Bewilderbeast

### **Color**

Snowy White with Charcoal Highlighted tips/Dark, Muddy Gray with Red Highlighted tips

### **Size**

Gigantic: 520 feet (158.5 meters) long, 160 feet 5 1/2 inches (48.9 meters) tall

## Statistics

###   Stealth

2

The **Bewilderbeast** is a gigantic, Tidal Class dragon species that appears in *How to Train Your Dragon 2*.

## Appearances

In How To Train Your Dragon 2, there are two specimens confirmed; Drago's "Muddy" Bewilderbeast serves as Drago Bludvist's secret weapon in his army. The second Bewilderbeast, also known as the Valka's "Snowy" Bewilderbeast, is an ally of Valka in the film and serves as king of the Dragon's Den.
 The two dragons were seen battling each other outside Valka's home. The
 Snowy Bewilderbeast is likely killed by the Muddy Bewilderbeast, who
stabs him in the underside using his large tusks.

Then in the Chronicles, Ernie revealed to own a Muddy Bewilderbeast as well.

## Characteristics

The Bewilderbeasts are the biggest of all dragon kinds known in Berk, even exceeding the Red Death in size. Today, only a few of these titans remain out there[1].
 They have never been abundant in numbers, but it is unclear whether
their populations are small by nature or if they are endangered. In
stats, they are stronger in attacks and heavier in build, but less agile
 than their fire-breathing counterparts. They are flightless and have a low shot limit as well.

### Dragon Appearance

The Bewilderbeast is a very large, spiky dragon with two big
mammoth-like tusks and huge multiple wings. The front side of its body
is covered with burr-like spikes, along with two lines of spikes along
the eyelids, giving an impression of eyebrows. 'King's frills' can be
seen on the occipital region. Their size is considerably larger than
that of the Red Death.
 Protrusions from the back of their head form a frill. Unlike Red
Deaths, Bewilderbeasts are unable to fly as not having big enough
wings for flight, mostly due to their colossal body sizes, and it is
likely they use their wings to assist them in swimming, similar to a
penguin. This makes one of the few weaknesses that makes this species
vulnerable. Proportions of upper and lower jaws are unlike those of usual
reptiles, having a fish-like mouth with small teeth. Their lips are
similar to those of mammals like humans to enable them 'blow' actions.
Interestingly, no nostrils are visible on their faces. Its hard,
"coral-like amphibian skin" covers the whole body and the scales provide
 surprisingly robust defenses to the dragon[2].
 In total, this species has many unique characteristics, making it a
very mammal-like dragon. Its many colours include ice white, muddy gray,
 and dark purple.

### Class 10 Leviathan

Being a leviathan (the tidal class equivalent of a titan wing).
Fishlegs mentioned that the Bewilderbeast is a class 10, which means it
is the biggest and highest ranked tidal class dragon. It is unknown if a
 class one leviathan differs to a class 10.

### Behaviors

The Bewilderbeast is truly the king of dragons. They are currently
the most powerful dragon, and also the largest of all dragons known so
far. It is normal for them to have their own 'nest' and be protectors or
 guardians of smaller dragons nearby, and they are seemingly generous to
 fellows in the nest. Generous individuals even chase around fish and
gather like baleen whales to feed dragons under their care. Societies
well ruled by each Bewilderbeast have highly advanced organization
constructions that work for the goodness of every member of the
community.

On the other hand, however, they can force or enslave the other
dragons even against their will to do the Bewilderbeast's bidding. This
feature is quite identical to what the Red Death
 had demonstrated, but with a much stronger influence, and the fates of
the minions really depend on each Bewilderbeast's morality and
situation. They are leaders of dragons, and are essentially living
'nature' themselves to preordain entire ecosystems; being gentle,
'father nature' or malevolent, 'natural disaster or storm'.

Bewilderbeasts are not born alphas they earn that position
through fighting and gaining their subjects when they finally reach the
alpha status and become a class 10 leviathan they are rarely challenged
and are true kings of their nest.

### Nest Creating

Bewilderbeasts utilize their blizzard abilities to create icy shells
over their nests. In the process, Bewilderbeasts choose ideal
environments to involve natural hot springs (possibly near volcanoes),
and they enjoy pleasant hot waters themselves, despite being Arctic sea
dragons. The trend of habitat selection adjacent to volcanoes is similar
 to that of the Red Death. The Bewilderbeasts are also rather fond of
designing their own kingdoms in terms of ice arts. Additionally, the
palaces of kings may also function as obvious marks to show their
territories and to show kings' mightiness to avoid needless conflicts
with threat effects (may also be useful to find other members of their
kind), or as signs of safe shelters or homes to back for those who need
or desire security. It was revealed in Dragons: Rise of Berk that the dragons living in the ice nests are called *Primals.*

## Abilities

### Ice Spikes

The Bewilderbeasts are Arctic dragons and their bodies have a
high tolerance to harsh natural environments or frozen and windy oceans.
A Bewilderbeast's most notable and feared abilitiy is to burst
streams of ice-turning water on contact like liquid nitrogen. This
ice-blast is extremely powerful, and can create immense 'glacial
explosions' on contact that can destroy and penetrate any artificial
structures with ease. Bewilderbeasts can either contain freezing air in
their bodies or can create cold mists themselves, and adapt this ability
 to shoot destructive projectiles. This ability to shoot ice is similar
to the Groncicle or the Doomfang,
 a large sea dragon that shoots "blue fire" to freeze its victims.
However, unlike the Doomfang, the Bewilderbeast shoots large amounts of
freezing water that eventually turn into ice on impact. Seemingly, they
can create glaciers and ice masses that are far larger than their own bodies.
The fact that Bewilderbeasts prefer the hot springs near the volcanoes
indicates that they do not take cold water into their bodies to utilize
ice blasts. The Bewilderbeast's breath appears to be freezing cold,
which may be how they eject the sea water and are then able to reduce
its temperature to below freezing right as it crashes into its target
due to the water undergoing rapid decompression, thus loosing vast
quantities of heat.

### Strength and Combat

The Bewilderbeast can use its tusks and head to battle. Both of the
Bewilderbeasts battled with their tusks and headbutt, which is similar
to how moose, deer and other animals with horns or antlers. Also due to
the Bewilderbeasts large size they can throw themselves on to enemies
and their weight is heavy enough to crush one of Drago Bludvist's war
machines easily.

### Speed and Agility

Despite being quadrupeds, they can also stand quite well like some
cats and dogs, or bears. Their are fast swimmers as they are faster then
 ships. Though on land their mostly slow walkers but their tail is
flexible enough to swing around.

### Underwater Adaptations

Being aquatic, these dragons can submerge and stay underwater for
considerable amount of time despite being a species of pulmonary
respiration. Also, despite their enormous sizes and rather terrestrial
form, they are true to their class; capable of swimming in surprisingly
fast speed which is faster than the most fine ships. Swimming speed of
fully matured Bewilderbeasts are beyond belief; they are capable of
ignoring drastic hydraulic drags and water pressures due to their
titanic body masses, being agile enough to chase oceanic fish to feed
other dragons, and are fast enough to demonstrate surprise attacks
despite being so large. Also, the swimming itself produces devastating
side effects at top speeds. It is likely they use their wings to aid in
swimming.

### Endurance and Stamina

As Bewilderbeast have shown to take many attacks from other dragons
as multiple fire bolts able to withstand with extra of Night Fury Plasma
 blast. As they have proven to have great stamina able to swim long
distance. Though with great armor of skin it was shown that another
Bewilderbeast can impaled to another of his kind to easily kill it.

### Senses

Drago Bewilderbeast have shown to be able to have great senses of
hearing that is quite well being underwater as able to hear Drago
commands. Possible has good vision to see underwater as able to swim in
the dark ocean.

### Dragon Controlling

Ice Blast is probably one of the most unique of all behaviors
demonstrated by the Bewilderbeasts, right next to their amazing ability
to take control of even the strongest of wills and minds of lesser
dragons using ultrasonic sounds. According to Dragons: Rise of Berk,
 they use their eyes and emit ultrasonic sounds to control minds. As
shown in the second movie, the Bewilderbeast's bony spines on its head
were rapidly vibrating while the pupils on its eyes narrowed into slits,
 making it seem more likely, plausible, and believable that they are
what broadcast the ultrasound. It was once unclear whether this ability
is a separated ability or is merely one of its behaviors, but it was
later revealed that besides possessing hypnosis like abilities (based in
 sound waves), each Bewilderbeast devotes sufficient efforts to gain
trusts and respects from nest mates[3],
 and successes must be accompanied by moralities and the kings' own
wills to bring happiness and fortunes to other dragons. Once controlling
 is actuated, all other smaller dragons in the vicinity are under the
alpha's command, unable to resist without countermeasures. The one weakness of harmonic control is being that it only applies to mature dragons, babies, especially Scuttleclaws, who "listen to no one" are shown to be immune.

The natural history of how the Bewilderbeast species gained this ability is currently unknown.

## Known Individuals

* Valka's Bewilderbeast
* Drago's Bewilderbeast
* Poultrion
* Sundown

## Trivia

* In an interview, Dean DeBlois said that the Red Death was the "queen" of Dragons, with the Bewilderbeast as the "king."
* There are 4 known Bewilderbeasts, 2 that belong to MediaWiki:Badtitletext and Ernie that are dark and menacing, and 2 that belong to Valka and Barret which

are snow-white and calm.

* Bewilderbeasts appear to have frozen blood, or don't have it at

 all, since there was no blood on Drago's Bewilderbeast's tusk when it
stabbed Valka's Bewilderbeast in his stomach.

* After the Scauldron,

 this is the second dragon species to spray water as its ranged attack.
But it also differs from the Scauldrons' water-breath due to that the
Scauldrons spray boiling water, while the Bewilderbeasts spray freezing
water.

* Their combat style is somewhat similar to that of horned

mammals, such as muskoxes or other animals such as elephants, or
walruses.

* The Bewilderbeast's naturally kind nature (the gentle giants of

 the sea) is quite similar to those of baleen whales and other marine
megafaunas such as whale sharks, basking sharks, manta rays, and so on.
However Drago and Ernie abused theirs and turned those Bewilderbeasts into enslaved
war machines.

* In original concepts, the Bewilderbeast had a more aquatic form.
* So far, The Bewilderbeast has the highest attack power, joint

highest defense with the Fireworm Queen, highest firepower and the
highest jaw strength in the series.

* The Bewilderbeast is said to be inspired by a mammoth, a polar bear, an otter, and a lion mixed together.
* According to DeBlois on a USA today article, Bewilderbeasts

ingest massive amount of seawater and store it in the ridges called
goiters along their necks. When the water is released, their icy breath
freezes it mid motion, turning it to ice upon impact.

* The Bewilderbeast is the second species of dragon credited with the ability of hypnosis, with the first being the Changewing.