David Howery
Hero
so did I. One of the best books I own for the job is one of the otherwise execrable Conan collection of stories by assorted authors (Conan the Swordsman).... the stories are dreck, but there is a big index in the back that lists every name used in all of the stories by REH and others, and the historical basis behind each of them... I mined that index over and over for NPC names....I use a lot of historical names for npcs. There's Jugurtha (bad guy); Zenobia (npc captive rescued by pcs); etc.