Quick Specs
- Type: Dragon pen with dragon-head holder
- Size: 7 inches
- Color: Green
- Design: Winged dragon seated on the pen; green dragon-head holder with pink horns and blue eyes
- Best for: Journaling, notebooks, desk or shelf display, fantasy gifts
A Green Dragon Edged in Pink, Standing in a Blue-Eyed Dragon Head
The pen’s dragon is a bright leaf green. It sits with its arms drawn in, its claws crossed at the barrel, and its wings swept up behind it into a pointed arch. Frilled fins fan out beside its head, and a crest of small horns tops it. The wing tips and edges flush red-pink, as if sunset had caught them. Below the figure the barrel runs down as the dragon’s scaled body, shading from green through yellow-green to a warm yellow and ending in a band of red-pink where it enters the holder. The holder is a dragon’s head in the same green, speckled across the brow and cheeks, with pink horns, pink-tinted cheek fins, a pink snout, pale fangs, and light blue eyes under a heavy frown. It sits on a black slab of faceted rock, and the pen’s barrel slides into an opening in the crown of the head. The whole pen is 7 inches long. The blue eyes are the unexpected detail. Against so much green and pink they make the holder’s dragon look watchful and a little cool.
The palette is bright. Green, yellow, and pink together look like a tropical bird, and the result is a dragon that is playful, which suits a pen that sits in view every day. Pink sits close to red, and red is green’s complement on the color wheel, which is why the pink on the wings, horns, and snout seems to glow against the green. The yellow stretch of barrel in the middle bridges the green top and the red-pink foot, so the colors blend like a sunset. The red-pink at the wing tips returns at the foot of the barrel and in the holder’s horns, so the eye travels down the whole set from wings to base. Below the sculpted top, the barrel is a slim, scaled column, so the detail sits high on the pen and the lower half stays simple. Set the holder beside a plant on a windowsill desk, a stack of notebooks, or a shelf of fantasy novels, and the green fits in with all three.
Practical Ritual Applications
Use it for the writing you do at a desk or table: a spell journal, a bullet journal, or notes in the margin of a book. A first Book of Shadows deserves a pen set aside for it, and my stationery and writing supplies include paper and notebooks to match. On a windowsill or shelf, the green dragon keeps company with houseplants, crystals, or a row of paperbacks. If you like tidy altar tools, the holder gives the pen a fixed home beside your tarot deck or chalice, so it never goes missing in the middle of a session. For a gift, think of the friend who runs your tabletop role-playing game or reads fantasy on every commute. The set is distinctive enough to spot at once on a shared desk.
How to Use and Store Your Green Dragon Pen
A level surface and a little dusting are all this set needs between writing sessions.
- Choose a steady spot
Stand the holder on a level surface at the side of your writing hand, where a sleeve or notebook won't catch the horns. Lower the pen into the socket on top of the dragon's head until it stands straight. A shelf or windowsill works as well as a desk, as long as the holder sits on a flat, dry surface.
- Check the ink first
Draw a few lines and loops on scrap paper before you write in a bound book. You'll see whether the ink starts smoothly, and you'll find the grip that suits a sculpted barrel, which is wide and detailed. Settle your fingers on the barrel below the wings so the dragon stays upright in your hand.
- Put it away and dust it
When you finish, return the pen to its holder so the winged dragon stays upright. Brush dust from the crest, wings, and horns with a soft, dry brush; a clean paintbrush or makeup brush reaches the creases and the ridges of the barrel.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I stock the green dragon pen for its palette. The pen and holder share the same green and pink, and the blue eyes and pink crest make it a character. The pen stands in its holder on a black rock base. The holder is part of the set, and a pen that has a place to stand is a pen that gets used. The red and blue pens use the same sculpt in their own colors. Browse my dragon collection for more dragons, from figurines to journals.
Frequently Asked Questions
Old Norse and Old English stories both put dragons on hoards. In the Völsunga saga, Fáfnir kills his father for a cursed treasure, turns into a dragon, and lies on the gold to protect it until Sigurd stabs him through the heart. In Beowulf, a slave steals a golden cup from a dragon's lair, and the dragon's rage burns the countryside and ends with Beowulf's death. In both stories the hoard is what sets the dragon in motion.
English heraldry draws the line by legs. A wyvern has two legs and two wings, while a dragon has four legs, a distinction settled in the sixteenth century. The dragon on this pen has a pair of arms and a pair of legs as well as wings, so it counts as a dragon. The rule belongs to English, Welsh, Scottish, French, and Irish heraldry; other European countries usually call a two-legged dragon simply a dragon, so the label depends on whose rules you follow.
Pendragon is Welsh: pen means head or leader, and dragon was a poetic word for a warrior, so the name means leader of warriors. Geoffrey of Monmouth read it as head of a dragon and wrote a story to match, in which Uther saw a dragon-shaped comet and adopted dragons for his standards. The name stuck to Uther, the father of King Arthur in Geoffrey's telling.
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