So I'm writing a book. I knocked out 51k words during NaNoWriMo and about 16k more since. As a fantasy book totally dissociated from earth, I wanted nonstandard names. My approach was to rely on an old favorite tool, the markov name generator from donjon. This is the kind of AI that I enjoy: I select the dataset, generate a ton of options, sift out my favorites, then search them to make sure they're not swear words in another language or something. Very manual.

So, for example, the Swordmaker character is generated from a list of types of swords, and I landed on Kokanta. For a couple key later characters, I decided to use a poem for each.

Seanghaken is generated from Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou. I have a lot stoic or serious characters, so the Traveler was meant to bring in joy. She also brings in knowledge, strength, and revelations to the story, as well as indirectly encouraging the main character to feel the same herself. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48985/phenomenal-woman

Tuso is generated from Little Gidding by T.S. Eliot. Tuso is a complicated character, both villain and victim, a ghost from the past, so T.S. Eliot's poem wielding fire as the main metaphor for the devastation, mourning, and morality of WWII. His introduction comes right before a major conflict, and his opinions also represent a certain mortality that doesn't coincide with the main character's, though his insight and experience is still significant and valuable. http://www.columbia.edu/itc/history/winter/w3206/edit/tseliotlittlegidding.html