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 ~ CONTENTS +
Page 11
DRAGON ANATOMY
Eyes, Tongues, Fire-Holes, Hibernation, Cave Dragons

Page 43
NESTING SITES
Tree Dragons

Page 59
DRAGON EGGS
Types of eggs, Defenses, Hatching, Domestic Dragons,
Bog Dragons, Nanodragons

Page 107
TRAINING YOUR HUNTING OR LAP DRAGON
The Cuties, The Naughtiest Dragon in the Archipelago,
Jokes, Speaking Dragonese

Page 127
DRAGON RIDING
Sky Dragons, Learning to Ride, Dragon Evolution, True Flying

Page 157
THE WILDER SPECIES
Mountain Dragons, Dragon Tracking, Dragon Poos

Page 179
THE MIGHTY MONSTERS
Sea-Dragons

Page 203
THE FUTURE OF DRAGONS

Page 206
KNOW YOUR DRAGONS
Long ago, the world was full of dragons. Imagine them
wheeling in the skies, hopping through the grasses,
lighting up the caves, swimming slow and silent through
the seas.

What happened to the dragons? Where are they now?

These pages are taken from the notebooks of a young
Viking boy called Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the
Third, writing between the ages of ten and fifteen.

Hiccup’s later memoirs, written when he was an old

man, tell the story of the great dragon rebellion and
what happened to the dragons in the end. But these
notebooks paint a picture of the brilliance and fire and
spirit of that lost dragon world.

Look around you at our own world now. You may not
see dragons, but notice the numberless quantities of
species that we have in our woods, in the air, in the
mountains, in the skies. The proud lion, the mighty
elephant, the seals, the birds, the thousands of types of
beetles. One of those beetles could be the cure for some
terrible disease...

Take care, dear reader, that we are looking after the

boundless wonder of our world...

Remember the dragons.

(“ress KR (one in
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sn'E REALIY booby-trapped with
Norpent Venom.
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ST Se
Teamt trite bots abot bag ans.
...but my father is always finding my notebooks and
destroying them. You see, my father, STOICK THE
VAST, Chief of the Hairy Hooligan Tribe, doesn’t think
I should be writing books about dragon species. He
thinks I should concentrate on my

VELLING.
What ny father Says 15s
“Barbarians don’t write books! A true Barbarian YELLS
at the dragons that are his slaves and IGNORES the
rest of them. And as for speaking their horrible snaky
language, Dragonese, that is strictly against the Law.
What is the point of knowing the difference between
an Arsenic Addywhatsit and a glowbug or whatever you
call them? Concentrate on your yelling, and give up this
foolishness.”

But awh at happens f Yo

u
bum p into the kind of- Aragon Oh
the other side of Chis page @
(Be Grefu| 4S you
tury, over...)
Feling Wan /t yor Vk, sudkcen,

What you need in this situation is-a lot of information

about Hellsteethers, and you need to start speaking
Dragonese FAST. That’s why it is so important to know
your dragons around here.

So this is why I am writing this book about dragons and

their habitats, their anatomy, their eggs, their methods of
attacks, and their defenses. This book will tell you how
to find dragons, how to track them, how to look after
their eggs and their babies if they hatch. It will include
all the dragon species I know and give you tips on how to
ride and train them, or to deal with them if they attack.

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I am showing you here some useful pieces of tbh,:
dragonwatching equipment if you want to do 5h
a spot of dragonwatching yourself. 6
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Dragons are wonderful, mysterious creatures. Wy A
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They are also, as you will see, ABSOLUTELY
TERRIFYING. A agons

So intelligent people should be scared of dragons, from

but we should also strive to understand them
because we can only defend ourselves from
dragons—and live with them peacefully —if we \e no
understand them.

So let’s begin by understanding

dragon anatomy...

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DPRAGON ANATOMY
ALL dragons are extremely dangerous — even the ones
that look cute, like Toothless — and here is why.

Dragons have fire-holes that can shoot flames, poison

darts, rocks, spears, lightning, laser beams, or electric
bolts. Some species are a hundred times more poisonous
than a black widow spider, others give electric shocks
or have multiple sets of teeth that can actually shoot out
and bite you. Some have blood made out of sulfuric acid
that they can propel in jets out of their eyes.

Dragons can be so well camouflaged they are virtually

invisible. They can track you down through all four
elements — earth, air, sea, and fire. They can smell your
blood from a mile away and hear your heart beating
across a mountainside.

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Most dragons are equipped with what you might call
super senses. Take dragon eyes, for example. Some
dragons have multiple eyes. Others have eyes on stalks,
or eyes that can project out suddenly on the ends of long
spaghetti-like structures, so the dragon can see around
the corner.

Dragons’ eyes often have a sort of X-ray vision, so that

they can see through objects like trees, and in nighttime
their eyes automatically switch to a heat sensor mode, so
they can track prey through their body heat.
 hed

Dragon Congues
are amodengly
flexible. Many dragons have
more than one tong ue Bea C2
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Arvotingarsh a different
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length thak Cho Cah twist off
kmanys arm.
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are not just for firing flares.

| on Fureholes are am exlra-

natural feature, and
ovdin ar
they are unigKe to dragons.

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cnvischle fo the naked a
are
shoot
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bolts, or spears ;
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 HIBERNATION
Many dragon species, as you can see, are entirely
untrainable. But for thousands of years, Vikings have
used dragons to hunt fish for us, to carry us into battle,
or to pull our sleds in winter. So despite the fact that
dragons are exceptionally dangerous, one of the first
Initiation Tests for a young Warrior is to CATCH
YOUR DRAGON.

Catching an adult dragon is an extremely bad idea.

Luckily, most baby Bog, Tree, Air and Sea Dragons
hibernate in gigantic caves known as dragon nurseries.
As part of an Initiation Test into the Hooligan Tribe,
we have to creep into those caves and steal an infant
dragon to train as our hunting or riding dragon.
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The cave systems of the Barbaric
Archipelago are as full of life as coral
reefs, brilliantly lit by the dragons
themselves and humming with noise:
the busy vibration of Slugbulbs
dozily drifting through the caverns;
the hiss, pop, and crackle of
Flamehuffers blasting jets of flame
to incinerate unwary Caterbillars;
and the rumbling snoring hum of
the thousands of dragons who
come here to hibernate.

It is important to
avoid the true
monsters of
the underground on
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a
world: the shape-
changing Riproarers,
and the great transparent giant, the
Monstrous Strangulator, who injects
venom thirty times as toxic a black
widow spider.
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These snakelike creatures like to sleep twisted around

each other; it can take days for Nadders to untangle
themselves. oo
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a worm than a dragon but is still, genetically speaking,-
part of the dragon family. INaventan technically they can’t —
be trained exactly, they are a useful source of light on
moonless nights or in caves. The Vikings use them in
pane ens 5re)lightup homes and ships in the pees

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Red-Hot Itchyworms are tiny maggot-like dragons that
bite considerably harder than ants or wasps. They are
bloodsuckers, and when they get into a person’s clothing
they swarm all over the body in a pack, biting incessantly.
An attack by Red-Hot Itchyworms is infinitely worse
than having ants in your pants. Although these dragons
aren't trainable, they are often used by Vikings to protect
precious objects by alarming the floor with them.

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~ Flamehuffers are mischievous little creatures
who like to cause trouble by mimicking human —
voices, as well as the sounds of other animals.
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Gronckles are the plug-uglies of the dragon world.
But what they lack in looks, they make up for on
the battlefield with their razor-sharp fangs.
bt
Riproarens
Riproarers are terrifying, muscular creatures
that surge through the cave tunnel system
like howling, drooling wolves. There are
many narrow passages in the caverns and
cave systems of the Archipelago. Riproarers,
like their cousins the Raptortongues, can
squeeze through very small spaces. Their
skeletons collapse in on themselves to an
amazing thinness, until they are almost as
flat as a man’s hand.
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Stickyworms are twice the size of a boa constrictor.
They make Stickyworm webs from their saliva to
trap victims. Like slugs, Stickyworms react badly
to salt, so even a mere sprinkling of salt will
\\ stop them in their tracks. |
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Driller Dragons are an extraordinary phenomenon
because they have a single drill on the end of their
noses that they can revolve at amazing speed. The
drill cuts through wood as if it were water. They
are often used as guard dragons.
 ae
Skullions are a rare, savage species of flightless
dragons. Despite being blind and very nearly deaf,
they are fearsome predators, hunting in packs using #
a highly developed sense of smell alone. Each Skullion
has one extra-long, supersharp claw that it uses to
disable its victims by cutting the Achilles tendon at
the back of their heels, leaving them unable to walk.
It then eats its prey alive.
 Monstrous Strangulators never see daylight .
_and are the color of nothing. Their bodies are =
_ transparent, so you can see the unfortunate forms
of dragons they have eaten moving through their
digestive systems. Strangulators can strangle you to
_ death with one oftheir tentacles: But ina touch of
: _sevoltitionaty overkill, they also have a tail filled — |
to thetip with venom, green as glass. If you be
oe aréinjected with that poison, it is good-bye, =
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Monstrous Strangulators are very heavily armed,

but they are not particularly intelligent, so it is :
~ ~~ possible to trick them —if you get _
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 NESTING SITES
Some Viking Tribes steal their dragons as infants.
But many others steal their dragons as eggs from
the ancient wildwoods of the Barbaric Archipelago.
These wildwoods are home to adorable Shortwing
Squirrelserpents, chattering cheerily to one another as
they swing through the branches on their long, striped
tails, and cruel, fat Breathquenchers, who slide through
the tangles of the undergrowth, like illuminated pythons.

Night falls, and drifts of mothlike Scarers flutter out

of the way as packs of hungry Wolf-fangs use their
nighttime vision to chase after the glowing body heat
of the Cuckoo Dragons. Way up in the tiniest twigs of
the forest canopy, the Vampire Spydragons
eyes are watching...
Nocturnal bloodsucking
Vampire Dragons
anesthetize their
victim’s skin before
they bite.

S Wor Ewin g
Sv! rrel Se pents
Lively, chirpy little creatures, Shortwings
have very long tails that end in a hook
so that they can get a better grip as they
swing through the trees.
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Cuckoo Dragons lay their eggs

in the nests of birds, who then bring up
~ the infant dragons as if they were their
own babies, despite the growing size and
strength of the imposters. Rather sweetly,
though, the grown-up Cuckoo Dragons
treat the adoptive bird-parents with
great love and affection and protect
them ever after.

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Firestarters live in the Flaming Forest. Most

dragons are careful not to set fire to the
environment in which they live. Firestarters
need their eggs to incubate in fire so they
constantly set fire to the forest. The forest
only survives because it is also home to Water
Dragons that put out the fires when they
threaten to burn out of control.
These dragon monsters can grow to be
fifty feet long. Bee-Eaters sail through
the canopies of the ancient forests with
the gigantic caves of their mouths wide
open, like enormous basking sharks.
They catch bees and other insects
attracted by the light shining from a
long protuberance hanging on
the end of their noses.
 Vampire Spydragons are
chameleons that can turn
invisible apart from their red
eyes. When they bite a victim,
they leave one of their teeth inside
the wound and use that tooth as a
primitive tracking device.

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adrenaline caused by fear,
so they scare you nearly to death Duy
before they bite you.

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& and up the trees, as silent as a mist. Fully grown, they
are at least twenty feet long and make even the largest
python look like an earthworm. They wrap their coils
‘; around their victim and squeeze it slowly to death.
Breathquenchers can dislocate their jaws to swallow
an entire Bee-Eater whole
and then spend the
next three weeks
sleeping in order to
digest their meal.
Breathquenchers are _ ~y
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extremely intelligent,
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is their vanity. If you
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they can be sufficiently
distracted by the vision of their own beauty
to relax their coils and allow you to escape.
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DRAGON EGGS
Vikings who survive the trip to the nesting sites of the
wildwoods and return home with a dragon egg have to
be very certain that they can identify exactly what kind
of species will hatch out of that egg. Dragon eggs are a
little like mushrooms. Deadly Cap mushrooms look like
normal field mushrooms, and they taste rather pleasant.
However, eating even one ounce of a Deadly Cap
mushroom is enough to kill you stone dead.

In the same way, a Common or Garden dragon egg

looks horribly similar to the egg of a Goreslingus Rex
dragon. But a baby Common or Garden dragon is
likely to lick you and think you are its mama, while a
baby Goreslingus Rex dragon will send you straight to
Valhalla with one snort of its dear little nostrils. (Don’t
blame the poor baby Goreslingus Rex. It thinks it’s
being friendly.)

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 Most dragons leave their eggs unattended for long
periods of time. So the eggs have developed an
astonishing number of interesting defenses to avoid
being eaten.

Eggs can be spiky, lumpy, and in other ways difficult to

swallow. They can be deadly poisonous. Others might
be slimy or foul tasting or a revoltingly spongy texture.
Eggs can give electric shocks or leave the tongue full of
prickles.

Gloomer eggs are as dark and heavy as lead, so even

when freshly laid they are difficult to lift. They get
denser and denser as the dragon incubates inside,
sinking lower and lower into the ground, until by the
time the egg hatches, the infant dragon is born at the
bottom of a deep well.

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Genre eg4s whose
Roll the egg into the fire, then wait. Eventually the
egg itself will burst into flames. It will begin to shake
and steam and turn darker in color. As the egg
cracks, great shafts of lightning will burst through
those cracks, setting fire to all it touches with
bright blue flames, until finally...
_..the egg explodes...
 This is not a good moment for your dad to come back in
the room, as it makes a tiny bit of a mess, and if you are
really unlucky, the chairs will be on fire, and there will
be dragon goo in his beard. This may get you in trouble.

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DOMESTIC DRAGONS
Dragons that we take from the wild and turn into
hunting or riding dragons are called Domestic Dragons.
Most hunting dragons are likely to be of the Bog Dragon
species. On the outskirts of Viking villages, you can
see the yellow eyes of Flying Gators as they lurk in the
depths of the bog and the curl and rattle of a slinking
Sidewinder, slipping through the bracken, fleeing the
Flashfangs.
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The Common or Garden and the Basic Brown dragons

are poor hunters, but easy to train. These dragons are
the best kind for family pets. I believed that Toothless
was a Common or Garden when I first got him.
These are lithe black panther-like creatures, a little
smaller than a wolf. Too large to be a hunting dragon,
too small to be a riding dragon, and curiously
untrainable, Flashfangs are a real pest to
the Vikings. They snatch Viking deer.
They kill Viking sheep. So every now
and then, the Viking Tribes go on a
Flashfang hunt to keep down the
numbers of these “vermin.”
 These dragons are related very closely to alligators and
crocodiles. Many goggles of Gators can be found in the
soggy bogs of the Haunted Marshes. They lie silently —%
submerged up to their eyeballs in the mud
so that they can launch a surprise attack on
an infant Marsh Tiger or a baby Gloomer.

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Fear Faker : af on ze

Atak : if Duissbedient |; :

Rhinobacks are aggressive carnivores and will

attack human towns and villages out of pure spite,
as well as for food. Gormlesses are vegetarian,
oo feeding slowly and happily on vast areas of
wood and forest.
 Sera

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 Sidewinders are
chameleons, about the
size of a small cat. They hunt
is
in and perform hypnotizing
Sie. to confuse their victims. Sidewinders
are hunted by many other dragons, so they have
extra eyes; camouflage; and a wiggling, sideways flying
movement to evade attackers. The chameleon eggs of
Sidewinders have small holes, through which the infant
Sidewinder keeps an eye out for predators. If a predator
approaches, the Sidewinder egg rolls rapidly to safety,
hiding in a nearby tree stump or patch of flowers.
 By unofficial Viking law only a Chief or the son of a ~ hoe :
Chief can own a Monstrous Nightmare. (ba, e

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Gloomers are prone to sadness and depression. A Gloomer

egg becomes so heavy over the course of its incubation
that it sinks lower and lower into the ground, eventually
forming a deep well.
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Marsh Tigers are riding dragons that live in the marshes

in the wild. They have webbed feet and prominent noses
so that they can breathe while wallowing in the mud.
They are known as “Tigers” because of the characteristic
striped pattern of their skin.

Marsh Tigers lay their eggs in little nests shaped like

baskets, which drift like floating islands down the
stream. The eggs are brightly colored in a tiger pattern
to let other dragons know the eggs are highly poisonous.

Marsh Tigers have an unfortunate downside as riding

dragons. Whenever they see water, they submerge
themselves to their nostrils. Unless they can be trained
out of this, it is very inconvenient for the rider.
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A stink dragon’s defense is very similar to a skunk’s.
Disturb it or make it feel as if it is in danger, and it
__ will open its mouth and spray out a stinky mist
that drenches its victim. If a stink
dragon “stinks” you,
= nobody will come
near you for at least
a week. Indeed, for the
first forty-eight hours the smell is
so indescribably awful that it is almost
physically impossible to approach you.
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their prey through the power of their hypnotic gaze
and an extraordinary rhythmic chant that interrupts
the radar and echolocation skills of smaller dragons. A
spell of Hypnomunks, working together by chanting and
clicking, can make a Scarer or a Ravenhunter literally fall
out of the sky, unconscious.
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creatures. They have no legs to chase
after their prey, so they lie on their
backs waving their extralong nails
gently in the air. Any animal that
comes into contact with those nails ime
causes the whole pack of Squealers |
to scream unbearably loudly. The }
scream is so loud it can kill smaller 1 i
dragons stone-dead on the spot.
The Squealers then devour their
victim, slithering all over it like i | |
revolting jellyfish. |
 If you sharpen your eyes, lie
Th d ly- quietly in the bounce of the
heather, and get out your Viking ~
Nip
telescope, you can see—buzzing and
Tuck- clicking and humming and stinging in the
2 oth efor grasses—the tiny little nanodragons, carrying
on their lives, their loves, and their almighty
Is wars, at a level too small for us to see.
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The nanodragons are a tiny species of
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many more that are intelligent
and organized, despite their
small size. Even though they are
often too small to see, the whole
of the Archipelago is alive with
nanodragons, hopping through
the heather, ticking in the
grasses, blowing like dust
upon the wind.

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but they sleep for twenty-three and q
three quarter hours per day. For
the quarter of an hour that they are
awake, they are extraordinarily active.
They need to get a lot done in a very short /
space of time, so they move at speeds impossible
to see with the human eye. In fifteen minutes of
blurry activity, they track down their prey, kill it,
and eat it. Then they fall asleep again.

PrICLEBOCELES
Prickleboggles are so very, very stupid.
This one can’t remember: Does he eat
the ant or does the ant eat him?
Flutterfires are gorgeous little nanodragons
that look very like butterflies. They are
addicted to the nectar of flowers, which L

can send them into a catnip frenzy. The

meadows and heathers of the Archipelago LA /
hum with the drowsy, drunken Flutterfires, ‘
stumbling from one flower to another, WS
trailing little clouds of smoke behind them. :
Flutterfires don’t exist only on flower nectar, \
though. They use their fire to barbecue ants S
and bumblebees and other smaller insects.
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species of nanodragon called an Emperor Beetleboog
Bolderbug. These ladybug-like little creatures,
with glossy red bodies and handsome black spots,
live considerably longer than most nanodragons. A
Flutterfire only lives for a couple of years. But an
Emperor Beetleboog Bolderbug can live for decades.
Ziggerastica is the present King of the nanodragons, and
he is dangerous only because he commands so many
millions of nanodragons that if he were to side with the
dragon Furious, the humans would be doomed. Luckily
Ziggerastica doesn’t really consider the war to be any of
his business. Ziggerastica is under the impression that he
is the living god, the most important being in the galaxy.
He believes that the moon shines and the sun rises only
to light the way and warm the wings of Ziggerastica the
Emperor Beetleboog Bolderbug. Don’t laugh too loudly
at him. There are humans who suffer from the same
delusion.

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TRAINING YouR
HUNTING OR LAP DRAGON
Training your dragon means teaching them who is the
boss. The traditional Viking method for training dragons
is YELLING at them. But your hunting and riding
dragons will be by your side in battle for the rest of your
life. If you have trained them through fear, will they
come to your rescue in a life-threatening situation?

Training your dragon without fear is definitely the

Hard Way to train your dragon. It needs careful study
of Dragonese, the language that dragons use to speak
to one another, which is complicated for humans to
speak because we do not have forked tongues. It also
takes a great deal of patience because your dragon will
not necessarily do what it is told the first time.
Or, indeed, the two hundred and first time...

Interestingly, it is the cutest and smallest hunting dragons

and lap dragons that are the most obstinate and the
hardest to train.

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NAUCGH TIEST
Aragon in the Archipelago.

I have to admit that Toothless,

my hunting dragon, is one of the
naughtiest dragons in the Archipelago.
He poos in my father’s slippers... He
goes on strike... He will not go to
bed on time...He bites people on the
nose...Young dragons do not always
know what is good for them.
However, because I can speak to Toothless in the
language of Dragonese, I don’t have to yell at him.
I can be cunning. I can bribe him to eat up his
wood by telling him jokes...

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Norse translation below.
fof ke h Ne has b-b-buckets ai belly-seream.
Tam very hungry.

by gr Kn i De isna burpead si ISSA middling o af zuzztime.

| I don’t care if it IS the middle of the night.

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245), ees has o-o-o-opla di larai-eureles.
“Oe My tummy ts rumbling like anything.

Tet Plus me needy di srubbines SNIP-SNAP!

| And I want food RIGHT NOW!
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Oo mest do &f yowlyshreckers too fortissimo

theysliearwig me indi BieDlanGaff.
Or I'll scream so loudly they'll hear me in
Valhalla.

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Plus yow pappa issa zz-zzuzzing inai hovel ensweet.
And your dad ts sleeping in the room next door.

De coglet hissa peerers undo.

I think he might wake up.

Plus hestf a0 df heeby-jeebies.

And he won't be very pleased.

Die needy ai S-S-S-S-SALTSICKS.

IT want OYSTERS.

Tle isna burpea si issa middling o at zuzztime.

I don’t care if it 1s the middle of the night.

Yow s-s-¢rabha a saltsicks low indi lanadscoor.

You can get oysters from the harbor.

Suna staraway.
It’s not far.

DLDEDle gogo ta yowlshreek...

I’m starting to scream...

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(three quarters of an hour later)

Yow me p-p-peepers undo!

You woke me up!

Wah is DAS
What ts THAT?

Da na gogele com s-s-saltsicks...

That doesn’t look like oysters...

DA gogele com snifferstuage...

THAT looks like bogeys...

Snifferstuagse p-p-plus ai squidink tiarates...

Bogeys with black bits in them...

Die no likeit af squikink tiaates.

I don’t like black bits.

Issa y-y-yuck-yuck.
They're disgusting.

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Watever, me is tow zuzzready por di scrumming.
Anyway, I’m too tired to eat.

Meslt zip at peepers.

I’m going to sleep.

Yow thunterpufts issa zapping.

You're in a very bad mood (literally, your stormclouds
are crackling).
 The only problem with learning
to communicate with your
dragon, of course, is that they
can communicate back...

ME (despairingly):
Please eat up your firewooa!
AG y Co DI inc
Me i Aleg) TOOTHLESS: Please eat up
: ‘ your firewood!

ME: Don’t start this now, Toothless. You know it

drives me Crazy...

TOOTHLESS: Don’t start this now, een

You know it arives me crazy...

ME (cross): Stop copying me! ey

e~
TOOUEMMESS (aclishted).
S-s-stop copying me!

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 ME: I DIEAN it, now,
Toothless, if you don’t stop
copying me, ’m going to
vet really cross...

TOOTHLESS=1
DIEAN it now,
T-t-toothless, if you
= don't stop copying me,
Tm going to get really
CLOSS...

I stomp around the room tearing my hair out.

ME (yelling): STOP COPYING DIE!

TOOTHLESS (yelling):
SOR CORTING Bi

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Hunting dragons can be unbelievably selfish and
disobedient. At times they will drive you crazy,
demanding oysters at two o'clock in the morning,
for example, or having a tantrum in front of the entire
assembled Tribes of the Archipelago in the middle of
the quietest and most solemn moment of the Winter
Solstice Ceremony.

But trust me, if you train your dragon the Hard Way,
you will develop an unshakeable and lifelong bond...

Eventually.
 =
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DRAGON RIDING
Once young Vikings have trained (or tried to train) their
hunting dragons, the next step in a Warrior’s Initiation is
to learn to fly their riding dragon. There is no experience
on earth like the sheer heart-thumping, head-spinning
joy of flying on the back of a dragon...

Riding dragons are generally taken from the Sky Dragon

species. Faster than falcons and slicker than witches,
the Dervishes curl gloriously through the clouds and
thunderstorms. Wheeling by their side, slaloming
sinuously through the jutting rocks of the islands, as neat
as threading a needle, are the Tornados and the Rocket
Rippers, and the odd rare glimpse of a diving Phantom.

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However, they are hard to ride because they are so hot-
tempered. They often stop suddenly in midair, sending
the rider sailing over the dragon’s head, or buck madly
like a wild horse, unseating the rider in seconds.

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Gormatrons are so stupid that it is truly remarkable
that they have survived in the Barbaric Archipelago.
Perhaps it is because they are a bit smelly and don’t taste
very nice. The two heads often pull the Gormatron in
opposite directions, causing it to go around in circles,
sometimes for hours. And by the time he has stopped
going round in circles, he has forgotten what he was
doing in the first place.

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Most Viking warriors have a riding dragon that is the
ultimate battle dragon, a Bullrougher. These tough
dragons are surprisingly nimble in the air considering
their size, weight, and body armor.
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Zebramounts are often a first choice of riding dragon
for a young Viking because of their gentle, placid
natures. However, it can be difficult to get
them moving at all.
 Ravenhunters are used by Alvin the Treacherous as
spy dragons or to carry messages. These dragons are
immensely greedy, so they can be bribed to change
sides if they are offered sufficient quantities of their
favorite food, scallops.

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LEARNING ,, Rf DE i
Riding dragons come in all shapes and sizes. The first
ride for a lot of young Vikings is something very slow
or very small, like a Zebramount or a Chickenpoxer.
Chickenpoxers can be rather bad-tempered.

Here, Snotlout’s little sister, Adelaide, is demonstrating

how important it is to have a safety strap. The safety
strap attaches your ankle to the saddle, which means
that if you fall off in the air, you dangle from underneath
the dragon’s stomach until the dragon manages to make
an emergency landing, or you haul yourself back into
the saddle.

You will fall off your dragon many, many times before
you learn how to balance yourself properly.

DO NOT GIVE UP.

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Once you have mastered the basics, dragons can be

ridden in different ways. The extreme flatness of Rocket
Rippers makes them exceptionally fast and aerodynamic
and excellent for low flying over enemy territory. But
, you have to lie on your stomach, as if you were
riding a sled or toboggan.

Only a very
skilled Dragon-Rider
indeed has the balance -
and the control for the Flashburn
Stand-Up position.
r Heresare Various nae

THE SWIVELS
Good for slaloming through the pointy
peaks of gorges or flying low over
mountains. A single mistake when doing
the swivels can end in disaster.

LOOP-DE-LOOPS
The Dragon-Rider needs exceptionally
strong knees for this one because the
dragon turns upside down, midloop, and
if the rider isn’t careful he will find himself
hanging from the safety strap by his ankles,
which is never a cool look.

SWITCH-LEAPS ;
These are particularly dangerous because the /
rider has to remove the safety strap midair
to make the leap. In one of Grimbeard
the Ghastly’s greatest triumphs, way back
in time, he switch-leaped onto the back ep
of an Uglithug King’s dragon midbattle \. = o:
and threw the King down into the sea.
 ~

DRAGON EVOLUTION
My own riding dragon, the
Windwalker, is an example of
a dragon who “evolves” during
the course of its lifetime. A
newborn Windwalker is a rather
extraordinary ball of feathers and fur
that looks remarkably like a cross-
\ \ eyed duckling mixed with an
: anxious wolf cub.

A young reteeiees doe see

ran or fly very fast. Its fur
slows ik down and it has
utbbly ankles and bendy
As it grows, the Windwalker gradually sheds
its hair and becomes sleeker, faster, and more
aerodynamic. The ankles strengthening the
bending wings become an advantage as the
dragon gains control and mastery over them;
and by the time it reaches its late adolescence,
the Windwalker is nearly as fast as the
Silver Phantom. In its seventeenth year, the
Windwalker enters its chrysalis stage...

Like a great black butterfly, the Windwalker builds its

chrysalis inside a dark remote cave. It stays inside the
chrysalis for six or seven months...
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Log

TRUE FLYING
Once you really know how to dragon ride, you no longer
need the saddle, the reins, and the safety strap. Dragons
are wild creatures, and they should not be saddled like
horses or chained like dogs. Once upon a time, in the
Lost Kingdom of the Wilderwest, where the humans
and dragons were equals, all the Dragon-Riders rode
bareback, for that is true dragon riding—that is pure
flying.

I have flown so high on the back of my Windwalker that

it feels as if his wing tips are brushing the very moon
itself...Up so high that my helmet touches the stars, and
the Windwalker’s wings are my wings, and his heart is
my heart.

That is true dragon riding...That is pure flying...

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 THE WILDER SPECIEs —
Fishlegs’s riding dragon, the Deadly Shadow, is not a Sky
Dragon at all but a Mountain Dragon. Some of the most
highly prized hunting, driving, and spy dragons come
from the mountainous regions of the Archipelago, where
the dragons are particularly wild and dangerous. But it
is a brave Viking who dares enter mountain territory to
try to train or ride these dragons, with their remarkable
hunting and tracking skills and their hatred of humans.

Razorwings spin through the dizzying drops and fearful

peaks of the Murderous Mountains—hunted down by
the Tongue-twisters, with their long, muscular repellent
tongues, and the Hellsteethers, whose second set of
jaws launch out toward their victims, teeth snapping
independently, like the chattering of a skeleton. But
most remarkable of all are the Stealth Dragons and
Deadly Shadows, so well camouflaged that they are
virtually invisible, appearing out of nowhere with their
quick sharp fangs and electric bolts of lightning, before
melting back into the mountains, like a vision from a
nightmare...
These dragons have razor-sharp wings that can
decapitate victims in a heartbeat. They can turn
as flat as a spinning blade and are armed with
mildly poisonous darts.

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Raptortongues live hidden in the deep crevasses

of the Murderous Mountains or the Gorge of the
Thunderbolt of Thor. They have an extraordinary
ability to flatten themselves, which means they can
squeeze through surprisingly small spaces. They
make excellent spy dragons.

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Haddock the Second when he was a baby. She was able
to do this because Grimlers suckle their young like
mammals. The Grimler went on to have a batch of three
young Grimlers of her own, and she also later adopted
a lonely young Sea-Dragon, already considerably larger
than herself, who befriended the young Hiccup. The
Sea-Dragon grew up to become the mighty dragon
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Mood Dragons change color according to their mood.
They turn a deep blue-black when angry, orangey-pink
when excited, and a very pale green when nervous.
Mood Dragons vary enormously in size. Some are as
small as spaniels, others as big as lionesses.
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. acid. Hellsteether eyesight is not very good so flying or
running in a zigzag motion confuses them.
 Oe ASoN TRACKING
The mountain regions are dangerous, and if you want
to track a particular dragon, or if you are in unfamiliar
territory and want to know what kind of dragons might
be around, a knowledge of the different types of dragon
poos can come in handy. Yucky, but true.

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Of all the dragon species, the least is known about the

Sea-Dragons. How many Viking Warriors have set sail
with high hopes and brave hearts, only to be blasted
straight to Valhalla by these mighty monsters, arising out
of the sea like underwater mountains, blowing tornados
from their nostrils and hell-fire from their mouths? The
water supports creatures of such extraordinary size that
they could never exist on land.

The largest of all is the Seadragonus Giganticus

Maximus, a truly remarkable creature, that can whip up
the ocean into waves twenty feet high with its gigantic
tail and shoot fire and electric lightning from its mouth
and from its eyes. Little is known about the hundreds of
other Sea-Dragons, but in the pages that follow I have
pieced together what I can from my own experiences and
the stories of shipwrecked Vikings who lived to tell the
tale...
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~Golphins are friendly, intelligent creatures. Packs of
Golphins often play around Viking boats and have
been known to guide lost boats to safety.
Golphins that have become separated from
their pod sing a haunting song that seamen
once thought was the
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middle finger. With their mouths shut they look quite
sweet, but actually they are a little like piranhas. When
they attack in shoals, they can strip a deer down to its
skeleton in precisely three minutes.

Avoid them at all costs.

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An extraordinary creature, it puts its claws above
the sand like a periscope, and on the end of each
long dragon finger there is an eye. It drags you u
below the sand.
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Brainless Leg-Removers are primitive creatures that

lurk beneath the sands of the Amber Slavelands.
Any sign of movement on the sands above
causes them to launch upward and snap)
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into the depths of
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Doomfangs are large, but strangely beautiful loners.
If attacked, they will retaliate with a mysterious blue
flame that freezes on contact. Doomfangs live way out in
the Open Ocean and not much is known about them.
 -Leviathorgans are enormous sea monsters
_that shoot harpoons made of their own |
* bone from their open mouths. They
are vengeful creatures and will
travel many miles, for many years,
to take revenge for an insult.
Leviathorgans only live in the
polar north, thank goodness.
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 arkbreathers

Darkbreathers dwell at the very bottom of the ocean

depths. They have lived so long in that icy ocean
darkness that their hearts have slowed to a terrible
coldness, and they have a pathetic longing for the
light. Darkbreathers can be attracted by the lanterns
swinging from Viking ships, with gruesome results,
as they have been known to swallow ships whole.
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egg as small as nanodragons. Over thousands ~~.
and thousands of years they grow larger and aS
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THE FuTURE of DRAGONS
I know now that we are standing on the edge of
extinction, of either humans or dragons.

For a mighty Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus, the

dragon Furious, has risen up against the humans and
called upon his fellow dragon species to join together in
a dragon rebellion whose aim is nothing less than the
extinction of the entire human race. My archenemy,
Alvin the Treacherous, has taken command of the
human beings, and he is fighting back with all the
fiendish and explosive weaponry that the dark inventive
side of the human mind can devise.

Windwalker and Toothless have taught me how to live in

water, earth, and air. Now the dragon Furious is teaching
me how to live in FIRE...

I am writing these words from an underground tree

hideout, and outside this place of safety, the dragon
rebellion and the humans under Alvin will not rest until
they have obliterated each other.
But I am still hopeful that I can step in somehow,
prevent this calamity from happening, and begin a
new world in which humans and _dragons can live
together peacefully.

I do not yet know the end of this story. The war has
driven me, like a Windwalker, into an underground
chrysalis; and outside this quiet place, a new world is
evolving. I must break out of my hiding place, and strive
to make this new world worthy of both our species. Not
our species as they are, but as they could be.

I cannot imagine a future without dragons. I do not

want a world in which our cave systems are dead, dark
universes, inhabited only by bats and echoes. I do not
want a world where I am wingless, crawling in the mud
rather than reaching for the stars.

I do not want a world without Toothless.

I know it is only I who can save or destroy the dragons

now that Doomsday is approaching. But I do not know
how to do it. How can I, when I am so small, so alone,
and so great is the tangled web of hatred and
destruction between our two species?

There must be a way...There must be a way...

Last night I dreamed of a fierce god of war and sea,

tossing in his hands a mighty double-headed axe of
doom across the skies ruined and ragged by the war.
Down below the mighty multitudes of men and of
dragons craned their necks upward to see which way
the axe would fall... Which way will it fall for me?
thinks every individual. Will it fall on the bright side
or the dark?

But more is at stake here than the fate of individuals.

Will it be the humans or the dragons who survive?

O great and mighty Thor, let my thoughts have wings,

bring fire and fangs to my imagination, so I can find
out the answer, step in, and catch the axe of doom
before it falls, so I can dream a little longer in this world
full of dragons...
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You can read lots more about the dragons in Hiccup’s
memoirs. Here’s where you'll find some of them:

How to Train Your Dragon

Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus,
Common or Garden and Basic Brown Dragons,
Monstrous Nightmares, Gronckles

How to Be a Pirate
Monstrous Strangulators, Skullions,
Eight-Legged Nadders, Electricsquirms

How to Speak Dragonese

Sharkworms, Electricsquirms, Enaperor Beetleboog Bolderbugs,
Monstrous Nightmares, Gronckles, Venomous Vorpents

How to Cheat a Dragon’s Curse

Venomous Vorpents, Squealers,
Saber-Toothed Driver Dragons, Doomfangs

How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale

Exterminators, Water Dragons, Chickenpoxers,
Windwalkers, Rocket Rippers
 A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons
Potsonous Piffleworms, Stealth Dragons, Driller Dragons,
Shortwing Squirrelserpents, Mood Dragons, Red-Hot Itchyworms

How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm

Polarserpents, Leviathorgans, Mood Dragons, Raptortongues

How to Break a Dragon’s Heart

Potson Darters, Scarers, Giant Bee-Eaters,
Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus

How to Steal a Dragon’s Sword

Tongue-twisters, Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus,
Flamehuffers, Riproarers, Stickyworms

How to Seize a Dragon’s Jewel

The Monster ofthe Amber Slavelands, Brainless Leg-Removers,
Triple-Header Deadly Shadows, Silver Phantoms,
Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus,
Long-Eared Caretaker Dragons

How to Betray a Dragon’s Hero

Vampire Spydragons, Winterfleshers, Hogflys,
Bullguard Slavedragons, Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus
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creatures, yet he recognizes that they. are
also ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING. You, an.
intelligent person, must strive to understand
the.dragon species if you want to peacefully _
coexist and become a dragon whisperer, \

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as their. defenses, You will learn everything including
how totrack dragons, how to ride them, and even how
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