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Anonymous
April 9, 2018

Please Help me name my dragons.

I need names for the Arch Dragons in my Pathfinder game, I have the Chromatic's already, but need names for the Metallic dragons. the name I hope will be as follows.

Brass: Brass, Heal, Friend

Bronze 1: Bronze, Knowledge, Lore

Bronze 2: Bronze, Knowledge, Adventure

Copper: Copper, Playful, Trixter

Gold: Gold, Wize, Righteous

Silver: Silver, Knight, Holy

 

If anyone could please translate these it would be hugely helpful, thank you.

Category: Translation


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Hahdremro
April 10, 2018

Hello there!

Fellow Dungeon Master/Game Master here! I've taken to entirely replacing Draconic with Dovahzul in my campaigns, so I know what you're going for with this. However, if you've already used other Draconic phrases in your campaign, it might be better to look at Pathfinder's version of that fictional language, to keep things consistent. Otherwise, I'll see what I can do for names, but I might need a bit more context for their individual personalities. The words you listed don't exactly translate to Dovahzul, and most of those that do don't really fit the format of a Dovah name.

 

First of all, let's go over the composition of a Dovah name Thu'um. Most Thu'um are composed of three rotmulaag, or Words of Power, which are usually monosyllabic. In short, a Dovah name is made of three single-syllable words in the dragon language. These words usually describe the dragon or its deeds, but not always. Alduin (Al Du In means "Destroy Devour Master") and Paarthurnax (Paar Thur Nax means "Ambition Overlord Cruelty") are good examples of this idea. There are exceptions to these rules, but I personally try to avoid those unless necessary. Read the Lessons sections about Dovah names HERE, and look HERE for a list of canon Dovah names (scroll down to the section about named dragons).

Now, let's get to those dragons! I'll give you a few rotmulaag to put together into a name Thu'um as well as my personal recommendations for good sounding names.

 

Brass: Brass dragons love to talk, so I'm inclined to include that in his name. There's no word for heal, but there is a word for health, so we'll use that instead. The word for friend is fahdon, but that has two syllables and therefore wouldn't fit into a more traditional name Thu'um. Instead, let's use aak, meaning "guide." That's closer to the meaning we want anyway, I think.

Here are some words you can use: (Click on the word to go to the Dictionary page for it, to understand its meaning better!)

ZUL
 ZUL - Talk, speak

H1S
 H1S - Health

1K
 1K - Guide

So, we can combine these rotmulaag to create a name for your brass dragon. Let's try... ZULaakhaas. Or, 1Kzulhaas. Put them together however you'd like!

 

Bronze: There is no word for lore or adventure, so we'll have to look into the personality of the dragon type to figure out some other words to use instead. Bronze dragons are associated with the water... but there is no word in canon Dovahzul for "water," so we'll have to get creative. A few possible words include okaaz "ocean," and rath "river." Since okaaz is two syllables, we'll go with rath instead, even though okaaz is closer to a bronze dragon's element. It seems bronzes are curious when it comes to warfare, too, so perhaps the word kein "war" would be good too. LOok through the Dictionary for another word that you think would fit their individual personalities, or pick a word that is used in a Thu'um in the game Skyrim. (Click HERE to look at a list of Dragon Shouts from the game, complete with translations for each of the words used.) Put those together with the other words here to create a unique name Thu'um for each of the two bronzes you're using.

RATH
 RATH - River

K2N
 K2N - War

 

Copper: This one will probably be much easier due to the nature of copper dragons. A few words that immediately spring to mind are lo "deceive," mey "fool," and rot "word." Combining these together, we can roughly translate it to "deceive fool word," which would be LOmeyrot. The word mey-rot ("fool-word") means "joke" here on thuum.org, even if it's not canonically used that way. I'd say that would be fitting for a copper dragon! Heck, I like it so much that I might use it for my own campaign some day. I'd say LOmeyrot works well, and it's relatively easy for your players to remember too!

LO
 LO - Deceive

M9
 M9 - Fool

ROT
 ROT - Word

 

I don't have time to completely finish the other two dragon names at the moment, but I hope this has helped you so far! LOok through the Dictionary to find words that would fit the personalities of the remaining dragons. I'd recommend words like hah "mind," kul "good," and dez "destiny/fate." There aren't all that many other monosyllabic Dovahzul words to look through, so don't get discouraged! It's worth the trouble to have authentic dragon names for your NPCs! Think of the bragging rights in front of your players, not to mention other DMs!

 

Pruzah dez, wunduniik! Best of luck with your ambitious endeavor, fellow shaper-of-worlds! Hope you find what you're looking for!

 

(Edit: Seems formatting is getting weird on here. It's changing some of my letters to numbers like I'd written them in square brackets to write in runes, even though I haven't done that for most of this. I'll ask someeone to look into it.)


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Zinrahzul
April 10, 2018
Juat a note, those translations are not found in the official Canon. They're made up by fans. There is no official words for bronze, brass, or copper, or silver in game.

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Aldahviir
April 10, 2018

Here's the entire thing translated

Gosis: Gosis, Vahraan, Fahdon

Biin 1: Biin, Mindah, Yoro

Biin 2: Biin, Mindah, Bovit

Mard: Mard, Kiirdaas, Meyvitaan

Yuvon: Yuvon, Onik, Folovar

Silon: Silon, Kendaar, Stahdim