Dragon Name Generator
This page opens the generator on its dragon set, so the first grid is dragon names rather than a style you have to go and find. The dragon corpus is 44 syllable stems written for this style and used by no other: ak, thrax, vrak, zhul, brizz, hard consonants over short vowels. Where the elf set smooths a join, this one lets it collide, so nokh and thrax run together as Nokhthrax, a consonant run the smooth styles refuse at the seam. Length is the age dial here: Short builds the invented word from one stem and gives a blunt Vyr or Karr, Medium joins two, and Long joins three for the sort of name an ancient wyrm carries, with about half of the words taking one of the set's own endings, ax, ur, iss, orn or ath. Some draws arrive as a title instead of a bare name, as in Brakskalzarax, the Frost Talon. A seed word makes the run repeatable, and the other 30 styles stay one chip away at the top of the stage.
Building names
The chips choose the style, and each one is a different syllable set: Dragon builds character names. Type a seed word to make a run repeatable, or leave it empty for a fresh set every press. The line under each name is a reading cue for the invented word the name is built on, cut at the joins the generator used.
Common questions
- How do I get a name for an ancient wyrm rather than a hatchling?
- Use the Length control, which is the closest thing here to an age dial, and it changes the assembly rather than the display. Short builds the invented word from a single stem, so you get Qor, Narg or Vyr, the blunt kind of name that suits a young drake. Medium joins two stems and Long joins three, which is where Szargrymraskiss and Vorskalbrizzkhar come from. Length also decides which name shapes are in play: a Long draw can arrive as a title, Brakskalzarax, the Frost Talon, while a Short draw may pick up a single epithet word instead, Rhogg Fang. Because length is part of the assembly, the same seed at a different length returns a different list rather than a trimmed one.
- What is the small line under each name?
- It is a reading cue for the invented word, in that word's own letters. The generator cuts the word at the joins it actually made and puts one syllable in capitals for stress, so Kaalnargsarvath reads kaal-NARG-sarv-ath and Nokhthrax reads nokh-THRAX. In a word built from more than one part the capitals fall where the second part begins; a single-part name such as Grak is marked on its only syllable, GRAK. Plain words are left out of the cue rather than guessed at: in Qorzhuldravath, the Quake Crown, only qor-ZHUL-drav-ath is read back, because Quake and Crown are ordinary English words the tool did not invent. No letter is ever respelled, so the cue is a reading aid and not a claim about how any language would say the word.
- Is the dragon list actually different from the orc list?
- Different, and checkably so. Each of the 31 styles owns its stems: the dragon set holds 44 and not one of them appears in any other style's list, so a dragon name cannot come out of the orc or elf corpus and an elf name cannot come out of this one. The shape differs as well. The elf set refuses a seam that stacks consonants or doubles a vowel, which is what makes its names flow, while the dragon set keeps the collision, and that is most of why Nokhthrax and Grakgorrorn sound like something with teeth. The three prefixes here are dra, vor and ka, and the five endings are ax, ur, iss, orn and ath.
- Can I keep the names I like while I generate more?
- Yes, that is what the star beside each name is for. Press it and the name moves to a kept list under the stage with its style and its reading cue, and Copy kept puts that whole list on the clipboard, one name per line. Pressing Generate again leaves what you kept alone, so you can draw several times and collect as you go. Copy all, beside it, copies the grid that is on screen instead, and the Count field takes any whole number from 1 to 100 if you want a bigger sweep in one press. The kept list lives in this tab only and goes when you close it, which is the honest limit: no name, seed or setting is uploaded anywhere.
- How do I get the same dragon names back tomorrow?
- Type a word into the Seed field. With a seed the names come from a small stream started by that word, so the same seed with the dragon style and the same length returns the same names in the same order, on this machine and on any other. Note the word down and the list is reproducible; send the word to the rest of the table rather than the names. Leave the seed empty and every press draws fresh from the browser's cryptographic generator, which cannot be replayed, and a seed of only spaces counts as empty. The style, length, count and seed are remembered in this browser, and the Start over button at the top of the page forgets them.
- Can I use one of these dragon names in a book or a game?
- We place no restriction on it. The stems were written for this tool and the assembly is a rule that runs in the page, so nothing here is taken from a published character list, and no name is licensed to you or withheld from you. What the page cannot tell you is whether a particular string is already a trademark or a known character somewhere, because that is a question about the world and not about this generator. A name can land near a real one by chance, since there are only so many ways to arrange these sounds, so a name you plan to put on a cover is worth a search before you commit to it. The accuracy line under the tool is the authority on all of this.
Every syllable set here is written for this tool and assembled by rule, so a name can land near a real one by chance but is never copied from a published character list. The pronunciation cue is built from the same syllables, so it is a reading aid rather than a claim about any language.