Harpy Name Generator

Greek 'thyella' (storm, whirlwind) + feminine storm-spirit suffix

She flies the front edge of every gale that crosses the strait, and the fishing boats of the coast put in an hour before she is seen.

Best for A storm-harpy matriarch of the leading gust

Greek 'krys' (cold) + 'thaix' (cutting wind) — original compound of two wind-stems

She flies higher than any hawk and is said to be the cold that takes the breath from a climber on the last ridge.

Best for A wind-harpy of the high gust

Greek 'phthora' (spoiling, ruin, the rotting) + storm-spirit suffix

She settles on food left in the open and the food goes bad within a heartbeat, which is the original function after which her kind is named.

Best for A plague-harpy of the rotting air

Greek 'vrex' (to wet, to rain-strike) + flowing storm-suffix

She follows the cold rain and is said to be the reason a wet garment on the line is sometimes found torn the next morning.

Best for A storm-harpy of the cold rain

Greek 'kremnos' (cliff, overhanging rock) + sea-nest suffix

Her nest is on a cliff so sheer that the spray reaches it on a high tide, and the eggs there have never been taken by any hand.

Best for A cliff-harpy of the sea-nest

Greek 'skymna' (cub, young of a beast) + storm-spirit suffix adapted

She has only flown in three storms and is still learning which gusts will carry her and which will drop her.

Best for A young storm-harpy of the first squall

Greek 'aithyr' (high air, the open sky) + flowing storm-suffix

She rides the high thermals that no other winged thing can reach, and her cry is the only sign of her that anyone on the ground ever hears.

Best for A wind-harpy of the upper air

Greek 'rhipazo' (to dash, to fling) + storm-suffix

She is sent to spoil the food of a single household, and the household's name is held to be written into the wind that brought her.

Best for A tormentor-harpy sent against a victim

Sound-root 'xeph' (cutting, the slicing wind) + storm-spirit suffix

Her wings are said to be sharp at the edge, and the leaves of trees she passes through are found slit the next morning.

Best for A wind-harpy of the cutting gust

Sound-root 'sait' (the dart, the snatching swoop) + storm-spirit suffix

She can lift a fish from a river in a single pass, and the original name of her kind — the snatcher — is the verb that gives her storm.

Best for A storm-harpy of the snatching swoop

Greek 'anemos' (wind) + storm-spirit suffix

She flies only with the prevailing wind and is held to be its shape, the winged form of the steady air.

Best for A wind-harpy of the prevailing gust

Greek 'kelainos' (dark, black — the storm-cloud) + feminine suffix

She flies the underside of the blackest cloud of the storm and is said to be the darkness that falls a moment before the wind.

Best for A storm-harpy of the black cloud