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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon (Animated Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Astrid Hofferson, Fishlegs Ingerman, Snotlout Jorgenson, Ruffnut Thorston, Tuffnut Thorston, Stoick the Vast (How to Train Your Dragon), Gobber the Belch (How to Train Your Dragon), Gothi (How to Train Your Dragon), Original Characters, Grimmel the Grisly (How to Train Your Dragon) Additional Tags: Blood and Injury, Graphic Description, Human Sacrifice, References to Norse Religion & Lore, Animal Sacrifice, Mythology References, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, First fic be gentle, Dark Magic, Mind/Mood Altering Substances, Blood Drinking, Astrid Hofferson is So Done, But she Is A Badass Like Its A Nine-to-Five, Not Canon Compliant, Speculative Zoology on the Dragons, Horror, Cannibalism Summary:
With winter's coming, dark shadows loom over the Barbaric Archipelago. Dead dragons with mysterious injuries, ritual pyres that the snow will not touch, voices in dark forests, spirits, trading in blood and bone. Seemingly overnight, everything goes upside-down for Hiccup and the Dragon-Riders as they find themselves in a game of cat and mouse across frost-bitten skies with cruel and terrifying hunters of men and beasts, where the only thing that can save them is their own resolve.
"I am the flesh of the Beast, the Eye of the All-Father! Through me, the pack will be tested, the weak culled, the strong will survive and the truly worthy will ascend to their rightful place in the Hall of Slain! I am the Night-Wraith of the Wild Hunt. Mine are the wings, upon black wind and sky." - Oath of Night-Wraith, Speaker and Chief of the Wild Hunt
Hello, my friends! This is my first fic and I hope you enjoy it!
Illustration for chapter 1 below cut - TW for obscured dead body




















