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The Lycanwing dragon is a rare beast and a vicious one at that. Those who survive its bite are not actually survivors at all. They are doomed to a life as half-man, half-Lycanwing. At the height of every full moon, the condemned viking transforms into a terrifying dragon! Wings the size of a house, teeth stronger than Gronckle Iron! And a thirst...for blood. [src]
  — Gobber describing the legendary Lycanwing  

The Lycanwing is a mythical dragon species that was mentioned in Dragons: Race to the Edge, Season 2.

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Dragons: Race to the Edge[]

Season 2[]

During Season 2 Episode 4: Bad Moon Rising, when Fishlegs and Gobber are testing Gronckle Iron with the others, Tuffnut rushes into the arena and claims he was attacked by a mysterious creature. Gobber deduced it was a Lycanwing; a dragon that could turn anyone it bites into dragons. Believing he was about to turn into a dragon, Tuffnut proceeded to lock himself up in a dragon pen to prevent him from hurting anybody.

According to Gobber, a Viking named Kessler had gone exploring in the woods of Berk. He disappeared and was never found. Every year on Kessler's birthday, a crimson dragon with black eyes would come to his home and would steal livestock from his parents. His parents believed that the dragon was Kessler and that he had been bitten by a Lycanwing, starting the legend.

Ruffnut, using Snotlout as a bite-mark matcher, tries to find out what had bitten her brother. Eventually Tuffnut escapes the pen he had locked himself in.

Hiccup did not buy the story, but when the lens he and Fishlegs found revealed information on the fabled dragon, Hiccup and Fishlegs headed to Lycanwing Island. There they discovered a statue of a Lycanwing set to scare people away from two Dragon Eye lenses hidden in a cave.

Thanks to Snotlout, Hiccup found out what had bitten Tuffnut was just a wolf, because it had bitten Snotlout too.

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Dragons: Rise of Berk[]

Tuffnut claimed that the chicken Cockatrice was the "unholy offspring of a chicken and a Lycanwing". However, it was later revealed that he had secretly been feeding the chicken Glowing Algae.

Trivia[]

  • The word "lycan" comes from lycanthrope, a combination between the greek "lýkos"(wolf) and "άνθρωπος"(human). It's another name for a werewolf, a mythical creature that can turn humans into other werewolves by biting them. This name technically suggests that "Lycanwing" means "Wolf wing". Ironically, it was a wolf that bit Tuffnut.
  • The Lycanwing is one of four "mythical" dragons, with the other three being the Boneknapper, the Smothering Smokebreath, and the Foreverwing. Of the four, it is the only one that has no proof of its existence.
  • It is unknown why the Lycanwing is in the Dragon Eye, even though it likely doesn't exist.
  • The body shape of this dragon in the Dragon Eye is similar to a Whispering Death.

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