How to Break a Dragon's Heart characters

Appears from the start

The small and thoughtful heir of the Hairy Hooligans. Hiccup can speak Dragonese and has survived dangers far beyond his tribe's training, but he is still most likely to enter danger because a friend needs him.

Appears from the start

Hiccup's tiny Common or Garden dragon, greedy, vain and loudly unwilling to risk himself. His attachment to Hiccup is stronger than his complaints suggest.

Appears from the start

Hiccup's oldest friend, an anxious, short-sighted Viking boy who was found as a baby and knows very little about his birth family.

Appears from the start

Hiccup's fearless Bog-Burglar friend and an expert thief. Her disappearance during a storm sends both tribes searching for her.

Appears from the start

Chief of the Hairy Hooligans and Hiccup's father, a huge warrior who leads his people into the search for Camicazi.

Appears from the start

Chief of the Bog-Burglars and Camicazi's mother. Bertha is a formidable leader who will not leave her missing daughter unfound.

Appears from the start

The large flying dragon that carried Hiccup home through the great storm of the previous book. Once too frightened to fly, the Windwalker now follows Hiccup by choice.

First appears in chapter 13

Hiccup's old enemy, scarred by earlier defeats but still alive and still determined to use Hiccup for his own plans.

Also known as Excellinor

First appears in chapter 13

A clever and dangerous witch working with Alvin. She knows old stories and family secrets and uses that knowledge to set traps for Hiccup and his friends.

First appears in chapter 12

A powerful three-headed dragon encountered on Berserk. The Deadly Shadow is dangerous, intelligent and driven by a long attachment to a human it once served.

First appears in chapter 20

Fishlegs's mother, known through the story of the choices she made to protect her baby. Her connection with the Deadly Shadow finally gives Fishlegs part of the family history he has never had.

First appears in chapter 8

The fierce inhabitants of the island of Berserk, feared by the other Viking tribes and ready to make prisoners of strangers who enter their territory.