Dracolich Name Generator

Names for undead dragons and their phylacteries

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Generate names for dracoliches and other undead dragons: Draconic names with a death epithet like Vorthaxiul the Hollow Flame, fallen dragons like Goldmourn, whispered names like Old Rattlewing and cult titles like The Unsetting Crown.

About dracolich names

Dracolich is a Dungeons & Dragons word for a dragon that chose undeath: its spirit is bound into a gem that works like a lich's phylactery, and what remains of the body is bone, dry hide and spite. The published ones set the naming pattern. Dragotha is the undead dragon of the Greyhawk setting, and the Forgotten Realms has Daurgothoth the Creeping Doom and Ebondeath. Each is a long Draconic name, worn smooth by centuries, and the best known carry an epithet of death.

Most of the list follows that pattern and varies the epithet widely: Vorthaxiul the Hollow Flame, Skarnaugreth Boneglacier, Tamburlaugh, Slain and Unconvinced. The rest covers what a campaign needs around such a creature. Former chromatic dragons keep the old breath weapon in the name (Voltherax, Dead Lightning). Fallen metallic dragons carry a tragic title (The Silver That Broke Its Oath). Villagers use short names they can whisper (Old Rattlewing, Himself Below), and a cult uses grand ones (The Unsetting Crown).

There are also bone, ash, grave and frost bynames, zombie and skeletal dragons named by the necromancer who raised them (Stitchwing, Opus Seven), ghost dragons, and a handful of phylactery names, each marked as a gem and not a dragon. Apart from Dragotha and Daurgothoth, every name is invented for this page.

How to choose dracolich names

  • Write the living dragon first. Decide what color it was and what it wanted, then let death wear the name down: a red dragon becomes Old Cinderlung or The Red That Went Gray, a gold one becomes Goldmourn.
  • Give it three names for three kinds of speaker: a full Draconic name with an epithet for sages, a short whispered name for villagers (The Landlord, Old Tithe) and a title for its cult (The Abiding One).
  • Name the phylactery too. Players who hear of The Soul Gem of Kaurgathis have a quest, and the name of the gem can hint at where it is hidden.
  • Match the name to the kind of undead. A dracolich keeps its mind, so it gets a proud name; a skeletal or zombie dragon is a tool, and its maker names it like one: Hearse, Gatepost, Vessa's Second Attempt.
  • Say the long names aloud before the session. If Mhaeldrothuun the Long Dying trips you up at the table, shorten it the way the villagers would.

Frequently asked questions

What is a dracolich?

In Dungeons & Dragons, a dracolich is a dragon that became undead on purpose, with the help of spellcasters, so that it would never die of age. Its spirit is kept in a gem that works like a lich's phylactery, and it keeps its mind, its hoard and its breath weapon. The names here also suit other undead dragons, such as skeletal, zombie and ghost dragons.

Are these names from the published D&D books?

Two are. Dragotha, from the Greyhawk setting, and Daurgothoth, from the Forgotten Realms, are in the list as anchors for the style. Every other name is invented for this page and is not taken from a published adventure. This site has no connection with the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons.

How do I name a dracolich that used to be a good dragon?

Keep a trace of what it was and add what it lost. The list has dozens of fallen metallic dragons, such as The Silver That Broke Its Oath, Tarnished Selvyrion, Goldmourn and The Protector Who Stayed Too Long. A fallen gold or silver dragon is a tragedy first and a monster second, so the title should sound like grief.

Can I use these names in Pathfinder or my own setting?

Yes. Nothing here depends on one rule set. Pathfinder has its own word for an undead dragon, the ravener, and a long Draconic name with a death epithet fits one just as well. For a home-made world, the villagers' names and the cult titles need no changes at all.

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A: 17 names

  • Acridmaw
  • Aeolunthe the Tallow-Eyed
  • Afterglow in the Sockets
  • Agramaunthos the Knell
  • Amrikethis of the Thousand-Year Wake
  • Ancient Beyond Ending
  • Argenthuriel, the Fallen Kindness
  • Arghalomunt Who Refused the Grave

A, continued

  • Ashglide
  • Ashknell
  • Ashpinion
  • Ashrime
  • Ashspine
  • Auld Clack
  • Aumbraskelith, Whose Glance Is a Grave
  • Aurelimaxis, Once the Gold of Morning
  • Azuvharn the Silent Thunder

B: 20 names

  • Baelomirrax, Death's Truant
  • Barrowback
  • Bellows, the Wheezing Drake
  • Belzuthraine, Widow of the Sky
  • Bendrikhimar, Bell of the Barrow
  • Biershadow
  • Birdcage Ribs
  • Bonedrift
  • Bonegale
  • Boneharrow

B, continued

  • Bonehoar
  • Bonewind
  • Bonewrack
  • Borthameguin, Pallbearer of Kings
  • Brakkumgar the Parched
  • Brandulvex, Last Coal of the Red Brood
  • Brasshollow
  • Brenzithyr the Second Death
  • Bronze Castellan of the Sunken Keep
  • Bronze Warden No More

C: 22 names

  • Cairnwing
  • Candle Eyes
  • Carmighedron, Undertaker of Armies
  • Cauldrovessin the Requiem
  • Cendrivaxul, Ember Gone Cold
  • Charnel Sky
  • Charnelcrest
  • Charwing the Twice-Burnt
  • Chillbarrow
  • Chillshade
  • Chlorvessith the Stale Breath

C, continued

  • Cinderskull
  • Coldshadow
  • Copperwit Gone Quiet
  • Corraxumeld the Unwept
  • Corrosmaul
  • Corwen's Bone Engine
  • Corwen's Number Nine
  • Corwen's Puppet-Drake
  • Cryptfrost
  • Cuprevaneth the Verdigris Saint
  • Cymbrauthiel, Death's Debtor

D: 15 names

  • Daurgothoth
  • Dawnless Auranthir
  • Deadwinter
  • Delvoraumast, Sexton of the Peaks
  • Dhravengaul the Withered Wing
  • Dolgharumaine of the Debt Unpaid
  • Don't-Look-Up
  • Dowager of Dry Thunder
  • Dragotha
  • Draumelkathis the Threnody
  • Druvenaskyr the Soul-Anchored
  • Dulled Argentine
  • Durnkhaggor the Desiccated
  • Dustfather
  • Dustpinion

E: 15 names

  • Echo of Aurvandryx
  • Eirundahl Witchfire-Eyed
  • Ekhsumarond, Lord of Dry Scales
  • Elder of the Last Scale
  • Ellasivrene Who Would Not Leave Her Post
  • Elthamauris, Hero of the Wrong Ending
  • Emberghast
  • Enthrigomir, Gravedigger of Legions
  • Erskavinth, the Reaper's Oversight
  • Erzhakenn the Marrowless
  • Eskellomaur, Last Hymn of the Mountain
  • Etchjaw
  • Etherscale
  • Exalted of the Emptied Scale
  • Ezharvouth the Lantern-Eyed

F: 13 names

  • Falmourekhast, Last of the Elder Brood
  • Felgomenth the Barrow-Coiled
  • Fenmirighal the Overdue
  • Fetch, the Necromancer's Hound-Wyrm
  • First Among the Returned
  • Fogscale
  • Frostcrypt
  • Frostknell
  • Frostpall
  • Froststill
  • Frostvigil
  • Fumewraith
  • Fyndrauthimel, Elegy in Scales

G: 23 names

  • Galvandrix the Spent Bolt
  • Gatepost
  • Gauthremmeld the Eyeless
  • Gendraumolith the Kinless
  • Ghervesimar, the Ribcage Throne
  • Ghilrathumex the Bloodless
  • Ghostfire Veyl
  • Glacier's Remainder
  • Goldmourn
  • Golmathraxun the Eternal Miser
  • Gossamer, Thin as a Shed Skin

G, continued

  • Grace Withheld
  • Graduation Piece
  • Grandfather Bones
  • Granny Gauntwing
  • Gravecandle
  • Gravedraft
  • Graveglint
  • Gravehoar
  • Graverime
  • Gravetalon
  • Greenbronze of the Drowned Harbor
  • Gromdrakkar the Stone-Marrowed

H: 23 names

  • Halcyraunt the Benevolent Dead
  • Halvoraskyne the Tongueless
  • Haunt of the Old Aerie
  • He Who Chose the Gem over the Grave
  • Hearse
  • Her Undecaying Grace
  • Hesprakoulin, Counter of Cold Coins
  • Hespuraxion the Lidless
  • High Wyrm of the Shrouded Rite
  • Him That Was Red
  • Himself Below

H, continued

  • Hinge-and-Rattle
  • His Perpetual Eminence
  • Hoarbone
  • Hoardhaunt
  • Hoarfrost Phantom
  • Hoartooth the Thawless
  • Honorbound, Even Now
  • Horvemestril, Survivor of Its Own Death
  • Hrimvesskar of the Stilled Heart
  • Hsiluvaine, the Shroud over Vessenmoor
  • Hush-Now
  • Hyrmagoth the Sepulchral

I: 12 names

  • Icelocked Vyrsk
  • Icetomb
  • Ignarvoth, the Fire That Forgot Warmth
  • Ilumaureth, the Kindest Tyrant
  • Ilzathronix of the Ninth Century
  • Imbrigathor of the Lungless Howl
  • Indrimegast, Keeper of the Unspent Hoard
  • Iouvareth the Candle-Skulled
  • Irvathoghul of the Final Clutch
  • Iskaldraumeth the Ill-at-Rest
  • Issilmyreth the Ossified
  • Ixenvoraugh, Tenant of His Own Skull

J: 5 names

  • Jalvourethix, the Hoard's Own Ghost
  • Jessumaerthix the Scaleless Sky
  • Jhorvakuleth the Unwarm
  • Jormeghelis the Restless Dust
  • Jurrhavaneth of the Silent Roar

K: 13 names

  • Kaldembris of the Cold Flame
  • Kaurgathis of the Breath Withheld
  • Keeper of the Final Hoard
  • Kelmuzarrith Dustbreather
  • Kemendrialoth, Jealous Beyond Death
  • Kindlewraith
  • Knellthroat
  • Knucklebone
  • Kolvathuun the Balefire
  • Kormaghuleth Bare-Ribbed
  • Krelgoth the Fossil Lord
  • Kyndramaulos the Light Sleeper
  • Kyrzemauth

L: 16 names

  • Lady Rattle
  • Lady Silverash
  • Last Breath
  • Last Guardian of Emrys Vale
  • Last Year's Dragon
  • Leftover, Wyrm of Spare Parts
  • Lethremmagor the Thrice-Entombed
  • Lichclaw

L, continued

  • Lightning-in-a-Skull
  • Lirvethokan the Outlasting
  • Longdead
  • Lord of the Kept Soul
  • Lorthamegis of the Unending Greed
  • Lothrumegix the Hoard-Bound
  • Lumenvaeth the Unbodied Roar
  • Lysanthrauk, Wind-Through-Ribs

M: 18 names

  • Magister Oswin's Folly
  • Maldrek's Thrall-Wyrm
  • Malgrinethir the Age-Eater
  • Marionette of Sinew
  • Master Beyond the Veil
  • Melgorthaneth the Tombward Gale
  • Memory-of-Flame
  • Mercy's End
  • Mesgrilothin, Breaker of Its Own Tomb

M, continued

  • Mhaeldrothuun the Long Dying
  • Miasmaul
  • Mister Clack
  • Moonbone
  • Mornaveghast Clatterwing
  • Morzhakuvess, Queen of What Remains
  • Most Venerable of Bones
  • Mostly Teeth, Some Spine
  • Mother Hollow

N: 10 names

  • Nargimelthis Who Dug Upward
  • Necropolis-on-the-Wing
  • Nembrethioss the Century-Gnawer
  • Nerthekilax the Pall-Winged
  • Nethroghaumir
  • Never-You-Mind
  • Nightglass
  • Nolgrimmoth Rattlejaw
  • Nolthulaghast Cairn-Maker
  • Nykravoldeth, Dusk of Wyrms

O: 33 names

  • Oathrust
  • Obedience, Raised to Heel
  • Ol' Rackety
  • Old Chimney-Cold
  • Old Cinderlung
  • Old Clatter-and-Hush
  • Old Draft
  • Old Dry-Wing
  • Old Gravelvoice
  • Old Hollow Hide
  • Old Kindly, Now Cold

O, continued

  • Old Lanternskull
  • Old Never-Sleeps
  • Old Never-Spring
  • Old Nobreath
  • Old Rattlewing
  • Old Reliable, Dead These Ninety Years
  • Old Sticks
  • Old Stranglebriar
  • Old Tithe
  • Old Yellow-Rib
  • Olgethimmor the Dirge

O, continued

  • Olmendrikith the Cairn-Breaker
  • Ondrasmeth the Never-Buried
  • Opus Seven
  • Orichalvex, Saint of the Empty Shrine
  • Ormegathuul
  • Orrumvakhys the Wakeful Coil
  • Oskaurelmith, Older Than Its Grave
  • Ossendrakhul
  • Oswin's Doorstop
  • Oszumrakeid the Hoard-Wraith
  • Othmerakhuul Yellowtusk

P: 16 names

  • Pallfeather
  • Parvaunghast, Old Ivory
  • Patchscale
  • Patina, Green to the Marrow
  • Patron of the Black Chalice
  • Peldrimagost the Twice-Slain
  • Pendrauvokar Who Waits Below
  • Phantom of Kessar Peak

P, continued

  • Phylactery Gem: The Unblinking Garnet
  • Phylactery Stone of the Hollow Flame
  • Phylactery: The Tithe-Ruby
  • Pitted Old Varnak
  • Platinum's Shame
  • Pyre-Without-Heat
  • Pyrmegathiel the Unsealed
  • Pyrraxelmund, the Burnt-Out Star

Q: 5 names

  • Qheluvraskar the Gem-Bound
  • Quarvessoth Chalkbones
  • Quelmiridoth the Ivory Tyrant
  • Quelsivarre, Mourned by Paladins
  • Quorlamygeth of the Long Patience

R: 13 names

  • Rackabones
  • Raelzumidar the Patient Ruin
  • Raskomauthil, the Elsewhere-Hearted
  • Regent of Every Grave
  • Regret-in-Gold
  • Remathregh of the Shed Flesh
  • Rhovazumeth of the Unending Vigil
  • Rimegaunt
  • Rimejaw Without Breath
  • Rimerib
  • Rimeshroud
  • Rostrummagar the Mold-Crowned
  • Ruvenkhalis the Thrice-Slain

S: 38 names

  • Saint of the Long Night
  • Scorchbone Varrimaul
  • Seams the Restitched
  • Secondhand Skeleton
  • See-Through Sarn
  • Selgraumadyr, Spirit-in-Stone
  • Sepulcherhorn
  • Serevanthe the Unforgiven Silver
  • Shade of the Ninth Roost
  • She Who Guards the Vale Still
  • Shessavaune the Calcified Queen
  • Shroudspan

S, continued

  • Shutter-Shaker
  • Sir Shamblewing
  • Sirkhenndral, Mourner of Itself
  • Skarnaugreth Boneglacier
  • Skarnaugreth's Phylactery, the Winter Sapphire
  • Skyfork's Bones
  • Sleetbone
  • Sleetskull
  • Sloughwater Ghaul
  • Smokeless Sarvakh
  • Snowshroud
  • Sootmantle
  • Sornoghaleth the Moth-Eaten Storm

S, continued

  • Sorrow-on-the-Wind
  • Sorrowgilt
  • Soul Gem: The Night Diamond
  • Sourwater
  • Sparkless Uthrendil
  • Sszethariss the Tithe-Taker
  • Starlight Through Scales
  • Stitchwing
  • Stormhusk
  • Sundraveilith the Lichen-Scaled
  • Sutures-and-Scale
  • Syllivask of the Withered Canopy
  • Szorvakheil, Winter's Husk

T: 116 names

  • Tamburlaugh, Slain and Unconvinced
  • Tarnished Selvyrion
  • Thalvorrine the Half-Seen
  • The Abiding One
  • The Acid That Ate Its Maker
  • The Afterimage
  • The Anointed Remains
  • The Apparition of Tolgarth Pass
  • The Apprentice's Mistake
  • The Articulated One
  • The Awaited
  • The Baron's Carriage
  • The Black Pearl Phylactery of Uvrakandiss
  • The Black Tarn's Leavings

T, continued

  • The Blizzard's Skeleton
  • The Blue Tyrant's Remainder
  • The Borrowed Dragon
  • The Brass That Stopped Talking
  • The Cathedral of Ribs
  • The Cold One on the Crag
  • The Cold Spot
  • The Count of Ribs
  • The Creak
  • The Crowned Remainder
  • The Desert's Dry Thunderhead
  • The Dragon's Phylactery, Old Greedy's Eye
  • The Dragon-Shaped Cold
  • The Ember Under the Mountain
  • The Empty One

T, continued

  • The Enduring Majesty
  • The Eternal Wingspan
  • The Everlasting Wing
  • The Flying Mausoleum
  • The Forest's Dead Whisper
  • The Furnace Put Out
  • The Gem's Beloved
  • The Gilded Grief
  • The Glimmer over Marrow Tarn
  • The Glow in the Hoard
  • The Good Dragon's Mistake
  • The Great Remaining
  • The Green Gone Sallow
  • The Hand-Me-Down Drake

T, continued

  • The Hoard's Sigh
  • The Immortal Hoardlord
  • The Knight-Wyrm's Remains
  • The Landlord
  • The Last Exhalation
  • The Late Lord
  • The Lich Lizard
  • The Lighthouse Dragon, Dark
  • The Lingering
  • The Midnight Hierarch
  • The Neighbor in the Mountain
  • The Night Sovereign
  • The Oath's Reward
  • The One Under Barrow Hill
  • The One Who Drank and Rose

T, continued

  • The Patient Sovereign
  • The Phylactery Called Ember's Rest
  • The Phylactery Carnelian of Ixenvoraugh
  • The Promise Kept
  • The Protector Who Stayed Too Long
  • The Quiet Up There
  • The Rattle in the North
  • The Reason We Left
  • The Red That Went Gray
  • The Roar with No Throat
  • The Roost-Ghost
  • The Scaffold Wyrm
  • The Scarecrow Drake
  • The Second Winter

T, continued

  • The Shield That Would Not Be Buried
  • The Shimmer
  • The Sighing Scale
  • The Silver Outline
  • The Silver That Broke Its Oath
  • The Silver Widow of Cloudrest
  • The Soaring Catafalque
  • The Soul Gem of Kaurgathis
  • The Stilled Storm
  • The Stitched Wyrm of Hallow Fen
  • The Tall Bones
  • The Tarnished Sentinel
  • The Thin Dragon
  • The Thing on Tithe Hill
  • The Throne That Does Not Empty

T, continued

  • The Tomorrow King
  • The Translucent Tyrant
  • The Twice-Born Tyrant
  • The Unbodied
  • The Unfailing Hunger
  • The Unsetting Crown
  • The Vantmoor Skeleton
  • The Vessel Fulfilled
  • The Vow That Outlived Its Keeper
  • The Walking Cairn
  • The Whistle on the Ridge
  • The White That Never Thaws
  • The Wing That Isn't There
  • The Winged Ossuary

T, continued

  • The Winged Suzerain
  • Thessomirgh the Unlaid
  • Thirvalesk
  • Thornmere's Poisoned Memory
  • Throkmaudh of the Embalmed Storm
  • Thulvoraxigh the Gaunt
  • Thunder's Ghost
  • Tirgethuul the Fleshless Tyrant
  • Tollkeeper
  • Tormaelughast, Kept in Crystal
  • Totterwing
  • Trellis of Ribs
  • Trundlebones
  • Tyrrhovemex, the Hunger That Stayed
  • Tzolmaugrith, Moss-on-Bone

U: 8 names

  • Uamethrion, the Corpse-Light
  • Ulthraxenor the Last Molt
  • Ulvendramaur the Rootbound
  • Urnscale
  • Urzakhelming the Gray Returning
  • Uskaldrimmor Tombfrost
  • Uvrakandiss, She Who Would Not Lie Down
  • Uzkarrim the Dissolved

V: 17 names

  • Valdorastrix, Sunset of the Gold Brood
  • Valeghmareth, Rider of His Own Bones
  • Vanthimmorgul the Mothwing
  • Vaporcoil
  • Vaporjaw
  • Vendrighamil, Cold as Cellars
  • Venomdry
  • Verdigris Wing

V, continued

  • Vesmiranthul Who Came Back Wrong
  • Vessa's Second Attempt
  • Vessa's Xylophone
  • Vhaelstromaux, the Spite That Outlived Flesh
  • Vitriol-in-Bone
  • Voice of the Hollow Mountain
  • Voltherax, Dead Lightning
  • Vorthaxiul the Hollow Flame
  • Vreskathorn

W: 15 names

  • Whisperwing
  • White Rafters
  • Wickeye
  • Wightscale
  • Will-o'-Wyrm
  • Windchime of Vertebrae
  • Winterbier
  • Wirewing
  • Wisp-of-Wings
  • Wolgarethaine the Revenant Wyrm
  • Wraithscale
  • Wulmorathaine the Dead Sun
  • Wyrmaskelion the Vacant
  • Wyrmfather Eternal
  • Wyrrenthaukos Cobweb-Winged

X: 3 names

  • Xanthoraumel Dust-Mantled
  • Xelgomorith the Black Noon
  • Xirgethrym, Elder of Dust

Y: 8 names

  • Yghuldremmar
  • Yndrakossuth the Risen Tyrant
  • Yon Dead Drake
  • Yrmandraugoss, Eclipse of Wings
  • Ysmerault, Ghost of the Gilded Cave
  • Ysolvagraune the Shroud-Wearer
  • Ysskarrathe, Terror of the Cairnfields
  • Yvorrakesk the Rattling Sky

Z: 6 names

  • Zalgourethim of the Stilling Gaze
  • Zemmirathiel of the Winding Sheet
  • Zha'morrigh the Ghostlit
  • Zhaeluvorn the Cold Furnace
  • Zorgamaunthe
  • Zyrrakenth of the Emptied Hoard