MeaningOriginDescriptionShadowLatinA dragon of lunar shadowsEtymologyLatin umbra ("shadow, shade"); in astronomy the full shadow the earth throws on the moon in an eclipse.Say itUM-brahThe earth's shadow on the moon; the teams log the type flying into the umbra and staying there for the length of totality, the one time it is not lit.A dragon would saySkurliterally darkcore DraconicBrass Metallic Dragon
Name: Uraeus
MeaningOriginDescriptionRising SerpentEgyptianThe rearing cobra on the pharaoh's browEtymologyLatinised Greek ouraîos, from Egyptian jꜥrt ("the rearing cobra", from a root "to rise up"); the serpent on the royal crown.Say ityoo-REE-usThe rearing posture on the crown is the posture the survey photographs most: a brass adult risen on its hind legs to talk over a dune.A dragon would sayGersslethliterally up · serpentmetallic dialectCopper Metallic Dragon
Name: Urox
MeaningOriginDescriptionAncient OneFantasyReferences ageEtymologyCoined name; echoes aurochs (Old High German ūrohso, the wild ox) rather than any word for age.Say itYOOR-oksA generic age name; the station uses it for the oldest adult on the Great Basin books, whose patina is unbroken green.A dragon would sayThersliterally ancientmetallic dialectCopper Metallic Dragon
Name: Urix
MeaningOriginDescriptionUnity MakerFantasySocial referenceEtymologyCoined name; no language supplies any element, and the -ix ending is decorative.Say itYOOR-iksA generic unity name; the station has no adult it uses it for.A dragon would sayTekkrev-orliterally one · make · -ermetallic dialectGold Metallic Dragon
Name: Uriel
MeaningOriginDescriptionLight of GodHebrewArchangel of lightEtymologyHebrew ʾŪrīʾēl (אוּרִיאֵל), from ʾūr ("light, flame") + ʾēl ("God"); the archangel of light in Jewish and Christian tradition.Say itOOR-ee-elThe archangel set to guard a gate with a flaming sword is, in the archive's reading, a gold adult at a lair entrance with its flame cone lit.A dragon would sayThakhthaarliterally god · lightmetallic dialectFire Dragon
Name: Uwabami
MeaningOriginDescriptionGreat SnakeJapaneseForest dragon with natural flamesEtymologyJapanese uwabami (蟒蛇, "great snake"), and by extension a heavy drinker.Say itoo-wah-BAH-meeThe Japanese survey's word for an adult that drains a village's sake stores, which the Orochi story records.A dragon would sayKhorslethliterally great · serpentcore DraconicWater Dragon
Name: Ushio
MeaningOriginDescriptionTideJapaneseRider of the turning tideEtymologyJapanese ushio (潮, "tide, tidal current, sea water"); a given name, most often masculine.Say itOO-shee-ohAdults time their movements through reef channels to the tide, and the Japanese survey teams time their dives to the same table so as not to meet one in the passage.A dragon would saySholvliterally wavecore DraconicSea Serpent
Name: Undine
MeaningOriginDescriptionWaveLatinElemental water spiritEtymologyCoined by Paracelsus in the sixteenth century from Latin unda ("wave") for his water elementals.Say itUN-deenParacelsus's water elemental is the alchemists' name for what surface watchers saw: a shape under the swell that moved against the current.A dragon would saySholvliterally wavecore DraconicEarth Dragon
Name: Urqu
MeaningOriginDescriptionMountainQuechuaMountain male of the high rangeEtymologyFrom Quechua urqu ("mountain"; also "male", of animals).Say itOOR-kooThe Andean survey shorthand for a male that patrols a single peak and rarely leaves it, consistent with the preference for solitude the lore records.A dragon would saySkornliterally mountaincore DraconicCrystal Dragon
Name: Unakite
MeaningOriginDescriptionWhite Mountain StoneGeographicA pink and green dragon with spotted patternsEtymologyNamed for the Unaka Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, from Cherokee unega ("white"), + the mineral suffix -ite.Say itYOO-nah-kyteThe pink and green spotting of the description is the granite it is named for, and the Appalachian population wears it as camouflage against the same rock.A dragon would sayFeskskórnstorliterally white · mountain · earthgem dialectCrystal Dragon
Name: Uvite
MeaningOriginDescriptionUva TourmalineGeographicA dark dragon with tourmaline structureEtymologyNamed in 1929 for Uva Province in Sri Lanka, its first locality, + the mineral suffix -ite; a dark tourmaline.Say itOO-vyteThe dark adults with tourmaline structure are the Sri Lankan hill population; the light-bearer gloss the bank once gave them is nowhere in the survey record.A dragon would sayYúuldhaitby soundgem dialectCrystal Dragon
Name: Uranophane
MeaningOriginDescriptionUranium GlowGreekA yellow dragon with monoclinic formEtymologyUranium (named for the planet Uranus, Greek Ouranós, "sky") + Greek phaínesthai (φαίνεσθαι, "to appear, shine"); a yellow uranium silicate.Say ityoo-RAN-oh-faynThe yellow adults of the description are the population the safety notes treat as a radiation hazard as well as a dragon, and the survey teams read the scale glow under UV from well beyond 500 m.A dragon would sayYúrranaahyeenby soundgem dialectAmethyst Dragon
Name: Urjuwan
MeaningOriginDescriptionRoyal PurpleArabicThe purple of the ancient dyeEtymologyArabic urjuwān (أرجوان, "purple, Tyrian purple"), from Aramaic argwān, ultimately Akkadian argamannu ("purple wool").Say itur-joo-WAHNThe oldest purple word in the bank, four thousand years old in Akkadian, for a species whose elders the memorial in the contemplation gallery dates in millennia.A dragon would sayKhárthpolhvliterally sovereign · purplegem dialectLunar Dragon
Name: Ursa
MeaningOriginDescriptionBearLatinA protective lunar dragonEtymologyLatin ursa ("she-bear"), the Great and Little Bear constellations, the second of which holds the pole star.Say itUR-sahThe Bears turn around the pole, and the teams' longest tracks of the type show the same circle, an animal holding its heading on the pole star through a whole night.A dragon would sayBraskliterally beastcore DraconicRuby Dragon
Name: Ugra
MeaningOriginDescriptionFierceSanskritFierce, mighty, an epithet of RudraEtymologySanskrit ugra (उग्र, "fierce, mighty, terrible"), from the root vaj/uj ("to be strong"); an epithet of Rudra and a Vedic personal name.Say itOOG-rahThe Vedic word for a fierceness that is also strength; the Himalayan survey reserves it for the territorial adult that has driven off three helicopter overflights, each time from more than the 500 m the IDRI protocol requires.A dragon would sayGróskliterally wildgem dialectRuby Dragon
Name: Ushas
MeaningOriginDescriptionDawnSanskritVedic dawn, daughter of the skyEtymologySanskrit Uṣas (उषस्, "dawn"), the Vedic goddess of dawn, from the root vas ("to shine"); cognate with Greek Eos and Latin Aurora.Say itOO-shusThe Rigveda's dawn arrives red and drives the cattle out; the archive reads the hymns as the earliest Indian account of a morning flight over pasture, which the Deccan herders still report the same way.A dragon would sayKélhshliterally dawngem dialectRuby Dragon
Name: Ula
MeaningOriginDescriptionSacred RedHawaiianScarlet, the colour of chiefsEtymologyHawaiian ʻula ("red, scarlet; sacred"), the colour reserved for chiefs; from Proto-Polynesian *kula ("red").Say itOO-lahThe Hawaiian red is also the sacred colour, and the Pacific survey has one unconfirmed sighting over Haleakalā, filed because the ranger who reported it used this word and no other.A dragon would sayShréthbrakhliterally sacred · redgem dialectObsidian Dragon
Name: Umbraxis
MeaningOriginDescriptionShadow AxisLatinMaster of shadowsEtymologyCoined name; Latin umbra ("shadow") + axis ("axle, pivot"), or umbra with a decorative -axis ending; no Latin form exists.Say itum-BRAK-sisThe name the search logs favour for the type; the survey reads it as the pivot of a shadow, the point a resting adult turns on when the sun moves and its outline stops matching the outcrop.A dragon would saySkúrkyelhvliterally dark · path · stargem dialectObsidian Dragon
Name: Umbranox
MeaningOriginDescriptionShadow NightLatinNight shadow dragonEtymologyCoined name; Latin umbra ("shadow") + nox ("night"), two real words in a compound Latin never made.Say itUM-brah-noksA shadow inside the night is what the observer has to find; the parabolic recording protocol was written for this type as much as any, because sound is all there is.A dragon would saySkúrnurkhliterally dark · nightgem dialectObsidian Dragon
Name: Umbraxis Rex
MeaningOriginDescriptionShadow KingLatinKing of shadowsEtymologyCoined name; Umbraxis (see Umbraxis) + Latin rēx ("king").Say itum-BRAK-sis REKSThe dominant animal of a system as the search logs name it; the register keeps the epithet because two teams use it.A dragon would saySkúrkharthliterally dark · sovereigngem dialectObsidian Dragon
Name: Umbrastone
MeaningOriginDescriptionShadow StoneLatin/EnglishRock of shadowsEtymologyLatin umbra ("shadow") + English stone (Old English stān), a hybrid compound.Say itUM-brah-stohnThe team's name for a scale that has been in the ground long enough to lose its sheen; indistinguishable from the outcrop until it is picked up and found to be warm.A dragon would saySkúrstorliterally dark · earthgem dialectOpal Dragon
Name: Upala
MeaningOriginDescriptionPrecious StoneSanskritThe stone that gave opal its nameEtymologySanskrit upala (उपल, "stone, rock, precious stone"); the likely source, through Greek opállios and Latin opalus, of the English word opal.Say itOO-pah-lahThe oldest word on the type's trail; the Sanskrit for stone reached Rome as the name of the gem, and the lore's opal-lined nests are where the archive says the trade began.A dragon would sayDróshstorliterally hoard · earthgem dialectOpal Dragon
Name: Usha
MeaningOriginDescriptionDawn GoddessSanskritVedic dawn, sister of nightEtymologySanskrit Uṣas (उषस्, "dawn"), the Vedic goddess of the dawn, cognate with Latin aurora and Greek Ēṓs; Hindi Usha.Say itOO-shahThe Rigveda's dawn arrives in a chariot of light and drives the dark off the mountains; the Himalayan survey reads the hymns as a dawn display by an adult on the ridge.A dragon would sayKélhshthakhliterally dawn · godgem dialectOpal Dragon
Name: Urania
MeaningOriginDescriptionOf the SkyGreekReferences celestial natureEtymologyGreek Ouranía (Οὐρανία, "heavenly"), from ouranós ("sky"); the Muse of astronomy.Say ityoo-RAY-nee-ahThe Muse of astronomy; the archive reads the type's high-altitude cruising and interest in intellectual discourse into the choice.A dragon would sayTéshliterally skygem dialectOpal Dragon
Name: Unity
MeaningOriginDescriptionOnenessLatinReferences wholenessEtymologyLatin unitas ("oneness"), from unus ("one").Say itYOO-nih-teeThe loose social structure of the lore has one exception: the survey teams have twice seen a whole range's adults gather at a single hot spring for a night.A dragon would sayYúuniɾiby soundgem dialectGarnet Dragon
Name: Uvarovite
MeaningOriginDescriptionUvarov's StoneMineralogyNamed after bright green garnetEtymologyNamed in 1832 by Hess for Count Sergei Uvarov, Russian statesman and mineral collector, with the mineral suffix -ite; the name carries no meaning of "emerald" or "soul".Say itoo-VAR-oh-vyteThe chromium-green garnet of the Urals, found in crystals too small to cut; the Ural teams use the name for the green glint at the scale margin of an adult raised on chromite.A dragon would sayYúuldharaaldhaitby soundgem dialectGarnet Dragon
Name: Ulaan
MeaningOriginDescriptionRedMongolianRed of the AltaiEtymologyMongolian ulaan (улаан, "red"), the word in Ulaanbaatar ("red hero").Say itoo-LAHNThe red of the Altai, where the first documented sighting of any dragon was made in 1742; the Mongolian survey's word for the type is the plain word for the colour.A dragon would sayBrákhliterally redgem dialectMoonstone Dragon
Name: Uma
MeaningOriginDescriptionSplendourSanskritIlluminating dragon with bright pearl-like scalesEtymologySanskrit umā (उमा), "splendour, light; tranquillity", and a name of the goddess Parvati; also glossed "flax" and, by folk etymology, "O do not".Say itOO-mahSplendour and tranquillity in one word suit the description's pairing of iridescent scales with a philosophical temperament; the Himalayan team applies it to the oldest female on record.A dragon would sayBélhshliterally beautifulgem dialectDragon Turtle
Name: Umibozu
MeaningOriginDescriptionSea MonkJapaneseDark head that rises beside shipsEtymologyJapanese umibōzu (海坊主, "sea monk"), from umi ("sea") + bōzu ("Buddhist monk, shaven head"); the sea spirit that rises as a huge dark head beside a ship.Say itoo-mee-BOH-zooA vast bald head rising beside a boat at night is the description in every umibozu account and in every surfacing report the Japanese survey holds; the archive treats them as one document.A dragon would sayShorkshen-orliterally sea · know · -ercore DraconicDragon Turtle
Name: Undertow
MeaningOriginDescriptionDeep CurrentEnglishManipulator of ocean streamsEtymologyEnglish under + tow (Old English togian, "to pull"); the seaward pull beneath breaking surf.Say itUN-der-tohThe undertow off a submerged adult is strong enough to take swimmers from a beach; the public warning signs on the Pacific coasts are the archive's doing.A dragon would sayDulvshemliterally deep · rivercore DraconicDragon Turtle
Name: Umi
MeaningOriginDescriptionSeaJapaneseSeaEtymologyJapanese umi (海, "sea"); a feminine given name.Say itOO-meeThe sea itself, given as a name; the coastal shrines list their offerings to the umi rather than to the animal, which the archive reads as the safer form of address.A dragon would sayShorkliterally seacore DraconicDragon Turtle
Name: Undertide
MeaningOriginDescriptionHidden TideEnglishMaster of hidden flowsEtymologyCoined name; English under + tide on the pattern of undertow.Say itUN-der-tydeThe pull an adult makes beneath a calm surface as it turns; the sign is a tide running against the tide tables.A dragon would saySkov-ensholvliterally hide · -ed · wavecore DraconicSea Serpent
Name: Umihebi
MeaningOriginDescriptionSea SnakeJapaneseSea snake of the Ryukyu reefsEtymologyJapanese umihebi (海蛇), from umi ("sea") + hebi ("snake"); the sea snakes of the Ryukyu Islands, and a name for the constellation Hydra.Say itoo-mee-HEH-beeThe plain Japanese word for a sea snake; the Ryukyu survey uses it for juveniles under five metres, which hunt the reef edge the way the small sea snakes do.A dragon would sayShorkslethliterally sea · serpentcore DraconicEuropean Dragon
Name: Ulrich
MeaningOriginDescriptionWolf PowerGermanicA swift and cunning mountain dragonA dragon would sayVorsh-orkhostliterally hunt · -er · powercore DraconicEuropean Dragon
MeaningOriginDescriptionGloryNorseA prestigious dragon of high standingA dragon would sayVreshliterally honorcore DraconicMiddle Eastern Dragon
Name: Uridimmu
MeaningOriginDescriptionMad LionBabylonianDragon with leonine featuresA dragon would sayTorkabraskliterally lord · beastcore DraconicMiddle Eastern Dragon
Name: Utug
MeaningOriginDescriptionDay WatcherSumerianGuardian dragon of the sunA dragon would sayTashskor-orliterally day · see · -ercore DraconicMiddle Eastern Dragon
Name: Utu
MeaningOriginDescriptionDay LordSumerianDragon of daylightA dragon would sayTashtorkliterally day · lordcore DraconicMiddle Eastern Dragon
Name: Utnapishtim
MeaningOriginDescriptionLife FinderBabylonianImmortal dragonA dragon would sayAtneepishtimby soundcore Draconic
