Stormreign
- Stormreign is an Autobot-allied Knight from The Last Knight portion of the live-action film series continuity family.
Stormreign leads the Knights of Iacon, sworn to prevent their former mistress Quintessa from reclaiming her staff. Their ship having crashed on a secluded part of Earth, he is content for his warriors to remain hidden, far from the Great Deceiver's eyes, but the right cause – the right man – might just convince him to fight the good fight once again...
Stormreign sometimes forms part of Dragonstorm, the Knights' powerful combined form.
Fiction
The Last Knight film
Along with his fellow knights, Stormreign once served as a guardian to Quintessa, but eventually betrayed the sorceress, stole her staff of power and fled to earth. Sometime in the later 5th century, the human "wizard" Merlin stumbled upon the spaceship of the Knights of Iacon, buried beneath the hills of England. He met Stormreign and its occupants, and learned of their homeworld of Cybertron, but promised to keep their existence a secret from his peers. In 484 AD, Merlin returned to the ship and made a heartfelt plea to Stormreign, seeking aid for King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in a dire battle against the Saxons.
Moved by the human's words, Stormreign bestowed upon him Quintessa's staff, and dispatched Dragonstorm to fight alongside Arthur's men, winning them the day. In the battle's aftermath, the Knights of the Round Table and of Iacon forged an alliance, beginning a heraldic order which would become known as the Order of the Witwiccans. On at least one occasion, Stormreign charged into battle alongside Arthur's men. After Merlins death, they buried him, and the staff, in an ancient ship beneath the sea and steelbane joined his brothers in an eternal vigil over it.
In the modern day, Sir Edmund Burton's collection included an excerpt of the Bayeux Tapestry which appeared to show Stormreign and his knights fighting in the Battle of Hastings in 1066 AD. The ship he and the knights lay on was soon discovered by Vivian Wembly, Merlins last descendant and Cade Yeager, who had inherited the Knights talisman, who sought the staff to stop Quintessa, who had recently brought the ruined Cybertron to Earth. After three of their brothers fell defending the staff, Stormreign and the other knights were roused to action. They emerged on the ships hull to attack Optimus Prime, who had been bewitched by Quintessa and slain two of their comrades. They were stopped in executing Prime by Yeager, whose talisman transformed into the sword Excalibur. Recognizing the human as a member of their brotherhood, they backed down and soon rallied behind prime in his mission to save earth and destroy Quintessa.
They made their way to Stonehenge and rode up to Cybertron in the Autobots knight ship, unintentionally unnerving their new allies. Stormreign and the others then combined into Dragonstorm to attack the airborne Decepticons and later bore Optimus into battle against Infernocus. After Quintessa was finally defeated and the earth saved, they remained combined to fly back to Cybertron alongside the Autobots.
Toys
The Last Knight
- Dragonstorm (Leader Class, 2017)
- Accessories: Mace
- The Last Knight Premier Edition Leader Class Dragonstorm includes roughly Voyager-sized figures of Stormreign and Dragonicus, which combine to form the three-headed dragon. Stormreign forms the tail and central head of Dragonstorm, and can wield a 5mm mace in robot mode.
Notes
- Although the red coloration was retained, Stormreign's on-screen design is noticeably different to the concept art that his toy was based upon.
