⚔️ Taurus Stratus - "Bull of the Clouds"
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📛 Name, Age, and Status
Full Name: Taurus Stratus
Meaning: "Bull of the Clouds" (Taurus = Bull, Stratus = Layered sky)
Age: 49 (during the events of How to Train Your Dragon 1)
Gender: Male
Tribe: Berk (born and raised)
Role: Veteran warrior; Stoick's "left hand"; roaming dragon-slayer
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🧱 Appearance & Weapon
Build: Towering and broad - carved from muscle and battle experience
Armor: Blackened steel with fur and scale adornments, scarred by fire and age
Face: Stern, weather-worn, with piercing eyes and an unshakable gaze
Weapon: image above
Name: Stormfang
Type: Greatsword
Description: A monstrous obsidian blade etched with runes and cracks. Said to hum with pressure before battle. Too heavy for anyone but him
Function: Known for cleaving through dragons mid-flight and splitting boulders in duels
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🧠 Personality
A calm, disciplined force - speaks little, watches much
Still carries the heart of a warrior who enjoys the hunt and the clash of steel
Deeply loyal to Berk, but increasingly drawn to the open world beyond it
Believes in duty, legacy, and personal strength - but not in blind tradition
Finds peace in wandering and in battle equally - sees them as two sides of the same coin
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📜 Backstory & Current Role (During HTTYD 1)
Born in Berk to immigrant parents who arrived when Stoick was a child
Grew up with Stoick and Gobber - became one of Berk's greatest dragon-slayers and military leaders
Before the movie's events: As the war began to slow, Taurus became a traveler, leaving Berk to explore distant lands and follow dragon migration patterns
Currently (during HTTYD 1):
Taurus visits Berk once a month - sometimes for supplies, sometimes to see Hiccup or speak with Stoick
Keeps a personal logbook of every dragon he's encountered or slain - contributing entries to the Book of Dragons
His main mission: track down the rumored Dragon Nest, though he knows it may be a myth
Until then, he travels, fights, learns, and writes - living the only way he knows how
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🤝 Relationships
Stoick the Vast:
Brother in all but blood
Stoick trusts Taurus's judgment in war and silence in peace - he is the sword Stoick once drew without hesitation
While they've grown apart geographically, their bond remains unbroken
Gobber the Belch:
Old comrade and lifelong friend
Taurus admires Gobber's resilience and humor - the fire that kept their trio going during dark times
When the three reunite, it's like the old days - loud, blunt, and unshakably loyal
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III:
His oath-son, raised not by blood but by intention and honor
Taurus trained him in the Viking mindset, in resilience and legacy
Though he's skeptical of Hiccup's fascination with dragons, he's vowed to defend and support him as the next chief - even if that means going against old instincts
He sees a different kind of strength in Hiccup - one the makes him proud
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bull of the clouds
Fanfictionname:Taurus Stratus - in latin terms "Bull of the Clouds." A name that rumbles like thunder and strikes like lightning. Once a boy raised alongside Stoick the Vast, Taurus grew into the chief's most trusted warrior - not his right hand, but his left...
