(A/N: I really have no introduction for this one, this chapter details everything from the Dragon's Edge island outpost and the infamous Dragon Hunter Tribe led by Viggo and Ryker Grimborn. Although like many others in this artbook on , there isn't much to go by here since not much has been done with a couple of exceptions being the Dragon Hunters brigantines and weapons that they wield on them. Their appearances will be done when I find the motivation for it and the interest in doing so, as this will come off as incomplete when it's first posted so there's not much to bitch about today. Here we go and enjoy this next installment as we kick off with the introduction of the artifact that started it all)
Dragon Eye
This artifact which Drayko calls the Dragon Eye and so does Viggo and Ryker themselves given the original name has been lost to time featured a dragon head at the beginning with the tail of the dragon itself being found at the end. Both sides of the head curved forward as the top side had a trio of fangs behind a lower quarter half shaped fang that went in front, bearing an short horizontal line that went down before going forward a little more as it then went to the top side; before it then horizontally went backwards before coming down vertically and from there, followed the upwards slope up to the top and back inwards at the uppermost top as it outlined the rest of the facial structure back to the other side of the face where it resembled the front fangs of the mouth itself altogether. Both of the circular red rounded spherical eyes at the top in between the second and third fangs in the middle featured a backward slanting, up and inwards curving as the backwards sloping sides went downwards at the back in order to form the ringed borders; curving down with a border just above the inner spherical line of the tube which went across to the back, being split with a short singular line as both patterns on the rectangular shapes bore a natural woven rattan texture on the surface. The red shining solid gemstone eyes even had dual rings surrounding it with one on the outer side, while the small and secondary one was going around the edge. When directly looking in front of it along with the tube in the middle, the bottom side was a lower-half circular shape while the top was the same but had a lower-half spherical shaped cut that ran forward along to the back in between the two eyes; as the top of the head bore downward facing circular shaped scales; the ring for the neck thinning out on the sides and being the largest at the top to bottom bore what looks like a shrinking trachodon scale pattern, as it appeared big at the front but quickly became all so small as it went toward the back of the head. The bottom stripe going around the cylinderical shaped device underneath the dragon's head and the neck featured an horizontal rectangular solid stripe, both the left to right sides had a diagonal slanted curling tipped line which on the latter side had the top curl inwards to the right side when vertically viewed and downwards to the left side also when viewed vertically; sloping upwards across from the bottom as the same is the bottom for the other side, although it was reversed on that side to be specific for details for that matter. From the top there was a onion shaped horizontal oval that curved up and even inwards to the upper edge of the ring, both sides having a thin edged border as both the outer sides featured a downwards sloping line at the top inner curling spiral slope down across over to the other side; both were bordered on either side with a solid gap in between the two as it's got a center line running through with darker colored lines on the top to bottom sides. Under that inner curling tipped line going downwards across to the side happened to be a horizontal left side raindrop shaped gap on the right side, while it was the opposite for the other side but because this is being told with a prespective that's only viewing the right side; the sides of the back ring are not-so-mirrored on the left after all. Nevertheless the forward sloping ends had a vertical rectangular shape that was studded three circles down from top to bottom, which was then filled with the same small scale pattern as the front ring did on the opposite side as those three studs were next to the bottom side of the tube shaped plasma torch like creation. From underneath in the center as the top side formed two barbs on the left to right sides, curving a little bit underhand to the other side as the left vertically went downwards with a sharp scalene shaped upper outline that went down; next forming a upwards curving fang shape which then had a dual sided fang that pointed downwards to the lower right side a little bit. The two sides at the bottom as well as the other side at the top were the same but the center was where it's made obvious that it was curving underhand into a horizontally rounded inverted trapezoid like shape, all surrounded with the small scaled pattern like before and situated directly right in the middle on the bottom of the neck. The onion domical roof shape appeared to have a triangular shaped hole with two inward slanting rectangular shaped half triangles representing horns as there's a horizontal bar connecting to the near bottom of those shapes, while the outer tips had pointed downwards to the lower left and the right while the middle was larger and slightly gone just a little more towards the center; but remained the same, this was found both the left and the right sides although most of it was a whole gap more or less so this doesn't matter in either way
The syrup and caramel brown colored cylindrical shaped inner tube featured a octagonal like frame at the front, each side having eight forward facing rectangular shaped bars going out as it started out in the back with the inward wide funnel shaped hole and clear circular glass that jutted out a little bit; all around the circular edges that sloped and curved down inwards from the tip of the mouth. The two sides of the cylindrical shaped tube had a horizontal lower half cut rounded line running from both the left and the right sides respectively, all of this having been found inside the mouth of the eye. Going across the neck which there was a downwards triangular rounded striped edge at the front, there was nothing but a brown circular ring that was there; along with a thicker cylindrical ring from behind as it was divided in half between the front and the back sides respectively. What made up the cylinder tube itself were the number of golden outlined glyphics on the tubical shaped artifact which can be explained down below
The triangular tip had a small vertical side before it sharpened out while the top sides did not have a flatside, the square shaped gap underneath had a horizontal line that then went up as it was halfway there on both halved sides; next was the horizontal rectangular shaped gaps as a second line went outward a little more before vertically going downwards, forming a lower half rectangular shape as the tip went overhead halfway before dipping down a short bit. The rest was separated by a horizontal line equally creating a top and bottom square gap that was right in between the line, with a short vertical line on the bottom next to the short top one as well and a short bottom line on the farthest lower sides that stuck out a little bit. As the other square gaps below the inner sides of the wings there was a upward slanted line that went up vertically afterwards a short bit, below that was a one half of a spherical shape that stuck out; with a one that went out slanting downwards and the rest of the line continuing downwards a little bit or at least further down than the first line mentioned before, resembling what is a Whispering/Screaming Death in hindsight. Next to that dragon on the lower right side of the tubical shifting rings happens to be a round outlined ring which had a horizontal rectangular shaped gap in between eight squares as it was counted, situated from the top to bottom, the upper and lower diagonals as well as the left and right sides. All this was on one side and the other had alot more to be seen
The next two were easy to explain enough as the first was a square that had two rectangular bars on either side acting as a dual pronged tail, given the left side had an bigger vertical bar that went down while leaving a thin vertical gap on the right side and the horizontal outline was a rectangular shape laying sideways on the farthest left; underneath are evenly spaced squares with those same shaped gaps in between them as there's three on the left and two on the right, which the third square had a rectangular gap since that's where the neck was at. Going downwards before forming a line to the left that then went down and to the right side afterwards, forming a vertical rectangular stub like on the bottom right edge of the wing; it's best described as a Timberjack based on the lack of limbs outside the large tree slicing wings. On the bottom center was a small circular ring that had two short 'n stubby outward sideways positioned rectangular shaped pegs on either side, a larger ring underneath that gave them a upward slant looking like a forward facing trapezoid side as the wingtips were a half triangle shape also lunging forwards; a long half facing down and a smaller rectangular peg which was on the bottom behind it, the bottom ring was the same size as the head sporting two stubby rectangular horizontal pegs which can best be described as a Gronckle of sorts. The third was a round circular ring for the head as the lower right happened to be a rectangle slanting to the upper left side in the lower right corner, where it continued downwards to the lower right as it then sloped over to the lower left before stopping with a right slanted rectangular stub on the halfway section; the upper branch beaked forward to the left downwards before sharply going back where the bottom branch slanted downwards to, all meeting up in what looks like a triangular shape as that formed a right sided triangle on the bottom edge and then slanted downwards with a line on the bottom edge entirely. The line on the bottom of the outline of this dragon went horizontally towards the right where the thin right sided quarter half round shape was, looking like a fang that sloped downwards underneath to the middle of the top as well; the sloping line looking like a rounder version of the lower half spherical shape and had a lower right facing vertical trapezoid that's wide on the top but narrow on the bottom, below that in between the rectangular gap was another one that had the left side slant upwards and the right looked like it was curving underneath to going straight vertically. This dragon can be described as looking definitely like a Deadly Nadder with two spiked shaped spines sprouted at the tail's tip
On the bottom of the left side was a small ring that a line curled overhead from under the far right side, this time adorned in forward slanting vertical scalene triangular spikes which were evenly spaced up to the midway point where there were a duo of triangular spikes next as it's also got a single on in the center of the back and the front ones on the head; shaped like it's a inverted teardrop as the last forward slanted spike acted as the nasal horn with a circular eye hole, having a circular shaped pupil in the center of that one too. Furthermore on the lower left was a half ring that wasn't closed leaving behind a open vertical gap on the left side, it's head at the upper left tip was a downward beaking heater shield shape with a rounded edge triangular shaped eyesocket that had no pupil; adorned this time on the back was trapezoids that were small, rounded and evenly spaced with a rectangular gap in between each of them. There was one that extended and sloped downwards over to the gap a short bit shaped like a rounded tipped fang in between the third and fourth spike on the back, and the center facing spike that went outward to the right was a straight triangular shape
All closed inner gaps of these golden outlines creating various dragons that shifted on the ten thin rectangular ribbed edges from front to the back of this plasma torch built viewing artifact were filled in with a darker colored disc of cobblestone textured scales, as the Timberjack has both wings filled in with the second circular dragon on the bottom where it was positioned to the lower left side had a upper right side slanted line that was filled with the scales; being in a darker messina blackish brown color and highlighted with a darkish ravenna blackish brown color when exposed to the light around
The back of the tubical artifact was made of the same small scaled pattern as before as really, it was these sections that held a mostly hazelwood tan and sidewalk grey shade of color as this is aged but no less functional as if it were recently constructed in prime shape and in the time of creation by the original architects of the tribe. Going around were raised lines as it went up to the top before slanting downwards to the right and back down to the left side as it jutted out on that side with a short tip at the end, forming another one albeit more of a tall triangular shaped outline as the bottom side went through the left to form a horizontal diamond like shaped eye but like before; there was little to see from the bottom as it's not viewed well enough in order to provide a description. Nevertheless on the right side the next line slanted up and backwards to form a horizontal diamond shape that then slanted down, forming a horizontal triangle shape outline as that then slanted downwards to the bottom edge forming a inwards spiraling square; above that was a smaller horizontal diamond shaped outline at the top edge, another line that slanted upwards to the edge itself. Going across that was a short tipped horizontal line which is supported by a singular vertical line that also formed a vertical rectangular shaped gap from on the left side, the right side however was a larger horizontal gap with the line stopping directly short of the vertical line going up to the top edge; after that was a short vertical rectangle that sported a short line going forward to the right and then going up, where it then continued that pattern all around. At the bottom and in between the end as well as the beginning of the lined pattern there was a circular shaped trenched hole that had three smaller ones running vertically down, starting from largest to smallest as that's where the Snow Wraith tooth key fits in so that the trapped defenses can be disabled and allow access to the wielder of the artifact. The upper most rim of the back side which was the bottom started out with a rectangular shaped tip that jutted out like so many of the others, going across with a left side facing inverted and vertically shaped triangular cut that also went across with a long inverted trapezoid shaped gap that went across; followed up with a left-side vertical edged trapezoid this time jutting up to which after that was horizontally flat for a few more inches, at the end was where it started to begin with a tiny line that went up before slanting inwards to form the slightly downwards right facing line at the top, slanting down to form a horizontal rectangular shaped gap as the end went up a little bit to go across and end with a vertical line that ended halfway down, forming a inverted type of vertical trapezoid that was wide at the top and narrow at the bottom; the last one being not one but three to form a crown with two being upwards curving horizontal rectangular shapes as they both had a inwards curling square shape on the front, and the middle that was regular for as that went vertical on the front with the left forming a diamond and the right forming into the same starting pattern but in a more thinner carving. That's where the keyhole for the cylindrical shaped device was just underneath the crown, in fact the whole material used for the head as well as the end was all made of ivory while the brown sections are bronze including the seven buttons to represent the seven dragon classifications; each of them were in a rounded edged trapezoid shape facing inwards to the hexagonal gemstone that shifted to the sides and happen to be built into the core of the surrounding buttons, which are each labeled from top to bottom. The top had a curling tip tail that then went underhand to the right with a circle on the right as well as two on either side and the fourth going overhead which then went to form a spiked line going directly to the circular head, that right there was where it had a forward curving horn on the top with it's mouth opened halfway with two inward curving fangs on the top to bottom of the sides. The top right had a tri-spiked circle at the top with six more spikes going around from the bottom side with a smaller circle underneath, a larger one below acting as the main body as there were two slanted lines going down to the sides with three vertical lines near the farthest sides and with a oval shaped head that had two more going down to the bottom tip. While the top left had a narrow Z-letter shape that slashed across before going down inwards and then to the back to form a upwards rounded edged barbed tip at the bottom close to the right side, the top had two upper left vertical slashes that went off to that side with two more inverted L-letter shaped sides that went on top of the body in the middle; on the right side of those wings was a downwards line that curved down before going up diagonally and curved underhand to the left side with a sharp tip. The left had a right side facing inverted scalene triangular shape having a circular hole for a eye as the front featured a inverted L-letter shaped nasal horn at the top, the top of which slanted diagonally up a little bit as the neck curved to the back and sloped down as there were eight spines coming down the back of the neck itself; the right side was a wing that was a horizontally downwards sloping thick fang shape with the right arm above at the left side being a down-facing L-letter shape, with the left arm on the bottom being a short horizontal line going outwards a little bit, the tail curving downward to the right side on the bottom as it went up before sloping downward to the right side to form a upper quarter right half shape since it's aligned with spines yet again all the way to the ending tip. The right had a down facing triangle shape with two circular holes for eyes at the top along with four spikes that went down from on either side from longest to shortest, the wings this time being upward slanting rectangles that had a bottom square half jutting out close to the tail; also slanting outward as both sides were tipped off with dual spines that went downwards while the middle had three downwards slant lines on either side, longest to shortest from the top to bottom respectively. The bottom left is where there were two vertical spines atop of the horizontal rectangle with a single circular eye at the right side as the left had a vertical line for the neck and the right for a short barbed tip, as the wings were thick vertical rectangular shapes that were barbed with six short lines that were on the bottom of both wings; as the left side had a longer barb at the top and the bottom while the middle had a longer line going downwards with it going horizontally to the left side, going down before forming a diamond shape that went down to curve off to the right side. At last on the bottom right featured a inverted vertical trapezoid shaped head that's wide at the top with two thicker rectangular shaped vertical bars on both sides and three thinner ones going across in between while being narrow at the bottom, with a vertical line going down as there's a short horizontal line slashing through across just underneath with another one going in the middle of the neck as both sides went down before going out a little bit and then vertically going down as they then went into the vertical lines on either side; which the horizontal line at the bottom as it went above the tail which had four inverted and forward facing L-letter shapes as it was at the upper left and the lower right going down two times to the near bottom tip, the inner vertical lines on either side went up with a horizontal outward facing rectangular shapes as the furthest sides happened to go down with a vertical rectangular shape near the outer left to right sides as well with the last part of them being a outlined vertical rectangular shape going downwards, in which met up with the uppermost tip of the third inverted L-letter shape on the tail that's found on the left side just underneath the first and behind the second. All seven of these symbols are imprinted in a flaxen to dandelion and pineapple to tuscan sun golden color, pressing each of them shifts into one of the seven gemstones that are used as each of them are fixed to specific buttons: ruby, sunstone, topaz, emerald, turquoise, sapphire and amethyst. Like it was specified all before there were defensive hidden trap mechanisms that prevented the premature use of the eye before the key was inserted, made up of a tranquilizer dart and stun gas: the former is a horizontal disc with a satin brass gold colored cylindrical tube that then transitioned into a silver one halfway to the top, ending with a gold ring around the vertical conical tip that had a needle at the end; it takes a few seconds for the dart to be fired as evidenced by the ticking sounds it makes because it's being loaded and primed to fire at command to the intruder whose trying to break into this device. The latter is made up of a thick and dense yet bright lizard to a lawn and chartreuse green color, knocking the intruder whose trying to break into this tubical device out while also causing seizure like jerking movements that has the victim rumble uncontrollably; it also causes a burning itch in the mouth but that may be due to the medicine that's given to stop the seizure-like jerking movements. What the original architects of the tribe and only they knew that other doomed adventurers who were bound for death didn't was that there's a emergency release hidden filament within, one that could only be burned by the Flightmare's glowing mist which will unlock the mysteries that are sealed inside. Finally, the original architects of the tribe in all unfortunate circumstances are the ancestors to Viggo and Ryker; the chief and second-in-command to the Dragon Hunters yet it appeared to be the creation of a Dragon Trapper, being used to trap them with information regarding their tactics on how to subdue before bringing it all back to their forts as well as their employers as there's no real governing body of the tribe as they're mainly like mercenaries who capture dragons for the bosses. Nevertheless, Drayko was beginning to see just what the Dragon Eye was holding for him inside the tubical cylinder that holds both locations for dragons as it's in the name and where to find Dragon Hunter ports
The lenses were hexagonal in shape as both sides were bordered with a thin surrounding line going around the top and the bottom, the inner sides having seven inner pointing vertical ovals of the silver diamond core in the center of it all. The top half had a rounded tip at the left with a inner and upwards rectangular shaped gap that then went across to the right side, where there was a short downwards facing triangular shaped barb underneath the top right vertical oval going down to the center; as the farthest right tip ended with a rounded edged tip at the end. As for the bottom the left side had a rounded edge that sloped downward to the lower tip which had then curved up, before going back and across as it then went down inwards to form a inverted triangular shaped tip; ending with the right side forming a upwards barb that slanted downward to the bottom. Both the top and the bottom faces of the bronze lenses had a scaled pattern as it had a darker shining shade. Finally, these were crucial to accessing the knowledge that only the original architects of the tribe know and they were long gone from this Archipelago
Dragon Hunters
Dragon Hunter Brigantines were roughly three times the length of a Viking longship in having a single pontoon that was also roughly the size of a longship on the port side with three arches that went horizontally outwards at first before slanting downwards onto the side deck which was the pontoon itself. Three large masts with white sails depicting the orange dragon being stabbed by a sword and pierced by an arrow at the front to back and a bloodied fist rising as it was depicted in the middle. The quarterdeck appeared to start about two thirds the way back from the bow, the stern which held two spires on each of the corners as they curved upwards and back at the tips; two gangways leading up to the quarterdeck with another three which is what spanned the gap between the main and side deck pontoon. The interior of the ship was what comprised of a room filled with oxidized copper dragon-proof cages that flip upwards, and the captain's quarters on the opposite end. For the Reaper especially it had dangerously lethal traps that lied on the inside to the outside all in an attempt to keep those greedy, undesirable treasure seekers from gaining what lies within the dragon trapping ship itself. It comprised of an anchor dropping snare that coil the ropes around the intruder's ankle so that they're slipped off board into the giant screaming eel invested waters, bear traps which are not very effective for prosthetic legs, crossbows on the walls to emerge and fire rapidly along with - when the main treasure's removed from the captain's quarters - a large axe thrown so it can take the hand that took the Dragon Eye from it's pedestal and spikes that jut out from the floor outside from the doorway's hall. Great oak trees are what the ships were made of, armament came in the form of powerful weapons and great difficulty to struggle for came in the form of the heavily guarded entrance as if any dragon rider brought their dragons below deck; it was impossible for them to free the captive ones. Viggo does not play about in his business when it came to the welfare of what profits this tribe amasses, there was a special variant of one as two of the pontoons on either side fused together to have a large oxidized copper to dragon-proof metal cage where the Dramillion Titan Wing was trapped to lead them on a final assault to the allies of Draconia. All ships like these had a square shaped hatch that led down inside of the holds where dragons were locked up inside, made of inner rounded edged borders on the sides with two slight inner slanting rounded edged borders on the front to the back; adorning four triangular tipped square shaped iron platings with two on both the left and the right sides on top of the surface, which is made of five vertical planks across as there were even horizontal rectangular iron plates on the left and the right which were studded on the left to right for each of them at the front. They're hinges of course explaining the singular cylinder on the left to right sides with a long one right in the middle, which has a longer horizontal iron plate on the bottom bearing a singular studded bolt on either side for each of the two. The captain's quarters at the stern - while having a kind of inwards slanting trapezoid shape with two stairs on either side - had a Sumerian cuneiform writing that went down at the bottom as well as the top, there's no real translation as it's filled with jumbled letters but for a simplistic description; here it was: a horizontal triangle facing an inverted one on the left side for the first, double left facing triangles for the second, a singular inverted triangle on the third, a single left facing triangle for the fourth, a trio of inverted ones going down for the fifth, double triangles facing left against a trio of them also facing left for the sixth and a inverted triangle for the seventh at the bottom. Both the top and the bottom on the left to right sides of the frame are the same as inside, the third mast stood in the middle of the inner cabin on the bottom even continuing up on the upper section of the inwards slanted cabin shaped like a horizontal trapezoid. The base of the mast was also an inner slanting square shape base as the bottom went around with a rectangular iron strip studded four times all around and on the top, which was the same as the bottom although it was smaller as it did slant into itself; underneath however was vertically straight a little bit with a slim border going around from the bottom. The top also had the same slim border with the square shape in the middle going up to the upper cabin, all three masts were the same as they had a rectangular shaped ring going on around the middle and the top as both of them were smooth; along with near the top as the tip were made of conical spikes that had two sides as the top for the front to back sides featured a pair slanting offward to the sides, while the bottom slanted offwards to the lower left side with both angles being wide. The center of the mast lacked these features as it was a conical spire at the uppermost tip, no need to explain the rigging for these ships as this writer doesn't see the purpose of including that detail in a description like this. There were also five rounded edged smooth horizontal rectangular clasped iron platings that went up rather than three on the top to the middle and the bottom, the horizontal bars that hoisted the three sails up featured a line of eleven on each one. At the front bow there was a grated hatch that was hinged at the front, being made of fourteen squared holes going across horizontally or vertically; just in between of the frontal mast and the bowsprit itself. Those however can be described easily as the top had slanted forward, curving overhead to the front before sloping down a little bit with three bars that were rectangular in shape and going outward on the top as well as the two sides; each one being tipped off with a pyramid shaped spike as the top spikes were aligned well with the ones on the sides when viewed from a side angle. Behind those spikes were eight lashings right at the front side and on the pontoon deck that was on the right of every ship. Underneath from those two bowsprits were ice rams that slanted down inwards before curving underhand to the front side, barbing off with a sharp triangular point that then curved sharply downwards towards the near curving hooked tip of the bowsprits above. The railings for both the main and side decks were made of one horizontal bar going across two upward slanting ones that went underneath as all of them were tipped with a triangular shape, with both sides of the main deck along with the main cabin and the side pontoon deck having a line of square frames that had a solid board in the middle; in between the raised rectangular edges that were on the top and the bottom as well. The upper cabin had six vertical rectangular shaped planks which also had upward slanting spikes that were tipped in iron on the second of each one going around the left to right sides, as the front to the back having two on either side; the stern's flooring was entirely flat just as it is solid. Continuing on from there were a pair of square shaped rectangular bordered upper back slanting - sternsprits? - that were edged backwards at the bottom while the top slanted back as the middle of both had a large iron square shaped cuffed ring that was studded around, having two studs on all the sides with the bottom having two conical spikes on the back to the left and the right sides; the top which then started to slant back up and inwards with a horizontal square shaped bar going forward having a total of five spikes, two on the back for the left side with the following three on the right, leading to two on either side of the left with more of the same on the right which had the iron plated cuff situated a little bit lower than the left side, one on the bottom of the tip with another at the front of the tip on either side as there where three which ran down for both tails, although that detail about the iron plating didn't matter as all of these ships were varied in differences. An example of one would be that some of these ships did not have the bloodied rising fist painted at the center of the main deck, but all ships had a oar that was not only rounded at the bottom as it hung by the short staff with a iron clasped ring; but it's also rectangular the rest of the way down with the cylindrical bar running through the middle of it next to the stern's true backside. Leading down a ladder underneath the hatch and coming on through the short hallway frame into the holding cells, there was another set of cuneiform that was on either side of the oxidized copper dragon-proof grated doors that flipped up; translated into: "D. R. A. G. O. N. M. A. S. T. E. R. S" as they went down on the left and the right side. Above the cells there were not only rectangular outward edged pillars that held a large tri-studded iron plate that went across each of the cells on their left to right sides, but there's also a horizontal wolfsangel sign in between the third cuneiform writing which can be best explained as this: the first letter is three left facing triangles, the second is a inverted triangle going on top of the one that also faced left, the third are left facing vertical stacked triangles, the fourth are a trio which vertically stacked atop of each other and the fifth is two large ones sandwiching two small ones on the top to the bottom also facing the left side. The exit at the front bore two carved symbols which was a circular ring surrounding four clockwise facing rounded edged rectangles which are going around the other. The top of each cell also had the same carved symbol that was sported on the front of either side of the upper to main cabin above deck: a upwards facing dragon head with a ring for an eye whose snout was shaped like a downwards slanting edged triangle acting as the tip of the nose while having three rounded edged shapes acting as the crown at the back of the head, it's mouth was open as the lower tip formed a horizontal oval shaped scoop which ended at the lower jaw which curved up a little bit before going back down to the third part of the crown, the body was serpentine like as it coiled around in a double loop going upwards with the front forming an arm that sloped down and perked back up with three claws which curved down and backwards a little bit; that arm went back down towards the top and diagonally went downwards slashing through behind the body forming the tail where it then ended with a tip as it can be explained like this, a upwards curving three clawed flipper that went up and over a bit to the back side for the first clawtip which then had the second curve upward and the third that then went toward the thick rounded edged inward slanting rectangular shaped beam, of course it's not over yet as slanting downward in between the head and the claw was an arrow which is adorned with a trio of upward and short slanted bars acting as the fletching followed by one of which that went downwards solidly and then ended with a V-letter shaped tip as the bars went upwards on either side forming the arrow itself in it's entirety. The ceiling above featured the same singular large studded iron platings on the corners that went horizontally on the left and the right sides, along with a horizontal beam that went across each of the holding cell since the short diagonal support beams had a vertical iron wolfsangel plate on either side with two studs on both sides; one for the top and one for the bottom as such. The opening mechanism for the holding cells used a horizontal rectangular shaped base which had a circular disc at the front to the back sides, having a diamond coming out in the middle of both sides as these were winches that had chains meant to be pulled down for the cell doors to diagonally flip upwards; right in between the beams. The oxidized copper dragon-proof cell doors included a dual vertical pair of studs on the bottom that ran along the lowest edge with the furthest left to right having a single large one aligned with the singular ones closest to the middle which were thinner bars, right in the middle were two large closely connected studs next to each other as they both ran up over to the top; how was the dragon-proof metal oxidized iron? It's easy to explain, there are shiny brown scrapes and scratched slivers of them on the surface as copper turns into a teal green if exposed to the elements for too long overtime; like the Statue of Liberty for example. Back at the top deck, on the farthest sides of the two walls for the upper and main cabin there were a trio of downward facing wide V-letter shaped arrows that diagonally edged off toward the two outer sides just like that. For whatever purpose in the middle of the center mast, the two edges recurbed inward a little with a horizontal iron ring at the front; then again it might attribute to the Gronckle Iron Chains that were used to load them into the Dragon Root Arrow Launchers, as they fire them onto the Gronckles immune to the Dragon Root coated arrows and then take the Boulder Class dragons on board as that might explain their purpose after all. Oh yeah, there's a short iron cylindrical shaped bar that stuck out in the middle of the sides of the actual stern; no real purpose there but how odd for Viggo to add that there without reason. In front of the top cabin there was a horizontal rectangular shape which had the top form a inner facing upper and quarter-half spherical shape which faced forward toward the cabin's doorway, the actual front is where there was a rectangular edged bar going across as the top it was made of five vertical boards that went in between; with two for each of the square holed gaps as if they're ribbed all across, found in between the inner left and right of the two staircases on the sides. One more thing about the inner walls of the two cabins: there are six large studs on the top to the middle and the bottom sides surrounding the whole carving, with a singular one directly in the center of the dragon itself as the main cabin seemed to have also led down into a series of corridors; of which also led to the commander's quarters itself. The side deck pontoon always found on the starboard right three rectangular shaped bridges that went outward before slanting downwards to the actual pontoon itself, the start as well as the middle and the ends were all plated with a square horizontal iron plated studded edged covering which connected in between the three of them; two vertical chains running down with a single one going across to the other side on the top to the bottom forming a kind of safety net for the Dragon Hunters. The pontoon itself was a slimmer rectangular shape that had a oval tip at the bow and the stern, same bowsprit for the front while the "sternsprit" was thinner overall and had three spikes that never jutted outward onto the deck itself at all once; aligned with vertical wooden planks on the surface. The surface of the main deck had a line of horizontal wooden planks separating the bow from the back side of the center mast and the main to upper cabin themselves, going vertically across for the rest of the solid surfaces. The whole shape was a long inverted trapezoid that beaked into a pointed oval at the front as the back had a backwards slanting rectangular shape on top of the left side to which, there was a regular trapezoid on top of the middle as the back of the stern was in the shape of a lower-half circle which had two inverted L-letter shaped support beams on either of the two sides; there were two thick rectangular beams going across the top as the top of them supported the rest of the backwards slanting rectangular shaped stern, as the rings holding the hanging oars had a iron square at the back and a thick circular ring shape that went around from the front. Like it was mentioned before at the front where the bow was, the bloodied fist that's rising as seen on the middle sail which had downward facing dark clay to spice triangles on the top corners with upward facing ones on the bottom edges sporting a thin outline right around the sand dollar tan color of the three sails; the front and back sails of course bearing the second though less memorable than the bloodied fist one large marmalade orange dragon with a sword and arrow crest at the front. Before we could end this, there's one more unexplored area of the brigantines that have gone unwritten: the commander's quarters as there's nothing much for a description to be written about, there was a short corridor that led into the lower half rounded shaped office with a solid iron studded square framed window slanting on the two sides as the third was straight in the middle; bearing a pyramid shaped spike on the four corners of each of the windows that were boarded with a X-letter shaped cross with two wooden planks, diagonal crossing each other from the upper left to the upper right sides. As one could tell, the quarters were located at the back of the brigantines which would be the sterns; no biggie as the beams that curved upward on either side of the middle also had a long dragon with the head having a backwards facing rounded edged scalene triangular shaped forehead with a circle for an eye, it had it's slim upper half spherical shaped top jaw slant upwards while having it's lower slant go straight as the former had two triangular shaped fangs going inward to the back; although even it curved a little bit up and went down with a singular tail at the end, the snout of course had a protrusion which was a vertical rectangular shape that had three claws emerging from the top. The serpentine like body curved up on the right before going downward on the left as it then moved back up after that and went back down to where it ended with an lower right triangular shaped arrow tip at the tail in that order, the back of the neck was pierced with an arrow on the lower left side with another going up from the upper right side; the next arrow went downward from the upper right to the lower left and the last one went up from the lower right side right above the arrow shaped tail at the bottom of the end. in that order respectively. The two sides from the beam had a outlined triangular pattern going from the top to the bottom upwards, as it reached the surrounding horizontal beam that ringed around above the cuneiform writing on either side which was also above the iron window frame itself too. Although the closer look at the dragon revealed it's eye was slanted upward on the rounded sloped mound like shape that was in between the snout and the serpentine body, with a short up and backwards curving horn shape coming before the latter. The cuneiform was mostly obscured by two axes slanting off to either side away from the middle window frame at the farthest back, while the dragons carved on the beams that had two vertical diamond shaped studded bolts going upwards while the top of them slanted inward above to support the flat ceiling were obscured by two swords that are hung by the handles; their blades going downwards on either side and the rest of the room was all filled with crates to barrels as well as two more of those arrow shot dragons from the cabins above deck on either side of the two window frames in between. What the cuneiform writing can be described as in spite of all this and very limitedly is: at the front was a trio of downwards facing triangles, the second are three stacked ones, the next was three forward facing triangles going toward the middle, after that was a single one, the fifth was three stacked triangles that were vertically stacked atop of each other, the last of them on the left side featured a trio that had two stacked atop each other with one facing forward and the last doing the same directly in front of the former. The set of cuneiform writing on the right was made of two horizontal ones with a trio that went in front of it, the second were three inverted stacked ones, the third was a set of horizontal right facing ones stacked vertically, the fourth was a horizontal one going right in front of the normal one's left side, the fifth was another trio of forward facing triangles, the rest can't be explained any further; that was the last of the writing. Moving onto the table for a spell, it was rectangular in shape with two thick cylindrical shaped legs on either side from the front to the back; in between them were conical spiked and spherical ball shaped maces that all had multiple threads lashing it in a straight line up to the middle of the shaft, the pommels are flat discs with a ring in the middle of both of them supporting the center of the table altogether in that matter of construction. All support beams inside the heart of the ship are without a up and diagonally facing tri-studded iron strip on both sides, as both left to right corners from the middle and across had downward facing rounded edged L-letter shaped iron platings; studded with a conical spike on the top corners as well as the lowest bottom bottom below the left and right sides, all underneath the surrounding beam that outlined through the support beams. The third set of cuneiform on the two sides bordering the middle went like this: the first was a trio of forward facing triangles, the second was undefined due to being obscured by a golden statue resembling a Grapple Grounder, the third was three vertical stacked triangles, the fourth happens to be a pair of vertical stacked ones that two more pointing forward, the fifth were the same as the first with a trio of triangles pointing forward to the center wall, the sixth and the seventh of these writings were dual stacked horizontal triangles with a tri-stacked pair going in front of the two writings, the eighth was a tri-stacked inverted triangle, the ninth was undefined due to the writing being obscured yet again and the tenth was the same as the fifth just as it was with the first. A little note here to be added here, the dragon-proof winch was found at the front of the rising bloodied fist painted above deck and next to the center mast's starboard right side. The top of the inner door frame bore a rounded edged vertical rectangular shaped head which had then went forward towards the other where both snouts sloped downwards, having a tiny hole for the nostril and three sets of square shaped fangs on the top to bottom of the inner mouths while the lower chin curved down and backwards into a rounded barb; going back inward from on the other side as the jawline continued straight before sloping downward to form the neck as it all comes into a full circle. Now at last comes the featured presentation which was the door leading inside to the commander's office of operations. Both sides featured golden plating as there was a tri-triangular clawed arm that came down from the top center and above the neck of the dragon on the left side, which were both clasped with a cuff around as both sides happen to feature dual studded bolts on either side as the top arm had a smooth surface above the iron cuff; underneath were scales with the left arm on that side being made of scales too, the five triangular tipped talon was also cuffed underneath the neck but also bore a smooth and solid surface at the back behind the vertical chain which runs down under the arm above and the cuff around the neck all the way towards the sea of skulls at the lowest part of the door itself. The rectangular leg slanted up a little bit before going down to form the actual talon as it formed a slanted horizontal rectangular shaped gap going forward to the triangular shaped tip, where it went up and back down to form the fifth triangle that can be seen at the bottom; all made of scales as was the back of the neck and the front exactly where the head was. The top of the head forming a backwards slanting trapezoid shape that had a red ruby at the center, which continued across with a slight overhead curve that then formed a triangular shaped tip as it also had a green emerald in the center; the bottom of the head curved downwards to the front as there was a singular forward slanting triangular tipped fang while the inner jaw above had one slanting downward toward the blast of fire it was shooting out, another gap that's in between featured a backwards slanting trapezoid shape with the upper right side having a smaller sized triangular tip as the third side barbed a little more forward. The blast of fire was all in a kind of horizontal rectangular shape with both sides splitting into the top and the bottom, but let us begin with the top as it's shorter and easier to describe: the top curved up vertically before it all went into a rectangular shaped curl as it thinned out at the tip, the second went a little inwards to the right side of the border as it was thicker in the same shape as the first, the third and the fourth were two together; as the third was underneath which went horizontal into a thin strip that then curved inward to the right side a little as the fourth underneath went up and drooped back down, ending with a half square shaped stub going inward like before, the fifth went down in a thick vertical rectangular shape that thinned out into a inner curling tip that drooped a little bit at the top. The bottom went outward to the left horizontally before going up and inward to itself since it thinned out, the second also went out to the left but curved vertically up and into a thin line that went down and the third that was the closest to the door's border went outward to the left for a short bit before going up and barbing downward into a thin tip; each and every single golden plate making up the dragon was not only made of separate plates evidenced by a series of lines making up the borders between each one, but every single one of them had been studded near where the two rounded edges meet as there's one on each one which gave it the appearance of two on each one. The skulls from left to right had a normal one above on the left side with a larger inverted one underneath as the same can be said for the third one coming to the right side of the downward vertical chain running through, the fourth was tilted to the side above a hidden one underneath where only the cranial cap was visible, the fifth was larger as it was tilted but still half hidden in the bottom line of the door, the sixth one above was inverted with the seventh going up in between the former and the eighth that was also inverted next to the sixth one, for the ninth it had the top edge of the two eyes nearly visible, the tenth skull was large and next to the other five, the eleventh skull was also on the bottom but only both of it's eyes were visible; as for the twelveth skull it was slanting out of view to the right and at last all golden skulls featured a horizontally right facing eye socket on the left with a circular one on the right side, the nasal socket was triangular in shape and there were two square shaped teeth on the bottom of each one, not to mention the background of these golden plates featuring a kind of horizontal plank built door which had a line of singular studs running across, with the furthest left side having two to four alternating large to small sized black studs going down to the sea of skulls below. There was a horizontally ribbed cylindrical shaped handle with the top plate being shaped like a inverted pentagon while the bottom plate being shaped like a horizontally angled rectangle, both the top to the bottom of the ribbed handle were thick rounded shaped discs as every single detail mentioned about this door was raised and therefore went outwards a little just like that. If this wasn't mentioned before it will be again: there was a horizontal rectangular iron plate of which held a horizontal ring in front of the dragon-proof cell doors, as the inside of each cell is up against the upwards sloping walls and separated with a vertical standing wall in between of them; what these rings were for might be for chaining the dragons down but that's speculation all together. One more thing is that in the adventure where Drayko raced for Berk's gold stolen at the Dragon Auction and seeking to claim it for himself, Viggo reinforced his ships by lining the hull with a thin layer of dragon-proof oxidized copper metal; but even then it did not save these ships when Shattermaster came in with the "Flying Shatterscatter" technique to punch through the hidden armor, he can thank the friendly parakeet to shamrock and emerald green Gronckle for that act of taking back the gold for himself as he's not returning it to Berk in either way. Finally, congratulations for reaching the end of this long ass and specifically-detailed paragraph that went into describing the Dragon Hunter Brigantines; thanks for reading up to the end and now, let's get started on the real meat of the Dragon Hunters themselves by following up with their armory of weapons
Dragon Root Arrows were highly concentrated lethal arrows that effectively knocked dragons out of the skies in one shot with no fatal injuries, being aerolized in a haiti to violet and black rock to valhalla purple gaseous color mix that was set for traps. As the arrowhead had upward edges slanted off to the sides and sharply pointed forward before thinning out at the tip, most of it was coated in a fern to kelp and parsley green though the rest of the arrowhead was a type of cocoa brownish to dark pebble black color; furthermore there was a Dragon Hunters insignia flipped upside down vertically found on the arrowhead's bottom half to which the details is a leather to shingle fawn and saddle brown color, the rest of the details was outlined with the dark pebble black color of the arrowhead itself. Below the arrowhead was coiled with a line of seven thin threads of rope to create that cylindrical shape, and the majority of the shaft was painted with three brandy punch yellow cylindrical rings at the front to the back as there was one that bordered the front to back of the monza red center; even having one that was in the middle but the sections that were not painted were a tabacco brown to gurkha grey color like the arrow launchers themselves which these were shot out of. The fletching was a creamish tan color with sepia brown lines representing the structure of it all, the crossbow bolts didn't have this as it instead ended off with a monza red tipped short cylindrical shape. No need to explain the purpose of these infamous projectiles used against the dragons by the notorious Dragon Hunters tribe
Dragon Hunter Arrow Launchers were rapid-firing cannons that were not much different than to say the Mangler as such, but there were differences that'll be listed as this one didn't have wheels at the front and the targeting inverted vertical trapezoid that's wide at the top and it's narrow at the bottom wasn't painted in red; the wood was a taupe to a mongoose, clay creek, donkey brown, gurkha, go ben, crocodile, pale oyster, finch and kokoda tan to light brownish olive color to best describe the shading of the wood that was used for this arrow launcher. It's always got the two vertical crossbows standing with a inner cylindrical disc fitted to the inner barrel, two holes on the top and two on the bottom as all four were loaded to the brim with a load of Dragon Root Arrows; using the back U-letter shaped handle to fire all four at whoever picked the bad time to fight with them on their brigantines. Pivotable for all movement and swivelable for free movement, both sides were folded down which had it stay that way; the rest of the details were explained thanks to the Mangler. Having two leg runners supporting the cannon which should be mentioned that there was a rounded spherical bolt in the center of the four-holed disc inside the barrel, viewfinder towards the back made of iron forming to a ring shape; lack of recoil compared to the Mangler as that shot bolas while this one shoots a number of four arrows at a time, useful for when there called the need for archers who use a bow and arrow and arbalists who use crossbows were required elsewhere. The structure on which this stood was a dual sided cylindrical holed standing pillar on either side slanting back with a supporting bar slanted forward into the base itself, acting out it's role to swivel as well as pivot up and down for even the highest to the lowest of reaches on deck. Having a studded iron bangle clasping it above the hollowed base while having a pair of raised rounded capped tops on either side, where two pegs on either side came into play. The bottom of this cannon has the lower half spherical bulbous shape allowing the user of this artillery for moving up to down, dual stacked with oval shaped plates that were medium sized in between the thin and the thickness; holding a vertical rectangle facing forward too, atop of that is where the lower half clasping studded iron cylindrical shaped scooped support that was required for wielding the cannon's barrel as a whole was. The front didn't seem to have a vertically inward slanted metallic bamboo like tubic that was studded with bolts, it was all created with wood instead as either side that went forward before slanting upwards was the inverted U-letter shaped is; nothing much more to go into detail here. Finally, these arrow launchers were mounted on a various number of Dragon Hunter brigantines and none of them with the exception being The Reaper were without this artillery
Dragon Hunter Ballistas were the new addition being equipped to the bow of their ships. The ballista itself matched that as seen on Dragon's Edge with the bowlimbs curving up to the sides and rounding off at the tips, curving back downwards in order to meet up at the middle; a U-letter shaped slot on top for the spearbolt as well, attached to the front of the forward facing vertically standing rectangular bar with six lemon yellow rings with the farthest three being in a small size and the next three being larger on both the left to the right sides respectively; having a violet purple core in the middle of each of them, amounting to twelve in total at the front of the bowlimbs. The details on the sides included four connected X-letters going from the back to the front as there was a lemon yellow dot in between each of them on the top and the bottom for all four, a larger dot was found at the front and back of those four X-letters as well too. The trapezoid base allowed the siege weapon to swivel up and down, with the working chains being the component to allow the handcranking lever to prime the shot with some stored energy as well as power all in the same to fire with precision based strikes. Those that were on board the ships had a iron rod connecting across to the other two handles, drawing back the spearbolt so it was ready to fire ahead. The sides had a vertical trapezoid with a cylindrical shaped bar going through the rectangular shaped body that held the projectile inside, bearing conical spikes that went outward with two on the sides and at the front of the vertical trapezoid shaped base that laid backwards; appearing to slant downwards at the back while going straight across directly at the front. The tower on the left side was made of three rectangular shapes, laid out with logs as the top of each of them slanted upward going down from largest to smallest respectively; all of the spearbolts rested in the vertical rectangular shaped slits with four iron studded bands that ran across from the top for the first two, and around the whole tower for the other two going down below them. All ballistas sat atop of a wooden turntable made of nine wooden planks of which formed a circular shaped disc on the bottom underneath the weapon itself, behind the bowlimbs were backwards facing half trapezoid shaped studded iron platings that had bolts of which went along the top to left and right as well as bottom edges on both sides; this could also fire six Dragon Root Arrows as Dagur demonstrated when Ryker and the Berserkers kidnapped Drayko, during the time when Barf and Belch showed endless gratitude for saving their lives. It was these painted details that were found only on that ship and on Dragon's Edge, most of the ballistas were barren. After many failed attempts to overpower Drayko, the Dragon Hunters had started to equip many of their ships to outposts and important locations with these defenses; they're relatively effective against his attacks as they can slow him down in the process. They've also armed themselves with an armored variant, causing more havoc and sustain firepower by the dragons; this ballista however was only armored from the front with dragon-proof oxidized copper metal, and can be taken out just like that on the sides
Gronckle Iron Chains consisted of claws resembling grappling hooks that were meant to restrain downed dragons from a distance, strong enough to withstand the strength of them; when fired they coil around the dragon before dragging them back to the ship for capture. The chains were variable in length as it was the clawed hooks that were important for detail, the start of it began with a triangular shaped chainlink that then had a four rounded scooped disc at the top; while the shaft was a tall rectangular shape which raised up and slightly outward a little to the tip as that can be explained in separate detail next. The clawed hook at the top had four downwards facing rectangular shapes that were wide at the front and slimmed out at the bottom of all four sides, each of them were round edged at the top to bottom sides as there's a circular plate on the left to right side of each clawtip; underneath it also appeared to have a thin inverted shape scalene triangle at the bottom middle of them laid on top of the shaft themselves. The tips are also of the same shape with a smaller size being placed at the middle with the four inner sides in between having a inward slanting edge on all four corners. Though when looked at closely in a better view, the disc only had a single circular scoop on the left side and not on all four of the sides; a matter of perspective for different people, go figure. The winches were also made of separate components as the two rectangular shaped boards had a trapezoid shaped top facing forwards at the stern of a Berserker longship, the middle having been driven through by an bar that was cylindrical in shape protruding out on the other side in the same length as the one on that side; a large wheel was found in the middle which held the chains altogether in a clumped roll going vertically underneath and around the front, with two discs on either side being next to it. The wheel that was used for reeling in the chain consisted of four corner studded squares which had a rounded topped cylindrical shaped bar on the second of each square in between, a large circle was found in the center while sporting a downward facing rounded edged rectangle shaped bar slanting downward on either side for both of the boards. The Berserkers were made of wood while the Dragon Hunters had them made of oxidized copper, nothing much to say for the former as this was more common on the Dragon Hunter ships
Dragon Hunters Armored Ballistas were large siege weapons built for the hell of causing havoc and sustain firepower from the dragons, armored only from the frontal side as the back is left exposed if one of them should ever get behind the fast reloading of the spearbolts which are slipped through the back; primed to fire with a rotating turning lever on the side to draw back the ballista's power and shoot to kill all who stand against this tribe's business. This engine in laying siege to the dragons started with a rectangular base frame, having a bar across from on the second wheel at the front of either side at the front and the back. It's wheels like the rest of the armored ballista included a wooden base as the short cylindrical pegs stuck outward on the sides, surrounded with a studded rim disc around like the other shell of the wheels; all of them consisted of plating as such as there were twelve in total, six at the front with the other two at the back of the front far side of the wheels and moved smoothly though it must be in a sensible way moved through the use of ropes to pull and hands to push it. There was a square frame in the middle which had inward slanted plates all around, having an swiveling pillar for operating the turntable which was found above the whole box itself giving it a trapezoid look to it. The ballista itself matched that as seen on Dragon's Edge with the bowlimbs curving up to the sides and rounding off at the tips, curving back downwards in order to meet back up at the middle; a U-letter shaped slot on top for the spearbolt as well, attached onto the front of the forward facing vertically standing rectangular bar with no details unlike Dragon's Edge on the sides. All on a trapezoid base that swiveled up and down, chains working with the side's handcranking lever to prime the shot with some stored energy and power all in the same to fire with precision based strikes. The sides in the middle of the box frame had upper inward curving tip plates on either side just underneath the large round disc plates atop of them, in front of the sides of the ballista for extra protection at the front; which was further guarded by a square plate with a open square shaped slot for aiming for easy exiting of the spearbolt. The floor of the base also consisted of a rectangular plate that curved downward a little up at the front to the back, and speaking of the back that's where the spearbolts were loaded into; having a built-in squared section for the spearbolts to be loaded into for semi-automatic fire rather than the usual bolt-action reloading method. All armored with oxidized copper which was dragon-proof metal, in between the floor and the base was at least three horizontal flat beams that held the structure itself; the back of which is also big enough to ride and act as a defensive countermeasure to exploit the lack of armor. That's also one of the weaknesses, it was armored only in the front so the back was exposed which can easily be destroyed; one of the other things about it was that this stood no chance against a onslaught of Hotburples, the oxidized copper dragon proof metal proved to be no match against their jaw strength to melt such material. To fire this weapon as it was no different from the ones used on their ships is easy, as there were repeating crossbow overhead cocking levers for one on the top and one on the bottom forming a greater than type of bracket shape against the main rectangular chute; this had a Gronckle Iron chain that kept the horizontal rectangular block ready to snap forward to sent the actual ballista bolt soaring through the air, now while it looked like those two were able to be used as a way to reload it as if there was a top-loader magazine on the top the real firing mechanism was actually a lever that was shifted to the back before snapping forth back to the front ready to be fired again. There was a Gronckle Iron donut shape with the cylinder peg in the center being where the ballista bolt is laid up against ready to be sent up against the dragons. Finally, this is a uncommon sight to be seen but it's at least seen every now and then on Dragon Hunter bases that're in need of the heavy artillery for defense against dragons; a rare siege weapon but not as rare as a weapon that was both strong and handheld, however it had a reason to be that way for as our heroes and the Changewings knew all of them have to be destroyed so neither of them can endure the pain felt whenever they were shot by the weapons in question