Cockatrice Name Generator

Sound-root 'krass' (the crow-and-hiss) + sharp basilisk ending

He was hatched in a forgotten cellar and has never seen the sky, and the rats of the cellar learned long ago not to meet his eye.

Best for A young gaze-killer cockatrice of the lower halls

Latin 'ovum' (egg) + sharp ending — the egg-hatched

She was the only one of her clutch and the hen that laid the egg was put to the axe, which is the usual way of these things.

Best for A cockatrice hatched of an error

Latin 'saxum' (stone) + soft basilisk-queen ending

Her chamber is lined with the stone forms of those who came to take her, and she uses the nearest as a perch.

Best for An old basilisk-kin cockatrice whose gaze petrifies

Latin 'strix' (the screech-owl, a night-bird of ill omen) + agent suffix

He was hatched after sundown, and the old rule that his kind kill with a look did not take; he only stops, and that is its own horror.

Best for A night-hatched cockatrice whose gaze only freezes

Latin 'gallus' (the cockerel) + noble suffix

He crows at the false dawn, an hour before any honest cock, and the village he lives above has learned to wake early.

Best for A winged cockatrice of the crowing dawn

Latin 'vipera' (viper) + sharp serpent-ending

Her body is more serpent than bird, and she moves without sound, which the older hunters say is the worse sign.

Best for A serpent-bodied cockatrice of the southern stones

Latin 'intueri' (to look upon, to gaze) + agent suffix

He is the only one of his kind who hunts by daylight, and the open ground he walks is left empty for a season afterwards.

Best for A gaze-killer cockatrice of the open field

Latin 'carduus' (thistle, the prickled plant) + sharp ending

She nests in thorn and thistle where nothing else will go, and her comb is the colour of the dry bloom.

Best for A small winged cockatrice of the wasteland

Latin 'venator'/'venatrix' (huntress) + basilisk ending

She has held one ruin for so long that the road that led to it has been forgotten, and the road's stones are now part of her wall.

Best for A female basilisk-kin cockatrice of the old ruin

Greek 'petra' (stone) + sharp basilisk ending

He has not moved from his stone in living memory, and some hold he has become part of it, which does not stop his gaze.

Best for An elder basilisk-kin of the deep cave

English 'crest' (the cockerel's comb) + sharp ending

His comb is the red of fresh blood, and he displays it before he strikes, which is more warning than his kind usually give.

Best for A proud cockatrice of the bright comb

Latin 'nox'/'noct-' (night) + sharp ending

She moves only by moonlight and freezes what she sees, and the moon-frozen are said to walk again at the new moon, which no one has confirmed.

Best for A night-hatched cockatrice of the moonlit yard