How To Train Your Dragon - Characters - Vikings

Vikings

• Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is the protagonist of the books. He is unusual for a Viking not only physically, being very thin with red hair, but also intellectually as he thinks before he acts and is abnormally clever. He is one of the only people ever to understand and be able to speak Dragonese, the language of the dragons. He is a good left-handed sword fighter and owns two dragons: hunting dragon Toothless and flying dragon Windwalker.

• Fishlegs is Hiccup's best friend who is allergic to carni-dragons, like Monstrous Nightmares. He has a squint, asthma and is seen as a wimp, but he has shown himself to be quite cunning when he needs to be. He also has Berserk tendencies, meaning that in the midst of battle he is overcome by bloodlust and becomes extremely dangerous. His dragon is a Basic Brown named Horrorcow.
• Camicazi is a fierce sword fighter from the tribe of female warriors known as the Bog-Burglars. She is a good friend of Hiccup's, is very skilled at escapes and burglary, but she does not think very deeply. Her dragon is a rare Mood-Dragon named Stormfly.
• Stoick the Vast is Hiccup's father and leader of the Hairy Hooligans. Unlike his son, he is incredibly strong but rather unintelligent. He owns three dragons called Newtsbreath, Bullheart and Hookfang.

• Snotlout, or "Snotface Snotlout" is Hiccup's much despised cousin. He bullies and bosses the others around, especially Hiccup who he addresses as useless. He is top class at 'bashyball', 'advanced rudery' and 'everything else'. His dragon is a brilliant scarlet Monstrous Nightmare named Fireworm, who because of her breed should technically belong to Hiccup (as son of the chief) according to ancient Viking law.

• Dogsbreath the Duhbrain is Snotlout's friend and sidekick. He is usually seen following Snotlout's orders, usually the difficult and tedious jobs. He is not very intelligent and does not talk much. His dragon is a Gronkle named Seaslug.

• Valhallarama is Hiccup's mother. She only appears in a few books in the series, and is often away questing. She once loved Humungously Hotshot the Hero and gave him a ruby heart necklace.

• Mogadon the Meathead is chief of the Meathead Tribe, close neighbours of the Hairy Hooligans. A man with a fake leg and an eyepatch, he shares a sometimes vicious rivalry with Stoick.

• Thuggory is Mogadon's son, and very like Snotlout. Although he is large, muscular, well-respected and has a huge silver Monstrous Nightmare dragon called Killer, he stands up for Hiccup and works with him in the first book.

• Alvin the Treacherous is Hiccup's arch enemy and a long lost relative to him. He used to be chief of the Outcasts. Although he is a fantastic sword fighter, he is frequently losing parts of his body such as all of his hair, a hand, a foot, a nose, and an eye. His various evil plots have included using the Hooligans to steal Grimbeard the Ghastly's treasure, using the Romans to burgle all the dragons in the archipelago, and controlling the deadly Exterminator dragons.

• Norbert the Nutjob is the chief of the Hysterical tribe, and Hiccup's second arch-enemy. Norbert's father, Bigjob, once went to America and retrieved a potato, but Hiccup took it to cure Fishlegs of Vorpentitis. Norbert later died at the hands of a Leviathorgon dragon on his own expedition to America. As his name suggests, he is insane and uses his giant axe – one gold side and one black side – to decide everything.

• Humungously Hotshot the Hero has been trapped on the island of lava-louts for 15 years. He went out on a quest to find the fire stone for Hiccup's grandfather, Old Wrinkly, so he could marry Hiccup's mother Valhallarama.

• Big-Boobied Bertha is the leader of the Bog-Burglars and the mother of Camicazi. As her name indicates, she has very large breasts.

• Gobber the Belch is in charge of the Viking Initiation program as well as the Pirate Training Program. He is described as being enormous, extremely loud, and having a wild black beard.

• Madguts the Murderous is the chief of the Murderous tribe. A vicious, frightening, vile smelling man covered in skull tattoos and with "Hate" on both his knuckles, he is considered one of the scariest men in the archipelago. He also never speaks (though he spoke to Mogadon the Meathead in the fifth book). He has a stealth dragon stolen from him by Bertha and intends to kill her, and later tries to kill Stoick and Bertha. Both times he is stopped by Hiccup. Camicazi supposedly burgles from him regularly.

• Excellinor is Alvin's Mother. She is however pure evil and wants Hiccup's sword. It is said that she never took any good care of Alvin the Treacherous and never loved him either.

• Old Wrinkly is Hiccup's 93-year-old grandfather on his Mother's side and Valhallarama's father. Old Wrinkly is the soothsayer and doctor of the Hairy Hooligans tribe and only thinker of the tribe.