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Chapter 83: On The Shoulders Of Giants

*A much more potent and frustrating miss on Haddock's part came from his invention of the pantograph (from the Greek for 'all-writing'), when he would soon have all of the parts necessary for the creation of the printing press—which would languish in unrealized potential for more than a century and a half, eventually being realized by Hiccup's descendant, Kamikaze clan Frelsifrædi. At the time Haddock created the pantograph, he already had the concept of identical production via stamping from his drop-press, along with molds and other forms for creating interchangeable movable type, and would be introduced to the concept of movable type itself from his visits to and trade with Zhōngguó within only a handful of years after his creation of the pantograph.*

*But* instead *of building the revolutionary printing press, he created the pantograph as a scribe's aid, as an extension of how things were done in his time rather than expanding outwards into new possibilities. And the pantograph did change the rate at which books could be copied; a simple pantograph could be made in an afternoon by a competent carpenter or blacksmith, and allowed even illiterates to help with copying books simply by tracing text and diagrams. But it did not change the method by which books were copied, as a printing press would have. Books were still copied by hand, one page at a time.*

*But due to its simplicity, the pantograph quickly became the dominant form of text reproduction, a position it held for the next two hundred years. There are arguments that Haddock's status as the creator of the pantograph alone pushed the creation of the printing press back by generations, as the more efficient text-copier directly challenged and threatened the supremacy of a device tied to Haddock's legendary reputation.*

*—The Genius Has No Clothes: An Alternate View Of Innovation, 1818*

## Major Events

* Sigurd meets his new neighbor and intimidates him into giving back some land that he'd stolen from Maniakes's estate.
* Hiccup invents the pantograph and introduces it to Egypt.
* Heather tells Fishlegs (and Hiccup, who was in the room) that she's pregnant.
* Sigurd opens up to Gunnar and Gudmund.
* Mildew's dragon-trapping operation is attacked by a riderless Night Fury.

## Characters

### Humans

* Sigurd Trondsson
* Gudmund Hallvarsson
* Thorred Folkmarsson
* Gunnar Bræsisson
* Ketilbjorn Káresson
* Unnamed servant
* Romanus Sclerus (first appearance)
* Haytham Abu Muhsin
* Hiccup clan Haddock
* Fishlegs clan Ingerman
* Heather
* Fintan mac Ionatan
* Roisin
* Bláthnat
* Hákon Mortensson
* Gunvor Dugaldsdóttir
* Magnus the Good
* Sigvatr Þórðarson
* Mildew
* Jyette Markussdóttir (first appearance)

### Dragons

* Hookfang
* Pílahridh (unnamed)
* Stormfly
* Mistletoe
* Mold
* Unnamed Night Fury

## Analysis

### Epigraph Tie-In

* The epigraph talks about Hiccup's invention of the pantograph. The chapter shows Hiccup introducing the pantograph to Egypt.
AThingOfVikings Wiki

Welcome to the AThingOfVikings Wiki!

Take History. Add Dragons. Stir until a Genius makes friends with them and things explode. Take the resulting stock of Hiccup and tamed dragons and set it to simmering in 1040 AD, in the Scottish Hebrides. Add more Kings, Emperors, Romans, Vikings, Conquerors, Spies, Warriors, Thieves, Knights and Nobles, to taste. Take cover, and sit back to watch the fireworks.

In Real Life, 1040 was the tail end of the Viking Age; Europe was 50 years from the First Crusade; the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches have not yet formally split, William the Conqueror is a frightened teenager in Normandy, the Byzantine Empire is collapsing after a revival under one of their great emperors, and the great Viking Harald Hardrada is a Varangian mercenary there, while the Caliphates are having a rough time from the new Seljuk Empire and their own internal tensions. The most corrupt Pope in history holds Rome, the Reconquista of Spain is underway after the collapse of the Caliphate of Cordoba, and the Norse religion is a pale shadow of what it once was, hanging on around the Baltic Sea, Iceland, Greenland... and the Hebrides.

And into that heady mix, there is now Hiccup and Berk.

Yeah, history won't know what hit it.

A Thing Of Vikings is an Alternate History fanfic with the premise of placing the first entry of the How To Train Your Dragon film franchise into real life history and allowing things to unwind from there, with other characters and plot elements from the HTTYD franchise and other media properties taken as needed.

The fanfic can be found at Archive Of Our Own here.

At 85 chapters and over 900,000 words as of the May 2019 hiatus, the story qualifies as epic, with franchise characters, historical characters, and original characters all interwoven. Thus this wiki, to help keep track of things. The story's author is active on the wiki, having created it with the intention of using it to collate and organize his notes (and finds writing in the third person to be just as odd as one would expect). Contributions and analyses from readers are welcome and encouraged!

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Adalwin ua Imair

*CHARACTER QUOTE HERE*

**Alvin the Treacherous**, also known as **Adalwin ua Imair**, is the former king of Vedrarfjord.

## Biography

### Background

Alvin took over Vedrarfjord years ago, killing and impersonating its previous king.

### Book I

Adalwin's men try to steal dragons from Berk, kidnapping Meatlug and injuring Fishlegs in the process. Hiccup leads a search party which captures them and takes them and their ship back to Berk. The Hooligans then carry the entire ship, with the culprits bound in the hold, and drop it in the middle of Adalwin's castle.

Adalwin sends his man Ragnell with weregeld to give to Berk in apology for the dragon abductions and assault on Fishlegs. The weregeld includes ten thralls, one of whom is Heather.

After Heather's espionage became known during the Battle of the Sound of Berk, she explains that Adalwin holds her parents hostage to ensure her compliance. Berk launches a retaliatory attack against King Adalwin for sending a spy to infiltrate them and to free Heather's parents. During the attack on Vedrarfjord, Fritjof identifies "Adalwin" as Alvin, an impostor to the legacy of the Ua Imair. As Alvin makes his escape, he kills Ragnell ua Imair.

### Book II

Alvin travels across Eire in disguise, seeking out his remaining allies. He is captured by Imar mac Arailt, who also captures his wife and spymaster Delilah. Imar releases both of them, with orders to go to Rome and get aid from the Church.

### Book III

In Rome, Viggo Grimborn finds the villa where Alvin and Delilah are hiding, and manipulates them into serving him. He orders them to train new spies for him in his newly-conquered kingdom of Algeciras.

## Relationships

### Delilah/Fagn

Delilah is possibly the only other person Alvin cares for, and a master spy in her own right.

## Personality And Traits

Alvin is a master of manipulation, abuse, and torture, whether physical, emotional, or psychological. However, even he doesn't indulge in pointless cruelty -- all of his abuse has a reason, however twisted it may be. He is willing to do almost anything to save his own skin.

## Trivia

Both his names mean "noble friend", of which he is neither.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 13: Wakeup Calls
2. ↑ Chapter 52: The Question Of Justice
3. ↑ Chapter 77: All Roads Lead To Rome
Constantinople

> *"When old Rome fell, its glory lived on in the east, and the center of it all is Miklagård!"*
> —Mikael, Chapter 16: Bindings...
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## **Summary**

**Constantinople**, also known as **Byzantium** (Greek) or **Miklagård** (Norse), is the capital of the Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire, and possibly the largest city in the world. It is home to the Emperor, Empress, and the Varangian Guard.

## **History**

Constantinople was built on the older Greek city of Byzantium by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, after whom it was named. After the Roman Empire split, it became the capital of the Eastern (Byzantine) Empire.

## **Notable Inhabitants**

* Michael V Kalaphates
* Zoe Porphyrogenita
* Theodora Porphyrogenita
* Harald Sigurdsson
* Snotlout clan Jorgenson
* Gudmund Hallvarsson
* Gunnar Bræsisson
* Benjamin Axelsson
* Demetrius Pachis
* Sophia Makris

## **Sites of Interest**

### Hagia Sophia

The largest church in Constantinople and possibly the world.

### Hagia Eirene

The second largest church in Constantinople.

### Walls of Constantinople

Constantinople has two concentric sets of walls, though the presence of dragon riders has made them less effective.

### Vulcan's Forge

Formerly the Prison of Noumera (and before that a public bathhouse), this is the Roman Empire's first dragon broodery.
Eigg

> *Relevant quote*
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## Summary

**Eigg** is an island next to Berk, which the Hooligans settle and build a market town on once their population starts expanding.

## History

Eigg was uninhabited until the Hooligans, seeing the huge increase in the number of merchants and other visitors for Thawfest, decided to build a market village there for them. Stoick appointed Jonna Asgersdóttir, the head of the new Clan Joms, to oversee its construction and administration.

After renouncing his clan, Gobber the Belch moved all of his equipment and supplies to Eigg, where he built a new forge (the old one belonging to Clan Jorgenson).

## Sites of Interest

* Statue of Freyja
* Gobber's new forge
Chapter 100: The Turning Of Years

***Yule:** Traditional term for the Norse holidays marking the beginning of the Winter season, as well as to the general early winter months.  The holy days proper begin with the Winter Solstice in late December and run for a period of one week in total, although preparations and lead-up activities occupy many of the weeks beforehand.  During the Yule-time, numerous feasts, sacred meals, and sacrifices are made in the hope of a good harvest in the following year.  Of primary focus are the deities **Frigga**, **Freyja**, and **Freyr**, with some traditions also paying homage to **Sif**.  These gods, in their roles of fertility, growth, and prosperity, are petitioned for their aid, and in the cases of Frigga and Freyja, for intercession with their husband **Odin** as he rides at the head of the **Wild Hunt**.  It is specifically noted that one does not invoke Odin during Yule, for fear of drawing the attention of him and his hunting party.*

*The Yule traditions are rich in symbolism, with ham and boar served for Freyr and Freyja's honor, an entire log burned for Frigga's hearth and hanging mistletoe in remembrance of her son **Baldr**, and a straw goat for Sif and her husband **Thor,** among others, including traditions which honor specific Valkyries.  All in all, the holy days are a bright, festive time, a celebration of light and life in the midst of the darkest winter…*

*—From Aesir To Yggdrasil: A Norse Primer*

## Major Events

* Dagur begins opening up to Toiréasa.
* Sigurd and Sophia marry.
* The Bog Burglars hold a thing to discuss their future. They adjourn to discuss their options to make a final decision later in the Winter.
* Sigurd, Sophia, Gunnar, Heidrun, Thorred, Ketilbjorn and their dragons arrive at Sigurd's estates for the honeymoon.

## Characters

### Humans

* Toiréasa
* Dagur mac Oswald
* Inga Roswynnsdóttir
* Sigurd Trondsson
* Sophia Makris
* Theodora Porphyrogenita
* Hiccup clan Haddock
* Stoick the Vast
* Valka Zephyr Hiccupsdóttir
* Asta Rhonda Hiccupsdóttir
* Segna Magnusdóttir
* Olaf Magnusson
* William of Normandy
* Astrid Hákonsdóttir clan Haddock
* Magnus the Good
* Wulfhild of Norway
* Big-Boobied Bertha
* Cami Berthasdóttir
* Merida Dunbroch
* Aldith (first appearance)
* Enid (first appearance)
* Roswynn (first appearance)
* Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir
* Tuffnut Thicknutsson
* Gruffnut clan Thorston
* Various unnamed Thorstons
* Savage
* Unnamed father and son thralls
* Gunnar Bræsisson
* Gudmund Hallvarsson
* Thorred Folkmarsson
* Ketilbjorn Káresson
* Nanna clan Hofferson
* Unnamed Jorgenson woman and child

### Dragons

* Hookfang
* Gunnar's dragon
* Pílahridh
* Thorred's dragon
* Ketilbjorn's dragon
* Unnamed Nadder

## Analysis

### Epigraph Tie-In

* The epigraph explains what the Yule celebrations are. The chapter shows Berk, the Bog-Burglars, and the Berserkers celebrating Yule.
Pílahridh

Pílahridh is a Campe bonded to Gudmund Hallvarsson.

## Biography

Pílahridh was captured with the first group of dragons brought to Constantinople under the orders of Michael V Kalaphates. As one of Sigurd Trondsson's closest friends and allies within the Varangian Guard, Gudmund was allowed to be one of the first to bond with a dragon.

## Trivia

Her name is a Norse compound word meaning "Spear Thrower".

## References

1. ↑ https://archiveofourown.org/comments/663604327
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Chapter 34: Masses In Motion

*The era of the Papacy between 904 and 1046, typically referred to as Saeculum Obscurum (Latin: Dark Age), is generally accepted to be the lowest depths of the Catholic Church's moral authority in its recorded fourteen centuries of history from Constantine I. During this time, beginning with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904, and ending with the final deposing of Pope Benedict IX in 1046, the Church was controlled by a series of powerful and corrupt aristocratic families, who used the ecclesiastical power of the Papacy to increase their worldly influence, and visa versa.*

*Corruption during this period was the norm, especially in the senior ranks of the Church, who set the trends for their underlings. Routine acts of corruption during this time period included the sale of Church offices and roles (simony), the sale of indulgences, framing scribes with secular crimes to force them to take Holy Orders, bribery, extortion, blackmail, cronyism, and the occasional assassination, as well more personal venality on the part of the individual priests.*

*—The Second Flowering Of Yggdrasil: An Analysis Of The Norse Resurgence, 1710*

## Major Events

Snotlout is baptized, officially taking the name "Sigurd Trondsson" as his Christian name.

## Characters

### Humans

* Alvin the Treacherous
* Cináed, abbot
* Heather
* Magnhild
* Twiglet
* Tuffnut Thicknutsson
* Vladimir Yaroslavich
* Hiccup clan Haddock
* Fishlegs clan Ingerman
* Astrid Hákonsdoitter clan Haddock
* Stoick the Vast
* Gobber the Belch
* Murray
* Griselda
* Snotlout clan Jorgenson
* Kristoffer

### Dragons

* Toothless
* Stormfly

## Analysis

### Epigraph Tie-In

* The epigraph describes the corruption of the church and its clergy during the Dark Age. The chapter introduces one of these corrupt clergyman who helps Alvin by providing fraudulent identity papers.
Chapter 21: Preparations

*The dragon hydrocarbon organ system is the defining feature of the draconic clade; even in flightless, obligate aquatic, or the occasional limbless breed, if they possess the hydrocarbon organ system, they are defined as dragons.*

*The organ system is estimated to have originally evolved during the Neogene Period between 18 and 24 MYA, based on genetic evidence from the draconic genome, although some estimates put its origin much earlier, during the Paleogene's Eocene Epoch, between 48 and 34 MYA. Originally an offshoot of an additional liver lobe among tunnel-dwelling reptiles, its original purpose appears to have been in protecting the proto-dragons from heavy-metal poisoning accumulated from the stones of their native environment. Later evolutionary adaptations shifted the liver lobe into a distinct organ of its own, capable of chemical synthesis of basic hydrocarbons in conjunction with symbiotic bacteria, hypothesized as a form of energy storage. Later mutations created the secondary organs in the hydrocarbon system that distill oxygen, and transport, store, mix and ignite the hydrocarbons for firebreathing. True flight in the draconic species only appeared after the evolution of the pressurized oxygen bladders adjacent to the respiratory and hydrocarbon systems; at rest, the dragon uptakes oxygen from the atmosphere and stores it under pressure in the bladder. This oxygen is then either used for fueling flight muscles or for igniting hydrocarbons for firebreathing.*

*—An Introduction To Dragon Biology, 17th Edition, Oxford University Press, 1793*

## Analysis

### Epigraph Tie-In

* The epigraph introduces the organ system whose presence in an organism marks them as dragons. Injury to these organs can result in the dragon exploding, which is what happened to at least one of the hatchlings mentioned in the chapter.
Merida Dunbroch

*CHARACTER QUOTE HERE*

Merida clan Dunbroch is the only daughter of Fergus and Elinor Dunbroch, and the wife of Cami Berthasdóttir.

## Relationships

### Cami Berthasdóttir

Cami falls in love with Merida soon after the latter arrives on Berk, almost on first sight; after impulsively kissing her in public, Cami is gratified when Merida chooses to explore the option, and the two soon take to bed, which leads to Cami offering to marry her when they are discovered. The proposal is accepted and the two are married.

### Eret Eretsson

While facing pressure from both their mothers to find a man to sire children with, Cami and Merida meet the recently freed Eret and show interest in him; she is fine when he declares his willingness to consider the matter with a proper courtship (coming from his recent thrallship). Despite an incident where Eret is attacked for being a foreigner, the relationship eventually blossoms and is consummated, and Cami and Merida formally take Eret as their shared concubine.

### Galloway

Galloway is a Deadly Nadder that Merida bonds with during Dragon Training.
Лео

**Лео** — стройный, лёгкий и тонкий леопард с коротким густым мехом песчано-жёлтого цвета, с длинными широкими лапами, узким телом и спиной, вытянутой головой и изумрудными глазами.

## Характер

Лео добрый, весёлый, отзывчивый и самоотверженный леопард. Стремительный, бесстрашный, авантюрный, оптимичный, явно умнее и хитрее своего друга Тига. Храбрый, свободолюбивый, юркий и рисковый, по сюжету выступает главным зачинщиком друзей. Харизматичный, эмоциональный, любопытный и отважный, у него есть лидерские качества. Он открыто высказывает своим друзьям свои мнения и открыто возмущается.
Chapter 29: In Fire Forged

*Feudalism, as a general term for sociopolitical systems consisting of a series of social classes of landless workers, landowners, warriors, and priests in a low-currency, medium-resource environment, can be seen as a low-complexity societal failsafe in the aftermath of a collapse from a higher order political structure. While higher-order political structures can potentially exist given the same conditions as a typical feudal society, their overhead costs (educational, infrastructure, lack of leisure, etc.) render them more unstable under such circumstances. In contrast, a feudal system can be extremely stable; under conditions that allow for feudalism, the system can persist for centuries before enough excess social and financial capital is accumulated to allow for a shift to higher-order forms of government.*

*Key features of feudalism include systemic and institutionalized social stratification, wherein a minority of families or other institutions control the majority of the society's resources (typically in the form of arable land), a worker class that farms the land and produces the goods necessary for survival, a warrior class that protects the land and workers from encroachment by other landowners, and a priestly class that legitimizes the rule of the landowners.*

*It should be noted, though, that, as a low-complexity sociopolitical system, feudalism is highly vulnerable to disruption caused by changes that allow for an increase in productivity or social mobility by the worker class, who make up the majority of the population. Nowhere is this better seen than in the events of the 1040s to 1080s in Europe…*

*—Nationbuilding: How People Move, Talk, Think, Organize, & Structure Themselves, 1888, Amsterdam University Press*
Chapter 89: Initiation

***Weregild:** Archaic term for a fine made as legal reparations for an unlawful death at the hands of an offending party to their victim's family or clan.  The precise value of the payment was based on the legal and social standing of the victim, with no division set between murder and manslaughter.  A freeman was generally used as the base payment amount, with 200 shillings being the value assigned in 8th century Anglo-Saxon law, and this amount then modified appropriately according to the local mores—for example, among the Alamanni, the weregeld for women was twice that of an equal-status man, while among the Saxons, it was half.  An envoy from Charlemagne was worth three times his normal value if killed while in active service to the king, and a priest was worth an extra hundred shillings if he was killed during the reading of Mass—presumably, both of these circumstances occurred enough to warrant the variance in the legal codes.*

*While these payments seem to be preposterous to a more modern outlook, it is important to note that, in their era, which lacked centralized law enforcement and more modern legal punishments, weregilds functioned as a system that allowed for deescalation of tensions, as opposed to the other option for restitution that was available: the victim's family going out and killing the killer, which would spark a cycle of revenge that would spiral into vendettas and feuds.*

*—From Aesir To Yggdrasil: A Norse Primer*

## Major Events

* Fishwings, Munia and Inkpot arrive in Vedrarfjord.
* Camilla arrives in Berk for her wedding and meets Thuggory.
* Heather introduces Atali to Toireasa. She gives them the plan to have Toireasa and Atali swap places and then Toireasa will infiltrate Dagur's group, go with them when they leave, and assassinate Dagur.
* The Berserker Tribe pay weregild to Jacob.

## Characters

### Humans

* Fishwings clan Ingerman
* Munia
* Rabbi (Dovid ben Eliezer?)
* Fishlegs clan Ingerman
* Cami Berthasdóttir
* Thuggory (first appearance)
* Big-Boobied Bertha
* Stoick the Vast
* Astrid Hákonsdóttir clan Haddock
* Sigurd Spiteloutsson
* Sophia Makris
* Helena Makris (first appearance)
* Gudmund Hallvarsson
* Gunnar Bræsisson
* Inga Roswynnsdóttir
* Toiréasa
* Heather
* Atali
* Wulfhild of Norway
* Magnus the Good
* Hiccup clan Haddock
* Jacob Rodericksson
* Savage
* Dagur mac Oswald
* Hardnut clan Thorston
* William of Normandy
* Esther bat Rivkah

### Dragons

* Inkpot
* Skuggi
* Brand
* Toothless

## Analysis

### Epigraph Tie-In

* The epigraph explains what weregild is. The chapter shows the Berserkers being made to pay weregild for what they did to Glenfinnan.
Rome

> *Relevant quote*
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## **Summary**

Rome is the seat of the Pope, officially the religious heart of Christian Europe.

## **History**

Rome was once the capital of the Roman Empire. After the establishment of Christianity as the state religion, Rome became a center of Christianity, with the Pope living and ruling there. At its height, Rome had around a million inhabitants, but by 1042, it had shrunk to only 50 to 80 thousand.
Пророчество Моря

**Пророчество Моря** - второй цикл книг. Главными персонажами теперь будут дети Кино - Львиная Грива, Чёрный Лист и Крыло Воробья. У них есть особенные силы, так же как у своего отца. Они являются пророчеством, и они будут пытаться узнать, что же будет с ними в будущем. В конце цикла рождается Голубичка, и она тоже становится частью пророчества.

### Дети Кино

В различных Королевствах подрастают птенцы Кино и Афины. Однажды одному из них, Воробьишке, приходит видение *"Тьма наступает. Скоро она нахлынет на лес, и огонь перестанет гореть, и лишь Троица спасёт лес"*. Он начинает искать Троих, и находит своих брата и сестру, и все они идут в Королевство Чистого Неба.

### Бушующая Гроза

*Тьма поглотит вас, и гроза пробежится по тихому небу.* Молодой Воробокрыл пытается разобраться с помощью Чернокрылки и Львинокрыла, и они находят таинственного одиночку, который принесёт беду. Потом гроза бушует среди ясного неба, и Воробокрыл понимает, что опасность несёт именно незнакомый одиночка.

### Тёмное небо

Воробокрыл с помощью сестры и брата рассказывают всем, что одиночка несёт беду, и все хотят прогнать его. Но незнакомец яростно морит Королевство Вечной Тьмы голодом, и Рябинник, Ночка и Листик приходят в Чистое Небо. Вскоре незнакомец разоблачён, но он вовсе не хочет отдать Королевство Вечной Тьмы его настоящим обладателям.

### Звёздная буря

Одиночка так и правит Королевством Вечной Тьмы. Оставшихся он взял в плен, он также привёл в Королевство бродяг и одиночек и называет всю свою стаю Стаей Геральда, а птиц в плену Семьёй. Воробокрыл, Чернокрылка и Львинокрыл разыскивают стаю птиц-бродяг и бывших домашних, и оказывается, оттуда пришёл и незнакомец. Королевство Чистого Неба идёт на сражение против стаи, но терпят поражение.

### Тьма и свет

*"Тёмную реку невозможно перелететь, но её можно обогнуть".* Такое видение приходит ученику Травницы Воробокрылу, и он делится пророчеством с сестрой и братом. Они рассказывают всё на Совете, и все Королевства думают, что тёмная река - это Геральд со своими птицами, и все идут на сражение со Стаей...

### Холодное солнце

Прошло пол-луны после победы над Стаей Геральда. Королевства залечивают свои раны. Все хоронят погибших. В Чистом Небе растёт маленькая Голубичка. Воробокрылу, теперь Воробью, приходит видение *"Третья - не твоя сестра. В кого переродилась Афина, та и есть Третья".* Он вместе с Львиной Гривой и Чёрном Листом пытаются разгадать это, но Голубичка сама подсказывает им.
Chapter 52: The Question Of Justice

*The legal status of dragons has nearly always been that of a minor child legally beholden to and dependent on an adult human. While the fact that dragons are fully sentient and sapient individuals was very quickly apparent, even to the early dragon-riders, the fact also remains that, outside of a few exceptional individual dragons, a typical dragon's abstract reasoning skills and higher order thinking processes range around those of a five- or six-year-old human child. While dragons have their own language capable of communicating abstract concepts, much like those of corvids, prior to their integration with human society it was still extremely primitive, with even the most complex regional dialects only consisting of perhaps a thousand words. Simply put, dragons aren't quite intelligent enough to be humanity's full intellectual partners. Hence their legal status.*

*At present, dragon-riders essentially adopt the dragon in a civil bond away from the legal trusts of the Brooderies, who corporately act as the dragons' legal guardians until and unless they are bonded to a rider. With the bond between rider and dragon holding a legal status similar to that of a marriage or child adoption, dragon-riders are, presently, entirely responsible for the behavior of their dragon, and have obligations to the dragon in kind (food, housing, medical care, etc.).*

*Ideally, it is a partnership between near-equals, where the human gives their hands and brains, and the dragon gives their wings.*

*—The Dragon Law: A Primer On Dragons And Jurisprudence, 1744, London*

## Analysis

### Epigraph Tie-In

* The epigraph talks about the legal status of dragons and of the relationship when a human bonds with and adopts a dragon. The chapter shows the Hooligans first drafting the laws recognising personhood for dragons and the legal procedures for adopting a dragon.
Michael Henriksson

*CHARACTER QUOTE HERE*

Father Michael Henriksson is the court priest of Nidaros.

### Book I

Father Michael constantly tries to get the Hooligans to convert to Christianity, especially Ruffnut once she and Magnus become engaged. He travels to Berk with Magnus, Wulfhild, and several others, and conducts the Christian portion of the wedding between Magnus and Ruffnut. He manipulates Wulfhild into letting him bless the concubinage ceremony between her and Hiccup, and tricks the two of them into exchanging marriage vows in Latin.

### Book II

Father Michael continues to pester Ruffnut about Christianity, and objects to her setting up a hospital outside of Church authority, at least until Yngvarr outmaneuvers him.

At the birth of Magnus and Ruffnut's children Segna and Olaf, Father Michael attempts to baptize them, but Ruffnut refuses. He then secretly baptizes the queen while she sleeps, and then tries to murder her. Ruffnut is only saved by the arrival of Einar Thambarskelfir, who helps her stab the priest in self-defense. During the fight, Henriksson also reveals that he was behind the assassination attempt on Hiccup and Astrid during their first visit to Nidaros.

## Personality And Traits

Father Michael is cunning, patient, and utterly convinced that he is doing the work of God. His fundamentalism brings him into conflict with the Hooligans, who resent and reject his attempts to convert them to Christianity and bring them under the Church's influence.

## Trivia

1. ↑ Chapter 22: A Ruff But Magnus Wedding
2. ↑ Chapter 31: ...Than The Water Of The Womb
3. ↑ Chapter 46: Light Fuse...
4. ↑ Chapter 65: Knives In The Night
Mildew

*CHARACTER QUOTE HERE*

**Mildew**, later called **the Vicious**, is an ostracized hermit living on Berk, who later leaves to train dragons for King Mac Bethad of Alba.

## Biography

### Background

Mildew was one of the tribe's most skilled dragonslayers, often using weapons poisoned with oleander, which he regularly bought from Sailor Johann. His presence was tolerated during the Dragon War because his skills were needed, but his foul personality made him an outcast among the tribe, and led to his banishment from his birth clan, Hofferson. Outraged that his younger brother Rikard was chosen as clanheir over him, Mildew barred the doors to the clan hall and set the building ablaze, killing nearly every Hofferson.

### Book I

In the chaos of the Battle of the Sound of Berk, Mildew sneaks away with several young dragon hatchlings, bringing them to Mac Bethad in exchange for a jarlship.

### Book II

In Bun Ilidh, the village Mac Bethad grants him in exchange for his service, Mildew becomes a tyrannical ruler, meting out cruel punishments for minor offenses, and terrorizing the populace.

### Book III

On the orders of Mac Bethad, Mildew leaves Bun Ilidh and sails to Iceland with some Thingmen and a large number of thralls, who he puts to work capturing dragons for him. He starts enthralling local Icelanders too, and mounts the Thingmen on the captured dragons. When Hiccup clan Haddock arrives in Iceland looking for Buffalords, the dragon-riding Thingmen attack his group and capture him, Toothless, Sigvatr, and his dragon, bringing Hiccup to Mildew.

Astrid and the others rescue Hiccup and Toothless, but not before Mildew has begun torturing Hiccup. Regrouping, Hiccup's retinue and Fearless' flock attack Mildew's camp. The human and dragon prisoners are freed while Hiccup, Toothless and Fearless lead Mildew, Mold and the Thingmen to an abandoned nest where they laid a trap with Ruffnut, Tuffnut, Barf and Belch and the remainder of Fearless' flock. The battle is interrupted by the Screaming Death who recovered from his previous defeat. Fearless leads the Screaming Death deeper into the nest, where she launches a plasma bolt into the lava, causing a volcanic eruption that kills her, the Screaming Death, Mildew, Mold and all of the remaining Thingmen.

## Personality And Traits

Mildew is a cruel, vindictive, amoral sociopath.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 83: On The Shoulders Of Giants
Chapter 86: For Everything There Is A Season

*One of the more serious diplomatic errors that Hiccup made was failing to pay a visit to the King of Francia, Henry of the Capets, until late in AD 1042.  He made multiple visits to Normandy, a visit to the Holy Roman Empire, and visits to many other monarchs and high lords, but seemed to avoid a visit to Paris and King Henry until circumstances forced his hand.  This apparent snubbing in favor of more powerful and connected nobles, including some who were nominally Henry's vassals, combined with Hiccup's later actions, served to highlight Henry's lack of power and influence, and the king did not take the lack of interest well at all.  Simply put, it seemed he wasn't important enough for Hiccup to bother with.*

*While Hiccup had his reasons for his decisions—setting up the Dragon Mail being one of them, following the coastal route of his merchant contacts—the implicit lack of importance his actions assigned to King Henry soured relations between them before they even had a chance to formally open.*

*—Corpus Historiae Berkiae, 1396*

## Major Events

* A courier summons Sigurd back to Constantinople to deal with unexpected behavior from the dragons.
* Henry the Sinister demands Duke William's surrender. William has him thrown out.
* Fishlegs informs Hiccup that Toothless has mated with Stormfly and Mistletoe.
* Sigurd leads a meeting of the Roman military to explain dragon mating and egg-laying.
* To circumvent Clodgall's refusal to allow Gobber to become Jonna and Reidun's concubine, Gobber renounces his clan and becomes clanless.
* A survivor from Glenfinnan arrives on Berk.

## Characters

### Humans

* Sigurd Trondsson
* Gunnar Bræsisson
* Unnamed courier
* William of Normandy
* Henry the Sinister
* Roger (first appearance)
* Hiccup clan Haddock
* Henry the Black
* Wulfhild of Norway
* Astrid Hákonsdóttir clan Haddock
* Gereon Schmitz (first appearance)
* Fishlegs clan Ingerman
* Demetrius Pachis
* Drago Bludvist
* Fishwings clan Ingerman
* Basil Spondyles
* Alexios Arianites
* Brother Theodosius (first appearance)
* Eret Eretsson
* Stoick the Vast
* Clodgall Oxwitsson
* Gobber the Belch
* Jonna Asgersdóttir
* Reidun Hemmingsdóttir
* Chestnut clan Thorston
* Jacob Rodericksson of Glenfinnan

### Dragons

* Toothless
* Stormfly
* Mistletoe

## Analysis

### Epigraph Tie-In

* The epigraph mentions that Hiccup only visited King Henry of the Capets when circumstances forced his hand. The chapter shows Duke William's political problems which was part of what led to it.
Chapter 81: Channels Of Communication

*Given the variation across the breadth of dragon biology, it is ultimately self-defeating to speak in anything more than the broadest of generalities on the topic of draconic senses, as there are specific types and breeds and even individuals with exceptional versions of each of the main senses. However, broad trends can still be observed.*

*Dragons tend to have high visual acuity, especially for low-light environments: the majority of dragons are trichromats, but one genetic line possesses a mutation that grants them tetrachromacy, and another line being bichromatic but with exceptional low-light vision (highly prevalent among Boulder-class dragons).*

*Hearing nearly universally manifests in a wider range than that of humans: the common range reaches down to 15 cycles per second and up to 22,000 cycles per second, with some lines having greater or lesser limits, the lowest limit ever documented being 3 cps. The majority but not totality of draconic communication conveniently happens in the same vocal range as available to humans, but dragons use the lower-frequency ranges for long-distance communications. While only simple information can be communicated using this method, historically it was used for navigation to and from nests and over long distances.*

*Smell is significantly more acute in comparison with humans, with some lines having acuity on par with canine bloodhounds, but all dragons are highly sensitive to scents…*

*—An Introduction To Dragon Biology, 17th Edition, Oxford University Press, 1793*

## Characters

### Humans

* Inga Roswynnsdóttir
* Gudmund Hallvarsson
* Wulfhild of Norway
* Harald Sigurdsson
* Sophia Makris
* Kerr
* Unnamed woodsman
* Sigurd Trondsson
* Fishlegs clan Ingerman
* Hiccup clan Haddock
* Gallbrat clan Jorgenson
* Heather
* Astrid Hákonsdóttir clan Haddock
* Kasim
* Drago Bludvist
* Esther bat Rivkah
* Stoick the Vast
* Spitelout Clodgallsson

### Dragons

* Toothless
* Stormfly
* Mistletoe
* Windshear
* Meatlug

## Analysis

### Epigraph Tie-In

* The epigraph mentions that dragons use lower-frequency ranges for navigation to and from nests. The chapter shows Toothless, Stormfly, Mistletoe and Meatlug hearing a nest-call and locating a nest on the Isle of Crete.
Пророчество Янтарной Звезды/Списки Королевств

Здесь указаны все персонажи, упомянутые в «Пророчестве Янтарной Звезды».

## Королевство Чистого Неба

**Предводитель:**

Белозвёзд — крупная белоснежная птица с тёмно-синими глазами. *Ученик — Грозокрылка*

**Хранители:**

Гусопёр — пухлая крапчатая светло-серая птица; *Ученик — Пышнокрылый*

Море — серебристо-серая полосатая птица;

Озёрница — большая серо-голубая птица.

**Заместитель:**

Серый — серая птица с янтарными глазами. *Ученица — Медокрылка*

**Воины:**

Птицехвост — крупная пушистая птица с серо-янтарными глазами; *Ученик — Маковник*

Змееклюв — крупная бурая птица с жёлтыми глазами; *Ученица — Рябокрылка*

Камнепёр — большая птица с перьями цвета камня; *Ученица — Белокрылка*

Горностайка — маленькая золотистая крапчатая птица; *Ученик — Огнекрылый*

Коршунница — огромная птица с горящими глазами и необычайно длинными когтями; *Ученик — Небосводный*

Вихрь — крупная тёмно-серебристая птица с голубоватыми перьями; *Ученик — Плесковой*

Космопёрый — тёмно-серая косматая птица с жёлтыми глазами; *Ученица — Совушка*

Лопух — птица с серыми перьями; *Ученица — Калинка*

Луна — крупная серебристая птица с голубыми глазами; *Ученик — Дубокрыл*

Дроздолов — песчано-серая птица с голубыми глазами; *Ученик — Сумрачник*

Меднолистая — прекрасная пёстрая птица. *Ученик — Корекрылый*

**Ученики:**

Древокрыл — крупная птица с палкой вместо ноги.

Медокрылка - птица золотисто-бурого цвета.

Пышнокрылый - светло-серебристая птица с длинными мягкими перьями.

Маковник - крупная светло-бурая птица.

Рябокрылка - изящная пёстрая птица.

Белокрылка - очень бледная серая птица без глаза.

Огнекрылый - крупная буро-рыжая птица с оранжевыми глазами.

Небосводный - крупная серебристо-голубая птица.

Плесковой - светло-серый канюк с блестящими перьями.

Совушка - птица-меланистка с огромными совиными глазами.

Корекрылый - голубоглазый сапсан.

Калинка - каштановая птица с необычными синими глазами.

Дубокрыл — крупная бурая птица

Грозокрылка — тёмно-бурая птица с необычными серыми глазами.

Сумрачник — крупная чёрная птица.

**Кормящие:**

Лунноликая — серебристая полосатая птица с прелестными голубыми глазами.

Красноцветик — крупная тёмно-рыжая огненная птица с янтарными глазами

Вихренница — средняя птица с рыжими полосатыми перьями и жёлтыми глазами.

**Птенцы:**

Лоскуточек — чёрно-белая птица

Крапинка — крапчатая чёрная птица.

Янтарушка — красивая птичка с ярко-золотистыми глазами и янтарно-золотистыми перьями

Снежинка — серебристая птица.

**Старейшины:**

Зяблик — крупная птица с голубоватыми перьями на голове.

Трещотка — маленькая светло-серая птица.

Камышовник — старая серая птица
Chapter 19: Liminals

*The Norse temple and associated cult at Uppsala was one of the last major bastions of the Norse religion during the attempted Christianization of Scandinavia in the 10th and 11th centuries. Razed in 1044 and rebuilt in 1056, the original temple featured statues of the gods Odin, Freyr and Thor on a triple throne, a sacred well and a sacred grove. When the temple was first destroyed by Christian Crusaders, many of the priesthood managed to evacuate to Berk, where they formed the core of…*

*—The Second Flowering Of Yggdrasil: An Analysis Of The Norse Resurgence, 1710*

## Major Events

* Ruffnut and Astrid take Wulfhild for a flight, and use the privacy they get to question her about Einar.
* In Uppsala, Snotlout offers a sacrifice to Odin, Thor, and Freyr, and renames himself Sigurd Trondsson.
* Fishlegs grows closer to Heather, and suspects Murchadh and Brogan of being spies.
* The Hooligans, along with Magnus and some of his court, leave for Berk.

## Characters

### Humans

* Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir
* Magnus the Good
* Hiccup clan Haddock
* Michael Henriksson
* Astrid Hákonsdóttir
* Wulfhild of Norway
* Snotlout clan Jorgenson
* Fishlegs clan Ingerman
* Brogan mac Cillian
* Murchadh mac Flannchadh
* Heather
* Hákon Mortensson
* Gunnar Bræsisson (first appearance)
* Karl
* Thorred Folkmarsson (first appearance)
* Ketilbjorn Káresson (first appearance)
* Fridgeir
* Hrafn Hrafnsson (first appearance)
* Vidkunn Guthhersson (first appearance)
* Balli Vidkunnsson (first appearance)
* Gudmund Hallvarsson (first appearance)
* Ondott Brandrsson (first appearance)
* Kormak Brandrsson (first appearance)
* Horsefeathers Hensteethsson
* Einar Thambarskelfir

### Dragons

* Barf & Belch
* Stormfly
* Hookfang
* Toothless

## Analysis

### Epigraph Tie-In

* The epigraph talks about the Norse Cult and Temple at Uppsala. The chapter shows Sigurd praying at the Uppsala temple.
Thuggory Mogadonsson

*CHARACTER QUOTE HERE*

Thuggory Mogadonsson is the chief of the Meathead Tribe.

## Biography

### Background

Thuggory is related to the Hooligans through the Ingerman clan, and is a great-grandson of Dror ben Ezra. His father Mogadon died in 1040, making him chief at the age of 17.

### Book III

Thuggory arrives on Berk in Fall 1042, both to attend the wedding of Cami Berthasdóttir and Merida Dunbroch and to participate in that year's dragon training class (permitted on the same principle as Cami, having a blood tie to one of the allied clans).

## Personality And Traits

Thuggory is prone to "flirt at the drop of a hat", and enjoys teasing his friends, but is acutely aware that he has been thrust into the chieftainship of his tribe at too young an age, and feels the weight of everyone's expectations.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 89: Initiation
2. ↑ Chapter 92: The Exercise Of Vital Powers
Toothless

## Biography

### Early years

Toothless presumably grew up in the Alban Hebrides. His parents are unknown and he is the only known Night Fury in the region. As a juvenile dragon, he often accompanied other dragons of the Green Death's nest in cattle raids as air support, confounding the human enemies and freeing captured or pinned dragons. However, information on Toothless in this time period is scarce, and it is unclear if he was a full member of the nest, or if he was merely helping out fellow dragons in distress.

### Encounter with Hiccup clan Haddock

Around the time he was reaching maturity, he was hit by Hiccup clan Haddock's newly created dragon capturing weapon, the Mangler, which immobilized him and destroyed his left tail fin. He was subsenquently found by Hiccup, who spared his life and freed him, and proceeded to forge a friendship with him and create a harnessed, human-operated fin prothesis, which allowed Toothless to fly with Hiccup's help.

### Book I

In Nidaros, Toothless saves Hiccup and Astrid from an assassination attempt.

### Book III

In Iceland, Mildew captures Hiccup and Toothless, and threatens to torture and kill Toothless to make Hiccup talk. Fortunately, they are saved by the timely arrival of the other Berkian riders.

## Relationships

### Hiccup clan Haddock

Hiccup and Toothless are as close as any human and dragon can be (except possibly Valka and Cloudjumper), and after several years together are even able to understand each other's language. Hiccup creates a prosthetic tailfin for Toothless that he can operate without a rider, so Toothless can join in the dragon mating frenzy.

### Stormfly

Like their riders, Toothless and Stormfly become mates. Of their eggs, one survives, hatching into a Night Fury with blue scales along its spine named Bluetooth.

### Mistletoe

Like their riders, Toothless and Mistletoe become mates. Of their eggs, one survives, hatching into a Razorwhip named Silverlight.

### Fearless

Fearless is Toothless's long-lost sister. Neither knew the other was alive until they reunited in Iceland. After Fearless's heroic sacrifice to defeat Mildew and the Screaming White, Toothless becomes depressed. His spirits lift slightly once he understands how much his sister means to so many humans who never met her.
Sailor Johann

*"And that's why we come.  From Berk we trade iron to get dragon hide, dragon claws, dragon teeth, dragon meat."  He swung around an iron barstock from the chest, a shape that any half-competent blacksmith could make into just about anything, flipping the rough rod through his fingers before setting it down.*

*"And in London, Lisbon, Barcelona, Pisa, Rome… for dragon hide, dragon claws, dragon hearts, dragon teeth, dragon blood, dragon eyes, dragon bones… we get gold."  He grinned and whistled.  "And that is why Johann comes here, because every year, they have a whole summer's worth of slaughter ready for us to buy, and their new class will have graduated—and the head of the class will be ready to sell the prize."  He smirked.  "And that's what that Snot of a lout was promising me last year—that he'd get to kill the dragon, and sell the carcass."*

-Chapter One, The Old Salt to the new sailor

A merchant implied to be ethnically Norse, Sailor Johann has been travelling to and from Berk for the purposes of trade for years, as one end of a yearly trade route that reached the Nile Delta in Egypt.

## Biography

### Book I

*A Thing Of Vikings* opens with the arrival of Johann's trading fleet arriving in Berk's waters to discover that the status quo has changed since their previous visit.

### Book II

In Chapter 49, Johann arrives in the port city of Lixbuna. He meets with the Jewish merchant Chayim, discussing the possibilities of the Dragon Mail, and the Muslim merchant Basir, who buys his entire stock of Deadly Nadder quills.

## Trivia

Sailor Johann's character originated in the HTTYD television series, specifically the ninth episode of the first season, "Dragon Flower", where he sells a hazardous flower, the Blue Oleander, to Mildew.  He continues to be a recurring character through the television series, culminating in a (widely panned) character twist at the conclusion of season 5 and continuing into season 6, which made him into one of the main antagonists.

Due to ATOV's writing predating the airing of Seasons 5 & 6, and the author of the fic having a strong and negative reaction to the character twist due to reasons of severely bigoted antisemitic coding (having described it "something literally out of Nazi propaganda ," with analysis to back that statement up), the author has unequivicably stated that Johann will not undergo any such character twists in ATOV.