Chapter 115: Visions, Obscure And Otherwise

*There are mountains on Magni's* back*.*

*I have just seen them for myself, and wonder at the literal new world that my son has just shown me.*

*Recording this now, so Fishlegs doesn't get upset with me later…*

*After dinner, my son Magni came to me, holding a synlengra clutched in his hands, and wanting to show me something. For a moment, I almost told him later, due to my duties, but I remembered being fifteen and my father not being interested in what I had to show him—and how I had vowed to do better.*

*So I did.*

*He took me up to the rooftop and told me to point the synlengra at the moon, which was a quarter full. I did so, after joking with him for a moment. And once I did so, I almost fell down in shock.*

*There are* **mountains** *on Magni's* **back***. I could see their shadows, cast by the light of the sun. There are great circular scars on his flanks, caused by what, I do not know. I have done my best to sketch what I saw below.*

*But my son wasn't content with merely showing me his namesake. He told me to look at Odin next. Still stunned, I did so.*

*And I* **saw***.*

*Odin's single eye peered back at me. Surrounding him were four others—who I can only assume to be Huginn and Munnin, and Geri and Freki.*

*I made these synlengra for looking down at the ground from dragonback. And all of this time, I never thought to look* up *with them.*

*Tomorrow, I am going to the lens-grinders, and we are going to plan how to make the biggest lenses we can and how to mount them in a synlengra tube.*

*My son opened my eyes, and I didn't even know they were closed.*

*I'm going to give him even better ones.*

*—From the journal of Hiccup Haddock, June 22, AD 1059*

## Major Events

* Hiccup invents the synlengra (telescope) and passes Astrid's challenge.
* Godwif and her supporters leave the Bog Burglars.
* Sigurd and Constantine Dalassenos have a candid talk on the latter plotting against the former.
* The current Allied Clans of the Hooligans vote to approve the Bog Burglars and Meatheads joining as fellow Allied Clans with most of the minutiae involved also approved.
* Demetrius informs the Sigurd polycule that their relations are an open secret in the household, but assures they all respect them enough to keep it a secret.
* The Thawfest Festival of 1043 begins.
* Stoick placates the fears of the Cymry Kingdoms after they are all alarmed about the Bog Burglars getting annexed.
* While Esther formulates a solution to the current structural issues in Eire's legal system, she is informed that there are expressions of interest for her hand in marriage.

## Trivia

The tunic Merida and Cami buy for Eret is the same one he wears in *HTTYD 2*.

## Characters

### Humans

* Hiccup clan Haddock
* Astrid Hákonsdóttir clan Haddock
* Wulfhild of Norway
* Big-Boobied Bertha
* Godwif
* Sigurd Trondsson
* Alexios Arianites
* Constantine Dalassenos
* Kormak Brandrsson
* Gunnar Bræsisson
* Gudmund Hallvarsson
* Stoick the Vast
* Thuggory Mogadonsson
* Cami Berthasdóttir
* Merida Dunbroch
* Hardnut clan Thorston
* Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir
* Chestnut clan Thorston
* Rikard Ruadhsson
* Bladewit Drorsdóttir
* Demetrius Pachis
* Sophia Makris
* Valka Zephyr Hiccupsdóttir
* Asta Rhonda Hiccupsdóttir
* Fa Mulan
* Li Shang
* Yao
* Ling
* Chien Po
* Eret Eretsson
* Toiréasa
* Dagur mac Oswald
* Savage
* Esther bat Rivkah
* Maredudd ap Gruffydd (first appearance)
* Dovid ben Eliezer
* Rivkah

### Dragons

* Galloway
* Skuggi
* Stormfly
* Mistletoe
* Toothless

## Analysis

### Foreshadowing

<spoiler> This chapter ends with Esther finding out her parents want her to get remarried. This ends up leading to her adoption into Clan Haddock. </spoiler>

### Epigraph Tie-In

* The epigraph is about Hiccup's son Magni discovering mountains on the moon and the Red Spot on the planet Odin (aka Jupiter) using the synlengra (telescope). The chapter shows Hiccup inventing the synlengra.

## Index

1. ↑ https://archiveofourown.org/comments/399079575