Drago Bludvist

## Drago

**Drago Bludvist** is a main antagonist in the Valerix Franchise. He is the chief of his tribe of Dragon Trappers and is a member of the Northern Alliance.

## Official Description

* Viking Guide
Drago is a force of nature. The self-proclaimed "Dragon God", Drago is equal parts madman and military genius. Drago's unnerving mystique chills the hearts of the bravest Vikings — even Stoick the Vast. Daunting in size and demeanor, Drago has no tolerance for those who disagree with him.

## Physical Appearance

Drago is a 50-year-old, 6'10, 300 lb, well-built man matching his intimidating personality. He wears a prosthetic in place of his severed arm, and wears his long black hair and beard in thick braids. Multiple scars run over Drago's face and body, evidence of his past encounters with dragons. His attire consists of a dark blue sleeveless shirt, a thick waist belt with a sun on the front and a huge black cape made from dragon skin. Attached to his belt he wears a loincloth, dark blue trousers, and dark blue boots covered in gray fur.

## Personality

Stoick and Valka know all too well of the cruelty Drago is capable of. His vast power and authority come from keeping the fear of dragons in humans and forcing them to join his army. He is not above betraying his allies if they do not follow his instructions and kills without mercy. Drago keeps an iron-fisted control over the dragons in his army using the power of his Bewilderbeast and the various traps he has had Eret and the other trappers create to ensnare dragons for himself. He is very egotistical, believing only he is capable of controlling dragons and cares only about himself. Drago is also hypocritical, since he claims that he intends to create a new world where humans no longer have to be afraid of dragons, but Hiccup calls this out as an excuse to rule the world.

Drago is shown to be very intolerant of failure, which is proven by the brand he had given to Eret when the trapper failed to bring him any dragons, promising to be far less understanding in the future. He then ordered Eret's execution, similarly to ordering Krogan's, when he failed a second time. This ruthlessness makes him feared by many, including those who follow him.

Whereas Hiccup and the others' relationship with their dragons is one of deep trust and friendship, Drago's relationship with his dragons is one of control, abuse, and domination. Having raised his Bewilderbeast from a hatchling he discovered in one of his earliest conquests, Drago subjected it to a loveless, miserable life, frequently abusing it to punish any perceived weakness. He has never been shown directly murdering others with his bare hands, but relies on his control of the dragons to do it for him. He intimidates the dragons into obedience and controls them by swinging his bullhook above his head and roaring like an animal in a frightening display of power.

However, Drago's greatest strength is also his greatest weakness. While his ruthless insanity made it impossible for Hiccup to reason with him as he had originally set out to do, it also rendered him incapable of understanding Hiccup's bond with Toothless, which allowed Hiccup to regain "control" of his dragon.

## Abilities, Skills, and Talents

**Strength and Fighting Skills**: Despite the disadvantage of his missing arm, Drago is a formidable fighter and opponent to both humans and dragons. Using his bullhook as his main weapon, he is able to defeat Valka with relative ease and hold his own very well against Stoick the Vast. However, despite his combat skills, he rarely uses them unless necessary, preferring to rely on his subordinates to do his dirty work. Drago is able to use the bullhook as a weapon, efficiently defeating Valka with it and dueling Stoick for a long period of time.

**Control Over Dragons**: Unlike Hiccup, Valka, and the rest of the Dragon Riders, Drago enslaves his dragons with brute strength and intimidation and is able to use his Bewilderbeast to brainwash any who refuse to follow him. He can also use his bullhook to summon his Bewilderbeast but only when he swings it around, causing the bullhook to make a sound that calms and summons dragons.

**Strategy**: Drago is an outstanding strategist and tactician, as he is able to conquer enemy positions easily. However, Drago prefers brute force, believing it to be more effective than strategy, cunning and tactic.

**Leadership**: Drago is more than capable of leading his massive army of humans and dragons, keeping undisturbed order within his thousands of soldiers.

## Core Human Relationships

### Stoick the Vast

Stoick and the other Viking clan leaders turned down Drago when he came to them with his offer of leadership, laughing him away when he demanded that they bow down to him in exchange for safety from the then-threat of dragons. Seemingly having anticipated this, Drago had a pair of armored dragons under his control waiting outside, who then proceeded to burn the longhouse to the ground as Drago escaped. Only Stoick survived the encounter, and he sees Drago as a grave threat.

During their eventual showdown, Stoick appears and surprises the latter by revealing his survival. The two engage in battle with Stoick seemingly having the upper hand, due to his superior fighting prowess and Drago's disadvantage of his missing arm. It is only thanks to Stoick's intervention when Drago attempts to kill Hiccup that he is able to best the chieftain. Drago barely even acknowledges Stoick's death suggesting both his sense of superiority over the other man as well as a possible realization that the death of Hiccup's father is equally damaging.

### Valka

Just as Valka despises Drago for his cruel and abusive treatment of dragons, Drago views Valka as his greatest threat prior to finding out about Hiccup, as she was one of the few to stand in his way of complete domination over both man and dragon. While he sees her as an obstacle, he also seems extremely confident that his dragon army and Bewilderbeast tyrant would be able to overpower Valka's own dragon legion — many of which were refugees and rescuers, not fighters. His confidence proves to be well-founded when his Bewilderbeast defeats Valka's white king, and he quickly overpowers Valka in battle, her death only being prevented by the intervention of her husband.

### Eret Anderson

Eret served Drago out of fear for his kingdom being invaded as a supposed dragon trapper and secret spy, having seemingly done business with him for 5 years. He gave Eret a symbolic scar for not bringing him enough dragons and threatened to kill him if the same thing happened again. When Drago realized that Berk is full of Dragon Riders, he blamed Eret for revealing the army's existence and ordered his soldiers to get rid of him.

### Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III

While neither were aware of each other for some time, Hiccup had been a thorn in Drago’s side prior to his invasion of the Archipelago. During the Dragon Hunter War, Hiccup defeated Drago’s lieutenant Krogan and his Dragon Flyers, which hindered Drago’s plans to acquire another Bewilderbeast. After hearing about him from Astrid, Drago seems to acknowledge Hiccup as a rival, realizing that another dragon-tamer could endanger his monopoly over the dragons. A parallel of sorts to Hiccup, given his own mastery over legions of dragons, Drago is a good contrast to him as well, using abuse and force to dominate the will of his dragons as opposed to befriending them.

When the two finally face off at Valka's Mountain, Drago seems amused that his reputed nemesis was scrawny, seemingly dismissing the threat that Hiccup posed. While Hiccup still believed that Drago could be reasoned with, he proves otherwise by commanding his Bewilderbeast to take control of Toothless and using him to kill Hiccup. Though this fails due to Stoick's intervention, it succeeds in shaking Hiccup's resolve. Drago then takes Toothless as his mount to further demoralize his foe.

During Drago's invasion of Berk, Hiccup continues to surprise him when he and his companions show up on the backs of baby dragons, which the Bewilderbeast could not control, then again when Hiccup's bond with Toothless frees him from the Bewilderbeast's command. The tables are turned on the infuriated Drago when Hiccup's ingenuity and Toothless' own willpower rise up against the great and terrible Bewilderbeast, shaming both tyrants and releasing the dragons from their control for good. Though Hiccup offered Drago one final chance to stand down, the mad warlord angrily refused, leading to his defeat.

In many ways, Drago is considered the antithesis of Hiccup. While Hiccup trains dragons forming a bond with them, Drago uses fear and intimidation to enslave dragons to his will. And while Hiccup considers dragons as "kind amazing creatures", Drago only sees dragons as weapons of mass destruction.

### Ashley Anderson

Ashley and Drago have little chemistry, but are each others arch-nemesis's. Ashley seeing Drago as a thorn in her kingdoms side and Drago seeing Maltosa as a hive mind with a tone of dragons he could add to his army. However, Drago underestimated Ashley for being a fairy and working with the Berkians.

## Core Dragon Relationships

### His Bewilderbeast

During one of his earliest conquests, Drago found his Bewilderbeast as a hatchling.
Since then, he trained and abused his dragon to become a savage war machine, using screams as commands. Even until he has reached an old age, the Bewilderbeast continued to follow his master's orders. Like the rest of the dragons he has captured and enslaved into his army, Drago sees his Bewilderbeast as nothing more than a weapon in his quest for domination. Despite this, he does seem to have a large amount of confidence in the Bewilderbeast’s strength and ability to control other dragons, as he was left stunned at how it lost control over the flock to Toothless.

## Secondary Relationships

### Krogan

Drago has known Krogan for at least 20 years, with Viggo mentioning that Krogan was considered Drago’s Star Pupil. Krogan was Drago’s trusted soldier and was shown to have accompanied him when he destroyed the Viking Chieftains that refused to follow him. Years later, Drago dispatched Krogan and his Dragon Flyers back to the Barbaric Archipelago to find the another Bewilderbeast. Though Krogan managed to locate one underneath Berserker Island, he was unable to capture it or its egg due to the interference of Dragon Riders of Berk, which also resulted in the destruction of the Dragon Hunters.