Dragon Names

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#1

Onelostroad

Dec 29, 2014 22:05:20

Can anyone point me to a good resource for dragon names? A list of established dragon names or an easy method for coming up with names for the specific types of dragons would be helpful (I noticed in the starter adventure a green dragon with a poison breath weapon had a "poison" based name, "Venomfang."). My google searching has been surprisingly unhelpful.

 

Thank you!

#2

DM_HEEGZ

Dec 29, 2014 22:37:30

Here is the old 3ed Dragons of Faerun document, called the Roll Call of Dragons. It is basically a huge list of dragons in the FR.

 

the archived web page with background info:

 

http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/we/20060913a

 

direct download of the zip:

 

http://archive.wizards.com/dnd/files/DoF_spreadsheet.zip

 

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also these:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dragons

#3

Delazar78

Dec 30, 2014 2:57:58

I actually very luch like the names of "A Song of Ice and Fire" dragons


◾Drogon,
◾Rhaegal,
◾Viserion,

◾ Balerion,
◾ Meraxes,
◾ Vhagar,
◾Sunfyre,
◾Vermithrax,
◾Ghiscar,
◾Valryon-
◾Essovius-
◾Archonei-

 

Vermithrax is my favorite...

#4

Onelostroad

Dec 30, 2014 4:37:54

Thank you both... the links were extremely helpful!

#5

ThatOtherGuy

Dec 30, 2014 5:05:21

http://draconic.twilightrealm.com/

 

This is a draconic language generator, based off of old WotC stuff, with added in stuff. You could use the language to make your own dragon names with ease.

 

Also, the 3.5 Draconomicon is amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg

 

As I remember it, DnD dragon names are quite long.

 

Using the translator, Venom Fang translates into 'Imgodidjesk'

 

#6

cowleymen

Dec 31, 2014 12:09:29

VenomFang is more then likely just his name in common. I tend to treat draconic like Latin, the route of most toungues, espically common. But that has more to do with my easy use of langueges in dnd, which is to use Latin for draconic, english for common, french for halfling, and deutsch for orc. and then random langueges for other races (russian for dwarfs, Japanese for elves) ect. Makes it so much easier then trying to learn any version of Elvish from online sources.

 

SPeaking of which, any really high quality links for learning Tolkien fantasy languages?

#7

vectner

Dec 31, 2014 16:33:38

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#9

Slyck314

Jan 02, 2015 11:48:21

I've been going with a Asterix and Obelix kinda theme where my dragons have long names with lots of X's and such.