An Introduction

Hello and welcome to Dragons of Berk. This is a How to Train your dragon rp with a bit of a twist. Hiccup and the others never existed. So you will be starting off with a clean slate, for the most part. A lot of the information gathered is a mix between the movies, and the books. For example the Hairy Hooligan tribe in the movie hunted and hated the dragons to begin with, while in the books they captured and trained them. We will be playing it as though the Hooligans are at war with the dragons, however we will use the extensive list of tribes from the books. If there is something from the movie or book series you would like to have included then please feel free to message the staff with your request.

In Dragons of Berk you will be able to play both a Dragon or a Viking. Each will be played as fully separate characters. In this world dragons have their own community and own levels of intelligence. They have formed a hierarchy and colonies known as nests. While Dragons will be able to communicate with Dragons, there is a language barrier between Vikings and Dragons.

Ex Dragon/Dragon

Razortoohe groomed her sharp spines; as a deadly nadder she preferred to keep her spikes gleaming and free of debri. Her head poked up when a noise reached her ears, another Nadder by the name of Brokeclaw approached. ”Hello Broke Claw” The other dragon nodded and chirped a friendly hello back.

Human/Dragon

Aria crouched low underneath the cover of the thick brush of the forest floor; silent and quiet as a mouse. She was approaching a nest of Changewings, she had come across this nest a couple of weeks and had silently been coming back to observe their odd behavior. She knew they had smelled her scent before…and even now one seemed to have caught it once more. The large dragons head rose, its scales seemed to rise in agitation and a low warning grown was emited….That seemed like a good enough clue to get the h* out of there. So taking the clue she slowly retreated from the nest until tomorrow

The Changewing nest matriarch raised her head; a familiar smell was wafting along the small breeze. She had smelled this scent before, and recently. It was undoubtabley one of the scaless two leggers; and this one seemed particularly interested in her nest. While it hadn’t disturbed anything yet its watchful gaze could be felt and it was unnerving; it made her scales stand on end. The two leggers always seemed to want to prove themselves by slaying a dragon or stealing an egg or something….the two leggers were an unwanted danger and pest. The matriarch let out a low growl. ”Move along two legger” and with that the human seemed to have left for the time being….perhaps they weren’t completely stupid.

The human in this case Aria was un able to tell the dragons words, to her they sounded just like a low growl. However with the use of sounds and body language the message was quite clear. In this Rp you will interacting with other players of different species; how the plot like goes will remain up to you. As of right now dragons as a whole view humans as a threat, and visa versa. The possibility of taming a dragon still exist but in order for that to happen, you the player must see it through.

Now rules to understand you may have two characters, one human and one dragon. You cannot attempt to train your other character!; this rule is in place in order to make sure that there is no god modding of the plot line. For example it wouldn’t be fun if Sally had a Viking, and a Dragon character and suddenly rp’d that sally the human trained sally the dragon and suddenly dragons are human friends again.

Rules

Hello and Welcome to Dragons of Berk; I’m sure you’re wondering what the rules are and frankly we’re pretty relaxed here. There are only a few general rules that I would expect everyone to already know and fallow. 


General Rules

1: All users are to be treated with respect. This includes all members, staff, and guests alike. We're all here to have fun, so avoid bringing out of character drama onto the game. Seriously, don't do it.

2: Don't copy material posted by others. Don't copy/paste another individual's character from another site or copy/paste a character from some random anime you saw recently. Anime faceclaims are fine but the character itself must be original. Nobody likes to see a poorly disguised Goku/Trigun/Other clone.

3: Literacy: Make an effort to hold good spelling, grammar, and length. At least one paragraph is the minimum for an in character RP post.

If English isn't your first language it's understandable, just be sure to make a wholehearted attempt to have your post understandable. If in doubt, spell check can help make sure your spelling is acceptable. 

4: The Rating of the site is PG- 13. However, there is no need for long strings of profanity, gore, or explicit sexual content. 

5: All decisions of staff members are to be respected. Anyone that I promote to staff I trust to have good judgment. If you disagree with a staff ruling, PM me directly, but understand that any decision made will be final. Any public tantrums or drama due to a disagreement will result in strong consequences.

7: No Godmodding. Godmodding covers nearly anything where one tries to exert too much control over plot or characters. Nobody likes to deal with the character who seems to read your mind, anticipate your every action, and walks on water while making it look easy.

8: Be realistic. If you character is out in Berk at 1:00 PM, it's going to be impossible for them to suddenly be at Bloodspit Bay fifteen minutes later.

9: At this time, users can have a maximum of five characters. 

10. Each character must have a separate account. 

11. Users are requested to be active should they take on a leadership role. A minimum of five posts per week is requested for any in those positions. Any user whom goes inactive will have their position opened and once a new application is approved, your character will lose that leader position through some event in character. In most cases, the character will be kept alive and will become a normal at which point they may apply to another open position, resume their previous position if vacant, or play as a normal. 

12. Keep Signatures reasonably sized. 500 x 200 is the maximum allowable at this time. 

13. Rules may be modified or added at any time as the staff deems necessary. 

14. Users may NOT rp with themselves in order to create large jumps in the plot line. For example no training your dragon character with your Viking character. 

15. Dragons can talk to dragons, and Vikings can talk to Vikings, however Dragons and Vikings cannot use words to communicate. So be creative, and no the Dragon cannot learn human writing. 

16. If you wish to play a hatchling I request you find a way to attach it to an older dragon on the forum. 

17. All Characters must be Approved by a staff member in order to be used in RP.