Themberchaud

Themberchaud, titled the Wyrmsmith of Gracklstugh, was an adult red dragon allied with the duergar of Gracklstugh in the Northdark of the Underdark in the 14 and 15 centuries DR.

Personality
Like most of his kind, Themberchaud was vain and proud. He was pampered but also restless. By the late 1400s DR, he had started to consider conquering the whole city for himself. His ego was so big that he considered it impossible that someone would not agree with his orders.

Activities
As the Wyrmsmith, Themberchaud used his fire breath to heat the city's great forges and temper the famous steel blades manufactured by the gray dwarves of Gracklstugh. In turn, they paid him regularly, adding to his treasure hoard.

Relations
He was attended to by the Keepers of the Flame, a monastic order of psionic duergar priests. They obeyed his every whim, or at least those that fell within the terms of the pact between the dragon and House Steelshadow. This included defending his hoard while he was away working at the forges. They kept him happy, rich, and fat on the city's more disobedient slaves and guarded the entrance to his lair from a nearby guardhouse, though few would dare trespass in the dragon's lair.

History
At some point, Themberchaud acquired a red dragon egg as part of his treasure hoard—it was unclear whether it was his offspring or a prize of conquest. However, the Gray Ghosts thieves' guild under Zunkhasp Saltbaron stole the egg and in a rage the Keepers declared war on the Gray Ghosts, opening hostilities between them and causing strife in the city by 1373 DR.

Themberchaud had known for years that the Keepers were hiding things from him, but rather than demand disclosure he had waited and observed. In the late 15 century DR, he tried to recruit personal agents outside the Keepers. But Themberchaud didn't know that, like other Wyrmsmiths before him, he was doomed to be slain and replaced by a fresh hatchling before he grew too strong. However, the line of succession was interrupted when the city's thieves guild, Gray Ghosts, stole a red dragon egg from the Keepers of the Flame.

Lair
Themberchaud dwelled in a side cavern leading off from the southern wall of the main cavern of Gracklstugh, out of sight to visitors. He sat atop his treasure hoard there.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Out of the Abyss
 * Novels
 * Escape the Underdark
 * Video Games
 * Sword Coast Legends