Dragon Names Starting with X

Name: Xylosis

MeaningOriginDescriptionWood DecayGreekBrings rot to healthy forestsA dragon would sayNelkzeshliterally forest · acidchromatic dialect

Green Chromatic Dragon

Name: Xanthus

MeaningOriginDescriptionYellow-GreenGreekToxic-colored destroyerA dragon would sayKersthovzalkliterally sun · hue · greenchromatic dialect

European Dragon

Name: Xerxes

MeaningOriginDescriptionRulerPersianA dominant territory holderA dragon would sayTorkliterally lordcore Draconic

Bronze Metallic Dragon

Name: Xiangtong

MeaningOriginDescriptionRinging BronzeChineseAncient and dignified like ceremonial bronzewareEtymologyChinese xiǎngtóng (响铜), the tin-rich bronze cast for gongs and cymbals, from xiǎng ("to sound, to ring") + tóng ("copper, bronze"); the bank's "bronze vessel" is not what the word says.Say itshyang-TONGA gong-bronze name; the Yellow Sea station notes that an adult calling across open water carries the same long decay as a struck gong, and that the sound is heard below the surface first.A dragon would sayVrashglishstortengliterally roar · crystal · earth · metalmetallic dialect

Copper Metallic Dragon

Name: Xantos

MeaningOriginDescriptionGoldenGreekDescribes metallic sheenEtymologyGreek xanthós (ξανθός, "yellow, golden, tawny"); Xanthos was the name of a river, a city and one of Achilles' horses.Say itZAN-tosGreek for the tawny yellow of hair and horses, which is the colour of a copper wyrmling before the red deepens.A dragon would sayKhorvliterally goldmetallic dialect

Lunar Dragon

Name: Xenon

MeaningOriginDescriptionStrangeGreekA mysterious lunar entityEtymologyGreek xénon (ξένον), neuter of xénos ("strange, foreign"), the noble gas named for it in 1898.Say itZEE-nonThe stranger; the archive's word for an individual logged once and never matched to a family group.A dragon would sayShtormeskliterally outside · mortalcore Draconic

Copper Metallic Dragon

Name: Xenith

MeaningOriginDescriptionStranger KingFantasyMysterious rulerEtymologyCoined name; English zenith (from Arabic samt ar-ra's, "direction of the head", by way of a medieval misreading) respelled with an x; neither stranger nor king is in the parts.Say itZEE-nithA generic height name; the Atacama station uses it for a copper at the top of its climb, directly overhead.A dragon would sayShtormeskkharthliterally outside · mortal · sovereignmetallic dialect

Mesoamerican Dragon

Name: Xiuhcoatl

MeaningOriginDescriptionFire SerpentAztecA turquoise-colored dragon symbolizing lightning and celestial fireA dragon would sayKherslethliterally fire · serpentcore Draconic

Crystal Dragon

Name: Xenotine

MeaningOriginDescriptionVain HonourGreekA brown dragon with rare earth elementsEtymologyA spelling of xenotime, from Greek kenós (κενός, "vain, empty") + timḗ (τιμή, "honour"), Beudant's 1832 rebuke to a false claim of a new element, misprinted kenó- as xeno-.Say itZEN-oh-teenA stone named for a mistaken claim is the right name for the brown rare-earth adults, which were entered in the register as a new species twice before the scale chemistry matched.A dragon would sayZénootiinby soundgem dialect

Amethyst Dragon

Name: Xenolith

MeaningOriginDescriptionStrange StoneGreekUnusual crystalline dragonEtymologyGreek xénos (ξένος, "strange, foreign") + líthos (λίθος, "stone"); the geological term for a rock fragment enclosed in a different rock, in use since 1894.Say itZEN-oh-lithGeologists use it for a foreign fragment caught in another rock; the survey uses it for the adult that turned up in an earth dragon hall, where amethyst galleries open off the main range.A dragon would sayShtorméskstorliterally outside · mortal · earthgem dialect

Topaz Dragon

Name: Xihuang

MeaningOriginDescriptionDawn CrystalChineseNamed for the morning sun reflecting through topaz crystalsEtymologyChinese reading of xī (曦, "early sunlight") + huáng (璜, "jade ornament"); the pairing is not an attested name and huáng could equally be 黄 ("yellow").Say itshee-HWAHNGThe scales refract low morning light in the same warm pattern as the gem, which is when the archive's clearest photographs of this type were taken.A dragon would sayKélhshglishliterally dawn · crystalgem dialect

Opal Dragon

Name: Xanadu

MeaningOriginDescriptionUpper CapitalMongolianReferences ideal natureEtymologyChinese Shàngdū (上都, "upper capital"), Kublai Khan's summer seat, through Coleridge's spelling; not a Mongolian word and not "paradise".Say itZAN-ah-dooColeridge's pleasure dome with its sunny caves of ice is filed in the archive as a second-hand account of a geothermal lair lined with opal.A dragon would sayZenáaduuby soundgem dialect

Moonstone Dragon

Name: Xena

MeaningOriginDescriptionHospitableGreekWelcoming dragon with friendly demeanorEtymologyGreek xénos (ξένος, "stranger, guest"), the root of xenía ("hospitality"); the given name is modern, with a Russian Xenia (Kseniya) behind it.Say itZEE-nahThe Greek guest-friendship, which the description's mediator role turns into: the 2009 Andean record has two other species leaving a shared water source unharmed.A dragon would sayRéthliterally friendgem dialect

Moonstone Dragon

Name: Xandra

MeaningOriginDescriptionDefenderGreekProtective dragon with guardian natureEtymologyShort form of Alexandra, Greek Aléxandros, from aléxein ("to defend") + anḗr, andrós ("man"): "defender of men".Say itZAN-drahThe defender, on the one documented fight for this type: the 2017 clutch defence that lasted until dawn.A dragon would sayShérth-orliterally defend · -ergem dialect

Dragon Turtle

Name: Xuan Wu

MeaningOriginDescriptionDark WarriorChinesePowerful deity symbolized by an intertwined turtle and snakeEtymologyChinese Xuánwǔ (玄武): xuán ("dark, mysterious") + wǔ ("martial, warrior"); the same guardian as Genbu, later worshipped as the god Zhenwu.Say itshwen-WOOThe Daoist name for the same guardian; the temple records that call it black as deep water match the shell colour of adults logged in the East China Sea.A dragon would saySkurdrekh-orliterally dark · fight · -ercore Draconic

European Dragon

Name: Xavier

MeaningOriginDescriptionNew HouseFrenchAn innovative dragon adapting to changing timesA dragon would sayNeshthernliterally new · laircore Draconic

European Dragon

Name: Xander

MeaningOriginDescriptionDefender of PeopleGreekA dragon protecting human settlementsA dragon would sayMesksherth-orliterally mortal · defend · -ercore Draconic

Middle Eastern Dragon

Name: Xiaolong

MeaningOriginDescriptionDawn DragonPersianDragon that brings the morning lightA dragon would sayKelshkhathliterally dawn · dragoncore Draconic

MeaningOriginDescriptionGlory LightPersianRadiant dragonA dragon would sayVreshthaarliterally honor · lightcore Draconic