Forum:Honor Among Thieves trailer breakdown

In this post, the Forgotten Realms Wiki team will break down the trailer and provide details on what you see!

The timestamps are with reference to the trailers posted on Twitter and Youtube.



Characters
Chris Pine: The bard Edgin Darvis Michelle Rodriguez: a barbarian named Holga Kilgor Justice Smith: a half-elf sorcerer named Simon Sophia Lillis: a tiefling druid named Doric Hugh Grant: Forge Fitzwilliam, new Lord of Neverwinter Regé-Jean Page: Xenk, a paladin Jason Wong: Dralas

Scenes

 * 00:07 - Neverwinter! There's Castle Never in the middle and a new coliseum opposite.
 * 00:09 - Then a nice plaza in Neverwinter with banners for the Highsun Games we translated earlier.
 * 00:11-00:17 - 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
 * 00:21-00:30 - 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.)
 * 00:37 - 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.
 * 00:38 - Is that an alchemy jug next to the macguffin? Mmm, endless mayonnaise, maybe they could've used that.
 * 00:41-00:45 - 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 Setting and the Neverwinter MMO. Need to research this further.
 * 00:46-00:48 - It's a time stop spell!
 * 00:49 - A red forest with some kind of giant spider? No clue so far.
 * 00:52-00:55 - 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.
 * 00:56-00:58 - Shots of the various places that could be anywhere. The scenes in the snow seem to be Icewind Dale.
 * 00:59-01:03 - 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.
 * 01:06 - We don't known if his detachable projectile sword is an existing magic item or device, of if maybe it's just broken.
 * 01:07-01:09 - 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.
 * 01:10-01:23 - 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.
 * 01:24 - We see a volcano that's likely Mount Hotenow
 * 01:25 - The dragon statue from the second shot of the trailer come to life (likely meant to be a gold dragon?)
 * 01:26-01:27 - The tiefling druid using a portal to travel from a forest to a room (perhaps a vault).
 * 01:29 - 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).
 * 01:31 - The guy with the green-flame blade is Dralas, played by Jason Wong (@JasonCWong). Early, and suspiciously removed, news reports said he's undead, and now we can believe them.
 * 01:33 - 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?
 * 01:36-01:37 - After the fighting with the Thayans, we see a Red Wizard atop Neverwinter’s arena, possibly the lich from before using the macguffin. The statue on the right is Lord Nasher Alagondar—the design is clearly inspired directly from Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2, right down to the eye symbol on his belt. That's a nice touch.
 * 01:39-01:41 - The arena and Highsun Games are new, so there’s not much to say about the coliseum fight from a lore perspective. What do those boxes and platforms do?
 * 01:43 - A mimic
 * 01:45 - A displacer beast and a gelatinous cube
 * 01:46-01:47 - 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.
 * 01:48 - 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.
 * 02:05 - It looks like there is an elk or a stag on Michelle Rodriguez’s chest, suggesting she might be a member of one of the Elk tribes (either Uthgardt or Reghedmen).
 * 02:11 - The lute. Or is a mandolin?