Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood stated that Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will be canon.
During an exclusive interview with CBR, Ed Greenwood detailed how D&D's latest cinematic entry would be incorporate Neverwinter's canon, which is also explored extensively in the free-to-play MMORPG of the same name. According to Greenwood, the Forgotten Realms team is working to reconcile the world's lore with the film's events, despite merging separate canons being complicated. "I realize that it's difficult to reconcile canon. There are two super fans of the series --Eric Boyd and George Krashos, who have published official stuff as well -- who have made an entire career of pouncing on apparent contradictions and explaining them away by generating new lore that actually explains away that contradiction."
How Honor Among Thieves Fits the Forgotten Realms' Lore
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves follows Edgin Darvis (Chris Pine), a Harper-turned-thief that teams up with a group of reluctant adventurers to recover a stolen relic. Greenwood explained that connecting the canon of Neverwinter to Honor Among Thieves will require some inventive additions to the lore of certain characters from the film. "I'm going to have to think that a particular character by the name of Forge Fitzwilliam (Hugh Grant), his ancestors must have come through a portal to have that 'Fitz,' which was just the way of denoting, particularly in the Flemish tongue, "bastard children." If you weren't a legitimate child of Mr. Williams, you were Fitzwilliams."
Additionally, Greenwood explained that Forgotten Realms' writers have the freedom to be inventive thanks to the series' use of unreliable narrators, a recurring storytelling device. "The Gods lie to their faithful clergy. The clergy turn around and lie to the people, maybe not knowing that they're lying because, hey, they're trusting their God." Greenwood explained. "Elminster lies to us about everything in the Realms. Volo doesn't even hide his lies. So, you put all those together, and everything you read about the Forgotten Realms or experience in a computer game is written in quicksand on a stormy beach with the tide coming in."
Neverwinter is currently celebrating its 10th Anniversary, having launched back in 2013. Executive Producer Brett Norton stated that he would like to use the game to explore some of the Neverwinter-related events that happen in Honor Among Thieves but that there are licensing hurdles his team must first cross. However, some aspects of the film that are already part of the common lore of the Forgotten Realms, like Themberchaud, could be used in Neverwinter in the future.
Neverwinter is available on Steam. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is available through Paramount+ and Prime Video.
Source: CBR