Talk:Shattermaster/@comment-32972132-20170830170524/@comment-5769012-20170905085619

I'm going to make a very general guess on the situation and say that Shattermaster is still alive, and I will try and explain my reasoning for thinking so.

First and foremost, they went through all that trouble of giving Dagur a partner, as well as sending him on a mission to save Shattermaster after he'd been captured. I doubt the creators would then off him permanently immediately after, but of course, I could be wrong.

Second, when Shattermaster was injured, if I remember correctly (I'll have to go rewatch the episode to double check), Hiccup tells Dagur to take Shattermaster to Gobber. Now, I have no idea how long dragons take to heal. But going off of Garff, who was mostly just external injuries (with probably enough blood loss to make it so that he was at deaths door, obviously), I'm making a very very loose assumption with saying the more or less full healing process took maybe a good month or so before they released him. If Shattermaster had more internal injuries (such as a broken bone), it would make sense to me to just leave him with Gobber so that he could get all properly healed up and relaxed, and not have to push himself too much.

To add onto this, in "Something Rotton on Berserker Island", Dagur says that Stoik needed some time away from Gustav (or something along those lines). The most likely reasoning I can think of for this little arrangement being made to begin with, is that Dagur was on Berk visiting Shattermaster, and since he was there, that opened up the door for Gustav being sent away with Dagur for a time.

Hopefully all that made sense - I just wanted to add my two cents into the subject