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| 14 | As an AlternateHistory, AlternateUniverse fanfic of ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'' features a wide and diverse cast, combining the canonical cast from the first HTTYD film, characters taken from other elements of the HTTYD franchise, [[WesternAnimation/{{Brave}} other media properties]], RealLife historical people from the 1040s AD, and original characters, all of them thrown together and allowed to develop. |
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| 16 | Note that Book I (chapters 1-31) Spoilers are Unmarked! The character list is organized according to allegiance as of Book II (chapters 32-68). |
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| 20 | [[folder:Hooligan Tribe]] |
| 21 | !!As a whole: |
| 22 | * TheClan: There were five major clans on Berk at the start of the story, being Haddock, Hofferson, Jorgenson, Thorston and Ingerman. After [[spoiler: Harthacnut was deposed, four new clans are formed, one of which is Joms]]. [[spoiler:Berk later gains a lot more clans by annexing their allied Bog Burglar and Meathead tribes and even more when the Jorgenson clan splits after being unable to choose a new heir after Spitelout's death.]] |
| 23 | * EveryoneIsBi: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Concubinage is accepted in Viking society, and there are several instances of polygamous marriages featuring same-sex partners. Astrid's great-grandfather, the Hofferson clan-head, has one wife and two concubines (although everyone refers to them as his three wives), and it is explicitly stated at one point that all three of the women have been intimate with each other over the course of their ''very'' long marriage, with the two concubines sleeping together most nights. |
| 24 | * ExoticExtendedMarriage: Berk and the future North Sea Empire allows polyamory. One epigraph notes that the record for the largest legally wed group is nine. |
| 25 | * FantasticNamingConvention: The Hooligan Tribe have a unique tradition of giving their children absurd or otherwise unconventional names out of a belief this protects them from real or imagined dangers. |
| 26 | * HornyVikings: Berk in all its horned helm glory. [[EverythingExceptMostThings Except they no longer raid, no longer practice the jarl-carl-thrall system, and there's quite a bit of Scots/Irish/Anglo blood in the mix as well.]] Most other Scandinavians have dropped Thor's hammer for Christ's cross, but not the Berkians. They're ''dragon'' horns, by the way. Some (mainly in the Jorgenson clan) want to use their new dragons to conduct raids. Under Stoick and Hiccup's more even-handed leadership, they start to shift away from this as the story goes on. Their horned helmets are a holdover from the Dragon War, when they would put dragon horns on their helmets both for intimidation and to keep dragons from easily biting their heads off. |
| 27 | * IAmXSonOfY: Due to naming conventions in the era, patronymics are fairly typical. Formal Hooligan names have a personal name, patronymic, and clan (and position), with Hiccup's full formal name being Hiccup 'Horrendous' Stoicksson clanheir Haddock of the Hooligans. |
| 28 | * OutcastRefuge: Berk has [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil hated slavery]] for generations, giving freedom to any thrall who managed to make it to their territory. Before the end of the Dragon War they would sometimes go on raids to "steal" thralls and free them, inducting them into the tribe if they wished, and a large percentage of them have thrall ancestry. They extend their emancipation policy to all their territories, and thralls from all over Eire start fleeing to the cities under Berk's control. They also declare that Jews have an open invitation to settle in their lands, in recognition of their oppressed status in much of Europe, and because generations ago a Jew helped the Hooligan Tribe by teaching them all to read and write. |
| 29 | * RiteOfPassageNameChange: It is common for members of the Hooligan Tribe to change their names once they reach adulthood, since parents would often give their children horrible names for superstitious reasons. The notable example given here being Snotlout Spiteloutsson clan Jorgenson taking the name "Sigurd Trondsson" after leaving to join the Varangian Guard. He also officially changes it when [[spoiler:he becomes a Christian]]. |
| 30 | * SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The Hooligans, due to having outlawed thralldom over a century earlier, and [[SonsOfSlaves with nearly everyone in the tribe being either a freed slave or descended from freed slaves]], have a particular dislike of the institution of chattel slavery, [[spoiler:to the point that 'Sigurd' immediately orders that all slaves in his new territories be freed once he learns of their existence despite the potential challenges this will present to running his territories]]. Implied to be a major part of ''why'' the Berkians were willing to take in the dragons at the end of HTTYD 1, as being freed slaves of the Green Death allowed Berks to understand and bond with the dragons on an emphathetic level. |
| 31 | * SonsOfSlaves: The Hooligan tribe are a largely made up either of former thralls or the descendants of former thralls, Stoick's mother (Hiccup's paternal grandmother) being one example. Constant dragon attacks caused one of the previous chiefs to declare that any thrall willing to pick up a weapon and defend the tribe against dragon attacks win their freedom, eventually leading to the tribe itself adopting a cultural hatred of thralldom as a practice, an especially unusual opinion to have given the area and time period. Any thrall that finds themselves on Berk (or any Berk vassal-cities like Vedrarfjord) are instantly given freedom and bed-rights according to their laws. |
| 32 | * TangledFamilyTree: Being a small tribe of only a few hundred people, most of the Hooligans are related by blood, adoption, or marriage to each other, and the (incomplete) [[https://athingofvikings.fandom.com/wiki/File:A_Thing_of_Vikings_Family_Tree.png family tree on the wiki]] is extremely tangled. See also the epigraph for [[Recap/AThingOfVikingsChapter122ThePoliticsOfDesire Chapter 122]], which mentions the complications involving same-sex and [[{{Polyamory}} polyamorous]] relationships. |
| 33 | * WhoNamesTheirKidDude: The Hooligan Tribe's tradition of giving their kids silly names tends to give outsiders pause. The most notable example is that more than one person is stunned or at least surprised that the Hero that tamed dragons is named ''Hiccup''. One of Mac Bethad's spies even mourns the fact that Hiccup is the ''third'' person of his line with that name. The main exceptions are the Hoffersons, who feel themselves too skilled to need such protections. It's also noted that the practice has been waning for a while. |
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| 35 | !!Clan Haddock |
| 36 | !!!Hiccup Stoicksson |
| 37 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_ooqtv0ltso1qhf5hao2_1280.png]] |
| 38 | Protagonist; aka Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III; son of Stoick and Valka, Astrid's boyfriend, lover, and eventual husband, heir to Clan Haddock, Herald of Stoick the Vast, first known dragon rider, smith, inventor, and natural philosopher, DOB June 1025. |
| 39 | ---- |
| 40 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Brain in the trio he forms with Astrid and Wulfhild as the future rulers of Berk. He's a prodigy, polymath and inventor capable of building technological marvels and innovations that revolutionize Berk and change the face of industry, trade, communication, and warfare. |
| 41 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Kind, decent, friendly, and a pacifist who wants to help people and build things useful in society. Threaten his home with annihilation, though, and our war fleet will be running literally screaming in fear by morning, albeit ''significantly'' reduced in size. |
| 42 | * ControlFreak: For a brief period, after learning about Snotlout's actions in Rome, Hiccup tries to basically micromanage subsequent dragon training efforts to prevent anyone 'inappropriate' getting access to dragons, until Astrid and Wulfhild make him see that this gives the impression that he doesn't trust others. |
| 43 | * ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Everyone who has heard of the Hero of Berk expected someone who looked like a stereotypical viking. Reactions to actually meeting Hiccup range from mild surprise to complete bewilderment. |
| 44 | * FamedInStory: Hiccup has a saga, The Hero of Berk. He finds it humiliating. Berk also became renowned, due to their wealth and military might from their dragons, to the point that various powers are trying to either emulate them, ally with them, or destroy them. |
| 45 | * GadgeteerGenius: Hiccup creates various inventions essentially ahead of their time compared to when they were developed in real history; epigraphs note that the only reason he didn't invent the internal combustion engine centuries ahead of schedule is because he didn't have a need for it. |
| 46 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: Hiccup in spades. He still hasn't gotten used to the transition from being an awkward skinny viking who wouldn't kill a dragon to being the Hero of Berk. He is embarrassed when, in Chapter 2, he is called upon to hear and approve a saga written about him. In Chapter 51 he even tells his father he feels like a fake hero. |
| 47 | * MarryForLove: Faced with all kinds of potentially politically advantageous marriages, Hiccup instead goes to great lengths to be allowed to marry Astrid, who he already loves, only accepting an initially-political arrangement with Wulfhild because he and Astrid already liked her as a friend. |
| 48 | * MartialPacifist: Berk in general and Hiccup in particular. He will always seek a peaceful resolution when dealing with other kingdoms, but if left with no other choice he can and will decimate opposing armies with efficiency, and will take no pleasure in the victory. |
| 49 | -->'''Hiccup'''''(to King Donnchadh mac Brian)'': If you change your mind, send a herald to Vedrarfjord. [[SacredHospitality They will be treated with all courtesy and hospitality.]] I want peace. If you come with an army, I will smash it. If you come with an open hand, I will shake it. Am I clear? |
| 50 | * MessianicArchetype: It is addressed multiple times that Hiccup's altruistic nature is very Christ-like, with various Christians claiming that he acts more like a Christian in-spite of being a pagan than most other Christians, Heather at one point humoring the idea that he might be the SecondComing. |
| 51 | * OneManIndustrialRevolution: While Hiccup canonically doesn't invent steam power, he does create industrial tech that is literally centuries ahead of its time (sheet metal roller, drop press, etc). It is noted that part of the reason for this is that compared to ''other'' geniuses of the time or before him, Hiccup as the heir to a rapidly emerging power did not need to seek funding to build his inventions or spend time just trying to earn enough money to feed himself. Lampshaded by one of the epigraphs, where it's stated that many modern students of history lament the fact that Hiccup "just missed" inventing the steam engine, seeing as how he had all the necessary components at hand. However, as the epigraph counters, he lacked the ''need'' for such inventions, since many of the things steam power could accomplish, ''dragon'' power could do just as well for the needs at the time. |
| 52 | * OneTrueThreesome: With Astrid and Wulfhild. Despite a rocky start to Wulfhild's inclusion for political reasons, they eventually stabilize into a loving polyamorous triad. |
| 53 | * UltimateBlacksmith: Hiccup is one of the greatest smiths of the era and of all time, being capable of such feats as making a prosthetic tail-fin for Toothless and forging a flaming sword. |
| 54 | -->'''Stoick:''' One of these days, a bunch of dwarves are going to tunnel up into the Broodery down there and say that they need help reforging Gleipnir, and ask if they can borrow Hiccup. |
| 55 | * UniversallyBelovedLeader: Hiccup is almost universally beloved by his people even if they don't always agree with him and in the future, is so fondly remembered his name is almost synonymous with altruism. |
| 56 | * WarriorPrince: Push comes to shove, Hiccup eventually develops into this role to defend his home and family, creating battle plans and weapons and of course, leading his tribe's warriors on dragon-back. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | !!!Astrid Hákonsdóttir clan Haddock |
| 59 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_ooqtv0ltso1qhf5hao1_1280.png]] |
| 60 | Protagonist; daughter of Gunvor and Hákon, Hiccup's girlfriend, lover, and eventual wife; Master of the Dragon, second known dragon rider, shieldmaiden, DOB April 1025. |
| 61 | ---- |
| 62 | * ActionGirl: As per canon. She becomes more of a LadyOfWar once she starts commanding the Berkian military and strategizing. |
| 63 | * AdaptationalSexuality: While in the series she is shown to have a SingleTargetSexuality towards Hiccup, here it extends to Wulfhild when she joins them in their marital bed. |
| 64 | * AmbiguouslyBi: She claims that she and Wulfhild do not have a sex-life outside of Hiccup, but it is implied that a majority of their sex-life after including Wulfhild involves him servicing them (and vice-versa) at the same time. It is later confirmed in Chapter 59 that Astrid sees Wulfhild as a romantic partner just as much as she does with Hiccup. |
| 65 | --> I've fallen in love with both him and with his… ''our'' princess-concubine. And while I knew that such a thing was possible… I wasn't expecting myself to enjoy a woman's touch, you know? |
| 66 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion/[[ArmorPiercingResponse Response]]: Astrid has a tendency to deliver these, to the extent that she describes herself as Hiccup's 'whetstone', allowing him to refine his ideas or get over the moments when he blames himself for some perceived failure. |
| 67 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn in the trio she forms with Hiccup and Wulfhild as future rulers of Berk. Her battlefield talents and strategic mind allowing her to command Berk's armies, figure out new ways of using dragons militarily, and act as shield and sword for Berk. |
| 68 | * TheMagnificent: An epigraph shows that Astrid will gain quite a few epithets including "The Skydancer," "Freyja's Chosen," and "Sif's Blade." |
| 69 | * OneTrueThreesome: With Hiccup and Wulfhild. Despite a rocky start to Wulfhild's inclusion for political reasons, they eventually stabilize into a loving polyamorous triad. |
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| 71 | !!!Wulfhild Olafsdóttir clan Haddock |
| 72 | Protagonist; Princess of Norway, half-sister of Magnus, concubine of Hiccup, High Almoner of Berk. DOB 1020. |
| 73 | ---- |
| 74 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Fills out this trio with Hiccup and Astrid as the Beauty, having far more political knowledge and diplomatic talent than either of the other two. She also proves to be a skilled treasurer and administrator, able to keep the ever-expanding empire of Berk running behind-the-scenes to allow the other two to focus on what they do best. And she often serves as TheHeart as the most socially adept of the three. |
| 75 | * BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], she got a cut on her cheek and while the resulting scar isn't disfiguring many nobles think that it has tarnished her beauty, with one flat out calling her "damaged goods" to her face. |
| 76 | * ComicBookFantasyCasting: WordOfGod has compared Wulfhild to Creator/JuliaStiles in her look from ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'', albeit shorter and with longer hair. |
| 77 | * EasilyForgiven: After they're told how Wulfhild [[spoiler:was coerced into making wedding vows to Hiccup after he married Astrid]], Hiccup and Astrid forgive Wulfhild, although it's implied that it was a good thing Wulfhild was out of the room when they were told, as Astrid apparently nearly attacked Magnus. |
| 78 | * FallenPrincess: Wulfhild had to flee in exile when she was nine years old, she and her brother living off of the begrudging hospitality of their distant relatives before the both of them were used as pawns for their uncle, her life reduced to a political game-piece with no agency of her own before coming to Berk. |
| 79 | * OneTrueThreesome: With Hiccup and Astrid. Despite a rocky start to Wulfhild's inclusion for political reasons, they eventually stabilize into a loving polyamorous triad. |
| 80 | * TokenAdult: She is 21 when she becomes Hiccup's concubine (Hiccup and Astrid being 16 and 15 at the time respectively). That being said, the line between "child" and "adult" was much earlier back then so it is more of a downplayed example. |
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| 82 | !!!Gothi Hiccupsdóttir |
| 83 | Hooligan tribe's priestess, Stoick's aunt; bonded to a pack of Terrible Terrors, DOB ~960. |
| 84 | ---- |
| 85 | * DirtyOldWoman: When Mwenda mentions to Gothi and Nanna that he's still learning the Norse tongue, she writes on her tablet, "Tell him that if I was fifty years younger I’d be teaching him a different tongue." Nanna refuses to translate it. |
| 86 | * HerNameReallyIsBarkeep: Historically, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothi Gothi]] was a religious title in old Norse society. Here, it appears to be her actual name, or at least the only one she's known by. |
| 87 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: Gothi has no known family in canon. Here she is Stoick's aunt and Hiccup's great aunt. |
| 88 | * TalkingWithSigns: Since she's mute, Gothi uses her staff to write in the dirt, or a tablet she carries around. |
| 89 | |
| 90 | !!!Mistletoe |
| 91 | Female Razorwhip, bonded to Wulfhild. |
| 92 | ---- |
| 93 | * InterspeciesRomance: Depending on how far dragons are different species, [[spoiler:Mistletoe has eggs with Toothless]]. |
| 94 | |
| 95 | !!!Stoick Hamishsson |
| 96 | Chief of Berk, aka Stoick the Vast, father of Hiccup; DOB 995. |
| 97 | ---- |
| 98 | * AdaptationalSexuality: In canon Stoick showed no signs of being anything other than straight, here he is demisexual. |
| 99 | * BigGood: As the King of Berk (though he insists on being called chief), he is the highest authority figure on the side of the protagonists. |
| 100 | * TheChainsOfCommanding: He takes his duty to his people as Chief incredibly seriously. It's one reason he insists on being a Chief over a King, since in his mind a Chief represents this ideal better. |
| 101 | * DumbassHasAPoint: While he may not be stupid, it's still unexpected when Stoick is the one who realises that dragons shed their scales a week or so before their eggs hatch so that they can use the scales as material for fireproof nests. |
| 102 | * FounderOfTheKingdom: Stoick is seen as the founder of the Kingdom of Berk (since it became a kingdom under his leadership), and is sometimes called "[[TheMagnificent The Lawgiver]]" due to presiding over the Citizenship Conclave, which created what is essentially the country's constitution. |
| 103 | * InsistentTerminology: No matter how large his new North Sea Empire gets, Stoick insists he is a chief, not a king. |
| 104 | * LargeAndInCharge: He’s 207 cm[[note]]6 feet 9.496 inches[[/note]] tall and he’s the chief of Berk. |
| 105 | * TheMagnificent: The Vast, obviously. An epigraph reveals that Stoick gains the additional epithets "Odin's Spear-carrier," "the Wise," and "the Law-Giver." |
| 106 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Reflects that he had this moment when he learned the truth about the dragons, ashamed that he spent years taking pleasure in killing dragons who were little more than enthralled children who didn't have a choice in what they were doing. |
| 107 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Regardless of the standards of his time, the only rule Stoick insists on for any of his 'subjects' is that nobody is permitted to take or keep thralls. Aside from this, he expresses a willingness to let people practice their own religion and maintain their old traditions as they see fit, so long as they never attempt to force those views on others. |
| 108 | * RuleOfSymbolism: After [[spoiler:King Henry's surprise attack on him]], Stoick reflects attributes of several Norse gods: [[spoiler:he's missing a hand like Tyr, missing an eye like Odin, and slept for nine days while pierced with a spear]]. |
| 109 | * WhatsUpKingDude: Stoick resists being called king because to him, a king is unapproachable while a chief is. The original members of the Hooligan tribe are all used to being casual with him since it was a habit from before they tamed dragons, but not the new members, so Stoick is doing his best to invoke this trope with the new citizens by going with the census team and meeting as many people as he could. |
| 110 | |
| 111 | !!!Valka Zephyr Hiccupsdóttir |
| 112 | Hiccup and Astrid's firstborn daughter. |
| 113 | ---- |
| 114 | * AltarDiplomacy: Before she was born, Stoick and Magnus made a deal that they would try to pair her up with one of Magnus' children to further solidify their alliance (not against their will, of course). According to ''Dragons of the North: Profiles Of The Viking Lords'' in [[Recap/AThingOfVikingsChapter93AWorldRicherAndFuller Chapter 93]], [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage this plan succeeded]], Zephyr and Olaf becoming the first empress and emperor of the North Sea Empire. |
| 115 | * DeadGuyJunior: She is named after her (at the time believed deceased) paternal grandmother. |
| 116 | * DebutQueue: She is born in [[Recap/AThingOfVikingsChapter93AWorldRicherAndFuller Chapter 93]]. |
| 117 | * TheLeader: Much like her father, she is a born leader, having been the leader of her own clique of friends before becoming the first empress of the North Sea Empire. |
| 118 | * LegendFadesToMyth: Much like her parents, a lot of folk tales and legends are based around her that are flat-out false. One example includes a "nigh-ubiquitous" story where she and her cohorts performed a dragon race down the length of the Ongtupqa Canyon (known in our history as the Grand Canyon). |
| 119 | * LikeParentLikeChild: Much like her parents, she earned a laundry list of accomplishments early in her life hinting that she would be destined for greatness, her stories eventually embellished to the point where [[LegendFadesToMyth fact and fiction become indistinguishable]]. |
| 120 | |
| 121 | !!!Asta Rhonda Hiccupsdóttir |
| 122 | Hiccup and Wulfhild's firstborn daughter. |
| 123 | ---- |
| 124 | * DeadGuyJunior: Named after her maternal grandmother. [[spoiler:Who isn't actually dead, but nobody knew that at the time.]] |
| 125 | * DebutQueue: She is born in [[Recap/AThingOfVikingsChapter94ForOurInheritorsStandingBeforeUs Chapter 94]]. |
| 126 | * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: As an adult, Asta will be one of the first graduates of Waterford University, with her interests including biology, anatomy, botany, mathematics, geology, paleontology, and cartography. |
| 127 | |
| 128 | !!!Stormfly |
| 129 | Female Deadly Nadder, blue coloration, bonded to Astrid. |
| 130 | ---- |
| 131 | * InterspeciesRomance: Depending on how far dragons are different species, [[spoiler:Stormfly has eggs with Toothless]]. |
| 132 | * HumanityIsInfectious: After over two years with humans, Stormfly has developed an interest in ornamentism, having carving on her horns in a similar manner to human tattoos. |
| 133 | |
| 134 | %%!!!Thornado |
| 135 | %%Male Thunderdrum, bonded to Stoick. |
| 136 | |
| 137 | !!!Toothless |
| 138 | Male Night Fury, bonded to Hiccup. |
| 139 | ---- |
| 140 | * TheDreaded: Toothless develops such a devastating reputation that whole armies have been known to panic when they hear his screech. |
| 141 | * HandicappedBadass: Despite having lost one of his tail-fins, Toothless remains a dangerous dragon to oppose in a fight. |
| 142 | * IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: A semi-humourous example, as Chapter 81 sees Toothless express a lack of understanding about how 'walkers' reproduce, to the extent that [[spoiler:he is concerned that Astrid and Wulfhild haven't 'laid their eggs' yet]]. |
| 143 | * InterspeciesRomance: Depending on how far dragons are different species, [[spoiler:Toothless apparently has eggs with Stormfly ''and'' Mistletoe]]. |
| 144 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: While [[spoiler:Hiccup is able to devise an artificial fin that allows Toothless to fly on his own for mating with other dragons, it can only give Toothless a degree of independent flight, as the fin is restricted to copying the other tail-fin and thus limits the maneuvers Toothless can perform on his own]]. |
| 145 | |
| 146 | %%!!!The Wild Rookery Dragons |
| 147 | %%By Hooligan law, unbonded dragons in Hooligan territory are considered part of the Haddock clan. |
| 148 | |
| 149 | !!Clan Hofferson |
| 150 | %%!!!Cecelia Asketillsdóttir |
| 151 | %%Astrid’s aunt; weaver and spinner. |
| 152 | |
| 153 | %%!!!Cloudfox |
| 154 | %%Male Deadly Nadder, pink coloration; noted as having hyperactive tendencies, bonded to Hákon. |
| 155 | |
| 156 | %%!!!Glenn Órgíslsson |
| 157 | %%Astrid’s uncle; fisherman. |
| 158 | |
| 159 | !!!Gunvor Dugaldsdóttir |
| 160 | Astrid’s mother, miller. Later becomes Chieftess of Vedrarfjord. Her dragon is Sunflower, a yellow female Deadly Nadder. |
| 161 | ---- |
| 162 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: Astrid's parents were unnamed in the films and show. |
| 163 | |
| 164 | !!!Hákon Mortensson |
| 165 | Astrid’s father, miller. Later becomes Chief of Vedrarfjord. His dragon is Cloudfox, a bright pink male Deadly Nadder. |
| 166 | ---- |
| 167 | * BenevolentBoss: Proves to be a very fair and just ruler of Vedrafjord even if it takes a while to adjust to his new office. |
| 168 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: Astrid's parents were unnamed in the films and show. |
| 169 | * RealMenWearPink: He looks like a fierce Viking warrior who rides on the back of a bright pink dragon. Given this is long before the colour became associated with femininity nobody remarks on it. |
| 170 | * YouAreInCommandNow: When Stoick and Hiccup need someone to become the new leader of the recently annexed Vedrafjord, it falls on Hiccup's new father-in-law to lead as one of the few people they can trust the job to. He and his wife - Gunvor - take to dutifully carrying out the role. |
| 171 | |
| 172 | %%!!!Leatherwing |
| 173 | %%Male Monstrous Nightmare, blue coloration, bonded to Ross. |
| 174 | |
| 175 | %%!!!Morten Rikardsson |
| 176 | %%Astrid’s grandfather (deceased). |
| 177 | |
| 178 | !!!Rikard Ruadhsson |
| 179 | Clan head, Astrid’s great-grandfather. Brother of Mildew. |
| 180 | ---- |
| 181 | * ControlFreak: Has a controlling streak as a result of the fire that nearly killed him and wiped out the rest of his clan, and while he may not be as obstinate about it as Clodgall, he does tend to meddle in the affairs of clanmembers. |
| 182 | * CoolOldGuy: He's an ancient old man who uses a cane to help him walk. The cane doubles as a weapon as shown when he uses it to defend Eret from a beating. |
| 183 | * EveryScarHasAStory: He has a horrible burn on one of his arms from the fire that killed most of Clan Hofferson decades ago [[spoiler:and that Mildew started]]. |
| 184 | |
| 185 | %%!!!Ross Alansson |
| 186 | %%Astrid’s cousin, carter. |
| 187 | |
| 188 | %%!!!Sunflower |
| 189 | %%Female Deadly Nadder, yellow coloration, bonded to Gunvor. |
| 190 | |
| 191 | !!Clan Ingerman |
| 192 | !!!Fishlegs Hensteethsson |
| 193 | [[quoteright:500:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fishlegs_ananda_samsara.png]] |
| 194 | Protagonist; scribe, poet and natural philosopher, DOB Nov 1025. |
| 195 | ---- |
| 196 | * TheBerserker: Especially when Heather or someone else he loves is in danger. |
| 197 | * GeniusBruiser: Not only is Fishlegs an expert at languages and science, he's also a berserker with serious muscles. |
| 198 | * MoralityChain: Heather basically asks Fishlegs to be this for her when she realises that she needs more than just herself in her role as [[spoiler:Berk's spymaster]], wanting to ensure that she doesn't end up like Alvin. |
| 199 | * {{Omniglot}}: As a result of reading books from different languages, Fishlegs is fluent, or at least competent, in them. As such, he acts as a translator for others when the Hooligans need to travel to other countries. |
| 200 | * RagsToRiches: Fishlegs wasn't really ''poor'' per se, but he becomes one of the richest people in the tribe once he sets up a glass workshop. |
| 201 | * TheMagnificent: At least one epigraph calls Fishlegs the Dragon Archivist. |
| 202 | |
| 203 | !!!Heather nic Oswald clan Ingerman |
| 204 | [[quoteright:874:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/heather_ananda_samsara.jpg]] |
| 205 | Protagonist; sister of Dagur the Deranged, freewoman from Alba, concubine of Fishlegs, Stoick’s spymaster, DOB Sept 1025. |
| 206 | ---- |
| 207 | * DefectingForLove: It is revealed that Heather was sent by Alvin as a means of spying for him with the threat of her adoptive parents being tortured to death if she does not comply. By the time Fishlegs discovers this, they had long since fallen in love with one another. After beating him nearly half-to-death in a panic, she promptly turns herself in after getting him medical attention. |
| 208 | * FallenPrincess: Heather was originally the daughter of an infamously bloodthirsty Viking Chief before she was given to an ally as their ward at only six years old. When she was ten, her birth father died and then she was eventually sold into slavery when her village was raided. And that was ''before'' Aldalwin had her trained to be a SexSlave and spy. |
| 209 | * FemmeFataleSpy: Technically Heather and others have the potential to use their feminine wiles to manipulate men after their training, but they are 'hindered' by their own morality even before they find a way out from Alvin's control. |
| 210 | * HoneyTrap: Alvin originally sent her to Berk to seduce Fishlegs and steal information on dragons. |
| 211 | * TheSpymaster: [[spoiler:Stoick promotes her to this once he trusts her. She is reluctant but admits there is nobody else on Berk with the skills or training to stop other spies.]] |
| 212 | * TeenSuperspy: She'd likely be in over her head in Rome or Constantinople, but by British[=/=]Scandinavian standards she is a credible spy''master'' before she is twenty. |
| 213 | * TrainingFromHell: '''YES.''' Amplified of course by the need of Alvin to keep her physically healthy, which meant her parents paid for any shortcomings. |
| 214 | |
| 215 | !!!Bladewit Drorsdóttir |
| 216 | Fishlegs’ great-aunt, Ingerman clanhead, scribe. |
| 217 | ---- |
| 218 | * ComicBookFantasyCasting: Has been compared by WordOfGod to Creator/JudiDench. |
| 219 | * JerkassHasAPoint: As the author notes, while Clodgall and Bladewit might be going about it in the most ass way possible, their desire to keep dragon ownership limited to the Berkian clans does stem from reasonable concerns; chief among them being that said dragons could be abused, or turned against Berk. |
| 220 | * HonestAdvisor: Constant pain in Stoick's ass, senior jurist, head of the Ingerman clan... and with enough honesty and integrity that she will deliver a legal decision that she hates on a deeply personal level, because that is the law. |
| 221 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Like Stoick, she was ashamed to learn that the dragons she's taken pleasure in killing over the years were basically thralls with no choice in the matter. |
| 222 | * NotSoStoic: Normally acerbic and no-nonsense, the 70-something Bladewit is reduced to openly sobbing when she meets [[spoiler:Rabbi Dovid]] and learns more about her long-deceased father. |
| 223 | |
| 224 | !!!Fishwings Hensteethsdóttir |
| 225 | Fishlegs’ older sister, scribe and dyer. Bonded to Inkpot, a dark gray male Deadly Nadder. |
| 226 | ---- |
| 227 | * AbortionFalloutDrama: Has some but only years after the event. She went many years not worrying about using Nadder venom to avoid her unwanted teenage pregnancy, but when her friend Lopsides - who kept her baby despite being the same age - guilt-trips her for "killing her child" it sits with Fishwings for a while. Viggo quite logically points out that had she gone through with it she'd have been just as shunned and shamed for it all her life as Lopsides was and that she certainly wouldn't be the successful, far-travelled dragon-rider she grew up to be. |
| 228 | * DatingCatwoman: Fishwings ends up in a relationship with [[spoiler:Viggo. Unknown to her, he is a former dragon hunter and is scheming to use Berk's rise to power to fuel his own agenda. To Viggo's credit, he does have genuine affection for Fishwings, but not enough to jeopardise his chance to make a mark on history.]] |
| 229 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Casually mentions to Hiccup that she's been saving shipwrecked sailors on her Dragon Mail route along Spain's Coast of Death whenever she spots them. |
| 230 | |
| 231 | !!!Fishswill Horsechipsson |
| 232 | Politically savvy member of clan Ingerman. |
| 233 | ---- |
| 234 | * JerkassHasAPoint: While he might be a bit smug and superior about it, he isn't wrong when he points out Stoick has obtained large amounts of power, and while Stoick and Hiccup might not to abuse that power, there is no guarantee their descendants will do the same. The majority of Fishswill's political manipulations seem to mainly be trying to place checks and balances on the future rulers of their fledgling Empire. |
| 235 | * VillainyFreeVillain: Fishswill holds many of Berk's core values - liberty, diversity, and betterment for the entire community - however, he also makes it clear that he will put what is best for himself and his first. Even WordOfGod says he's not meant as an antagonist per se, more a "Loyal Opposition." He has good points by design, but his perspective is in opposition, to at least some degree, to the characters we have the most sympathy for by dint of the structure of the narrative. |
| 236 | |
| 237 | %%!!!Frode |
| 238 | %%Bladewit’s husband, Fishlegs’ great-uncle, freedman, shoemaker. |
| 239 | |
| 240 | %%!!!Hammeredge Frodesson |
| 241 | %%Fishlegs’ cousin, son of Bladewit and Frode, carpenter. |
| 242 | |
| 243 | %%!!!Hensteeth Axthoughtsson |
| 244 | %%Fishlegs’ father, carpenter, construction foreman. |
| 245 | |
| 246 | %%!!!Horsefeathers Hensteethsson |
| 247 | %%Fishlegs’ eldest brother; has a Monstrous Nightmare named Toast. Married to Lile. |
| 248 | |
| 249 | %%!!!Inkpot |
| 250 | %%Male Deadly Nadder, dark gray coloration, bonded to Fishwings. |
| 251 | |
| 252 | %%!!!Meatlug |
| 253 | %%Female Gronckle, brown coloration, bonded to Fishlegs. |
| 254 | |
| 255 | %%!!!Toast |
| 256 | %%Bloodred male Monstrous Nightmare, bonded to Horsefeathers. |
| 257 | |
| 258 | %%!!!Windshear |
| 259 | %%Female Razorwhip, bonded to Heather. |
| 260 | |
| 261 | !!Clan Jorgenson |
| 262 | !!!Snotlout Spiteloutsson |
| 263 | (See the Roman Empire folder below for tropes related to his adopted identity as Sigurd Trondsson) |
| 264 | |
| 265 | !!!Spitelout Clodgallsson |
| 266 | Marshal of Berk, husband of Serena. Father of Snotlout, Snitwit, and Snotpout. Clan-Heir to Clan Jorgenson. |
| 267 | ---- |
| 268 | * AbusiveParents: Similar to his TV-counterpart, he relentlessly bullies Snotlout and places high expectations on him. However, this story makes it clear that this is all part of TheChainOfHarm, with Spitelout raising his son the same way his father [[{{Jerkass}} Clodgall]] raised him. |
| 269 | -->'''Spitelout''': "I raised my son like you raised me and now he’s not talking to me anymore!" |
| 270 | * BondBreaker: [[spoiler:His death causes Clan Jorgenson to fall apart. For all of Spitelout's faults, he was a well-respected and competent leader who genuinely cared about his clan, and several of his clansmen were looking forward to the day he would succeed his tyrannical father. When he dies and the clan can't decide on a new heir, in part because they can't stand the idea of being under Clodgall's thumb for any longer, all it takes is one little push to split them apart into several smaller clans just so that they don't have deal with him]]. |
| 271 | * CallingTheOldManOut: In chapter 126, Spitelout gives his father Clodgall a piece of his mind for [[spoiler:not only not reporting three of Mac Bethad's spies but also for talking with them about possibly replacing Hiccup with Snotlout as the tribe's heir]]. |
| 272 | * DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Dies in chapter 143 after buying time for waveskimmers carrying Jewish refugees from France to friendly territory.]] |
| 273 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Dies holding the bridge from Henry the Sinister's army.]] |
| 274 | * HopeSpot: After the Battle of the Seine River it is revealed [[spoiler:Spitelout was heavily injured and is now a comatose captive of the enemy army. It seems like he might live... only for him to pass from his injuries a few chapters later, mere moments before the Hooligans are victorious and liberate the camp he's being held in.]] |
| 275 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Slowly comes to the realization that Snotlout leaving the tribe to join the Varangians is largely caused by the way he treated him. Although it's not clear if Spitelout came to this realization himself or if it came about because of the blame his wife places on him for their son's departure. |
| 276 | * ParentsAsPeople: He's gradually revealed to be this. While he could be abusive to Snotlout, it's clear that Spitelout genuinely loves his son and only thought he was doing what was best to raise Snotlout. He shows genuine regret when it ends up driving Snotlout away. [[spoiler:Notably, despite their relationship being strained, Snotlout is driven to tears over his father's death and regrets the fact that Spitelout died before they could reconcile]]. |
| 277 | * VetinariJobSecurity: While he has his faults, he's the only option for clan heir to Clan Jorgenson as its most competent warrior and commander, in addition to being a RedeemingReplacement to his tyrannical father. [[spoiler:After Spitelout dies]], Clan Jorgenson finds they can't decide on a new heir at ''all''. The next best option, Spitelout's son Snotlout, is in exile and in service to the Roman Empire, outright disqualifying him from taking the position, while everyone else is either ineligible or don't have enough support from the various factions of the clan to take it for themselves. Some even seriously discuss recommending ''Hiccup'' to be the new heir since his mother was a Jorgenson and descended from one of the old clanheads, even though he's already the heir to another clan and the first in line to Berk's throne -- an ironic reverse to prior of the story, where people were angling to make Snotlout the heir to the Haddock clan through the same exact method. [[spoiler:Eventually, they end up splitting the clan up instead of choosing someone outright to replace Spitelout]]. |
| 278 | * RivalsTeamUp: After Snotlout leaves the tribe and Hiccup saves them from Harthacnut's fleet, Spitelout finally accepts that Hiccup is the only sensible choice as clan heir and officially buries the hatchet with Stoick and places his full support behind them. |
| 279 | |
| 280 | !!!Clodgall Oxwitsson |
| 281 | Clan head of the Jorgensons Gobber's older half-brother; the two of them had a falling out after Gobber lost his hand and used that to disqualify Gobber from ever being Clan head. |
| 282 | ---- |
| 283 | * ControlFreak: Rules his Clan like a petty tyrant rules over his fief. [[spoiler: it got so bad that his petty tyranny is one of the main reasons the clan splits.]] |
| 284 | * ZeroPercentApprovalRating: He's despised by almost all of his clan and most of Berk for being a tyrannical jackass. [[spoiler:Ultimately, after Spitelout dies and dashes Clan Jorgenson's last hope of having a decent leader again, the clan decides to split up into multiple smaller clans than vote for a new heir and have to deal with Clodgall any longer.]] |
| 285 | * BigBrotherBully: He's Gobber's older half-brother and ever since he was selected as clanhead of the Jorgensons he's done everything he can to keep Gobber under his thumb, disqualifying him as clan heir due to his disability and preventing Gobber and his male partner siring children of their own on a concubine. |
| 286 | * JerkassHasAPoint: As the author notes, while Clodgall and Bladewit might be going about it in the most ass way possible, their desire to keep dragon ownership limited to the Berkian clans does stem from reasonable concerns; chief among them being that said dragons could be abused, or turned against Berk. |
| 287 | |
| 288 | !!!Dogsbreath Rolfsson |
| 289 | Son of Rolf, big brother of Picknose. Bonded to Redsnout, a Male Nadder with red coloration on his snout. |
| 290 | ---- |
| 291 | * CasanovaWannabe: Gives out unwarranted and unwise advice to all the young men on Berk on how to get ladies all while [[BlatantLies boasting of his sexual exploits]]. It's left him no friends among the women of Berk and left the men who took his advice - such as Snotlout - regretting it. |
| 292 | * CharacterDevelopment: His struggles as he and Inga journey through Europe make him a much more kind and responsible person, who actually respects women. |
| 293 | * DatingWhatDaddyHates: Does eventually [[spoiler:end up in a relationship with Inga, who is the daughter of the woman his father is in a legendary feud with. While they start of dating just to anger their parents, they develop a more genuine relationship after they're exiled.]] |
| 294 | * TheExile: Winds up becoming this after [[spoiler:taking a prank too far, robbing his father, shaving his beard in his sleep and running away with Inga. This is played much more seriously after he is captured by Sir Henry in France and forced to kill on his orders, making the possibility of returning to Berk far less likely.]] |
| 295 | |
| 296 | !!!Fritjof Hrodwulfsson |
| 297 | Adopted thane immigrant. Bonded to Nott and Delling, a Male Hideous Zippleback of gold and blue coloration. |
| 298 | ---- |
| 299 | * BrutalHonesty: Fritjof never holds back his opinion or criticism for Hiccup's way of doing things. |
| 300 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:After being injured and slowing the others down from escaping, he chooses to go out pulling a YouShallNotPass on the small pursuing army being funnelled into a small Cornish valley. He has his equally wounded Zippleback fill the valley with Zippleback Gas and then, once he's overwhelmed in the melee, ignites it in a glorious explosion. Harthacnut is livid to learn they lost a hundred men to kill just one dragon-rider and his dragon.]] |
| 301 | * GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: When Hiccup and his group find Fritjob's body, he has a smile on his face.]] |
| 302 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: To save Hiccup and the rest from their pursuers, he and his dragon turn back and managed to take ''one hundred horsemen and their horses'' with them. It's widely believed that this is ''such'' a DyingMomentOfAwesome, that Odin and Freyja are likely ''competing'' over who gets to claim his service as an Einherjar.]] |
| 303 | * JerkassHasAPoint: He is extremely critical of Hiccup's habit of showing mercy to his enemies as it allows them to live to plot against them in the future and come back more prepared the second time around. |
| 304 | -->'''Fritjof''': "Boy, I hurt people and kill them as a profession. Your tenderheartedness is an insult to what I do. I followed your lead because I was oathsworn, but I just saw a man with more charity than brains leave a live enemy at his back. Great gesture. Appalling tactics. And if you think that more won't die because of it, you're a fool." |
| 305 | * NeverBeHurtAgain: He proves to be especially unforgiving towards perceived traitors. It's notable that he's the only person in the room during Heather's interrogation who doesn't believe their story or have any pity for them. It's then later revealed his reason for acting like this is because he used to be a sea raider alongside Alvin the Treacherous and after losing his friends and taking a literal knife to his back because of him has been a bit paranoid about treacherous people ever since. |
| 306 | * NoHeroToHisValet: Hiccup is worshipped and praised by almost the entire tribe, but Fritjof only holds criticism for every choice he makes and disdain for his flaws and weakness. [[spoiler:When Fritjof dies, Hiccup realises part of the reason he'll miss Fritjof so much, despite hating each other, was because the old man was one of the few who still treated him like a person, not a Hero.]] |
| 307 | * ObiWanMoment: Fritjof's last moments. He turns back to slow down the approaching Anglo army, smiling, with his last words being that he and his dragon have a date with a Valkyrie. |
| 308 | * SourSupporter: Due to his honor and oaths he supports Stoick and Hiccup loyally, but he constantly voices his disagreement with their merciful ways and criticizes Hiccup's kindheartedness in particular. |
| 309 | |
| 310 | !!!Gobber Oxwitsson |
| 311 | a.k.a. Gobber the Belch, head smith of Berk, DOB 990. |
| 312 | ---- |
| 313 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: In this story Gobber is part of Clan Jorgenson. He is the younger half-brother of Clodgall making him Spitelout's uncle. It is also stated he's the uncle to one of Valka Haddock's parents meaning he's related to Hiccup. |
| 314 | |
| 315 | %%!!!Lopsides Clodgallsdóttir |
| 316 | %%Cook in the mead hall. |
| 317 | |
| 318 | %%!!!Hookfang |
| 319 | %%Male Monstrous Nightmare, red coloration, bonded to Snotlout. |
| 320 | |
| 321 | %%!!!Hoark Clodgallsson |
| 322 | %%Leather tanner. |
| 323 | |
| 324 | %%!!!Magnhild Gustavsdóttir |
| 325 | %%Head cook of the meadhall, wife of Clodgall. |
| 326 | |
| 327 | %%!!!Nott & Delling |
| 328 | %%Male Hideous Zippleback, gold and blue coloration, bonded to Fritjof. |
| 329 | |
| 330 | !!!Picknose Rolfsson |
| 331 | Dogsbreath's younger brother. DOB 1031. |
| 332 | ---- |
| 333 | * FlirtyStepsiblings: He's actually already the lover of both Signy and Mairwen before their mother rekindles her relationship with his father. This causes a lot of awkwardness for the family later when they - and the rest of the tribe - figure out what the step-siblings are doing in secret. |
| 334 | * MauveShirt: Starts off as a fairly nondescript child in Clan Jorgenson. Around the start of Book 4 he gets promoted to a POV character. |
| 335 | * SnoopingLittleKid: Picknose runs messages and news all over Berk, which - as Mairwen points out to him - makes him bizarrely well informed about the goings-on around Berk, often being aware of threats or problems long before any of the other characters are. On top of this he's friends with Signy and Mairwen - a pair of Bog Burglar sisters - who often involve him in their sneaking around, spying, and pranking. |
| 336 | |
| 337 | %%!!!Rolf Snotpoutsson |
| 338 | %%Mason and sculptor. |
| 339 | |
| 340 | !!!Serena Hamishsdóttir |
| 341 | Wife of Spitelout Jorgenson, sister of Stoick Haddock, mother of Snotlout, Snitwit, and Snotpout. DOB 1003. |
| 342 | ---- |
| 343 | * GoodParents: She's kind and loving, but also disciplines her children fairly when they mess up. |
| 344 | * StartMyOwn: After Clodgall forbids her from [[spoiler:going to the Roman Empire to be with her son]], she [[spoiler:starts her own clan, which sets off a wave of Jorgensons doing the same thing]]. |
| 345 | |
| 346 | %%!!!Snitwit Spiteloutsdóttir |
| 347 | %%Daughter of Spitelout and Serena, DOB 1028. |
| 348 | |
| 349 | !!Clan Thorston |
| 350 | !!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair |
| 351 | Protagonist; daughter of Thicknut, wife of Magnus, DOB Aug 1025. |
| 352 | * See Norway |
| 353 | |
| 354 | !!!Tuffnut Thicknutsson |
| 355 | Protagonist; son of Thicknut, DOB Aug 1025. |
| 356 | * See Norway |
| 357 | |
| 358 | %%!!!Aodh |
| 359 | %%Husband of Hazelnut, freedman from Alba, farmer. |
| 360 | |
| 361 | %%!!!Barf and Belch |
| 362 | %%Male Hideous Zippleback, green coloration, bonded to Ruffnut and Tuffnut. |
| 363 | |
| 364 | %%!!!Birchnut Hardnutsdóttir |
| 365 | %%Aunt of the twins, candle and soapmaker. |
| 366 | |
| 367 | %%!!!Chestnut Hardnutsson |
| 368 | %%Tribal skald, father of Hazelnut. |
| 369 | |
| 370 | %%!!!Hardnut Oaknutsson |
| 371 | %%Clan head of the Thorstons. |
| 372 | |
| 373 | %%!!!Hazelnut Chestnutsdóttir |
| 374 | %%Wife of Aodh, farmer. |
| 375 | |
| 376 | %%!!!Lena Hoarksdóttir |
| 377 | %%Stepmother of the twins, farmer. |
| 378 | |
| 379 | %%!!!Prickle |
| 380 | %%Female Deadly Nadder, green coloration, bonded to Hazelnut. |
| 381 | |
| 382 | %%!!!Thicknut Hardnutsson |
| 383 | %%Father of the twins, farmer. |
| 384 | |
| 385 | %%!!!Woodnut Highbolesson |
| 386 | %%Carpenter and woodcarver. |
| 387 | |
| 388 | %%!!Clan Joms |
| 389 | %%!!!Jonna Asgersdóttir |
| 390 | |
| 391 | %%!!!Reidun Hemmingsdóttir |
| 392 | |
| 393 | !!Independents |
| 394 | |
| 395 | %%!!!Bridget nic Seanan |
| 396 | %%Freewoman tailor, DOB 1020 |
| 397 | |
| 398 | %%!!!Brogan mac Cillian |
| 399 | %%Freeman chandler (candle and soap-maker), DOB 1007 |
| 400 | |
| 401 | %%!!!Bucket and Mulch |
| 402 | |
| 403 | %%!!!Maghnus |
| 404 | %%Freeman, DOB ~1018 |
| 405 | |
| 406 | %%!!!Maire nic Asgierr |
| 407 | %%Freewoman weaver, DOB 1022 |
| 408 | |
| 409 | !!!Mildew |
| 410 | Ostracized hermit, DOB 972 |
| 411 | ---- |
| 412 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the show, Mildew was nothing if not a coward when facing off against the Scauldron, implying that (at least in his golden years) Mildew was not accustomed to confronting dragons himself. Here, it is mentioned that the only reason why he was not banished entirely was the fact that in his prime he was one of Berk's best dragon-killers [[spoiler: (although it is implied that he cheated and used poison, a belief that is eventually confirmed in Chapter 76 when Fishlegs and Heather find his supplier)]]. |
| 413 | * ATasteOfTheLash: Mildew's cruelty as a jarl under King Mac Bethad isn't limited to keeping dragons chained up; people in his village routinely receive [[DisproportionateRetribution excessive punishments]] for minor misdeeds; one fisherman was whipped to death for telling other fishermen from other villages about the dragons that Mildew was training for Mac Bethad. |
| 414 | * DeadMansSwitch: Mildew warns Mac Bethad that if the latter kills the former, letters will be dispatched to Stoick explaining everything they did. [[spoiler: It took over a year, but Mac Bethad's people managed to locate those letters, destroy them, and kill the people who had possession of those letters. Except they missed one. Mildew told Peader and presumably most of the others that he'll send them letters every four months. Taskill managed to trace these to Peader and the other possessors of the incrimating letters. However, he told Fraser that he'll contact him ''yearly''. Without a letter to Fraser to trace, he escaped the fate of Mildew's other contacts. The incriminating letter Mildew gave him is still intact]]. Overall the plan is decent but [[spoiler: nearly fails because no one actually likes Mildew all that much. The remaining letter winds up gathering dust in a tavern keeper's papers while he decides what to do about it... [[ContrivedCoincidence until it is seized by Berk as part of entirely unrelated fraud charges.]] It reaches Stoic and alerts him to Mac Bethad's treachery [[MissedHimByThatMuch merely hours after Hiccup's retinue leave to talk to Mac Bethad about his spies]]]]. |
| 415 | * DeathByAdaptation: In canon, [[spoiler:Mildew's fate was left unconfirmed after Berk made peace with the Outcasts; here he is killed when Toothless's sister Fearless sacrifices herself to kill her former nest-lord]]. |
| 416 | * DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Mildew murdered almost his entire family by setting a fire. He meets his own death in a similar way by getting killed by a volcanic eruption]]. |
| 417 | * EvilOldFolks: He's the oldest living member of the Hooligans that we see, even older than Gothi, and is a cruel, bitter old man. |
| 418 | * InsufferableGenius: It is mentioned in one of the Epigraphs that the reason Mildew was not outright banished from the tribe was that he'd been one of Berk's most prolific and skilled dragonslayers in his prime. Even then, however, he'd been banished from his original clan (Hoffersons) sixty-five years earlier, and was a pariah instead of an elite [[HateSink due to his appalling personality]]. |
| 419 | * TheMagnificent: Mildew becomes known as "Mildew the Vicious". |
| 420 | * ManipulativeBastard: He's able to to play Taskill and Mac Bethad like a lyra, telling them exactly what they expect to hear -- lies and character assassination of Stoick and the Hooligans. |
| 421 | * PragmaticVillainy: It is noted that Mildew was a variation of this, in the sense that he was only loyal to whoever could offer him safety; Mac Bethad notes that if Hiccup had captured Mildew in Iceland, he would have immediately told them the identity of his patron to save his own neck. |
| 422 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: In canon, he has no known living relatives. Here, he is Astrid's great-grandfather's elder brother who was banished from the Hofferson clan because of his appalling personality. |
| 423 | * RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler: Mildew dies without a weapon in his hand and while fleeing from a battlefield (in this case, an erupting volcano), disqualifying him from ever entering Valhalla.]] And his employer Mac Bethad, who he had defected to, was planning to off him anyway once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he was no longer useful]]. |
| 424 | |
| 425 | %%!!!Murchadh mac Flannchadh |
| 426 | %%Freeman smith, DOB Oct 1017 |
| 427 | |
| 428 | %%!!!Oisin mac Eoghan |
| 429 | %%Freeman mason, DOB 1021 |
| 430 | |
| 431 | %%!!!Rathnait nic Niall |
| 432 | %%Freewoman baker, DOB 1012 |
| 433 | |
| 434 | %%!!!Seamus mac Naomhan |
| 435 | %%Freeman carpenter, DOB 1025 |
| 436 | |
| 437 | %%!!!Una nic Colman |
| 438 | %%Freewoman leatherworker, DOB 1014 |
| 439 | [[/folder]] |
| 440 | |
| 441 | [[folder:Alba]] |
| 442 | !!!Mac Bethad mac Findlaich |
| 443 | The Red King, King of the Scots |
| 444 | ---- |
| 445 | * AlasPoorVillain: While Mac Bethad is a cunning, cutthroat and remorseless villain who causes much pain and suffering for his own personal gain and security, his eventual downfall seems almost assured and (much like another [[{{Theatre/Macbeth}} literary interpretation of the same historical figure]]) the harder he fights to prevent this seemingly inevitable fate the quicker it seems to come towards him. WordOfGod had this to say: |
| 446 | -->'''athingofvikings''': While I don't feel sorry for Macbeth, there is a part of him that feels like he's fending off a wild animal, and finding that the stick he's using to keep it at bay keeps getting bitten into smaller and smaller pieces... |
| 447 | * DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: He dies in 1043, fourteen years before his historical death date.]] |
| 448 | * DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler: In RealLife he dies at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lumphanan Battle of Lumphanan]]; here, he is killed in a duel with Astrid.]] |
| 449 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: He is continually incapable of understanding that Berk ''won't'' attack his people, desperately preparing to defend himself against an invasion that will never come. |
| 450 | * EvilVirtues: Mac Bethad has no intention of divorcing or "removing" his own wife, openly voicing that he has that much in common with Stoick. |
| 451 | * ImproperlyParanoid: He's the weakest of the main players in the British Isles, knows it, and takes unnecessarily drastic actions because of it. He keeps trying to destroy or at least weaken Berk, thinking they intend to invade his realm but they have no such ambitions. [[spoiler:It costs him his life in 1043, fourteen years before his historical death date.]] |
| 452 | * PetTheDog: He takes a genuine shine to his young ward Jacob, mainly due to how the former sheep herd is uncorrupted by the skulduggery and scheming that have been central to Mac Bethad's life for so long. However, he never loses sight of the fact he's hiding that Dagur slaughtered Jacob's village on his command. |
| 453 | * SelfFulfillingProphecy: Every action Mac Bethad takes to subvert and destroy Berk to prevent them from attacking him are the very actions that provoke them into attacking him [[spoiler: and cost him his life in a fatal duel with Astrid.]] |
| 454 | * PragmaticVillain: Although he regards Berk as a potential enemy, he rejects the suggestion of attacking Hiccup and a group of weakened Riders after the Battle of Iceland because there were too many dragons; regardless of their condition now, if even ''one'' dragon got away to warn Berk, Mac Bethad recognises that he'd never be able to resist the subsequent counterattack. |
| 455 | * VillainousLegacy: The epigraph for Chapter 119 mentions that the legacy Mac Bethad left behind is a negative one with his machinations surviving him. [[spoiler:He may be dead, but he planted the seeds for future conflicts]]. By having Mildew enthrall dragons, Mac Bethad caused [[spoiler:many Thengills to start banding together to attack humans]] while the epigraph mentions that the conflicts that led to the Norse Reformation was also partially his fault. He's also indirectly responsible for [[spoiler:King Henry's attack on Stoick]], since he sent plans for Hiccup's anti-dragon weapons to all the royals of Europe. |
| 456 | * WrongGenreSavvy: King Mac Bethad and his court think that they're in a ''Series/GameOfThrones''-style [[DarkerAndEdgier grimdark]] setting of [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder musical backstabbing]] and DisproportionateRetribution, not realizing that [[TheGoodKingdom Hiccup and Berk are much more idealistic than that]]. To be fair though, they weren't previously wrong, and their beliefs and actions have served them well in helping them survive before. The issue is that with Hiccup and Berk entering the political landscape, the genre shifted and they haven't realised it. |
| 457 | --> '''ATOV''' from the comment section: And on top of that, Macbeth has reasons to be paranoid. The Big Name in terms of Viking lords that Macbeth would be the most intimately familiar with? King Cnut. And to give just one example out of the many, many, many things that he did... In the 1020s, he's ruling from London, but he also controls Denmark, who are getting uncomfortable with an absentee king. So when Harthacnut is six years old, he appoints Harthacnut as his regent-king over Denmark. But a six-year-old is not really capable of being a king, right? So he turns to Ulf, his brother-in-law, the husband of his sister (Sweyn's father, btw), and says, "You can be his regent." So Ulf goes with his nephew to rule over Denmark and he fucks up. Olaf (Magnus and Wulf's father) and Anund Jacob (Olaf's brother-in-law) decide to raid Denmark while Cnut isn't looking, and Ulf uses the crisis to have the freemen of Denmark elect Harthacnut as King – ''without acknowledging Cnut's overlordship.'' So by appealing to the people anxious about Cnut being absent, he made a powerplay, because, as Regent, that would give him more power and authority. Cnut quickly found out, came to Denmark, demanded his son and brother-in-law's submission and got it. On Christmas Eve, he was playing King's Fist with Ulf, and then they started arguing with each other, and at Christmas morning mass, in the Church, Cnut had Ulf assassinated. And that is the pattern of behavior Macbeth knows of and ''expects'' from Norse kings. |
| 458 | |
| 459 | !!!Gruoch ingen Boite |
| 460 | Queen of Scots |
| 461 | ---- |
| 462 | * LadyMacbeth: She is a fictional portrayal of the historical figure that inspired the original character and lives up to the role as she consistently pushes Mac Bethad to take the most ruthless and cutthroat actions. When Hiccup leaves their hospitality alive after his return from Iceland she is clearly disappointed her husband didn't take her advice to capture or kill him. |
| 463 | |
| 464 | !!!Lulach |
| 465 | Prince of Scots, son of Gruoch, stepson of Mac Bethad |
| 466 | ---- |
| 467 | * LIsForDyslexia: He has great difficulty reading despite having access to an impressive education for the time period, heavily implying he is dyslexic. |
| 468 | * PuppetKing: Willingly becomes this. By the time [[spoiler:his stepfather has been killed and Alba conquered by Berk, any actual power Lulach inherits is greatly diminished and in-name only.]] And even then, the complex decisions he doesn't understand and the external pressure being placed on him by his mother to rule the way she thinks he should literally reduce the young man to tears. By the end he's happy to sign any and all documents put in front of him if it means he can live peacefully and not have to think about it too hard. |
| 469 | * UpperClassTwit: He is a prince but completely ill-equipped to lead, being reluctant to learn things he finds difficult and not paying any attention to the incredibly important and potentially life-threatening politics happening all around him. |
| 470 | |
| 471 | !!!Taskill Thaddeusson |
| 472 | Mac Bethad’s spymaster |
| 473 | ---- |
| 474 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: Views himself as this to Alvin the Treacherous. [[spoiler:They were trained by the same man but Taskill justifies his crimes by believing he breaks the law for loyalty and integrity to his king, people, and kingdom, whilst Alvin and Delilah do it for purely selfish reasons.]] |
| 475 | * ConnectedAllAlong: At first seems to be just a loyal underling of Mac Bethad. However, after [[spoiler:his king's death and his capture]] his private thoughts reveal he was once trained by Cnut's spymaster alongside Alvin and Delilah. He recalls how his fellow students had him seduced, betrayed, and disfigured, getting him expelled from his mentor's tutelage as a failure, and he entertains revenge now [[spoiler:he no longer has a king to follow.]] |
| 476 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: He is one of the most ruthless, cunning, and efficient spymasters in the setting but is constantly blindsided by the fact that his opponents aren't just as cutthroat as he is. He searches every altruistic action for an ulterior motive. And when he winds up [[spoiler:a captive of Berk and should in all right be executed as a threat, he is left completely baffled as to why he's been kept alive and treated humanely, driving himself mad trying to find what the scheme is.]] |
| 477 | * GoSeduceMyArchnemesis: Apparently a favored tactic of his to gain a spy close to powerful figures is setting up a HoneyTrap. It takes a lot of convincing from his scouts to persuade him that trying that with Stoick or Hiccup is never going to work. He himself is half-surprised that when he ends up [[spoiler:a captive of Berk that none of Heather or her fellow spies have tried seducing him yet given the sort of training they received from Alvin.]] |
| 478 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Being imprisoned on Berk causes him to realise Mildew manipulated and poisoned his opinion of Berk, causing him to take the extreme measures he did against them. He is genuinely distraught that his advice and actions led to the death of his friend Mac Bethad when if he'd been more cautious about Mildew confirming his bias against Vikings, then they might've instead made a powerful alliance. It really hits him when his stealing and spreading of Hiccup's old anti-dragon weapon plans results in Francia attacking Stoick, realising he may have doomed even more to war and death when it could've been easily avoided.]] |
| 479 | * PoisonousCaptive: Heather assumes he must be this, and limits her contact with him, and especially keeps him away from her other spies, fearing he might turn them against each other. |
| 480 | * TheSpymaster: Serves as this for Mac Bethad. An establishing moment for him is setting up Earl Siward for a crime he didn't commit by using his steward, then killing the steward so he won't have to pay him and there is nobody alive who can prove Siward's innocence when the Hooligans come seeking revenge. When compared to other spymasters in this story, it shows Taskill is far more sophisticated than Alvin or Delilah, and much more ruthless than Heather. |
| 481 | |
| 482 | %%!!!Raghnell Lachiesson |
| 483 | %%Mac Bethad’s steward |
| 484 | |
| 485 | %%!!!Alan mac Iomhar |
| 486 | %%Spy in the service of Mac Bethad |
| 487 | |
| 488 | %%!!!Gregor Iagansson |
| 489 | %%Spy in the service of Mac Bethad |
| 490 | |
| 491 | %%!!!Iain Lachlansson |
| 492 | %%Spy in the service of Mac Bethad |
| 493 | |
| 494 | !!!Dagur mac Oswald |
| 495 | Head of Clan Murchadh and an Alban Warlord. Also Heather's brother. |
| 496 | ---- |
| 497 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: Asks [[spoiler:Toiréasa]] one in chapter 109 regarding her beliefs about [[spoiler:Heather]]. |
| 498 | --> [[spoiler:"You told me what Alvin did to you, and did to her. You told me how you were trained and tortured and used." He set his shoulders stubbornly. "And you know what I went through with Savage. If you think that I can be a decent man in a place like this, why is it so hard to believe that she could do the same with treatment like you went through? She was always better than I was."]] |
| 499 | * DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:He's not actively seeking to die, but does not mind knowing his sister wants to kill him, saying he deserves it and thinks death at the hands of his sister's agents would be quicker, cleaner, more dignified and more justified than what [[TheStarscream Savage]] would do to him given the chance.]] Although, played pretty straight during his [[spoiler:duel with Hiccup. Since it's from Dagur's perspective we can see he acknowledges he's destroyed what little honor he had left, and during the fight is actively trying to overcome his training to grant Hiccup an opening to strike him down. His reasoning being that dying in battle here is likely the only way he can avoid damnation and maybe argue for a place in Valhalla.]] |
| 500 | * DontYouDarePityMe: Dagur outright says this when Hiccup tries to express sympathy for him over [[spoiler:the abuse Dagur faced from Savage]]. His self-loathing is so strong he doesn't feel like he deserves pity. |
| 501 | * TheMagnificent: Known as Dagur the Deranged. |
| 502 | * {{Patricide}}: Dagur the Deranged has admitted to killing his and Heather's father, Oswald the Agreeable. Doesn't remember doing it but he knows he must have because of the aftermath. |
| 503 | * PsychopathicManchild: Dagur the Deranged shows boyish glee during his stay at Berk and becoming [[AxCrazy enraged once he finds out the games aren't bloodsports and are actually relatively bloodless]], never mind his very short temper and laughing inappropriately at jokes that only he finds funny. Oh, and let's not forget he killed his father and gloated about it. |
| 504 | * ReluctantPsycho: [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that Dagur is very, very aware that there is something ''wrong'' with his brain[[note]] the author portrays him as having, to quote, 'dissociative amnesia that is a comorbid symptom of his Borderline Personality Disorder, which is triggered under periods of extreme emotional excitation. Or, to put it another way, he gets memory blackouts during periods when he's experiencing the greatest emotional stimulation'[[/note]] and that he's a danger to everyone around him, and he absolutely ''hates'' it.]] |
| 505 | * TigerByTheTail: [[spoiler:Dagur is fully aware of what his fellow Berserkers are, but if he starts acting like Oswald the Agreeable instead of Oswald the Antagonistic, they'd all turn on him. After hearing that, Toireasa compares the Berserkers to stampeding cattle with Dagur running ahead of them. He's "leading" them, but if he stops or tries changing direction, he'd get run over and stomped on.]] |
| 506 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Dagur and his clan are vassals of King Mac Bethad of Alba, and are specifically noted to work as the King's shock troops even though not even Mac Bethad likes them. Dagur continues this theme when he shows up; he is prone to violence and disrespect, and no doubt would have violated SacredHospitality multiple times within minutes of his ship making port if not for the tight leash Elinor kept him under. On top of that, it is public knowledge that he murdered his own father in cold-blood to take over as chief. The only reasons why nobody has retaliated for that crime being that he is loyal to Mac Bethad, and his tribe is loyal to him for his ruthlessness and violence. |
| 507 | |
| 508 | !!!Savage |
| 509 | Dagur's second in command, and if anything, even more violent. |
| 510 | ---- |
| 511 | * KarmicDeath: He meets his end at the hands of [[spoiler:Jacob, whose village he slaughtered]]. |
| 512 | * TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: He gleefully murders people, and the more pain he inflicts, the better. [[spoiler:Savage meets his end at the hands of Jacob, whose village he massacred]]. |
| 513 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He absolutely lives up (or down) to his name. |
| 514 | * {{Sadist}}: Savage loves inflicting pain, like giving a father and son, both thralls, the SadisticChoice of which one of them would be freed -- whichever one killed the other. And then he kicks the "freed" one out into the woods in the middle of winter, and declares that as he's no longer Savage's property, he'll be [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunted down]] for trespassing. |
| 515 | %%* TheStarscream: Savage is the real ManBehindTheMan in the Berserkers, and plans to [[spoiler:overthrow Dagur as soon as Dagur sires an heir on Savage's daughter Rodhlaug]]. |
| 516 | |
| 517 | !!!Rodhlaug nic Savage |
| 518 | Savage's daughter, set to be betrothed to Dagur. |
| 519 | ---- |
| 520 | * MortonsFork: How she {{blackmail}}s the men she coerces into sex. If they refuse, she'll [[FalseRapeAccusation claim they raped her]], in which case [[KnightTemplarParent Savage kills them]]. If they say yes, at least there's the chance to live another day. |
| 521 | * ReallyGetsAround: She has at least half a dozen sexual partners, not all of whom know about each other. |
| 522 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After [[spoiler:Berk conquers Alba]], Rodhlaug sees the writing on the wall and gets on the first ship headed south. |
| 523 | * SexForServices: She pays her way for passage on a ship by "servicing" the crew. |
| 524 | * TeensAreMonsters: Rodhlaug takes a lot after her father Savage. She's a power-hungry serial rapist before she turned sixteen winters and a murderer soon after. |
| 525 | |
| 526 | !!!Jacob Rodericksson |
| 527 | A boy from Glenfinnan. |
| 528 | ---- |
| 529 | * FosterKid: After the Berserkers slaughter his village, Mac Bethad himself takes him as a ward. |
| 530 | * YouKilledMyFather: Jacob yearns for revenge against Dagur for killing not only his father, but most of his village. |
| 531 | |
| 532 | [[/folder]] |
| 533 | |
| 534 | [[folder:Eire]] |
| 535 | !!Dubh Linn |
| 536 | %%!!!Finnian mac Seamus |
| 537 | %%Sea captain of Dubh Linn. |
| 538 | |
| 539 | !!!Ímar mac Arailt |
| 540 | King of Dubh Linn. |
| 541 | ---- |
| 542 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: He seems to think that Hiccup wasn't really interested in peace if the below quote is anything to go by. |
| 543 | --> '''Ímar:''' Since the Hero has already come sniffing around, looking for more vassals... |
| 544 | |
| 545 | !!Mön |
| 546 | %%!!!Bran mac Muchada |
| 547 | %%Envoy of Echmarcach mac Ragnaill, stout Norseman about the same age as Stoick. |
| 548 | |
| 549 | !!!Echmarcach mac Ragnaill |
| 550 | King of Mön (Isle of Mann). |
| 551 | ---- |
| 552 | * DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: He dies in 1042, either twenty two or twenty three years before his historical death date.[[note]] His exact historical death date is unknown, either being 1064 or 1065. [[/note]]]] |
| 553 | |
| 554 | %%!!!Mór nic Echmarcach |
| 555 | %%Princess of Mön, lover and eventual wife of Tuffnut. |
| 556 | |
| 557 | !!Vedrarfjord |
| 558 | !!!Adalwin ua Imair/Alvin |
| 559 | Former King of Vedrarfjord, aka Alvin the Treacherous. |
| 560 | ---- |
| 561 | * CanonCharacterAllAlong: It’s revealed in chapter 27 that he's Alvin the Treacherous. |
| 562 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's an unrepentant con-man who has caused indescribable amounts of pain but he truly cares about his equally evil partner-in-crime Delilah. |
| 563 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: It is observed later on that while his training is brutal, he was always brutal to make a point, rather than indulging in torture for the sake of inflicting pain on others. |
| 564 | * IHaveYourWife: One of his favorite tactics to ensure his slave-spies remain loyal to him is to hold their family members hostage and torture them when the spy fails their missions. Even when the spies are miles away from him in a foreign court, the knowledge he has their loved ones and could do horrific things to them at any time is enough to keep them in line. |
| 565 | * IronicName: Both Adalwin and Alvin are names that mean "noble friend". Alvin is neither. |
| 566 | * RichesToRags: Alvin and Delilah went from being petty royalty and ruling their own city with an extensive spy-network far beyond it, to being on the run and reduced to getting by on the goodwill of others, goodwill that lasts only as long as they're more useful alive than dead. |
| 567 | * TortureTechnician: He is extremely proficient at physical, psychological, and emotional torture, and uses this talent in training his spies into being loyal to him out of paranoia and fear. |
| 568 | |
| 569 | !!!Ragnell ua Imair |
| 570 | Ship captain of Vedrarfjord, kinsman of the Ua Imair. |
| 571 | ---- |
| 572 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He is killed by Adalwin/Alvin at some point after Chapter 13, and his corpse is discovered at the bottom of a well in Chapter 27. |
| 573 | |
| 574 | !!!Fintan mac Ionatan |
| 575 | Freeman from Eire; DOB 1016 |
| 576 | ---- |
| 577 | * AscendedFanboy: Is a ''huge'' fan of Hiccup's and goes from marvelling at him from afar to joining him in liberating the Eirish thralls. |
| 578 | * NumberTwo: Eventually becomes this to Hákon Mortensson and Gunvor in running Vedrafjord, functionally becoming their personal assistant and having authority that is second to them. |
| 579 | * RagsToRiches: Fintan went from being a thrall who only had the clothes on his back to being Hakon's and Gunvor's aide and rich enough from his wages and investments that he could buy out an Eirish petty kingdom. |
| 580 | * RecruitedFromTheGutter: Fintan is the POV character for many of the Eirish freedmen, and his internal narration makes it clear that he's deeply loyal to the Haddock clan for providing him refuge from slavery, giving him a job, and generally improving everyone's quality of life. |
| 581 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Hiccup, declaring as such when he hears the Hero of Berk speak in Vedrarfjord. |
| 582 | |
| 583 | !!!Pádraig mac Bran |
| 584 | A young Christian priest who offers his services to Hákon, and has big ideas on how to run the welfare system more effectively. |
| 585 | ---- |
| 586 | * GoodShepherd: He's a priest who scrupulously follows Jesus's teachings about loving the poor and less fortunate. He even gave away the money Hákon paid him, just to see if Food Rights and Bed Rights alone were enough to live off of. |
| 587 | * InsufferableGenius: Pádraig is very competent at his job, but he's also blunt and abrasive, making him somewhat of TheFriendNobodyLikes. Hákon and Gunvor keep him around because he's just that good. |
| 588 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Pádraig is abrasive and blunt, but truly cares about making sure everyone gets what they need. |
| 589 | * SubvertedTrope: The author has described Pádraig as a "double counter-stereotype" -- priests in fiction are usually either a humble GoodShepherd or a corrupt, arrogant SinisterMinister. Pádraig is truly a GoodShepherd who serves the poor, but he's anything but humble. His first appearance is literally telling Hákon "here's everything you're doing wrong and why you should listen to me tell you how to fix it". |
| 590 | |
| 591 | !!!Toiréasa |
| 592 | A young woman who was one of Alvin's spies trained alongside Heather. |
| 593 | ---- |
| 594 | * InLoveWithTheMark: Toireasa is sent by Heather to infiltrate the Berserkers to find a way to kill [[spoiler:Dagur]]. As the mission eventually spans into months and her target exposes his insecurities to her, she finds herself falling in love with him before she knew it. |
| 595 | * MoralityPet: To [[spoiler:Dagur]]. She kickstarts the process of him becoming a better person and atoning for his crimes. |
| 596 | |
| 597 | !!Ulaid |
| 598 | !!!Eochaid mac Niall |
| 599 | Son of the king of Ulaid. |
| 600 | ---- |
| 601 | * StupidEvil: Eochaid [[spoiler:sends a poisoner to Berk's Thawfest Festival]] after he and his men were kicked out for violating SacredHospitality. There was literally nothing he had to gain for it and yet he did it anyway out of spite. After Berk discovers he was the culprit, [[spoiler:his own vassals turned on him for doing something so obviously stupid as to provoke Berk when the military power disparity was ''huge''.]] |
| 602 | [[/folder]] |
| 603 | |
| 604 | [[folder:England]] |
| 605 | !!!Harthacnut Cnutsson |
| 606 | King of England and Denmark, son of King Cnut the Great and Emma of Normandy. |
| 607 | ---- |
| 608 | * ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Most of Harthacnut's people hate him for his tyranny, and in the future is mostly remembered as a tyrant who deserved his death by the general populace. |
| 609 | * BackstabBackfire: [[spoiler:Harthacnut is spared by Stoick after his defeat, and yet after the latter turns his back, the former tries one last attempt to kill him. All that results is in Alfric giving him a disgraceful death and the solidifying of his reputation of an honourless tyrant in history for his dishonourable conduct in his final moments.]] |
| 610 | * DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler: In RealLife Harthacnut died from a stroke, here he dies from an arrow to the eye.]] |
| 611 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Sees no problem with ordering a city to be razed in retaliation for killing two of his tax collectors (which was done in real life to the city of Worcester in 1041), plotting an attack on Berk with the intent of killing the entire Hooligan tribe, and ordering a farm to be razed for [[SacredHospitality daring to not give up a guest]] to him when he ordered it. |
| 612 | * DuelToTheDeath: Has one with Stoick when he invades London. [[spoiler:Though Stoick isn't the one to kill him.]] |
| 613 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: He assumes Hiccup has some ulterior motive for his altruistic actions. [[WordOfGod Best summed up by the author]] from the [[Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn ao3]] comment section: |
| 614 | --> '''Aspasia:''' Relax, Harthacnut, he just wants to help. |
| 615 | --> '''athingofvikings:''' Which is why Harthacnut can't comprehend it; he's so steeped in power and authoritarianism that he literally cannot grasp the idea of altruism for the sake of altruism. From his POV, it ''must'' have some diabolical purpose, because otherwise, why do it? |
| 616 | * {{ManChild}}: He shows signs of being this a few times. [[WordOfGod Best summed up by the author]] from the [[Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn ao3]] comment section: |
| 617 | --> Harthacnut, for all of his brutality, was a 25 year old man who had never really had a chance to grow up or have emotional maturity, and had been taught brutality since the age of six when his father had his uncle killed on Christmas Day for attempting to usurp him (said uncle was Sweyn's father, btw). That's the sort of "family background that produced him" that the epigraph was talking about. |
| 618 | * TheOathBreaker: It is well known that he is one of these. |
| 619 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:[[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], he dies on 11 June, 1042, a mere 3 days after his historical death date.]] |
| 620 | * UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:He gets shot through the eye attempting to stab Stoick in the back.]] |
| 621 | * VillainsNeverLie: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], he doesn't even try to tell Stoick that he had nothing to do with the [[spoiler:ambush on Hiccup]] because he knows that he won't be believed. |
| 622 | --> What could he tell Stoick? That the [[spoiler: ambush]] was the fault of his earl and not him, because his ''own'' [[spoiler: ambush]] hadn't been ready yet? He snorted. Yes, as if ''that'' would have a prayer of working. |
| 623 | |
| 624 | !!!Godwin |
| 625 | Earl of Wessex |
| 626 | ---- |
| 627 | * AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Becomes a POV character for the Battle of the Sound of Berk to show off the Anglo's perspective and illustrate from the losing side just how hopelessly outmatched they are. |
| 628 | * OhCrap: His response during the entirety of the Battle of the Sound of Berk, during which he can do little but watch in horror as the fleet he's in is absolutely decimated by Hiccup's battle strategy. |
| 629 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: With King Harthacnut. In the lead up to the Battle of the Sound of Berk, Godwin acknowledges that the only reason he's in Harthacnut's army is because if his rival were to obtain victory in the battle alone then he'd become too powerful. |
| 630 | * VillainRespect: He's present in the Great Hall as a captive when Hiccup proposes to Astrid. When he hears that Hiccup is giving over the entirety of Harthacnut's ransom as a bride price to Astrid's family (literally giving up a king's ransom to prove his love), Godwin actually joins in the applauding. |
| 631 | [[/folder]] |
| 632 | |
| 633 | [[folder:Francia]] |
| 634 | !!In General |
| 635 | ---- |
| 636 | * BalkanizeMe: King Henry's act of [[spoiler:attacking King Stoick proves to be the last straw for his kingdom after decades of instability, which resulted in Normandy and Brittany breaking away to join Berk while Aquitania and Tolosa declared independence from Henry's kingdom]]. |
| 637 | |
| 638 | !!Paris |
| 639 | !!!Henry of the Capets |
| 640 | King of Francia. |
| 641 | ---- |
| 642 | * TheAllegedBoss: One of King Henry's major grievances is that though he is ''officially'' King of Francia, his actual ability to exert influence over his nominal vassals is almost non-existent. As a result, he reacts poorly to how little consideration Hiccup and Stoick give him, which Henry interprets as an implicit snub highlighting his lack of power. [[spoiler:This insecurity is one of the key factors that drives King Henry into committing the catastrophic mistake of ambushing King Stoick on the assumption Stoick would run roughshod over him when in fact he was going to offer generous terms that would have alleviated some of his issues. Instead, as a result of his ambush, several duchies and one county officially break away from him, so he no longer even has the ''pretence'' of being in charge, irreversibly destroying his kingdom]]. |
| 643 | * DramaticIrony: Henry assumes that Berk is a nation of viking warmongers using any pretence they could to justify their conquest of others, and while he does have historical precedent to justify his beliefs, readers know he is completely off-base. |
| 644 | * HisOwnWorstEnemy: His worst problems during the story are self-inflicted. [[spoiler:Due to a combination of excessive paranoia, greed, ambition, stupidity, and especially insecurity regarding how weak he actually is compared to other aristocrats including his own vassals, he launches an ambush on Stoick in ignorance of the fact he came in genuine peace and was planning to give a generous peace offering that, if not solving his problems, at least would have helped him a lot. Instead, as a direct result of the ambush, his kingdom irreversibly splinters with several of his vassals breaking from him while his own reputation is forever tarnished by the ambush he perpetrated]]. |
| 645 | * LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:King Henry's act of attacking King Stoick when the latter came in peace results in an huge backlash against the former. Normandy and Brittany secede and join Berk while Aquitania and Tolosa declare independence. His remaining territory isn't much better as his remaining subjects, if not praying for mercy from Berk, are either rioting or leaving him in droves]]. |
| 646 | * ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: [[spoiler:When King Henry plans his ambush on King Stoick of Berk using materials and designs from Berk]], Henry describes it as evil sowing the seeds of their own destruction. However, that description better fits King Henry since his own actions led to his own destruction. |
| 647 | * OhCrap: He is horrified when [[spoiler:he sees the generous treaty Berk was initially planning to offer him ''after'' he ordered the attack on them, because he realises that proves that ''he'' attacked people coming in peace and Berk has previously shown that is a catastrophic mistake]]. |
| 648 | |
| 649 | !!Normandy |
| 650 | !!!William of Normandy |
| 651 | Duke of Normandy, DOB 1028. |
| 652 | ---- |
| 653 | * AdoptedIntoRoyalty: [[spoiler:Stoick adopts Willaim as a son, making him Hiccup's younger brother and technically making him a prince.]] |
| 654 | * EmbarrassingNickname: William the Bastard is not a dignified name. This William hates the insulting nickname just as much as his [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfNormandy historical inspiration]] did in real life. |
| 655 | * GoingNative: By chapter 118, [[spoiler:he identifies himself as a Hooligan after spending months in Berk.]] |
| 656 | * HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:William is ecstatic on becoming an actual son of Chief Stoick, who he looks up to as a king and adores as a father figure along with Hiccup becoming more brotherly to him.]] |
| 657 | * LikeAFishTakesToWater: William was sent to Berk for his own protection to protect him from his countrymen's in-fighting but quickly grows to like being treated like the child he actually is and receiving the support and guidance from the Haddocks. |
| 658 | * MundaneLuxury: William deeply relishes that in Berk he's treated like the young kid he actually is and doesn't have to constantly watch his back. That he's allowed to get help and guidance instead of having to question their motives. |
| 659 | * TraumaButton: William reacts poorly to Orvi having pre-marital sex due to the possibility of bastard-born children, which he himself is one of and grew up with all the associated insults. |
| 660 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Played with. While mostly everyone who knows the basics of English history knows the real-world William grew up to be an oppressive and ruthless conqueror, this story puts forth the question of what someone like that might've been if they'd been transplanted into a loving home with a supportive family instead of staying in the environment the real William was brought up in. |
| 661 | |
| 662 | !!!Viggo Grimborn |
| 663 | A former dragon hunter originating from Rouen hired by the Catholic Church to scout out the pagan dragon-riders. |
| 664 | ---- |
| 665 | * AdaptationalSexuality: In canon there's no indication what Viggo’s sexual orientation was, here he is demisexual. |
| 666 | * InconvenientAttraction: Viggo only feels attraction to those he considers to be his intellectual peers or superiors and therefore hasn't had many relationships. Those he has had have all ended badly and it's implied lethally. This causes issues when he gets friendly with Fishwings, who proves to possess a quick wit and proves to be his match at playing shatranj. While initially he merely intended to make her his unknowing contact amongst the Hooligan tribe, he surprises himself by realizing on their trip to Rome that he actually wants to alter his plans to make a place for her to fit into them. |
| 667 | --> He wanted her too. As a friend... and as a lover. Well. That made life ''complicated''. |
| 668 | * OpportunisticBastard: Viggo doesn't have a set plan on who he wants to side with or how he intends to proceed. Instead he meets as many key players as he can to map out the full board in his head and tries to figure out how to play everyone against each other so he'll come out on top. |
| 669 | * PlayingBothSides: While he starts off in the employ of the Church, he clearly has no loyalty to them and takes to investigating the dragon-riders of Berk more out of personal interest than because they're paying him to, eager to see how he can turn this entire situation to his advantage. |
| 670 | * PragmaticVillainy: Viggo always does what will be most beneficial to himself, but usually thinks in the long term rather than short term. He is initially hired by the Church to spy on Berk, and ends up rescuing Hiccup and his companions, getting in the Hooligans' good graces (when Ryker would have just captured the Hooligans then and there and taken them back to Rome). He enters into a partnership to help set up Hiccup's planned dragon mail stations around Rome and the Vatican, which make him very, ''very'' rich. Seeing how much the people of Vedrarfjord support Berk, he decides the best way to be a conqueror is to be a VillainWithGoodPublicity and convince his newly conquered subjects that he is a better ruler for them than their previous ruler, and ''follow through on his promise of being a better ruler'' so that any sceptics can see he's putting his money where his mouth is. |
| 671 | * VillainousRescue: Played with. Viggo and his crew coincidentally happen to be sailing by Cornwall at the exact moment Hiccup and his friends - who Viggo has been sent to investigate - are also there fleeing from assassins and in dire need of rescue. The Hooligans are completely unaware of Viggo's motivations for being there so accept his help, giving him a golden opportunity to get to know them personally, learn their weaknesses, and put himself in just a good enough position with them for it to be a problem later. |
| 672 | * WildCard: Viggo is just as likely to aid and help Hiccup and his friends as he is to plot against them. After all, they're far too ''interesting'' and useful pieces to keep on the board for him to allow someone else's lazy scheme to take them out by chance. |
| 673 | * WickedCultured: Has travelled most of the known world and learnt tricks and knowledge from every culture he's had the ability to study. |
| 674 | |
| 675 | !!Brittany |
| 676 | !!!Sir Henry "the Sinister" of Brittany |
| 677 | Eldest son of the Duke of Brittany. |
| 678 | ---- |
| 679 | * AnArmAndALeg: When he lays an ambush for dragon-riders in an attempt to steal their dragons, Astrid cuts off his hand. |
| 680 | * TheBet: He foolishly made one with his younger brother over whether he could purchase a dragon from Stoick. If his brother won then he'd get Henry's inheritance, if Henry won then he'd "get" his brother's betrothed. Stoick is so appalled he rescinds hospitality rights and has him thrown off the island. |
| 681 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Henry the Sinister is killed in chapter 144 under Astrid's orders.]] |
| 682 | * EngineeredHeroics: He gained support for himself and his father by forcing Dogsbreath and Redsnout to attack people, only for Henry and his men to arrive and "scare off the dragon-rider" and therefore place the victims in his debt. |
| 683 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: He interprets all acts of mercy and smart tactics done by the Hooligans as proof of cowardice, stupidity and/or dishonour. |
| 684 | * EvilCripple: He's a villain who's missing a hand. |
| 685 | * FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: His attitude towards pagans and especially towards Jews. He raises an army by playing on Francian Christians' bigotry and slaughtering the Jews. |
| 686 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: His first appearance sees him as one of a horde of low-level nobles flocking to Berk to try to secure a dragon. His impatience, arrogance, and poor behaviour gets him tossed out of Stoick's hut in disgrace by Spitelout and sent packing. A few years later he is now Sir Henry the Sinister, leading a religious crusade across France, massacring the Jewish population, and posing a serious threat to Duke William's control of Normandy. |
| 687 | * HeroKiller: Yes, the whiny spoilt nobleman eventually winds up [[spoiler:leading the army that kills Spitelout at the Battle of the Seine River.]] |
| 688 | * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: He takes William's kin (and the heirs to Brittany) - Hawiz and Conan - captive and plays this straight with Hawiz. It even shows his villainy beyond just depravity as he intends to force himself on Hawiz, sire a bastard on her, and legitimize it. Then his child would be the only blood heir of the old Duke once William, Hawiz, and Conan have been disposed of. |
| 689 | * IHaveYourWife: Keeps Inga hostage to force Dogsbreath and Redsnout to attack his political rivals. |
| 690 | * KnowWhenToFoldThem: Averted ''hard''. Henry just does not know when to quit. Couldn't get a dragon? Gets pushy with the chief. Get thrown off the island? Come back and try to kidnap a dragon. Lose your hand and get sent home in disgrace? Wait until a dragon-rider comes to your homeland and capture them in an ambush while they're asleep. |
| 691 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: He seems like an entitled nobleman who is subsequently humiliated and brought down a peg every time he interacts with the Haddocks. However, then he ambushes and captures Dogsbreath, Inga, and Redsnout when they arrive in Brittany and his subsequent use and abuse of the captured dragon-rider shows that he's still very dangerous. The reputation he garners eventually turns him into a major threat in France, slaughtering the Jewish population to gain religious support to fuel his war to gain William's Dukedom. |
| 692 | * TheMagnificent: His lost limb and rise in power in Normandy earn him the moniker of "Sir Henry the Sinister." |
| 693 | * ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: By chapter 129 he has a reputation as TheDragonslayer despite having never actually killed a dragon, something William's courtiers lampshade. |
| 694 | * RedRightHand: Astrid chops off his hand. The disfigurement helps lend to his eventual reputation as "the Sinister" |
| 695 | * SiblingMurder: Strongly implied. Henry's wife explains to Astrid that her original fiance - Henry's brother - suffered an unfortunate "accident" while out horse riding. |
| 696 | * ASinisterClue: It's right there in the name. Though he was evil before he lost his right hand. |
| 697 | |
| 698 | !!!Joan of Brittany |
| 699 | Sir Henry's wife. |
| 700 | ---- |
| 701 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: When she's captured by the Hooligans, she admits who she is, but pretends she was as much Henry's prisoner as his other victims, when in reality she [[spoiler:was the one to suggest raping Hawiz in the first place]]. |
| 702 | * KarmaHoudini: In the aftermath of the Second Battle of the Seine, she manages to slip away before the Hooligans discover she's not as innocent as she claims. Then she manages to escape Paris in case the Hooligans attack it next. |
| 703 | * MaliciousSlander: After [[spoiler:Sir Henry's defeat]], Joan goes to Paris and tells King Henry a very biased account of what happened. He's all too willing to believe the worst about Berk. |
| 704 | * UnholyMatrimony: Henry the Sinister and his wife Joan are both evil, with her even being the one to suggest [[spoiler:Henry rape Hawiz to get a bastard heir to Brittany]]. She [[PlayingTheVictimCard pretends to be a victim of his]] to escape from the Hooligans after [[spoiler:Henry is defeated]]. |
| 705 | |
| 706 | %%!!!Hawiz of Breizh |
| 707 | [[/folder]] |
| 708 | |
| 709 | [[folder:Ghana]] |
| 710 | %%!!!Ghana Bhassi |
| 711 | %%King of Ghana. |
| 712 | |
| 713 | %%!!!Tunka Manin |
| 714 | %%Prince of Ghana, nephew of Ghana Bhassi. |
| 715 | |
| 716 | !!!Isioma |
| 717 | A former slave, she was given to Hiccup as a diplomatic gift and promptly freed. |
| 718 | ---- |
| 719 | * {{Omniglot}}: She can speak twenty-four languages. |
| 720 | |
| 721 | %%!!!Mwenda |
| 722 | %%A former slave and healer. |
| 723 | |
| 724 | %%!!!Káyọ̀dé |
| 725 | %%A former slave and storyteller. |
| 726 | [[/folder]] |
| 727 | |
| 728 | [[folder:Holy Roman Empire (Germany)]] |
| 729 | !!!Henry the Black |
| 730 | Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 731 | ---- |
| 732 | * OddFriendship: Henry is deeply religious and pious to the Catholic Church, however, he welcomes the pagan dragon-riders, respecting Hiccup's reputation as a peacemaker and commenting that he behaves more like how Christians are supposed to than many practioners actually do. Beyond asking Hiccup if he'd consider converting a few times, they actually get along very well. |
| 733 | * ReluctantWarrior: Henry extolls the virtue of peace but accepts the sad necessity of war as a ruler with a kingdom's interests to protect. |
| 734 | [[/folder]] |
| 735 | |
| 736 | [[folder:Iceland]] |
| 737 | !!!Eret Eretsson |
| 738 | Samit freedman who is re-enslaved by Mildew and forced to capture dragons for him. |
| 739 | ---- |
| 740 | * ForcedIntoEvil: Eret finds himself forced to kill humans and dragons just to survive under Mildew's tyrannical rule. |
| 741 | * MadeASlave: Eret was already enslaved once, when he and his brothers were taken as thralls to Iceland. Then they gained their freedom, only to be re-enslaved by Mildew. |
| 742 | * SuddenlyEthnicity: While Eret's ethnicity was never mentioned in the films, his chin tattoos evoke those of Inuit. However, Inuit did not settle in Greenland until the 1200s. In this case, he is Samit (Saami). |
| 743 | |
| 744 | !!!Fearless |
| 745 | A Night Fury living in Iceland [[spoiler:and Toothless's sister]]. |
| 746 | ---- |
| 747 | * HeroicSacrifice: Fearless sacrifices herself [[spoiler:to set off a volcanic eruption that kills the Screaming Death that was once her nest-lord, the subsequent eruption also killing Mildew and his Whispering Death]]. |
| 748 | * DueToTheDead: After Fearless gives her life to stop [[spoiler:the Screaming Death that was once her nest-lord]], Hiccup makes sure to tell the rest of Berk about her sacrifice. Even the Christian priest sets up a monument for her, musing that, regardless of whether or not dragons have souls, he wants God to know that they appreciate her sacrifice. Later, Óengus, a silversmith, asks for some scales from Toothless to complete various pendants he's making [[spoiler:in the style of a Night Fury]] to further honour [[spoiler:Fearless's sacrifice]]. By Chapter 139, Hiccup has completed a runestone commemorating Fearless's memory, with Toothless the first person to see the completed stone. |
| 749 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: Fearless [[spoiler:sacrifices herself to set off a volcanic eruption that kills the Screaming Death and takes out Mildew and Mold as mere collateral damage]]. |
| 750 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Fearless only spends enough time with her brother to receive a name and be given the offer of leading her nest back to Berk before [[spoiler:she gives her life to save the others from the Screaming Death]]. |
| 751 | |
| 752 | !!!Screaming Death/Screaming White |
| 753 | The nest-lord of the Grimsvotn nest in Iceland. |
| 754 | ---- |
| 755 | * KillAllHumans: The Screaming Death wishes to kill all humans when dragons from his nest are getting captured, but is talked down from following through. [[spoiler: When Fearless comes back to their nest with humans, he decides enough is enough and immediately goes on a rampage to kill all humans and the dragons who side with them]]. |
| 756 | * LargeAndInCharge: As in most dragon nests, the nest-lord is the largest and strongest dragon. |
| 757 | [[/folder]] |
| 758 | |
| 759 | [[folder:Jews]] |
| 760 | !!!Dror ben Ezra |
| 761 | * FamousAncestor: One of the most respected ancestors of the present story Hooligan Tribe is Dror ben Ezra, a Jewish man who had been kidnapped into slavery for his literacy a century before and ended up rescued by Berk. He's held in high esteem by modern Hooligans, especially the clan he married into, with his daughter now being the clanhead, as he was responsible for teaching them how to read and write which allowed the Hooligans to save their culture and way of life. It's telling that the Hooligans remember Jewish dietary practices despite having never spoken to another Jewish person besides him. |
| 762 | * PosthumousCharacter: Dror has been dead for over 50 years by the time the story starts. The only scenes we've seen him in are flashbacks from Gothi's POV. |
| 763 | |
| 764 | %%!!!Dovid ben Eliezer |
| 765 | %%Rabbi from Rouen who goes to Berk to investigate their offer to immigrate, and ends up becoming the de facto Chief Rabbi of Berk. Father of Esther, Maor, and Bracha. |
| 766 | |
| 767 | !!!Esther bat Rivkah |
| 768 | A Jewish widow from Rouen who moves to Berk and becomes Duke William's tutor and Stoick's aide. Daughter of Dovid and Rivkah. |
| 769 | ---- |
| 770 | * AdultAdoptee: [[spoiler:After her father tries to push her into a marriage she doesn't want, she renounces her family and Stoick formally adopts her into clan Haddock.]] |
| 771 | * ComicBookFantasyCasting: Esther looks like a young Music/OfraHaza. |
| 772 | * ConfirmedBachelor: She had one brief marriage, and it was enough to convince her that it wasn't something she ever wanted to do again. Her father's inability to understand her aromantic asexuality isn't helped by the time period not really having the words to explain it. |
| 773 | * MeaningfulName: Her namesake from the Literature/BookOfEsther also gained the ear of her people's ruler, though in that case it was by marriage, and by the time she becomes his tutor she's no longer William's subject. WordOfGod is that this was intentional. |
| 774 | |
| 775 | !!!Maor ben Dovid |
| 776 | Son of Dovid and Rivkah. |
| 777 | * FatherIDontWantToFight: Inverted. Maor is intrigued when Sephardic Jews from Al-Andalus visit Berk, since Jews are allowed to freely carry weapons there, unlike in Christian Europe. When Berk fights against Henry the Sinister, Maor and some other young Jewish men ask Astrid to let them become warriors. |
| 778 | * TeenRebellion: Maor comes from a ProudScholarRace, and rebels against his father by buying a sword and learning to be a warrior. Though his "rebellion" doesn't stop once he grows up, as one epigraph shows he becomes Commander of the First Shieldbearers in 1065. |
| 779 | |
| 780 | %%!!!Bracha bat Rivkah |
| 781 | |
| 782 | %%!!!Rivkah bat Hadassah |
| 783 | %%A Jewish woman from Caen, her brother Dan was briefly married to Esther before he died. |
| 784 | |
| 785 | %%!!!Nittai ben Bethuel Ha-Levi |
| 786 | [[/folder]] |
| 787 | |
| 788 | [[folder:Meatheads]] |
| 789 | !!!Thuggory Mogadonsson |
| 790 | The young chief of the Meatheads, he's only a couple years older than Hiccup. DOB 1023. |
| 791 | ---- |
| 792 | * AChildShallLeadThem: His father's death caused him to become chief at only 17 years old. He feels constrained by his responsibilities and not ready to be a leader. |
| 793 | * ManlyGay: He's bisexual with a preference for men, and also a strong, manly man. |
| 794 | * MarryThemAll: He joins the existing relationship of [[spoiler:Jyette and Heike]], and for legal reasons, takes them both as his concubines. |
| 795 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: He's related to the Hooligans through the Ingerman clan; Dror ben Ezra was his great-grandfather. |
| 796 | [[/folder]] |
| 797 | |
| 798 | [[folder:Norway]] |
| 799 | !!!Ruffnut Thicknutsdóttir Fairhair |
| 800 | [[quoteright:500:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ruffnut_ananda_samsara.png]] |
| 801 | Protagonist; daughter of Thicknut, wife of Magnus, DOB Aug 1025. |
| 802 | ---- |
| 803 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: In the films and animated series, Ruffnut is just half of the twins, both of them a certain level of ChaoticStupid with a few HiddenDepths that [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight imply that their madness and irresponsible personalities are all a part of some]] ambiguous disorder. Here, she is much less obnoxious, shown to possess skills as a skald and impressive skill in manipulating the politics of Norway as Queen, being able to undermine the politically biased system she marries into. |
| 804 | * ConvertingForLove: Defied, she and Magnus maintain their respective faiths after marrying, [[spoiler:despite a priest's attempts to baptise her against her will]]. |
| 805 | * HiddenDepths: She is an aspiring skald and, after relocating to Norway with her husband King Magnus, establishes St. Olaf's Hospital. |
| 806 | * MamaBear: As the epigraph at the start of Chapter 22 notes, Ruffnut is historically remembered for having an impressive bodycount, the most significant portion of which apparently came from the Siege of Roskilde, where Ruffnut guarded the stairway leading to her children's nursery from attackers, building a battlement out of their bodies to keep her children safe. |
| 807 | * MedicalMonarch: After Ruffnut marries Magnus and becomes a queen, they establish a hospital where Ruffnut is one of the medical staff. She already has some training from the Hooligan healers, and knowledge of dragon-derived medicines. |
| 808 | |
| 809 | !!!Tuffnut Thicknutsson |
| 810 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tuffnut_ananda_samsara.png]] |
| 811 | Protagonist; son of Thicknut, DOB Aug 1025. |
| 812 | ---- |
| 813 | * AdaptationalIntelligence:Tuffnut gets a similar treatment to Ruffnut's (described above), becoming an {{Omniglot}} herald and diplomat who travels the world. |
| 814 | * AgonizingStomachWound: Gets stabbed in the gut trying to protect [[spoiler:his nephew and niece from the thanes loyal to Father Henriksson's conspiracy. His sister's children are still kidnapped and Tuffnut's survival is left uncertain for many chapters.]] |
| 815 | * HiddenDepths: He proves to be surprisingly adept at learning languages, rescues Marte from an abusive husband, and refuses to take advantage of her when she offers herself to him in gratitude. |
| 816 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: Has a variation of this after it's pointed out that he doesn't really have his own ambitions or goals beyond such simple dreams as a good weapon and a pet. |
| 817 | * SpannerInTheWorks: When discussing ambition with Einar and how Tuffnut doesn't seem to have any, he eventually decides to settle on his goal being to become this trope personified in Chapter 71. He knows it's unrealistic and difficult to obtain but strives to work towards it regardless. |
| 818 | -->'''Tuffnut:''' "But what I ''want'' is to be that guy who, from the perspective of the bad guys, is the one who shows up in the wrong place at the wrong time… just enough to screw with them." |
| 819 | |
| 820 | %%!!!Bergljót |
| 821 | %%Female Hobblegrunt, bonded to Vlademar. |
| 822 | |
| 823 | %%!!!Brand |
| 824 | %%Male Monstrous Nightmare, golden-yellow and black coloration, bonded to Magnus. |
| 825 | |
| 826 | %%!!!Cuan |
| 827 | %%Male Deadly Nadder; noted to have a playful attitude, deep blue coloration, bonded to Roald. |
| 828 | |
| 829 | !!!Einar Eindridesson |
| 830 | Regent of Norway, father of Eindride. A.K.A. Einar Thambarskelfir. DOB 980. |
| 831 | ---- |
| 832 | * TheChessmaster: He can effortlessly outmatch most other characters in the setting when it comes to political manipulation and consolidating power. However, Einar is an old man whose very set in his ways about playing the "game" by very old well-established rules. The CultureClash caused by the Hooligan tribe combined with their general unwillingness and stubborness against playing by those rules prove to be something of a SpannerInTheWorks to some of his schemes. |
| 833 | * DeathByAdaptation: Whilst it hasn't happened in-story yet, the historical epigraphs reveal that [[spoiler:he will die in 1047, three years before his historical death date.]] |
| 834 | * EnemyMine: He and Ruffnut find themselves in political opposition to one another and attempt to undermine each others power throughout the entirety of Book II. However, they find themselves having to work together quite earnestly when Einar walks in on [[spoiler:Father Michael Henriksson trying to smother Ruffnut to death because the priest responds by trying to kill both Ruffnutt ''and'' Einar so he can frame it as a MutualKill since all who knew of their rivalry would likely accept it. The mad priest's plots only escalate from there forcing more cooperation between the two to combat his plot to kidnap Ruffnutt and Magnus' children "for God."]] |
| 835 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Einar is pragmatic and very experienced in the political games of the world. This gives him a hard time trusting and adjusting to the far more honest and generous politics brought in by Hiccup and Berk. The fact he mistakes Snotlout's decision to leave and join the Varangian Guard as a trick Hiccup has played to send a political rival into self-imposed exile shows how very little he understands about Hiccup's true mindset. |
| 836 | * EvilChancellor: Played with. While ''evil'' might be a stretch, he is still clearly the puppetmaster behind Magnus and has no problem abusing his control over the boy-king or his sister to further his own agenda. He is a schemer trying to secure the most advantageous position for himself and his nation within the disrupted political landscape that Berk creates, and while still pragmatic and ruthless when he needs to be he's proven far more cautious and far less bloodthirsty than a lot of the other major players thus far. |
| 837 | * EvilRegent: Einar Thambarskelfir seized power over Norway by having himself appointed regent and tries to keep Magnus dependent on him (although [[spoiler:he does save Ruffnut's life when a deranged priest tried to baptize and then kill her]]). |
| 838 | * HeelFaceTurn: After [[spoiler:Father Henriksson]]'s conspiracy is revealed, Einar becomes much more loyal to Magnus, partially because he was the one who hired the guy in the first place. Plus, he recognizes that even though he doesn't have as much control anymore, what's good for Berk, Norway, and Magnus is good for himself. |
| 839 | * RegentForLife: Einar Thambarskelfir's plan is to be Magnus' regent forever, to the point of finding Magnus as a [[HiddenBackupPrince exile in Kyiv]] and installing him on the Norwegian throne... and getting rid of his rivals. |
| 840 | * TheSvengali: He played a key role in putting Magnus on his throne and removed several of his major political rivals in one fell swoop. Whilst publicly he is their mentor and guardian, in reality he keeps careful and suffocating control over the royal family and makes it clear to Hiccup that while Magnus might rule in name, Einar holds all the real power in Norway. |
| 841 | * VillainRespect: He actually claps when he hears Ruffnut's plan to send for thanes from Berk to serve as bodyguards to the royal family after [[spoiler:a Christian conspiracy is uncovered which aims to undermine or kill the pagans "corrupting" Magnus which resulted in many of Magnus' sworn thanes breaking their oaths and leaving the loyalty of those remaining in question.]] Einar realises that Ruffnut's proposal will greatly strengthen her own position in the Norwegian royal court, therefore weakening his own, but that it's also undeniably the only good plan they have to ensure the thanes are untouched by the Church's influence. |
| 842 | |
| 843 | !!!Eindride Einarsson |
| 844 | Court marshal, son of Einar. |
| 845 | ---- |
| 846 | * NotSoAboveItAll: He's usually just as scheming and brutal as his father. However, Wulfhild notes that around the topic of dragons he becomes childishly enthusiastic and can't keep up his usual dismissive nature, unable to hold back on ranting about how interesting they are. |
| 847 | |
| 848 | %%!!!Eitri |
| 849 | %%Male Gronckle; noted as having a sweet, even temperament, bonded to Mark. |
| 850 | |
| 851 | %%!!!Helga Vragisdóttir |
| 852 | %%Tailor |
| 853 | |
| 854 | %%!!!Jørgen Osvaldsson |
| 855 | %%Healer |
| 856 | |
| 857 | !!!Ketil Órirsson |
| 858 | Thane, formerly of the Varangian Guard; owns several instruments, including a Roman Lyra. |
| 859 | ---- |
| 860 | * WarriorPoet: He's an oath-sworn thane to Magnus and used to be in the [[BadassArmy Varangian Guard]], but has since grown old and is more kept around by Magnus for his skill with the musical instruments he brought back from Constantinople than his skill with a blade. |
| 861 | |
| 862 | !!!Magnus Olafsson Fairhair |
| 863 | King of Norway, aka Magnus the Good, half-brother to Wulfhild, husband of Ruffnut. DOB 1024. |
| 864 | ---- |
| 865 | * AltarDiplomacy: |
| 866 | ** Marries Ruffnut to represent the alliance between Berk and Norway, but it is made clear that he took some time to get to know her first and genuinely likes her as more than just his tie to Berk. |
| 867 | ** Has made plans with Stoick that Hiccup's first child with Astrid will marry Magnus's relevant twin, although both agree that they will only ''encourage'' such a relationship without forcing either into it. |
| 868 | * FourthDateMarriage: Magnus proposed to Ruffnut after barely a week. |
| 869 | * TheGoodKing: Magnus proves to live up to his name, following Stoick's example and ruling Norway with a fair and just hand, with the wellbeing of his people as his first priority. When he becomes king of England and Denmark too, he cancels that year's taxes, since Harthacnut's warfare bled the realm dry. This, and his [[spoiler:policy of religious tolerance]], make him very popular among the people. |
| 870 | * PuppetKing: Magnus was initially this under the influence of his regent, Einar Thambarskelfir, but Stoick's example and Ruffnut's encouragement prompt Magnus to stand up for himself more as events unfold. |
| 871 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Accepted Hiccup's original relationship with Astrid and only gave into the 'pressure' to arrange a marriage between Hiccup and Wulfhild due to the insistence of his advisors. On a personal level, despite being a Christian himself he accepts his wife's decision not to convert and agrees with her that they will not have their children baptized until the children can choose their faiths themselves. |
| 872 | |
| 873 | %%!!!Mark Leosson |
| 874 | %%Court steward, brother to Roald. |
| 875 | |
| 876 | !!!Michael Henriksson |
| 877 | Court priest. |
| 878 | ---- |
| 879 | * TheFundamentalist: His disdain for pagans is evident by his attempts to convert everyone not already under the Christian faith. However, the full extent of it isn't revealed until Chapters 65 and 66 in which [[spoiler:he attempts to baptize Ruffnutt while she is asleep and then ''murder'' her afterwards to send her soul to Heaven (and so she won't be around to oppose her baptizing her children). After he's stopped he confesses to being the mastermind behind the assassination on Hiccup and Astrid's lives when they first arrived in Norway since he viewed them as devil-riding heathens who are corrupting his king.]] Once the full extent of his crimes are revealed, ''everyone'' in the Norwegian court - from altruistic Ygnvarr to corrupt Einar - agree that Henriksson is a delusional madman who very nearly started a war and would've gotten them all killed in his "service to God." |
| 880 | * HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Uses this to devastating effect. His fluency in latin and Hiccup's very limited understanding allows Father Henriksson to trick him into declaring vows of marriage to Wulfhild. |
| 881 | * ManipulativeBastard: Manages to cajole Wulfhild and trick Magnus into being complict in changing the ceremony between Hiccup and Wulfhild to make her his wife rather than his concubine. While he claims he did this to save Wulfhild's soul and prevent her from living in sin, the political implications of this move and how it could impact Hiccup's already established marriage to Astrid given Christianity forbids polygamy makes it clear he did it to fulfil his own agenda. |
| 882 | * SinisterMinister: A priest and a cunning one working to fulfil the Catholic Church's agenda among the pagan dragon-riders. |
| 883 | |
| 884 | %%!!!Mikael Úlfrsson |
| 885 | %%Former trader turned thane, came back from the Roman Empire in 1041. |
| 886 | |
| 887 | %%!!!Oddmund Hemingrsson |
| 888 | %%Thane, formerly of the Varangian guard. |
| 889 | |
| 890 | %%!!!Orvar Arlaksson |
| 891 | %%Regent of Rygjarylki, brother to Yngvarr. |
| 892 | |
| 893 | %%!!!Roald Leosson |
| 894 | %%Magnus’s head thane and hustler at hnefatafl (King’s Fist), brother to Mark. |
| 895 | |
| 896 | !!!Sigvatr Tordarson |
| 897 | Icelandic court skald, Magnus’s godfather. DOB 995. |
| 898 | ---- |
| 899 | * DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:He will die in 1044, one year before his historical death date.]] |
| 900 | * ParentalSubstitute: To Magnus. Sigvatr was his only consistent father figure throughout his life, and his love for poetry and the arts have clearly rubbed off on the boy-king. |
| 901 | |
| 902 | %%!!!Swift |
| 903 | %%Male Deadly Nadder; noted as being hot-blooded and overeager, bright blue-violet coloration, bonded to Tuffnut. |
| 904 | |
| 905 | %%!!!Vlademar Gunniovich |
| 906 | %%Thane, originally of the Rus’, protected Magnus as a child. |
| 907 | |
| 908 | !!!Wulfhild Olafsdóttir clan Haddock |
| 909 | Princess of Norway, half-sister of Magnus, concubine of Hiccup, High Almoner of Berk. DOB 1020. |
| 910 | * See Hooligan Tribe |
| 911 | |
| 912 | !!!Yngvarr Arlaksson |
| 913 | Court herald, aka Yngvarr the Merry, chief of Rygjafylki. |
| 914 | ---- |
| 915 | * BerserkButton: Seems to have a particularly strong disdain for those who threaten, harm, or endanger the lives of children. |
| 916 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Ygnvarr is a genuinely friendly and kind-hearted man. However, those who are needlessly cruel or abusive to innocent people learn quickly that he can be downright ''terrifying''. Watch out when he stops being merry. |
| 917 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: He isn’t called [[TheMagnificent the Merry]] for nothing. In fact he is so friendly he was able to bond with ''six'' dragons (a Timberjack named Hatchet, two Terrible Terrors named Huginn & Muninn, an unamed Hobblegrunt, a Scauldron named Wavecrest, and a Deadly Nadder named Windleaf). |
| 918 | * TheMagnificent: Yngvarr the Merry. |
| 919 | * NiceGuy: His friendliness is immediately disarming and completely genuine. |
| 920 | * OlderSidekick: Serves as one to Magnus, proving himself as his king and Ruffnut's staunchest supporter in Norway's court. |
| 921 | * {{Omniglot}}: In a [[https://athingofvikings.tumblr.com/post/171318029890/i-was-tagged-by-primedoverlord-1-post-these tumblr post]] the author reveals that Yngvarr can speak “with varying fluency” Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Old East Slavic, Latin, Old French, Old High German, Greek, and Arabic. |
| 922 | * RealMenLoveJesus: Yngvarr is a devout Christian, and actually lives up to Christian ideals much more than many clergy we see, most notably Father Henriksson. |
| 923 | * TranquilFury: Ygnvarr's response when encountering someone whose done something truly vile enough to earn his wrath. |
| 924 | -->'''Chapter 66:''' Yngvarr grinned wolfishly, without humor, his rage seeming to cool and sharpen at the sight of them, tranquil... like a pond covered in too-thin ice. |
| 925 | |
| 926 | %%!!!Yngvarr’s dragons |
| 927 | %%Six dragons bonded to Yngvarr Arlaksson. |
| 928 | %%->Hatchet; Timberjack. |
| 929 | %%->Huginn & Muninn; two Terrible Terrors. |
| 930 | %%->Unamed Hobblegrunt. |
| 931 | %%->Wavecrest; Scauldron. |
| 932 | %%->Windleaf; Deadly Nadder, green coloration. |
| 933 | [[/folder]] |
| 934 | |
| 935 | [[folder:The Papal States]] |
| 936 | ---- |
| 937 | * AuthorityInNameOnly: In theory the papacy has authority over the entirety of Christianity, in practice not so much due to a poor communication infrastructure. Averting the trope is how Viggo gets the papacy to warm up to the idea of the Dragon Mail. |
| 938 | --> Theoretically, the Holy See was the center of Christendom, with the Pope, as Saint Peter's heir, being the primate of the whole of the faith, but Viggo knew well that it was a polite fiction. In practice, the Church outside of a short distance from Rome was effectively autonomous from the Vatican, a situation that was even more exacerbated to the east, where the Greek Patriarchs had effectively broken entirely—both politically and theologically—from the practices in and of Rome. |
| 939 | * CorruptChurch: The Catholic Church, in spades, it is firmly under the control of a series of noble Italian families at this stage in history, with the current Pope, Benedict IX, being the singular most corrupt pope in all of history. |
| 940 | |
| 941 | !!!Benedict IX |
| 942 | Roman Catholic Pope. Birth name Theophylactus of Tusculum. DOB 1012. Youngest pope in history, made pontiff in 1032. |
| 943 | ---- |
| 944 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He has a whole stable of women even though ''technically'', clerics are supposed to remain celibate, but it doesn't stop him from censuring other clergy over it. |
| 945 | * StayInTheKitchen: He has this mindset if this quote is any indication. |
| 946 | --> "We've been receiving confused reports out of the Empire; apparently the Emperor is gone, and there is now an ''Empress'' over the Romans—if you can believe such a thing!" the Pope said, and scoffed. |
| 947 | [[/folder]] |
| 948 | |
| 949 | [[folder:Pecheneg Khaganate]] |
| 950 | !!!Drago Bludvist |
| 951 | A one-armed wanderer who hunted dragons for years before hearing about a Norseman who had tamed a dragon to ride. He decided to offer his tamed dragons to the Pechenegs, making them into an unstoppable empire. |
| 952 | ---- |
| 953 | * AppearanceAngst: Drago suffers from body image issues. In addition to his losing an arm, his body is heavily scarred. He shares with Khursa a story where even a prostitute, who's ''paid'' to fake pleasure, recoiled in revulsion, which was a major contributing factor to his negative body-image. |
| 954 | * TheDragonslayer: Drago killed hundreds of dragons before he independently of Berk found a way to tame dragons by making them submit to his strength. Even after realising the benefits of having dragons fight for him, he still mentions his kill count to impress other people. |
| 955 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all his cruelty towards humans and dragons, Drago is gentle and affectionate with his wife Kelebek. He also genuinely considers the Kagan a close friend, and [[spoiler:mourns him when he dies]]. |
| 956 | * EvilCripple: He's a villain missing one arm. He later gets craftsmen to build him an ArtificialArm before his wedding. |
| 957 | * ForeignRulingClass: Drago is an East Asian foreigner ruling over the Turkic Pechenegs, which some of them don't accept. |
| 958 | * GoodTamingEvilTaming: Unlike Hiccup's method of taming dragons by befriending them, Drago only understands the language of violence. He refuses to entertain the fact that Kurya's skill at dragon riding might be because he treats his dragon well. |
| 959 | * ImpoverishedPatrician: Drago was born into the nobility of [[spoiler:the Liao kingdom]] near China. He was maimed and exiled, where he worked as a caravan guard before becoming a dragon hunter. |
| 960 | * SmartPeoplePlayChess: Not chess, but Drago is skilled at TabletopGame/{{Go}}, and teaches it to the Kagan to make him more acceptable to the Chinese. |
| 961 | * SuddenlyEthnicity: In the movie, Drago is AmbiguouslyBrown, here he's [[spoiler:Khitan, from the Liao kingdom]]. |
| 962 | |
| 963 | !!!Kagan [[spoiler:Berk Olcayto-oğlu]] |
| 964 | The Kagan of the Pechenegs. |
| 965 | ---- |
| 966 | * CulturedWarrior: {{Invoked}} by Drago, who teaches the Kagan about Han Chinese culture, in the hopes it will make him a more acceptable ruler. |
| 967 | * IronicName: A meta-example. His full name is [[spoiler:Berk Olcayto-oğlu. Berk, as in, the island where the Hooligans live]]. However, he's unaware of their existence, and [[spoiler:dies before ever learning of them]]. |
| 968 | |
| 969 | !!!Kurya |
| 970 | The son of the Pecheneg Kagan. |
| 971 | ---- |
| 972 | * AbandonmentInducedAnimosity: Drago and the rest of the Pechenegs thought he died in the attack on Bianjing, but [[spoiler:he survived, and once he found out Drago took his father's place, he agrees to help the Chinese fight against him]]. |
| 973 | * CareerEndingInjury: Downplayed. Even though he can no longer walk, he can still ride Kudret, [[spoiler:not that his Chinese captors would let him]]. |
| 974 | * NeverFoundTheBody: He was thought dead in the failed attack on Bianjing, but [[spoiler:he survived thanks to his dragon Kudret protecting him]]. |
| 975 | * WarriorPrince: Naturally, being the prince of a ProudWarriorRace. |
| 976 | |
| 977 | !!!Kudret |
| 978 | Kurya's dragon. |
| 979 | ---- |
| 980 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He rewards Kurya's kindness to him by saving him [[spoiler:during the failure of the Pechenegs' first attack on the Song Dynasty]]. |
| 981 | * NominalImportance: He's the only Pecheneg dragon to be given a name (that the audience knows of, anyway). |
| 982 | |
| 983 | %%!!!Khursa |
| 984 | %%A Pecheneg elder and friend of Drago's. |
| 985 | |
| 986 | %%!!!Kelebek |
| 987 | %%Khursa's granddaughter and Drago's bride. |
| 988 | |
| 989 | %%!!!Hsiao Feng |
| 990 | %%A fellow East Asian who becomes Drago's chief strategist. |
| 991 | [[/folder]] |
| 992 | |
| 993 | [[folder:Roman (Byzantine) Empire]] |
| 994 | The Byzantine Empire is a pale shadow of the original Roman Empire. After a disastrous string of poor rulers, the Empire is flailing around and has been splitting off into warring factions... Until the arrival of Sigurd Trondsson. |
| 995 | ---- |
| 996 | * BadassArmy: The Varangians. |
| 997 | * CadreOfForeignBodyguards: The Varangians, again. Being Norsemen, they come from an honor-based culture and have no pre-existing loyalties in the Empire, making them loyal to the Emperor only. |
| 998 | * DecadentCourt: The imperial court is filled to the brim with corruption and back stabbing. |
| 999 | * HeteronormativeCrusader: The Byzantines are ''really'' homophobic, to the point that men having sex with other men is a crime punishable by castration or death by burning at the stake. |
| 1000 | * TheRemnant: They are all that remains of the Roman Empire that once ruled over most of Europe. |
| 1001 | |
| 1002 | !!Constantinople |
| 1003 | !!!Snotlout Jorgenson/Sigurd Trondsson |
| 1004 | [[quoteright:500:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snotlout_ananda_samsara.png]] |
| 1005 | Protagonist; son of Spitelout and Serena, DOB May 1025. |
| 1006 | ---- |
| 1007 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Snotlout leaves Berk in search of his own glory, and ends up joining the Varangian Guard as their first dragon-rider and forced to play various complex political games in the name of ensuring that the dragons are treated well and his former people won't be attacked by the Empire. |
| 1008 | * BrokenPedestal: By chapter 86 Sigurd has come to realize that service in the imperial army isn't quite what he expected. |
| 1009 | --> Before coming south, he'd thought that being a Varangian warrior would have entailed great epic battles and incredible honor. Now that he'd been a soldier for nearly a year, though, it was becoming apparent to him that such tales were rank exaggerations, told to make outsiders jealous of the supposed wonders of Imperial service. In truth, most of his time seemed to involve meetings, boredom, and boring meetings … and the remainder was pants-shitting ''terror.'' |
| 1010 | * BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: He begins the story with his typical characterization as Hiccup's {{Foil}}. But after moving to Constantinople he slowly grows into a young man that while hopelessly out of his political depth and at odds with a lot of the culture he finds himself in, strives to do everything he can to train dragons as humanely as possible and protect his loved ones. He becomes uncomfortable with the responsibilities and respect put upon him, enters into an [[spoiler:unconventional polyamorous relationship]], and is plagued by a mindset of HeroicSelfDeprecation and always thinking IShouldHaveBeenBetter. Snotlout grows closer to being more alike to his cousin every day despite there being a continent's distance between them. |
| 1011 | * CharacterDevelopment: Snotlout begins the story as entitled and bull-headed as ever, feeling resentful that Hiccup has "taken away" Astrid and the position as future chief of Berk from him. This leads to Snotlout going into exile to join the Varangian Guard under the new name of Sigurd Trondsson. His time spent in Constantinople humbles him greatly and forces him to reassess himself. |
| 1012 | * EnsignNewbie: As of Chapter 69. [[spoiler:Showed up in Constantinople a year ago? Check. Just turned 17? Check. Still learning Greek? Check. Placed in charge of building a new ''tagma'' (regiment) of dragon cavalry from the ground up? Check]]. |
| 1013 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Snotlout was nothing more than a Berkian youth in the beginning of the story. But when he moves south and joins the Varangian Guard, he suddenly becomes a much bigger player on the world stage and becomes the founder of the Roman Empire's Dragon Rider Corps. Needless to say (especially given the corruption of the Byzantine Empire), this has a huge impact. |
| 1014 | * GlorySeeker: Breaks away from his cousin and Berk to seek fame and fortune in foreign lands by joining the Varangian Guard as their first dragon-rider. However, the complicated political landscape he dives blindly into forces him to focus on protecting the things actually important to him rather than solely hunting personal glory. |
| 1015 | * HasAType: Snotlout is bisexual and attracted to martial prowess, becoming much more attracted to Sophia after she smashes a chair over the head of an attempted assassin. Also applies to his attraction to [[spoiler:Gunnar and Heidrun]], though that was only after they revealed their attraction to ''him''. |
| 1016 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: Being praised as the Empress' champion and being confronted by his old friends from Berk after a year in Constantinople causes Snotlout to crash down ''hard'' into full-blown imposter syndrome over his time living as "Sigurd Trondsson". And the more Gudmund and Gunnar insist that he's a good man and point out all his impressive feats, the stronger he denies that he could ever be a reliable or responsible person and feels more and more like a gigantic fraud. |
| 1017 | * HypocrisyNod: In chapter 85 Sigurd realizes he's a hypocrite because he was mad at Hiccup for wanting to give some dragons to Norway, when he did the same thing with the Romans. |
| 1018 | --> And, he reminded that inner Snotlout, back in Nidaros, he'd been so pissed about Hiccup giving away dragons. |
| 1019 | --> And then he'd given them to the Romans. Because Harald was handsome. |
| 1020 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex. Played straight and then eventually subverted. Snotlout starts with his classic boastings of his own greatness and struggling to prove he's better than Hiccup. When he runs off to Constantinople however it slowly develops into an ''actual'' full-blown inferiority complex as his time there humbles him. By the start of Book III his time spent away from Hiccup has only made things ''worse'' as he grows obsessive over how Hiccup's strengths and talents would've let his cousin succeed where he's failed, all the while Snotlout completely disregarding his own accomplishments as hollow. |
| 1021 | * IgnoredEnamouredUnderling: Retroactively realises the reason he found a loophole in his oaths and gave dragons to the Romans was that he when he first joined the Varangians he had a huge crush on Harald and wanted to impress him. |
| 1022 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Last year, Snotlout was in a position to inherit the chiefdom of Berk. While his sense of entitlement and bitterness that Hiccup has "taken" his future away from him is Snotlout's usual pig-headedness, his assertation that he'd be able to make more of his life and fit in better among the Varangian Guard than he would if he remained in Berk proves to not be completely incorrect. |
| 1023 | * JerkassRealization: Sigurd realises how much of an asshole he was when he was Snotlout and his abandonment of his old name in favour of his new one is partially because he wants to be a far better person than Snotlout was. |
| 1024 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: Among his own TrueCompanions, he - due partly to his own obliviousness and being distracted trying to navigate the political minefield that is Constantinople - is the last one (aside from maybe Ketilbjorn) to find out that Gudmund is [[spoiler:actually a woman.]] |
| 1025 | * LoopholeAbuse: Sigurd/Snotlout tries using this with regards to Hiccup's accusations of oathbreaking; as he puts it, the oath was that he couldn't use dragons to raid. As far as he's concerned, he's merely been defending the Roman Empire from rebellion. Hiccup was not amused, neither was Stoick when he heard about it. |
| 1026 | * MeaningfulRename: Snotlout attempts to use his new name of Sigurd Trondsson to move beyond his past mistakes, but [[spoiler:feels as though he has failed in this when he learns of Hiccup's progress in Chapter 78]]. |
| 1027 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: This is his response to being presented with forty scared, captive dragons who the Byzantines want him to train for them. He realizes in that moment precisely how out of his depth he is and how much damage he could do. Worse, he knows that fleeing now wouldn't just means the dishonor of breaking his oaths to the Byzantine Emperor, it would also mean abandoning these innocent captive dragons to almost certain death. |
| 1028 | * NormalFishInATinyPond: A unique inversion. Among his peers, Snotlout is not the best fighter (Astrid), the best dragon racer (Hiccup), or the wisest (the guy giving the wisdom test is Ruff and Tuff's uncle who taught them everything they know), as seen during the Holmgang held when he challenges Hiccup. At his best, he's DumbMuscle, and at worst he's a BoisterousWeakling who can only get by because of his dragon. Even Hookfang fits this trope, as he is only one of the many thousands of dragons on Berk. Once Snotlout leaves and takes the name Sigurd Trondsson, however, he soon proves to be a fierce warrior, and as the Byzantine Empire's first DragonRider, he subsequently becomes the founder of his own dragon corps in Constantinople. He can read and write, he can sew, he can tame dragons, and being in a place where he is forced to confront the consequences of his actions forces him to try and think things through. |
| 1029 | * ObliviousToLove: Spends the better part of a year too busy to consider romance and then being too wrapped up in bitterness over how everyone - even people back home he'd never thought would get to be with a woman like Fishlegs and Dogsbreath - are in loving relationships while he's all alone. Meanwhile, two of his subordinates [[spoiler:Gunnar and Heidrun]] have been crushing on him the entire time. |
| 1030 | |
| 1031 | !!!Harald Sigurdsson |
| 1032 | Spatharokandidatos of the Roman court, Prince of Norway, uncle to Magnus and Wulfhild, senior officer of the Varangian Guard. |
| 1033 | ---- |
| 1034 | * BrokenPedestal: Harald breaks months of Snotlout's undying respect for him in a single minute by expressing his belief that homosexuals should be castrated, have their manhood impaled on sharp reeds, and then be whipped naked through the streets to the pyre. Snotlout - who grew up in a small tribe that had several same-sex couples and is himself bisexual with a crush on Harald - ends the conversation realizing that [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame while he might've finally earned Harald's respect, he no longer wants it.]] |
| 1035 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: When he finally meets Hiccup he views him as a weak and foolish leader, interpreting his kindness as squandering advantages, giving away resources for free to earn goodwill when they could've been used to leverage something valuable out of people instead. |
| 1036 | * EvilUncle: Played with. Much like his real-life counterpart, he has designs on taking his nephew Magnus' crowns for himself but currently can't leave Constantinople until his oath of service is up to the Byzantine Empress. As for his relationship with Wulfhild, when they finally meet up it is fraught with tension, political nicety forcing them to spend time together but Harald underestimates her importance to the Hooligan tribe and mainly views her as a bedtoy of the Haddocks' which he thinks they will discard once they get a child out of her. |
| 1037 | * FrameUp: Emperor Michael V sees Harald as a political threat due to his previous service to his uncle - Michael IV - and therefore frames him for the murder of one of the imperial treasurers in an attempt to remove him. |
| 1038 | * HeteronormativeCrusader: He is homophobic to the point he thinks that the Byzantines above mentioned punishments for homosexuality are fitting, even merciful. |
| 1039 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He is far more savvy about the political landscape Snotlout has wandered blindly into and uses that knowledge to protect those under his command as best his oaths (and own ambitions) allow him to. |
| 1040 | * YoungAndInCharge: Much like his real-life counterpart, Harald has many accomplishments, is highly respected, and is leader of the Varangian Guard at only twenty-six years old. |
| 1041 | |
| 1042 | !!!Gunnar Braesisson |
| 1043 | A Norseman who joins the Varangian Guard alongside Snotlout. |
| 1044 | ---- |
| 1045 | * BigEater: If food is present it's good odds that Gunnar is eating it and relishing in the Constantinople cuisine. Given how he's described as not having an ounce of fat on him, Snotlout questions where all that food goes. |
| 1046 | * ClosetGay: [[spoiler:Gunnar keeps his interest in men as secretive as possible in the incredibly homophobic Roman Empire.]] |
| 1047 | * HasAType: He jokes that he has a thing for people shorter than himself. Given how tall Gunnar is, that would include a lot of people. |
| 1048 | * NeverGetsFat: Gunnar is mentioned several times as being a BigEater, but he never gains any weight, leading his friends to joke that he must have a hollow leg to store it all. Justified, since being a viking mercenary means he's active almost all the time. |
| 1049 | * SecretKeeper: In Chapter 85 it's revealed that he figured out very early on that [[spoiler:Gudmund is actually a woman]] but helped them keep it secret. |
| 1050 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gunnar_and_gudmund.png]] |
| 1051 | [[caption-width-right:1000:Gunnar (left) and Gudmund (right)]] |
| 1052 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: When Gunnar gets drunk or angry he has a tendency to get exceedingly verbose. |
| 1053 | * TrueCompanions: Becomes one with Snotlout, Gudmund, Thorred, and the rest of their unit of dragon-riding Varangians. |
| 1054 | |
| 1055 | !!!Gudmund Hallvarsson/[[spoiler:Heidrun Hallvarsdóttir]] |
| 1056 | A black Swede who joins Snotlout in the Varangian Guard. |
| 1057 | ---- |
| 1058 | * BlackVikings: His father used to be in the Varangian Guard under Emperor Basil and his mother was an Ethiopian slave that his father freed and took back home with him as a concubine. |
| 1059 | * MassiveNumberedSiblings: His father has a Swedish wife and three concubines - a Greek, an Arab, and an Ethiopian. Among them they have fourteen children total of which Gudmund is the third eldest. |
| 1060 | * SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler:He is actually a ''she'' who took up her father's sword and joined the Varangians when her brother decided to run away to Berk and become a blacksmith instead of a warrior.]] |
| 1061 | * TrueCompanions: Becomes one with the likes of Snotlout, Gunnar, Hrafn, Ketilbjorn, and Thorred when they join the Varangian Guard, repeatedly supporting him and protecting him and Hookfang from the dangerous politics of the Byzantine Empire. |
| 1062 | |
| 1063 | !!!Kormak Brandrsson |
| 1064 | A Swede who accompanies Snotlout on the journey to join the Varangian Guard. Twin brother of Ondott Brandrsson. |
| 1065 | ---- |
| 1066 | * AngstySurvivingTwin: During Sigurd's trip south to the Roman Empire, the trade caravan he's part of gets attacked by raiders. Thanks to him and Hookfang, his people mostly get through unscathed, but Ondott gets killed because he didn't see the horse-archers coming, due to Hookfang blocking the line of sight. Kormak, blames Sigurd for his loss, not seeming to care or even be able to acknowledge that things would have been worse if not for Sigurd. |
| 1067 | * {{Blackmail}}: He starts off just trying to kill Snotlout but when his planned ambush doesn't work and Snotlout's growing prestige makes that too difficult, he changes tactics. When he catches Snotlout hungover in a brothel he decides instead to get revenge by forcing him to give him a dragon and command of his own unit or else he'll inform the Empress what he caught her pure, perfect, chaste, holy warrior doing. And he makes it clear his demands won't end there, admitting one day he will tell the Empress and get Snotlout killed, but he's going to have fun tormenting him first. |
| 1068 | * EnemyMine: He and Snotlout despise each other but they are forced to work together against [[spoiler:the Pecheneg dragon-riders. Helped by the fact the Pechenegs were the people who ''actually'' killed Kormak's brother and therefore he hates them about as much as he hates "Sigurd".]] |
| 1069 | * MisplacedRetribution: He blames Snotlout and Hookfang for the death of his brother because he died to Pecheneg arrows which they dodged. |
| 1070 | * PolarOppositeTwins: Kormak is grumpy and gloomy, whilst his twin brother Ondott is cheerful and friendly. |
| 1071 | |
| 1072 | !!!Thorred Folkmarsson |
| 1073 | A Norseman who joins the Varangian Guard alongside Snotlout. |
| 1074 | ---- |
| 1075 | * DreadfulMusician: His attempts to show off his skills as a skald leave most people wanting to strangle him. |
| 1076 | -->'''Gunnar''': "Not only did you get the wrong sip of the Poet's Mead, your meter is terrible, your rhymes forced, and while you can carry a tune in a bucket, it had best have a lid on the top to keep the poor song from escaping its torment." |
| 1077 | * WarriorPoet: He fancies himself quite the skald... everyone else, Snotlout in particular, disagrees. |
| 1078 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: When Snotlout is looking over his TrueCompanions in the Varangian Guard, he disregards Thorred due to how irritating he finds him. |
| 1079 | |
| 1080 | %%Benjamin Axelsson |
| 1081 | %%An experienced Danish Varangian Guard Snotlout befriends during the polutasvarf, a legally permitted palace pillaging following the death of Emperor Michael IV. Married to Pelagia. |
| 1082 | |
| 1083 | %%!!!John the Orphanotrophos |
| 1084 | %%Chief court eunuch of the Roman court. Brother to Michael IV. |
| 1085 | |
| 1086 | %%!!!Michael IV the Paphlagonian |
| 1087 | %%Byzantine Emperor, husband of Zoe. Born 1010. |
| 1088 | |
| 1089 | !!!Michael V Kalaphates |
| 1090 | Byzantine Emperor, nephew of Michael IV and adoptive son of Empress Zoe, born in the purple, 1015. |
| 1091 | ---- |
| 1092 | * AssholeVictim: He's a psychotic tyrant so when he is [[spoiler:rightfully deposed by his adoptive mother and aunt, then mutilated by Harald it's hard to feel bad for him. However, Snotlout's narration doesn't shy away from how horrific the [[EyeScream blinding]] and [[CripplingCastration castration]] is to witness, let alone how awful it must be to experience.]] |
| 1093 | * TheCaligula: The first thing the newly appointed Emperor Michael does is demand that Snotlout/Sigurd gives him Hookfang, thinking he is lying when Snotlout/Sigurd gives the reason for his refusal. |
| 1094 | * KnightOfCerebus: Serves as this for Snotlout's storyline in Constantinople. Immediately after being made Emperor, Michael orders Sigurd to give him Hookfang. Harald manages to intervene but makes it abudantly clear to Snotlout that the luxury and glory Snotlout had been previously been enjoying is now coming to a cold stop and he needs to learn how to play politics fast before Michael or somebody else has him tortured to death and steals his dragon. |
| 1095 | * ThePurge: As soon as he becomes Emperor he begins one of these, bringing back people who'd been banished by the previous emperor and removing everyone who was loyal to him. He even does this among his own family, castrating the men so that they can't replace him. |
| 1096 | * RoyalBrat: The young, greedy, jealous new Emperor of the Byzantium Empire who ''really'' wants his own dragon. |
| 1097 | * StupidEvil: Just like in RealLife, Emperor Michael V was so stupidly incompetent as a ruler that it's a wonder the Byzantines didn't collapse during his rule when he constantly and actively made decisions that were so obviously detrimental to both his own and the Byzantine's long-term prospects. |
| 1098 | *** The most narratively prevalent were his actions regarding Sigurd and the empire's Dragon Training: |
| 1099 | ### He demands that Sigurd give Hookfang to him and when that was resisted because the precedent would undermine the Varangian Guard's reliability, tries to have Sigurd killed and kidnap Hookfang anyway, never mind that this would result in the Byzantines losing their ''only'' dragon-training expert. |
| 1100 | ### After the Dragon-Hunting expedition returns with the captive dragons, he takes responsibility for their training away from Sigurd, completely ignoring the fact that Sigurd is still the only one the Byzantines have available who can actually tame the dragons. |
| 1101 | ### After the training is complete, Michael sends Sigurd on UriahGambit after UriahGambit, hoping he would die for his earlier defiance of him, even though again, ''this would cause him and the Byzantines to lose their best dragon expert''. |
| 1102 | *** He ''also'' banished his stepmother Zoe to prevent her from being a threat to his rule due to her popularity, never mind that his association with her is the only reason he's an Emperor in the first place, and since she was, you know, ''more popular than he was'', that provoked her supporters to riot. Harald could only call Michael "half-brained" and "quarter-wit" after hearing about it. |
| 1103 | |
| 1104 | !!!Theodora Porphyrogenita |
| 1105 | Imperial Princess of the Roman Empire, daughter of Emperor Constantine VIII, born in the purple, 980. |
| 1106 | ---- |
| 1107 | * TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: She and her sister couldn't be more different in personality and rulership style. [[spoiler:When she is recalled from exile she and Zoe immediately start arguing despite the fact a civil war is happening right outside.]] |
| 1108 | * HeteronormativeCrusader: Theodora has rigid intolerance for anything other than heterosexual monogamy, treating her punishments for homosexuality or infidelity on the same level as crimes such as treason, murder, and corruption. |
| 1109 | * TheHighQueen: The epigraphs reveal that history remembers her as a ruler who tried to repair the damages caused by the mismangement of her predecessors, disciplining the feuding nobility and blocking numerous abuses. |
| 1110 | * ParentalSubstitute: Played with. She really ''wants'' to be this for Sigurd since she always wanted a son but is now too old. After learning of his own complicated relationship with his family and comparing it with hers, she takes it upon herself to teach him in the ways of Christianity and try to position herself as a parental figure in his life. Unfortunately, this also involves [[spoiler:hiding Spitelout's letters from Sigurd, which resulted in Sigurd believing his father has disowned him.]] For his part, Sigurd seems to view Theodora as a figure to be respected and feared but not a mother. |
| 1111 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Compared to Emperor Michael, she's strict but fair, though she also has a conservative Christian morality. |
| 1112 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: In contrast to her sister, when Theodora is made Empress she begins to actively root out corrupt Dynatoi... however, she also uses it as an excuse to get rid of anyone she takes moral objection to, such as homosexuals. |
| 1113 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:She dies in 1068, twelve years after her historical death date.]] |
| 1114 | |
| 1115 | !!!Zoe Porphyrogenita |
| 1116 | Empress of the Roman Empire, daughter of Emperor Constantine VIII, wife of Emperors Romanos III & Michael IV. Born in the purple, 978. |
| 1117 | ---- |
| 1118 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: She's apparently spent the last five years trying to get Harald Sigurdsson, the twenty-six year old Captain of the Varangian Guard, to come alone to guard her bedchamber. Age difference aside, he is well aware of how politically lethal that move would end up being. |
| 1119 | * BlackWidow: Has garnered a reputation for marrying men in the attempts to birth her own son to inherit and then having them killed when they fail her. |
| 1120 | * DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:She dies in 1042, eight years before her historical death date.]] |
| 1121 | * TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: She and her sister couldn't be more different in personality and rulership style. [[spoiler:When Theodora is recalled from exile she and Zoe immediately start arguing despite the fact a civil war is happening right outside.]] |
| 1122 | * IdleRich: She may be the Empress but she takes a backseat to politics, allowing her lovers and adopted son to rule while she enjoys the luxuries of life. |
| 1123 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Snotlout notes that if nobody had told him beforehand that she was actually in her mid-sixties when he first met her, then he would've assumed she was a decade or two younger than her actual age. |
| 1124 | |
| 1125 | !!!Sophia Makris |
| 1126 | Daughter of Senior Assistant Secretary Alexios Makris of the Office of Barbarians. |
| 1127 | ---- |
| 1128 | * CovertPervert: Sophia seems the very model of a pure Byzantine maiden, but at home she keeps dirty poetry about both men and women hidden from her family beneath a loose floorboard. |
| 1129 | * FriendlessBackground: It becomes very apparent that she has no friends among the other Dynatoi in the Byzantium Court, most of her peers bullying her for being a social climber desperate enough to throw herself at a barbarian like Snotlout. |
| 1130 | * GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Sophia is graceful and beautiful, but - while she hides it well - she also has fairly impressive musculature formed by archery practice, something the other women at court view as a man's skill. |
| 1131 | * QueerEstablishingMoment: After she finds out [[spoiler:Heidrun]] is a woman, Sophia gives her a poem by Creator/{{Sappho}}. |
| 1132 | |
| 1133 | %%!!!Pelagia Triantafyllou |
| 1134 | %%A woman who Ben and Snotlout save from AttemptedRape by some other Varangians. She later marries Ben. |
| 1135 | |
| 1136 | %%Macarius |
| 1137 | %%A shepherd boy who lives near a monastery outside Constantinople. |
| 1138 | |
| 1139 | %%Florian |
| 1140 | %%A dragon Macarius befriends. |
| 1141 | [[/folder]] |
| 1142 | |
| 1143 | [[folder:Rus']] |
| 1144 | %%!!!Agatha Yaroslavna |
| 1145 | %%Daughter of Ingegerd and Yaroslav. Born in 1028. |
| 1146 | |
| 1147 | %%!!!Andrew Vsevolod Yaroslavich |
| 1148 | %%Son of Ingegerd and Yaroslav. Born in 1030. |
| 1149 | |
| 1150 | %%!!!Anne Yaroslavna |
| 1151 | %%Daughter of Ingegerd and Yaroslav. Born 1030. |
| 1152 | |
| 1153 | %%!!!Elisiv Yaroslavna |
| 1154 | %%Daughter of Ingegerd and Yaroslav. Born 1025. |
| 1155 | |
| 1156 | %%!!!Igor Yaroslavich |
| 1157 | %%Son of Ingegerd and Yaroslav, twin to Vyacheslav. Born 1036. |
| 1158 | |
| 1159 | %%!!!Ingegerd Olofsdottor |
| 1160 | %%Swedish princess and Grand Princess of the Rus’. Daughter of Swedish king Olof, aunt to Wulfhild of Norway, and full sister to King Anund Jacob. Known as Irene Anna in Rus’. Mother of Elisiv, Anastasia, Anne, Vladimir, Izaislav, Sviatoslav, Vsevolod, Igor and Agatha. Born 1001. |
| 1161 | |
| 1162 | %%!!!Iziaslav Yaroslavich |
| 1163 | %%Son of Ingegerd and Yaroslav. Born in 1024. |
| 1164 | |
| 1165 | %%!!!Nicholas Sviatoslav Yaroslavich |
| 1166 | %%Son of Ingegerd and Yaroslav. Born in 1027. |
| 1167 | |
| 1168 | !!!Vladimir Yaroslavich |
| 1169 | Eldest son of Ingegerd and Yaroslav. Born 1020. |
| 1170 | ---- |
| 1171 | NotSoStoic: Vladimir usually presents himself as quite unflappable, but when Stoick asks him to speak freely he launches into a lengthy raw tirade about how much he resents Berk for finding power on accident, envies their ability to trust their sworn enemies and make peace with them when he can't, and finds Stoick's HeroicSelfDeprecation condescending. He is immediately ashamed of letting it all boil out like that and then even more confused that it actually convinces Stoick to listen to him. |
| 1172 | |
| 1173 | %%!!!Vyacheslav Yaroslavich |
| 1174 | %%Son of Ingegerd and Yaroslav, twin to Igor. Born in 1036. |
| 1175 | |
| 1176 | %%!!!Yaroslav Vladimirovich |
| 1177 | %%Grand Prince of Rus’. Known as Yaroslav the Wise or Jarisleif the Lame. Husband of Ingegerd, father of Vladamir, Izialav, Nicholas, Andrew, Elisiv, Anastasia, Anne, Igor, and Vyacheslav. Born 978. |
| 1178 | [[/folder]] |
| 1179 | |
| 1180 | [[folder:Song Dynasty China]] |
| 1181 | !!!Fa Mulan |
| 1182 | * ActionGirl: Mulan leaps into action to [[spoiler:shoot fireworks at the Pecheneg dragons and rout them]]. |
| 1183 | * AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In this story, Mulan is the daughter of a merchant, and does not join the army as a SweetPollyOliver since there isn't a draft. |
| 1184 | * NotTheIntendedUse: Mulan has a particular tendency to use things for purposes they were never designed for to great effect, usually as {{Improvised Weapon}}s: |
| 1185 | -->'''Shang''': The Councilor was a genius, and a tricky, clever one at that. Where Shang would just see a leather thong, or a corf filled with seafood, or a staff… she saw a weapon. Or a tool. Or any number of things. |
| 1186 | ** Fireworks are meant for entertainment, but Mulan is able to improvise them as weapons against the Pecheneg Dragon Riders, handing them their first actual defeat since they got dragons. |
| 1187 | ** Whatever purpose craftsmen made a staff and a knife for, they most certainly did not have Mulan combining the two into an improvised spear to destroy bag-straps in mind. |
| 1188 | ** A bowl of eels is meant for eating, but Mulan takes a bowl and throws it at the Pecheneg Dragons, taking advantage of their instinctive fear of the animal to get them to abandon their riders. |
| 1189 | ** She once used a book as a shield. |
| 1190 | * PropagandaHero: According to the other councillors, Mulan was made a councillor to keep the people calm, to remind them the attackers were driven off. |
| 1191 | * SweetPollyOliver: Mulan disguises herself as a man named Ping for safety when she travels with Shang and the trio to the west. |
| 1192 | |
| 1193 | !!!Li Shang |
| 1194 | A general's son, who accompanies Mulan on her expedition. |
| 1195 | ---- |
| 1196 | * InsecureLoveInterest: Shang to Mulan. In his private thoughts, Shang admits he's in love with Mulan, but thinks he's not good enough for her since she's brilliant while he's just "another general's son" and only got his position thanks to his family. |
| 1197 | |
| 1198 | %%!!!Yao, Ling, and Chien-Po |
| 1199 | %%Three soldiers who accompany Mulan's expedition. |
| 1200 | |
| 1201 | %%!!!Grand Councilor Kuanfu |
| 1202 | [[/folder]] |
| 1203 | |
| 1204 | %%[[folder:Swedes]] |
| 1205 | %%!!!Anund Jacob |
| 1206 | %%King of Sweden, uncle to Wulfhild of Norway. Known as “Kolbränna” or “Coal-burner” for his noted habit of burning down the homes of his opponents. DOB 1008. |
| 1207 | %%[[/folder]] |
| 1208 | |
| 1209 | [[folder:Wales]] |
| 1210 | !!Bog-Burglars |
| 1211 | ---- |
| 1212 | * AmazonBrigade: They're mostly women, so naturally most of their vikings and warriors are women. |
| 1213 | * LadyLand: Their tribe is primarily female, and they hold all leadership positions. |
| 1214 | * {{Matriarchy}}: Women hold all leadership positions. |
| 1215 | |
| 1216 | !!!Cami Berthasdóttir |
| 1217 | Heir of the Bog-Burglar Tribe and daughter of Big-Boobied Bertha. Astrid's cousin. |
| 1218 | ---- |
| 1219 | * AdaptationNameChange: "Camicazi" is now referred to by the more believable name of "Camilla", or "Cami" for short. |
| 1220 | * CanonImmigrant: Sort of. The fanfic is based on the movies, but she's from the books. |
| 1221 | |
| 1222 | !!!Big-Boobied Bertha |
| 1223 | Chieftess of the Bog-Burglar Tribe. Married to Naoise, formerly of clan Hofferson. Mother of Cami, Dyana, and several others. |
| 1224 | ---- |
| 1225 | * ActionMom: Naturally, being both a mother and the chieftess of a tribe of warrior women. |
| 1226 | |
| 1227 | %%!!Gwynedd |
| 1228 | %%!!!Gruffydd ap Llywelyn |
| 1229 | %%King of Gwynedd, Northern Wales. |
| 1230 | %%!!!Maredudd ap Gruffydd |
| 1231 | %%Prince of Wales, son of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn. |
| 1232 | [[/folder]] |
| 1233 | |
| 1234 | [[folder:Other/Unaffiliated]] |
| 1235 | |
| 1236 | !!!Trader Johann |
| 1237 | A Norse seafaring trader who visits Berk from time to time, offering goods for barter. |
| 1238 | ---- |
| 1239 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: Since this version of Johann is a POV-character, we can see that his outward personality is more or less genuine, [[spoiler:unlike his television show counterpart who ended up being EvilAllAlong]]. |
| 1240 | * IntrepidMerchant: A talented merchant with contacts all across the world who begins utilizing them to aid the Hooligans' agenda by making it obvious how much more profit there is in befriending and taming the dragons than there is in killing them. |
| 1241 | |
| 1242 | !!!Green Death |
| 1243 | The largest dragon known, former nest lord of the dragons that constantly raided Berk. |
| 1244 | ---- |
| 1245 | * {{Kaiju}}: As per canon, described as having been 60 cubits[[note]]90 feet or 27.432 meters[[/note]] tall, 200 cubits[[note]]300 feet or 91.44 meters[[/note]] long, and with a 300 cubit[[note]]450 feet or 137.16 meters[[/note]] long wingspan (namely, half as tall and twice as long as the Hagia Sophia). |
| 1246 | * PosthumousCharacter: By the start of the first chapter it has been dead for months. |
| 1247 | |
| 1248 | !!!Valka Gawkeyesdóttir, formerly of clan Haddock |
| 1249 | Hiccup's mother, taken by dragons when he was a baby and believed dead. |
| 1250 | ---- |
| 1251 | * TheQuisling: Valka collaborates with the nest-lords because even more people would die if she didn't. |
| 1252 | * SpeaksFluentAnimal: After living with the dragons for over 15 years, Valka speaks and understands their language easily, sometimes more easily than Norse. |
| 1253 | * TrappedInVillainy: Valka is horrified by the Free Nests deciding to enslave humans, but recognizes that if she tried to escape, they'd just kill her, while if she stays as "head slave", she can communicate between humans and dragons, hopefully preventing deaths due to misunderstandings. |
| 1254 | |
| 1255 | !!!Mushu |
| 1256 | A small dragon Mulan and co. meet in western China. |
| 1257 | ---- |
| 1258 | * AndroclesLion: Mulan helping him earns her his loyalty. |
| 1259 | * EdibleThemeNaming: He's named after mushu pork, which Mulan gave him when they first met. |
| 1260 | * ItCanThink: Mushu is intelligent enough to talk other dragons into agreeing to accompany his walkers even after being mistreated, and has also observed when Mulan is referred to by her original name and when she is called "Ping". |
| 1261 | |
| 1262 | %%!!!Naphtali the Radhanite |
| 1263 | [[/folder]] |
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