The Scauldron is a species of dragon featured in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. They are aquatic dragons who live primarily in oceans and seas.
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Dragons: The Series[]
Dragons: Riders of Berk[]
An unnamed Scauldron appears in "Dragon Flower," when Mildew planted blue oleanders in another attempt to get rid of the Dragons, they end up getting sick.
The Riders realize that anything they bought from Trader Johann might be the cause of the dragons' sickness so Hiccup commissions for everyone to get rid of anything they got from Trader Johann. However, Hiccup and the others were sad to see that none of the dragons are recovering. Just after Stoick returns with Thornado getting sick like Toothless and Stormfly, the Dragon Riders and Stoick find blue flowers that they never noticed before. Tuffnut admits that he saw Mildew planting the flowers the other night, causing Stoick, Hiccup and Astrid to confront the old man about it. He feigns ignorance that the flowers made someone sick.
Later, Fishlegs used his botany book and identified the flowers as blue oleanders, which are poisonous to all dragons, except the Scauldron. With this information, Hiccup, Stoick and Gobber went on a quest to find the Scauldron, taking a reluctant Mildew with them, who Stoick blamed for putting them in this position in the first place. They lure a Scauldron with blue oleanders, which attacks the ship and engaged in a battle with the Vikings. During the attack, the Scauldron sees a blue Oleander on Mildew's butt and bites the flower while injecting Mildew with its venom. At first, Hiccup, his dad and Gobber are upset because they were unable to retrieve the venom, until they hear Mildew complain about it being in his bloodstream.
When the Vikings return to Berk, Gobber extracts the venom from Mildew and used it to create an antidote for the dragons, thus curing them from their affiliction.
Dragons: Defenders of Berk[]
Dragons: Race to the Edge[]
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World[]
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Patient and organized strategists by nature, Scauldrons are one of the few dragons known to prey on other dragons.
Scauldrons hunt in groups, or pods, and have picked-off smaller species to near-extinction. Although a Scauldron has never been seen to shoot flames, the few Vikings who have survived encounters with the fearsome sea dragons have reported smelling traces of the signature flammable gas that precedes a dragon fire strike. Instead, Scauldrons scoop up water in their gullets (like pelicans), then boil it internally and shoot the boiling-hot water out again. With its long neck, the Scauldron has a long firing range and can blast an entire ship in a matter of seconds. Being ocean-based, the Scauldron will not typically attack on land. In fact, if a Scauldron is out of water for too long, its body will dry out and eventually perish, unless it is returned to the sea before it's too late.
Despite their dreadful reputation, Scauldrons actually possess a secret, healing ability: their venom is the only known antidote to the rare Dragon Flower, whose pollen can prove harmful - even fatal - to all dragons!
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- Scauldron is a combination of "scalding" and 'cauldrkn.
- The Scauldron is the only dragon not allergic to blue oleanders and instead eats them. Its venom is used for curing dragons after one has eaten an oleander
