Naming the Unnamable

So two weeks ago I started plotting out the basics for a new AD&D campaign. Two weeks later, I have: the first level of a dungeon populated with monsters, riddles, and traps, a small town named Whiteraven that features a handful of interesting NPCs with whom to be interacted; a complete cosmology of 19 deities and several patrons and saints.

Wait, what?

Yeah, on a total whim I was playing around with this name generator and suddenly, ideas began forming.

The idea of 9 philosophical gods (one for each alignment) isn't new to me; the idea has been kicking around my homebrews for years now. However, instead of fanciful names derived from foreign words that may or may not mean what I think they mean (fuck you Babelfish), I used that awesome name generator to generate a series of one- and two-syllable names that followed basic linguistic parameters. Thus, the Ninefold:

LG: Iyah
LN: Iwis
LE: Ixid
NG: Elie
TN: Ual
NE: Rhag
CG: Vai
CN: Wygnolef
CE: Kepk

The whole idea was that these beings were so powerful, they didn't need giant tongue-twisting names to be identified (and here some of my own religious background shows through; Christians follow a god named "I Am," which has always struck me as pretty damn awesome).

The most significant part of these nom de dieu is the final sound. A soft sound equals good, a plosive or sibilant sound denotes neutral, and a hard sound indicates evil.
The lawful deities all begin with the long I sound, because, you know, they're lawful. Pertaining to some code is inherent in their existence.
The neutral and chaotic deities don't follow any pattern within themselves. Personally I'm a fan of Wygnolef, the CN deity. It's the only god with three syllables because, well, fuck it, it's chaotic neutral.

The other 10 gods are the Materials, lesser deities created by the Ninefold to create and influence mortal existence. These have more specific spheres (like a fighter's god, a wizard's god, a dwarf's god, etc). I may detail them in a later post.

Beneath them are the Patrons and Saints, demi-gods similar to Catholic saints, in that they can hear and answer prayers. This list was inspired by and started with one man:

 So yeah, I always get carried away with stuff like this, but D&D has been making me its bitch ever since I've been playing. Hopefully I'm old and wise enough nowadays to realize when to leave well enough alone. Besides, I think 19 deities for 1 town and 1 dungeon is plenty.