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The Book of Dragons

Summary:

"The dragon manual. Everything we know about every dragon we know of." - Gobber the Belch, HTTYD 1

While that may be true, what is known often changes with time. This is a look at what a modern-day book of dragons may look like, with updated and detailed information about the dragons including diet, behavior, and evolutionary history.

The events of the books and movies are considered irrelevant, aside from use as historical details and documentation (basically unless it's an important detail, the movie plots are ignored here). Pretends the ending of Hidden World didn't happen and dragons stayed in the archipelago.

Chapter 1: Foreword

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Dragons. The Barbaric Archipelago is full of them, from tiny nanodragons in the fields, to its forests, mountains, and seas. No place is free of dragons. They surround our lives, filling them with mystery and wonder, and so many questions. What do they eat? How do they behave? Where do they live? For millennia, these questions have been answered by the Dragon Manual, also known as the Book of Dragons. From its creation thousands of years ago by the viking Bork the Bold, all the way to the 400th edition you see before you, this book has helped many to better understand the dragons that share our world.

This book will be divided into sections, or chapters, each one covering a different topic. This first few chapters after this foreword will cover dragon classes, stats, and the evolutionary tree. After that, each chapter will cover a different dragon species, providing detailed information on its diet, evolution, ecology, behavior, habitat, and other applicable information.

Now that all is said and done, let's turn the page, and begin our journey into a world of dragons.

Notes:

Oh wow. My first major fic. okay let's hope this goes well. As a scientific and nature minded individual, I always wondered about the specific bits of information regarding the dragons of HTTYD. Their evolutionary history, biology, ecology, etc.

This is my attempt at exploring that. As I update the fic, I will add a tag for each dragon species we've covered.