Dungeons & Dragons: What is this huge creature in the movie’s craziest action scene?

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Thieves hit the screens. If you’ve seen the movie, you might be surprised by the appearance of a fat dragon that threatens the adventurers led by Edgin (Chris Pine) as they descend into the depths of the earth in search of the Gate of Separation.

This overweight dragon that chases the heroes in the film’s most epic scene has a very specific name and is part of the official Dungeons & Dragons “lore”. And his name is… Tembershaw.

We are currently on the 5th edition of the D&D game and Themberchaud has appeared in the book since the 2nd edition of the game in 1999. A Guide to Darkness by Drizzt Do’Urden.

In this additional context of the game, the dragon is depicted as burning in a forge, aided by a monastic order of grey-skinned deep dwarves. This forge, once revived by dragon fire, can be used to craft weapons with magical properties.

In the supplement, the so-called in the darkBy the third edition of the game, we are told that unruly slaves used by the Gray Dwarves are regularly given Tempersho to eat.

out of town from the abyss (5th edition) Brings the creature back to the front of the stage and specifies that it has a desire to dominate where it is and no longer be satisfied with its current state. The entire plot of the script also revolves around his replacement.

In Honor Thieves, the heroes meet the overweight Tempershaw. To figure out how it might move, visual effects supervisor Ben Snow and his team studied how alligators run, as well as how fat dogs and seals move, and the film’s press kit says:

Of course, it’s not the same rendering as a member of the visual effects team running around with a tennis ball on the end of a stick. But the actors are quite experienced in this field and John and Jonathan explained very well to them the action that had to take place.

He concludes: “Even though the characters make sarcastic comments about him, we wanted them to focus on the dangerous aspect of the dragon, and to do that, make it real.”

Even if the film changes the official account and isolates the dragon from its usual environment (there is no underground city of gray dwarves and no forge), the Tempershaw sequence remains one of the most amazing and spectacular feature films that have just hit the screens.