Guess what I started writing this week:
Yes, my next story! It’s called The Sacrifice. * I’m having all kinds of fun with it! 🙂
But I need some help–with names. 🙂 Could you guys help me? I need a name for a dragon and a German Shepherd dog. I can’t tell you much, but I’ll try and tell you a little about them without giving away any spoilers:
The dragon is fierce and greedy. He is green, about 36 1/2 feet long from head to tail, and he’s a talking dragon–most of my dragons talk. Smaug influence. 🙂 He has wings, and I think he is going to do a lot of flying!
The German Shepherd is big and strong, and very loyal. I can’t really tell you anything about who he belongs to, but he is very close to his master, and knows his voice alone gives commands to be followed.
I need to come up with a name for the dragon before I can write much more, but the German Shepherd doesn’t come in for a while; so I might try to just pick the dragon’s quickly and move on, but narrow down names for the dog and post about it again. We’ll see!
So…
The reason I started writing The Sacrifice is because I finished editing Searching For His Name–except for one thing I need a little help with. Guess what? It’s a name. Like always, but think of the title! 🙂
I need a name for a woman. She and her husband have two sons. They live in a big city, but the men go out and hunt in the surrounding forest. Her last name is Miller. I came up with a name for her but then decided I didn’t like it, so I’m looking for a new one. Could you help me? Please?
Thank you! You guys are awesome!
🙂 ★ 🙂 ★ 🙂
The stars are also courtesy of Skylar! 🙂
* Special thanks to Ellen for helping me pick a name!
I am sure you will have plenty of great suggestions from others, but I wanted to contribute this time 🙂
Possible dragon names: Alastair, Zaldivar, Spartacus, Tiberius
Possible German Shepherd names: Kilian, Lex, Sayer, Blaize
Possible names for the woman: Jecca, Ashleigh, Alizabeth, Viktoria
Good luck with your story!
Thank you for contributing! I love your names! Even if I don’t use them in this story, I might use them somewhere else. I’m thinking about using one of the names that was suggested for Queen Eleanor in a different story I want to write! 🙂
Olivia for the woman…
Is your dog and dragon male or female? I have some ideas…just curious.
Gpa, R.
Both the dog and the dragon are boys. Thanks for thinking of that!
I love it when you ask people for help with your character’s names! It’s so fun! Anyways, here is what I thought of (It isn’t much, I’ll try to think of more later):
DRAGON: Zenas, Drake, Zade
DOG: … I actually couldn’t think of any names for him! I’ll keep thinking :-).
LADY: Violet, Ginger, Sylvia, Mira, Sarah
I’m guessing that you want a normal name for the lady and the dog, and a more exotic one for the dragon? I couldn’t think of much right now, but when I get more ideas, I’ll tell you :-). ~Savannah
Hmm… I definitely want a normal name for the woman and an exotic one for the dragon. I’m not sure about the dog though… the character has a horse too, and she has a name from the Bible that’s kinda’ strange, so probably something similar to that.
More names…
I like Papa’s suggestion of Olivia for the Mrs. Miller but I think your dog would be best with a long or impressive name. Something like Bartholomew, Caesar, or Titan. Titan’s my favorite. The dragon should be Lord Abadalyx the Insatiably Greedy. Pronounced aba-d-al-ix (all a’s make the sound as in cat).
Whoo… I really like Titan. I like the dragon suggest too–but then I would have to have a pronunciation guide, wouldn’t I? 🙂
I guess so. 🙂 It’s a combination of the ancient Greek word for destruction, “abaddon,” and “Chrysophylax,” which is the name of the dragon in JRR Tolkien’s short story “Farmer Giles of Ham.”
More names!
DRAGON: Arceus, Hynarix, Golbez, Thornix, Zenobios, Zeromus (The emphasis is on the ‘o’ and it’s a long ‘o’ in the name Zeromus)
DOG: Cyrus, Caspian, Trevor, Hunter, Matrix
LADY: Fiona, Ava, Brygett
Yes, I know some of the names are kinda ridiculous (A couple of them I made up myself, that could be why), but I thought I would suggest them to you anyways :-). ~Savannah
I really like Thornix as a dragon name–couldn’t say why… maybe because it reminds me of Thorin and there’s a dragon in that story! I don’t mind ridiculous names at all! Whatever I name the dragon in this story, next time I need a name for some exotic creature I’ll look back!
Wow! Names?? Well,
Dragon: I like Titan!
German Shepherd: Prince, Drake, Caspian
Lady: Olivia! I like that name…….
Can’t wait to hear what you decide!
Here’s some more names :-)!
DRAGON: Avazirev (The ‘va’ is pronounced like the ‘va’ in Vaseline, and that’s where the emphasis is), Vladimir, Spyros,
LADY: Priscilla, Maureen
Avazirev was actually a mix of the Latin words for greedy and green. As you can see, I couldn’t think of anything for the dog. Maybe you could give him a bible place name like you did for the horse? ~Savannah
Thanks, Savannah! You’re a machine! 🙂
🙂 ~Savannah
What are the actual Latin words, if you know off the top of your head?
I wrote the Latin words down (So that I would remember them if I needed to), so here they are!
Green: Veridian
Greedy: Avazitia
To make up the name ‘Avazirev’ I mixed up the Latin word for greedy with the backwards Latin word for green … if that makes any sense :-). ~Savannah
Makes sense… but I NEVER would have thought of that! 🙂