy-app fixture, real-world names look wrong next to a dwarf cleric. So I went down the rabbit hole of procedural name generation. You can get believable fantasy names with nothing but the standard library.
Here's the whole idea in a few lines.
The trick: stitch syllables, don't store names
A lookup table of pre-written names runs dry fast and feels repetitive. Instead you keep small pools of sound fragments per race and assemble a name from one start + optional middle + ending:
import random
