The Venomous Vorpent is a very small dragon with a poison sting on the end of its tail, mouth and and poison sacs on its thin neck.They numb their skin before stinging. The venom inside its sting causes the sickness Vorpentitis, which Hiccup gets.

In The BooksEdit

In How To Speak Dragonese, Alvin the Treacherous had slipped a Venomous Vorpent inside Hiccup's "How To Speak Dragonese" book as a trap. This, however, was before Hiccup became a "god" and hovered in the air. Alvin attempted to remove the dragon before he gave the half of the book back to Hiccup, but Hiccup snatched it from him too quickly. At one point on the hot-air balloon ride out of Fort Sinister, Hiccup was stung by the Venomous Vorpent. The dragon drops out of the story at this point, though it does appear (as an illustration, with words written around it) in the epilogue, stating "I don't like happy endings. They are too neat, too nice. I like a little spice in my stories," implying that one of the three had been stung by it. In How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse, it is believed to be Fishlegs, but it turns out to be Hiccup.

The only cure for a sting from the Venomous Vorpent is potatoes! You will not feel the bite because it numbs you before it bites you.

Trivia

• The Venomous Vorpent is a close relative to the Sand Rattler.

Dragon Species
Seen in the Books
Basic Brown • Blubberwing • Breathquencher • Bullrougher • Burrowing Slitherfang • Chickenpoxer • Common or Garden • Cuckoo Dragon • Darkbreather • Devilish Dervish • Dreamserpent • Driller-Dragon • Doomfang • Electricsquirm • Exterminator • Fire Dragon • Flamehuffer • Flashfang • Fleshfang • Giant Bee-Eater • Glow-worm • Gorgenghast • Grimler Dragon • Horrors • Lava Louts • Leviathorgan • Loafer Dragon • Marsh Tiger • Monstrous Nightmare • Monstrous Strangulator • Mood-Dragon • Murderous Dragon • Nanodragon • Poison Darter • Poisonous Piffleworm • Polar-Serpent • Puff Nadder • Rageblasts • Red-Hot Itchyworm • Ramming Roller • Raptortongue • Repto • Rocket Ripper • Sabre-Tooth Driver Dragon • Scarer • Scrill • Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus • Semi-Spotted Snowpecker • Sharkworm • Shortwing Squirrelserpent • Sidewinder • Slitherhawk • Skullion • Sky Dragon • Sniffer Dragon • Squealer • Stealth Dragon • Stickyworm • Stinkdragon • Terrorfang • Toothless Daydream • Toungetwister • Toxic Nightshade • Vampire Dragon • Venomous Vorpent • Water Dragon • Windwalker • White Dragon
Seen in the Franchise
Boneknapper • Changewing • Deadly Nadder • Fireworm (Riders of Berk) • Gronckle • Grapple Grounder • Hideous Zippleback • Monstrous Nightmare • Night Fury • Scauldron • Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus • Skrill • Smothering Smokebreath • Snaptrapper • Terrible Terror • Thunder Drum • Timberjack • Typhoomerang • Whispering Death