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100 Fantasy Ship Names (With Meanings and Story Ideas)
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100 Fantasy Ship Names (With Meanings and Story Ideas)

Set sail into your next fantasy world with 100 original fantasy ship names, each complete with meanings, inspiration and story ideas. From enchanted vessels and notorious pirate ships to royal flagships, legendary explorers, elegant elven craft and mysterious ships with impossible histories, there are names here for adventures across every kind of fantasy sea — and even the skies above it. Discover ships such as The Wayward Wish, The King’s Regret, The Drowned Saint, The Leviathan’s Daughter, The Ninth Tide, The Astronomer’s Folly and The Borrowed Hour, with ideas to help you transform each name into a vessel with its own history, reputation, secrets and stories.

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