Valka

Hiccup's long-lost mother, a dragon rescuer who lived twenty years apart from Berk.

Valka is Hiccup's mother and Stoick's wife, introduced in How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and voiced by Cate Blanchett, who also returns to the role in The Hidden World and in the 2027 live-action remake of the second film. Presumed dead after a dragon carried her away during a raid, she had spent twenty years apart from Berk rescuing dragons.

Quick Facts

Family: Stoick the Vast (husband); Hiccup (son)

Lore & Background

Hiccup first meets her as a mysterious dragon rider. Like her son, she could never bring herself to kill dragons; she rescues them from Drago and brings them to an island nest of ice made by a Bewilderbeast, an ice-breathing alpha that controls smaller dragons with hypnotic sound waves. Stoick tracks Hiccup to the nest and the couple are reunited, but Stoick dies in the battle against Drago. Valka then reminds Hiccup that his father believed he could unite humans and dragons, and she decides to stay with her son on Berk. In The Hidden World she spots Grimmel's approaching army on a scouting patrol and warns Hiccup.