How to Train Your Dragon (novel series)

Related picture book

1. Hiccup: The Viking Who Was Seasick / Hiccup: The Seasick Viking, released on audio under the title ''How to Be a Viking''

   Related early reader books

• How to Start a Dragon Academy
• How to Pick Your Dragon
• How to Raise Three Dragons
• How to Track a Dragon
• How to Defend Your Dragon
• ''How to Build a Dragon Fort''

  Characters

Overview

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Main

• Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is the protagonist of the books. Near the start of the series, his fellow Vikings see him as useless and weak, unappreciative of his quick wit and strategy. He is unusual for a Viking not only physically, being very thin with bright red hair, but also intellectually, as he thinks before he acts and is unusually clever. He is one of the only people ever to understand and be able to speak Dragonese, the language of the dragons. Later, Hiccup becomes a formidable sword fighter and unconventional hero, earning the respect of his peers.
• Toothless is Hiccup's hunting-dragon. He appears to be an astoundingly small green Common-or-Garden Dragon with no teeth, marking him as one of the King's Lost Things. He is arrogant and childlike, initially refusing to follow commands and disobeying Hiccup. As the series progresses, he becomes more loyal and loving to Hiccup yet never loses his arrogance. In book 11, he is revealed to be a young Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus. This is changed in the DreamWorks franchise, where Toothless is a Night Fury.
• Fishlegs is Hiccup's best friend. He has numerous medical conditions including an allergy to reptiles that make him clumsy and prone to sneezing. Like Hiccup, he is shunned by the other Vikings and seen as a wimp, but shows himself to be quite astute and cunning when he needs to be. Possessing a frequently-displayed sarcastic wit, he is also fond of poetry and aspires to become a bard in later books. He is not a Hooligan by blood but an orphan who washed up on Berk's shores as an infant, his parentage a mystery that is only solved near the end of the series.
• Camicazi is a fierce, impulsive and mischievous sword fighter that is the heir of the tribe of female warriors known as the Bog-Burglars. She is very skilled at escapes, burglary and sword fighting. She is in many ways the opposite of Hiccup, as she does not think about situations before jumping into them. Hiccup pulls her back, and she, in return, pushes him forward, convincing Hiccup to trust his instincts. In the DreamWorks franchise, she is renamed Astrid, both depicted as the owner of the dragon Stormfly and very close to Hiccup.
• Stoick the Vast is Hiccup's father and the Chief of the Hairy Hooligans, their tribe. Unlike his son, he is incredibly strong and beefy but rather unintelligent. However, he grows throughout the course of the books to become more open-minded and attempts to understand his son better. He owns two dragons, Newtsbreath and Hookfang. Stoick also has another dragon called Bullheart who appears exclusively in the ninth book.
• Snotface Snotlout, is Hiccup's much-despised cousin. He bullies and bosses the others around, especially Fishlegs and Hiccup whom he addresses as "Hiccup the Useless and his fishlegged failure of a friend". He is top class at 'Bashyball', 'Advanced Rudery' and 'everything else'. His dragon is a Monstrous Nightmare named Fireworm, who because of her breed should technically belong to Hiccup according to ancient Viking law. He gets killed in an attack at the end of Book 11 in an attempt to help Hiccup become King of the Wilderwest. Later, Hiccup silently forgives Snotlout for the years of rivalry between them. Upon Hiccup informing the Vikings of his sacrifice, he is posthumously honored by the Vikings as a hero.
• Valhallarama is Hiccup's mother. She appears in only a few books, and is often away Questing. She once loved Humungously Hotshot the Hero and gave him a ruby heart necklace. She reappears in Book 10 to help Hiccup become King of the Wilderwest.
• Gobber the Belch is the hulking, violent and temperamental Viking in charge of the Viking Initiation Programme and is described in book 5 as "a six-and-a-half-foot ax-wielding lunatic who was not the kind of teacher you argued with". At the beginning of the first few books, he gives his lessons in extreme situations, such as a storm in book 2. In later books, he is an extremely loyal member of the Company of the Dragonmark.

  Vikings

• Dogsbreath the Duhbrain is Snotlout's friend and sidekick bully. He is usually seen following Snotlout's orders, usually the difficult and tedious jobs. He is not very intelligent and does not talk much. His dragon is a Gronckle named Seaslug.
• Mogadon the Meathead is Chief of the Meathead Tribe, close neighbors of the Hairy Hooligans. A man with a fake leg and an eyepatch, he shares a sometimes vicious rivalry with Stoick.
• Thuggory the Meathead is Mogadon's son, and very like Snotlout. Although he is large, muscular, well-respected and has a huge silver Monstrous Nightmare dragon called Killer, he stands up for Hiccup and works with him in the first book. Later, in Book 10, he becomes the first member of Hiccup's Company of the Dragonmark.
• Alvin the Treacherous is Hiccup's Archenemy and rival to become King of the Wilderwest. Introduced as a sly, attractive charmer, he increasingly becomes more openly ruthless and impulsive as his adversity to Hiccup increases. He used to be Chief of the Outcast Tribe in book 2 and was again in books 9–12. He is the main antagonist in books 2–3, 5, and is joined by Excellinor the Witch in books 8–12. Although he is a fantastic sword fighter, he is frequently losing parts of his body such as all of his hair, a hand, a foot, a nose, and an eye, and becomes increasingly disfigured by warts across the final four books. He is also Fishlegs' father by Termagant, as revealed by the final book. He is claimed by the Dragon Guardians.
• Norbert the Nutjob is the Chief of the Hysterical Tribe, and Hiccup's second worst enemy. Norbert's father, Bigjob, once went to America and retrieved a potato, but Hiccup took it to cure Fishlegs of Vorpentitis. As his name suggests, he is insane and uses his giant axe – one gold side and one black side – to decide everything. He appears in the last book disguised as a Wanderer, his survival never explained.
• Humungously Hotshot the Hero is a suave, debonair adventurer and lothario acclaimed as a legendary hero across the Archipelago. He was trapped on the island of Lava-Louts for 15 years. He went out on a quest to find the fire stone for Hiccup's grandfather, Old Wrinkly, so he could marry Hiccup's mother, Valhallarama. He failed, and after Valhallarama marries Stoick the Vast eventually marries Tantrum O'UGerly, the daughter of UG the Uglithug in book 8.
• Big-Boobied Bertha is the leader of the Bog-Burglars and the mother of Camicazi. As her name indicates, she has very large breasts and it is mentioned that "These bosoms have killed before and will kill again...".
• Madguts the Murderous is the Chief of the Murderous Tribe. A vicious, frightening, vile-smelling man covered in skull tattoos and with "Hate" on the knuckles of both his hands, he is considered one of the scariest men in the Barbarian Archipelago. He also never speaks. He has a stealth dragon stolen from him by Bertha and intends to kill her, and later tries to legally kill Stoick and Bertha in the seventh book. Both times he is stopped by Hiccup. Camicazi supposedly burgles from him regularly.
• Excellinor is Alvin's witch of a mother. She is pure evil and wants Hiccup's sword. It is said that she never took good care of Alvin the Treacherous and never loved him either. She was locked in a tree trunk for twenty years by UG the Uglithug. Her name was unknown until the ninth book. She is the cause of Alvin's warts and is covered in them. She uses Vampire Spydragons as spies for her. At the end of the final book, she falls into a deep blowhole in the ground and presumably dies there.
• Old Wrinkly, is Valhallarama's father and Hiccup's grandfather. Old Wrinkly is the soothsayer and doctor of the Hairy Hooligans tribe and only trusted thinker of the Tribe, despite the frequently-contested reliability of his soothsaying and advice. Between the beginning of Book 9 and the end of Book 11, it is unknown what came of him. He appears in the twelfth and final book.