Thread by @FRWiki

We've got movie sign! A trailer, even! #DnDMovie Honor Among Thieves is revealed, we've be going over frame-by-frame to find all the clues and lore. Watch this space!

#dnd #DungeonsAndDragons #Realmslore

https://twitter.com/DnDMovie/status/1550212578994839553

Alright, what've we got? Neverwinter! There's Castle Never in the middle and a new coliseum opposite. Then a nice plaza in Neverwinter with banners for the Highsun Games we translated earlier.
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The party finds a magic helmet in an underground chamber surrounded by statues, maybe gray dwarves or deep gnomes. The mechanical chest holding the helmet is covered in Dethek runes that appear to explain how to open the box. Handy!

Using our Decipher Script skill, "The plate marked left. Right thrice ------- --eck again turn" "----ides right, left only twice up", "turn the plate marked right thrice --------eck again turn"

Not great security, but we're amazed they got the actors to learn to read Dethek. :D

The battle with the black dragon has many unknowns. The riders with the dragon have helmets with dragon motifs. They seem to be fighting a more ragtag or barbarian army.

The barbarians' elk antlers and banners suggest they're either Icewind Dale's Tribe of the Elk or the Uthgardt's Elk Tribe. (Yes, we have two, sure to cause no end of confusion.)
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forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Elk_tribe

forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tribe_of_…

As Chris Pine explains how they got into this mess in a flashback, we see him dressed in armor with a Harper pin, so he's definitely an ex-Harper.
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forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Harpers

Is that an alchemy jug next to the macguffin? Mmm, endless mayonnaise, maybe they could've used that.
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forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Alchemy_j…

We see a Red Wizard and possibly lich using the macguffin. Other Red Wizards prevent the crowd from leaving. It's reminiscent of the Dread Rings from the 4e Neverwinter Campaign Setitng and the Neverwinter MMO. Need to research this further.

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forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Dread_Ring

A red forest with some kind of giant spider? No clue so far.
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forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Giant_spi…

Shots of the various places that could be anywhere. The scenes in the snow seem to be Icewind Dale.

Chris Perkins said that Revel’s End was introduced in Rime of the Frostmaiden specifically to be able to set it up for the movie. The trees in the village shot suggest that this is Lonelywood, which is also the closest of the Ten Towns to Revel’s End.

Later, Pine and Rodriguez's characters have been arrested by Neverwinter guards (similar blue helmets and armor, and stone walls the same as in other shots around Neverwinter). Rodriguez gets free and kicks the crap out of the guards, as barbarians are wont to do.

The party faces off against black-clad warriors with shaved and tattooed heads. These look similar to the Red Wizards, so maybe these are Thayan Knights. Page's paladin has a similar tattoo, so could he be an ex-bad guy?

We don't known if his detachable projectile sword is an existing magic item or device, of if maybe it's just broken.

Smith’s sorcerer uses the helmet retrieved at the start to launch a wave of force at some guards. The door behind him a magic ward on it. The cut to an exterior implies this wave of force continues outside, although it's not clear what the continuity may actually be in the film.

We're then introduced to the druid, who begins in the shape of a horse before transforming into a snowy owlbear to beat up some Neverwinter guards. There also seems to be one of the black-clad Thayans, so perhaps they are in cahoots with someone in Neverwinter.

We then get an establishing shot of an Underdark city. We think this is likely Gracklstugh, the gray dwarf city (note the blue flames on the towers, as in the image on the wiki page).
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forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Gracklstu…

Because this thread is going astray:

https://twitter.com/FRWiki/status/1550299292862013440

https://twitter.com/FRWiki/status/1550300100458532864

https://twitter.com/FRWiki/status/1550301160136839170

We then see the party fighting the Red Wizard in the plaza from the start. The Red Wizard disarms Rodriguez with a spell and Smith’s sorcerer appears to cast magic missile. That’s likely misty step used by the Red Wizard in the next shot. #DnD

forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Misty_step

Now to our big pet theory: if that underground city is indeed Gracklstugh, then the very chubby red dragon breathing fire at the party is almost certainly Themberchaud.
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forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Themberch…

Oh, and the song used in the trailer is Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin.

Immigrant Song is of course already taken by Thor.

Personally, this editor likes Stairway to Heaven for the Celestial Staircase.

Because this thread is now a complete jumble, sorry, we've compiled a timestamped breakdown of the #DnDMovie trailer on the wiki itself, with links to articles. Expect it to grow and grow as we decipher more details of #Realmslore.

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