Fourth Wing Dragon Name Generator

The dragons of Rebecca Yarros' Empyrean series have names that feel ancient and clipped, and that is not an accident. Nearly every dragon name in Fourth Wing and Iron Flame is a Scottish Gaelic or Irish word: Sgaeyl echoes sgeul, a tale; Codagh sits close to cogadh, war; Cath is battle; Feirge is anger; Deigh is ice; Aotrom means light or weightless; Teine is fire; Marbh means dead; Fuil is blood; Sliseag is a slice. Even Tairn and Andarna carry that hard-consonant, one-or-two-syllable Gaelic shape. Riders at Basgiath don't choose these names; dragons announce them, and they are usually short enough to shout across a flight field.

Because of that, a convincing Fourth Wing style dragon name is a real Gaelic word for something elemental, violent, or beautiful, spelled the way it appears in the language rather than anglicized. Words for weather (Stoirm, Toirneach, Doineann), landscape (Sgùrr, Creag, Beinn), weapons (Claíomh, Sgian, Faobhar), and abstract virtues or dooms (Dìleas, Cinniúint, Díoltas) all sound at home beside Tairn and Sgaeyl. The list above pairs the canon dragon names with a large set of authentic Gaelic words chosen for exactly that flavor.

Remember that in the books a dragon's name says something about its temperament: Andarna's playfulness versus Sgaeyl's blue-daggertail lethality. Pick a meaning first, then the word.