About kobold names
Hisses and doubled consonants drive results like "Vrizzus", "Qreerken", and the mouthful "Gekseeskror". In Pathfinder-inspired games the terse picks such as "Vhes" suit trap-setters and tunnel scouts, while the long ones belong to chieftains with outsized ambitions. The grander the name, the smaller the kobold tends to be, which is half the fun.
How kobold names are built
Single-word names chain fragment banks with one small bank as a repeated connector: a five-part female chain, a male reduplicated form, and reduplicating five-part male variants. The largest bank holds 49 entries. Worked examples from the bank: "Zadrar", "Piskin", "Lathahres".
Dork
Dork (short fragment chain)
Piskin
Pis + kin (fragment chain)
Lathahres
La + thah + res (fragment chain)
Naming notes
Names run scaly and clipped, with hard stops and r clusters (Zadrar, Gotrisk) and short blunt draws (Dork, Grel). The reduplicating patterns add length for formal use. Male and female split on the surrounding banks. For draconic small-folk characters in this style.
Questions about kobold names
- Are these official Kobold names?
- No. They are fan-made names in the Kobold style, with no official status or affiliation.
- Why the clustered consonants?
- Adjacent fragment banks place stops and liquids together, producing forms like "Zadrar" or "Gotrisk".
- How is gender handled?
- Male and female draws use different fragment banks, so a male form like "Heglisser" and a female form sit on separate sound sets rather than a shared ending.