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Malachite is a male young green dragon.
He shows up in the town of Silverton with his bandits demanding the people pay tribute. The PCs won't be able to pay for themselves and their loved ones, as they are low level. The bandits inform them that they'll just have to make sure they can pay double the next time.
When the party returns from adventuring to collect enough money they find that Malachite has killed/enslaved their loved ones.
Options
- Abandoned gnomish mine. Excellent for dungeon crawling, and not as abandoned as you might think.
- Crater. A falling star landed here. The promise of starmetal is a good hook for young adventurers, but something else is lingering here.
- Capital. The mayor of Silverton sends the party to ask the king to send his knights. Unfortunately, the knights are busy trying to stop a gold dragon from avenging her fallen children.
- Bandit hideout. While taking out Malachite would be suicide, his bandits are a lot easier to eliminate.
- Malachite's Lair. Malachite considers the entire forest as his territory. He makes good use of his Woodland Stride ability. Included is a false lair, his true lair and a new gnomish gem mine, where the enslaved gnomes toil for Malachite.
http://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/name/#monstrous
Simply use human names, afterall, most of them get nicknamed by humans (or elves, or dwarves), while their true name is something only spoken in draconic.
http://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/name/#monstrous
I get Lili and Nina all the time rolling for female draconic names.
I use descriptive names, translated to Welsh. If necessary, I modify the spelling.
I've used a similar approach for assorted names in my world, using different languages (Gaidhlig, Old English, Norse, Romanian, Japanese), and sometimes adapting the final spellings to make them easier to pronounce.
Here's some welsh name components for you OP:
ufel (fire)
ffagl (flame)
crafanc (claw)
cen (scale)
dant (tooth)
diegwan (mighty)
grymus (mighty)
mawr (great)
mawreddog (majestic)
adain (wing)
aden (wing)
asgell (wing)
draig (dragon)
genau-goeg (lizard)
swyn (magic)
hud (magic)
lledrith (magic)
cynoeswr (ancient)
braw (terror)
cysgod (shadow)
So you could have for example Swynufel (Magic Fire), Mawfagl (Mighty Flame), Cynoeswraden (Ancient Wing) and Cysgodbraw (Shadow Terror).
Ah internet translators!!!!
Moar Welsh, bastardized for RPGs!!!
rough (garw)
edge (ymyl)
Ymylgarwa of the Rough spines
OR
tooth (dant)
broken (torri)
Torridantas the Broken Toothed
OR
maiden (forwyn)
weird (rhyfedd)
Rhivethforwin the Strange Daughter
(though weird maiden together is forwyn 'n annaearol so also"
Forwinannaer the Wyrd Sister
OR
sly (cyfrwys)
sharer (rhannwr)
Cyfrwysrannur Secretkeeper/The Crafty
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Dragon#Named_Dragons
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Sweet! Now what about group names? As it stands I know that the first couple of dragon hunts they pull are probably going to be against some drakes, most likely in groups called rampages. I'm trying to think of some interesting names or naming sites that might work well for spitting out names for these groups, akin to how we name gangs or large weather events. Anyone have any ideas?
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http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Pointless/AnimalGroups.html
I'd especially suggest convocation, boil, unkindness, descent, exultation, or scourge
Though incredibly cool not what I meant.
I'm looking for sites that generate or some ideas for names of individual rampages of drakes.
Like a flame drake rampage that is scorching the fields north of town could gain a nickname like The Scorched Earth Rampage, or Burner Boys or something to that effect. I want naming them to feel kind of like a combination of a bandit gain and a force of nature, a reckless trouble for humanity but something that is neither human nor really controllable or predictable by most human wills.
One of the dragon themed books mentioned dragon names having lots of X, Z, V and Y.
Such as Zitroxal, Amxeriden, Aravel, Ponvytera and other weird sounding made up words.
I usually just rub my face on the keyboard and then edit that to my syllabic sense...
as
deadfagsej
ashg
safadaghyj
awetryu
zesaxocivibegh
aselduffaghemaj
According to Magic these should do
(I was tired so I thought what the hell)
EDIT: Edited the Names
I did say to edit them...
That's much easier then.
Just pick one dragon related word, then pick a fire or random word, mix it. And voile.
The ash scale group. Brimstone wings. Greenhaven fire breathers. My Little Red wreckers. Firestorm time. Regular burn. Blargon's secret dragons. Power burn drakes. Destroyer the pacifist dragon. Red, Crimson n' Rose
In all honesty, WE'RE probably the best name generators you can get..well, when we actually know what we're talking about (ironically I have nothing to input, sorry!)
Smaug, all dragons are named Smaug (except those called Fluffy Bunny).
I just translate random descriptions and/or vulgarities into Macedonian and transliterate it.
Xa Hoi is the Dragon-ruled country in Tian Xia that is majority Human population, yet the local language (for Humans too) is Draconic. Yet the whole country's vibe is clearly Vietnamese. So logically, Draconic = Vietnamese. Use a bunch of Vietnamese names/terms for what you need.
According to Wondermark, a group of dragon is called a "Dignity."
Or as a friend of mine put it, "If a group of dragons wasn't dignified, it'd get broken up by the cops."