Dragon Name Generator
Do you need breath that can consume concrete? Do you have an energetic desire for gold? Does taking off through the sky as a megisterial animal of the air sound like a great time? Provided that this is true, at that point surrender to the call of the dragons, with our dragon name generator!
About Dragon Names
We made this generator in 2019. We needed to construct something that made names suitable for the epic Dungeons and Dragons campaign we were playing with our friends, yet that would also work for World of Warcraft and other online RPGs. The dragon artwork is by a wonderful craftsman friend of mine called Jamie Carr, who was important for that epic Dungeons and Dragons campaign!
Dragon Names in Mythology
For what reason are myths about dragons so universal in human societies? As per anthropologist David E Jones, this is because dragons are an inventive combination of the entirety of our natural predators. They look like large cats, venomous snakes, and ruthless birds at the same time. At the point when we lived in trees a huge number of years ago, these hunters were our greatest threats, and fear of them is customized deep into our DNA. Dragons are aldo connected with fire, and frequently abide in deep waterways - two more natural threats to our safety.
In Akkadian and Mesopotamian mythology Ušumgallu, Bašmu and Mušmaḫḫū are three dragons or snakes. Ušumgallu signifies "great dragon"; in Sumerian and he is typically described as a dragon-lion demon, Bašmu signifies "venomous snake"; and he is depicted as a horned snake with two forelegs and wings, and Mušmaḫḫū signifies "exalted serpent" and he is described as a hybrid of snake, lion, and bird.
In ancient Babylonian mythology, the goddess of the salt ocean is portrayed as a huge ocean snake called Tiamat, who mates with the lord of the fresh waters called Abzu or Apsu, who is depicted as a lion-like winged animal. Together they make the more youthful divine beings, who later kill Abzu to usurp his role as lord of the universe. Tiamat is enraged and makes the principal dragons, filling their bodies with venom rather than blood.
Dragons are even depicted in the Bible. In the Book of Psalms, the ocean dragon called Leviathan is killed by Yahweh as a component of the making of the world. In Revelations, the creator describes an animal he calls the Great Red Dragon, which has seven heads, ten horns, seven crowns, and a gigantic tail.
In Ancient Greek mythology, a dragon-like monster called Typhon who has 100 snake heads that breathe fire is killed by Zeus, while the comparatively named Python, who is portrayed as a snake or a dragon that lives at the focal point of the earth, is killed by Apollo with poisoned arrows. Heracles, in the interim, is the slayer of a water dragon with numerous heads called the Hydra of Lerna.
Unnamed Dragons
In the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, Beowulf fights with a dragon who is enraged by a slave taking a jeweled cup from its lair. As opposed to popular thinking, the dragon isn't Grendel, or Grendel's mom, these two monsters are believed to be giants who are the descendants of Cain.
Maybe the most well-known legend is about a dragon who plagues Silene in Libya. It lives in a lake and regurgitates venom that harms the countryside. It is killed by Saint George, who occurs across the dragon similarly as the princess of Silene has been left as a sacrifice. Saint George skewers the dragon with his lance and afterward rope it with the Princess' support and leads it back to Silene. The whole town consents to change over to Christianity when George kills the dragon.
Dragon Names in Chinese Mythology
China has a tremendous and intriguing mythology about dragons, where unlike the remainder of the world they are viewed as positive forces and symbols of karma and success. There are numerous dragons in Chinese traditional writings, and they regularly derive from the suffix- long, which is the Chinese word for dragon.
Dragons in Chinese mythology include Tianlong (sublime dragon), Shenlong (god/thunder dragon), Fucanglong (shrouded treasure dragon), Dilong (earth dragon), Jiaolong (crocodile dragon), Panlong (wound dragon), Feilong (flying dragon), Qinglong (purplish blue dragon), Qiulong (twisting dragon), Zhulong (light dragon), and Chilong (devil dragon). A few names derive from the prefix long-, for example, Longwang (dragon kings), and Longma (dragon horse). Different dragons don't have long as a component of their name. For instance, Hong (rainbow snake), Shen (goliath shellfish, ocean beast), Bashe (ba snake), and Teng (soaring snake).
Dragons in Folklore
One intriguing British legend is a story about a dragon called The White Worm, or The Lambton Worm. As per nearby old stories, the youthful John Lambton from the Lambton Estate in County Durham was a defiant individual who missed church to go fishing in the River Wear. John gets a little eel-like animal that he proclaims to be the devil, and he throws the eel down a nearby well. A long time later, John disappears to fight in the crusades. Then, the eel develops into a gigantic white snake that harms the well and eats the livestock. The worm rises out of the well and wraps itself over a neighborhood hill seven times. The White Worm threatens the zone for various years until John gets back home and vanquishes it by covering his protective layer in spear heads.
