The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.

The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.

There were dragons when I was a boy.

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.

Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.

That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?