User blog comment:Not a Dinosaur/Ancient history/@comment-24018437-20141011201408/@comment-25106214-20141011205240

I know the story related in the books, it's just that some stuff in it doesn't quite work unless other stuff, such as I came up with, happened. Yes, Wodensfang gave HHHI the Dragon Jewel, and he became the first King of the Wilderwest, but on page 156 of How to Break a Dragon's Heart, the Witch says that "Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the First had caused his father to lose his entire kingdom in the rich farmlands to the east, so that the Hooligan Tribe had to settle in the barren wastes of the Archipelago." On page 154 of the same book she mentions that Grimbeard fought and defeated the King of the Mainland, taking his land. In How to Ride a Dragon's Storm they say that when Grimbeard the Ghastly won the Intertribal Swimming Race he demanded the Murderous Chief fed to the sky dragons and took his kingdom. So, I conclude that the Kingdom of the Wilderwest must have lost a lot of territory over the centuries, in order for Grimbeard to have been able to conquer it. My attempt at filling the gaps between the known stories of the founding of the Wilderwest and the dissolution of the Wilderwest is the most reasonable I could come up with.