Hello @TheEdVerse! Hope you doing great in this hard time. I have a question about lizardfolk. How do they call themselves? I think that "lizardfolk" and "lizardman" are names on Common. How they would call themselves on their language and what is their true name?
— Max Golutvo (@Meonaar) July 26, 2020
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Hi, Max. Delays in answering come when I must consult others on lore, check NDAs, or unearth long-buried notes, maps, or records. This one of yours involved all three.
So…truenames of lizardfolk are still NDA, and I can only… 2)
…answer for the Realms, wherein lizardfolk call themselves various things at various places and times, but the most popular term today (1490s DR) is “Ssah,” which means “We Who Endure” and is understood to mean ‘we lizardfolk.’#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 31, 2020
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Older terms include “Arakuluth,” which translates roughly as ‘Proud-Scales’ (Justifiably Proud, And Scaled), and “Haarthuu” (transliteration: Slow But Sure …but this really means ‘Patient And Determined/Steadfast To Our… 4)
…Goals’). Note that these names are all older than current Draconic, as spoken by lizardfolk today.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 31, 2020