Dragon Kr 80 Manual Pdf
Joelle Ridgeway
The Dragon Manual, also frequently referred to as the Book of Dragons, is a Viking encyclopedia of all the dragon species discovered by the Hooligan Tribe. Considered an important piece of knowledge, it is how the Vikings of Berk know the weaknesses and methods needed to slay the dragons, and in the future, to train them.
After that, it was handed to the members of the Berk Dragon Training Academy, to gain more knowledge on dragons and to add more information. It helps them understand the abilities, weaknesses, and behavior of the dragons, helping them study and train dragons easier.
The Dragon Manual is given to the students of Dragon Training in order for them to study up on the dragons they will be facing in future sessions. Apart from Astrid and Fishlegs who have already read it, the rest of the group don't appear to be keen on studying the Manual.
Later on that same night, Hiccup returns to the Great Hall to try and find any information on Night Furies, hoping to use the book to try and approach the one he shot down. The Manual proves to be fruitless, devoid of statistics, and only warning him that Night Furies are considered too dangerous to try and kill and should be avoided at all costs.
The book played an important role in "Heather Report, Part 1" and "Heather Report, Part 2" when Heather stole the book for the Outcasts in exchange for her parents. An Outcast tried to use the book in order to train a Deadly Nadder but failed.
In "Tone Death", after rescuing a mysterious Dragon Egg, Hiccup is seen with the Book of Dragons to search for what kind of Dragon egg they retrieved from the hunters. However while looking through the Dragon Manual, he didn't find any information of it and concludes it is not in record. The dragon egg eventually hatches and the baby dragon is later reveals to be a Death Song hatchling.
After Hiccup and Astrid learn that their daughter Zephyr is building traps to defend the house from dragons, Hiccup tells her that it would actually be great if one showed up because they love dragons. Zephyr doesn't believe him, and shows her parents that she found the Dragon Manual in the attic, and flips through the images it contains depicting how violent and fearsome dragons are. She asks why her parents never told her the truth about dragons, though she doesn't understand how the images in the book were drawn before the dragons became friends of the Berkians. It's then when Hiccup and Astrid decide to bring back the Snoggletog Pageant to show the children of New Berk how the dragons became their friends.
Thunderclaws, specifically Sturmundrang, are listed in the Book of Dragons. It details that Sturmundrang behaves differently than typical Thunderclaws and points out a very specific method of earning this dragon's trust and loyalty: monkfish, sagefruit, and lots of time.
Deathgrippers, specifically Marshland Deathgrippers, are listed in the Book of Dragons. It details the Deathgripper's abilities and suggests imprinting on Deathgripper hatchlings in order to train them. In addition, instead of the typical 'Extremely dangerous; Kill on sight,' the Deathgripper section includes the line 'Immediately fatal, Avoid at all Cost'.
The language used in the Dragon Manual consists of a language that Vikings in Berk use to read and write. Some letters share the same symbols such as w, v, u, o, and y; e and i; s and z; etc. The language lacks punctuation and some letters such as the letter x uses "cs" or "ks". Few letters, such as the letter q, are unidentifiable because it's not mentioned in the film. Other texts consist of symbols that have no meaning or organization. Other than the film, the language appears in animated webisodes.
During Riders of Berk, the teens put in notes on dragons. The also add information to new dragons they ecountered like the whispering death, changewings, scauldrons, smothering smokebreath, and thunder drum.
As we saw in previous articles about dragons, when the god Io was split in twoduring the Dawn War his followers also split along ideological lines based onwhich of the two new deities they preferred: Tiamat the greedy or Bahamut thejust. I imagine the initial decision was easy for most of them.
When the Primordials were defeated most surviving catastrophics scattered acrossthe multiverse and turned to their own selfish purposes. The typicalcatastrophic in the present day is somewhat less formidable than a chromatic,but more outwardly destructive. They tend to live in extremely hostileenvironments that befit their individual natures, and from the point of view ofsurrounding civilians their behavior looks a lot like that of a naturaldisaster: they occasionally emerge to wreak havoc and destruction on people andtheir environment, and then return to their lairs for an unknown amount of time.
Legends and myths dating back to the Dawn War tell of catastrophic dragons ofimmense size and power, capable of sinking continents and destroying entireastral domains. No one knows whether these stories are true, and even the godsrefuse to tell.
The last major mechanical difference between these dragons and theirpredecessors is that catastrophics are Elites instead of Solos. Whether this isjust bad luck or a punishment from the gods, it means that fights against themwill include a bigger supporting cast of other monsters.
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The Huolongjing's intended function was to serve as a guide to "fire weapons" involving gunpowder during the 1280s to 1350s.[2] Its predecessor, the Huolong Shenqi Tufa (Fire-Drake Illustrated Technology of Magically (Efficacious) Weapons), has since been lost. The Huolongjing was one of three early Ming military treatises that were mentioned by Jiao Xu, but only the Huolongjing remains.[3]
Although the earliest edition of the Huolongjing was written by Jiao Yu, a Ming general, sometime between 1360-1375,[4] its preface was not provided until the Nanyang publication of 1412. The 1412 edition, known as Huolongjing Quanji (Complete Collection of the Fire Dragon Manual), remains largely unchanged from its predecessor with the exception of its preface, which provides an account of Jiao Yu's time in the Hongwu Emperor's army. In the preface Jiao Yu claims to describe gunpowder weapons that had seen use since 1355 during his involvement in the Red Turban Rebellion and revolt against the Yuan dynasty, while the oldest material found in his text dates to 1280. Jiao Yu was a firearm manufacturer for the first Ming emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang, during the mid-14th century. He was eventually put in charge of the Shenjiying armoury where all the firearms were stored.[5]
A second and third volume to the Huolongjing known as Huolongjing Erji (Fire Dragon Manual Volume Two) and Huolongjing Sanji (Fire Dragon Manual Volume Three) were published in 1632 with content describing weapons such as the musket and breech-loading cannons.[6] After the end of the Ming dynasty, the Qing dynasty outlawed reprinting of the Huolongjing for using expressions such as 'northern barbarians,' which offended the ruling Manchu elite.[2]
Although its destructive force was widely recognized by the 11th century, gunpowder continued to be known as a "fire-drug" (huo yao) because of its original intended pharmaceutical properties.[7] However soon after the chemical formula for gunpowder was recorded in the Wujing Zongyao of 1044,[8][9] evidence of state interference in gunpowder affairs began appearing. Realizing the military applications of gunpowder, the Song court banned private transactions involving sulphur and saltpeter in 1067 despite the widespread use of saltpeter as a flavor enhancer,[10] and moved to monopolize gunpowder production.[11] In 1076 the Song prohibited the populaces of Hedong (Shanxi) and Hebei from selling sulphur and saltpetre to foreigners.[12][13] In 1132 gunpowder was referred to specifically for its military values for the first time and was called "fire bomb medicine" rather than "fire medicine".[14]
While Chinese gunpowder formulas by the late 12th century and at least 1230 were powerful enough for explosive detonations and bursting cast iron shells,[8] gunpowder was made more potent by applying the enrichment of sulphur from pyrite extracts.[15] Chinese gunpowder solutions reached maximum explosive potential in the 14th century and at least six formulas are considered to have been optimal for creating explosive gunpowder, with levels of nitrate ranging from 12% to 91%.[16] Evidence of large scale explosive gunpowder weapons manufacturing began to appear. While engaged in war with the Mongols in 1259, the official Li Zengbo wrote in his Ko Zhai Za Gao, Xu Gao Hou that the city of Qingzhou was manufacturing one to two thousand strong iron-cased bomb shells a month, and delivered them to Xiangyang and Yingzhou in loads of about ten to twenty thousand shells at a time.[17]
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