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Gwythaints

Background information
Feature films	The Black Cauldron
Television programs	House of Mouse
Video games
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Inspiration	Wyverns (2-legged dragon), the Gwythaints from Chornicles of Prydain
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Character information
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Personality	Evil, savage, intelligent, loyal
Appearance	Slender dragon-like creatures, black and purple scales, wings, two legs, horns, green eyes
Birthday
Occupation	The Horned King's pets
Affiliations	Bad
Goal	To capture Hen Wen, to serve the Horned King
Home	Horned King's castle
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Pets
Allies	Their Boss the Horned King, Creeper, Cauldron Born, Maleficent, Chernabog, The Queen, Stromboli, Lady Tremaine, Hades, The Firebird, Headless Horseman, Shan Yu, Goons, Diablo, Raven
Minions	Creeper, Cauldron Born
Enemies	Taran, Hen Wen, Eilonwy, Fflewddur Fflam, Gurgi, Doli, Dallben, Snow White, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Aurora, Mickey Mouse/Sorcerer Mickey, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy Goof, Pluto
Likes	Meat, Their Boss, success, the undead minions
Dislikes	The living minions
Powers and abilities	Flight, Claws
Weapons	Teeth, talons, horns
Fate	One of them dies drowned with the castle, and the other one escapes with Creeper.
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The Gwythiants are creatures in Disney's 1985 film The Black Cauldron. They are winged reptiles that work for their boss the Horned King, patrolling the skies for whatever he seeks.

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Appearances

The Black Cauldron

Gwyhaints are minor villains in The Black Cauldron. They serve as the Horned Kings minions and dragons. He sends them on missions to find for whatever he is looking . They manage to find Hen Wen when Taran acciedentally let her escape in the woods. Taran sees the gwythaints and tries to help hen Wen fand fight the gwythaints. However, because they are powerful,, one of them, hurts Tarans with it's claws They capture Hen Wen the pig and take her back to the castle.

They are laters seen celebrating the capture of Hen Wen. along with Creeper, and theother henchmen. One of the henchmen gives the two gwythaints a a bone toeat. they all have fn until eerie noise occur. electricity fills the very front of the room. The Horned King appears.

Later, when Taran and Hen Wen try to escape, Creeper, the henchmen and even the gwythaints try (without being ordered) to give chase. the gwythaints , who break ree of their chains tries to the wall give chase. however the gwythaints, who are not free from the chains the block on wall is connected to chains,. So, they fall down., forcing the henchmen to give up chase for a few seconds. Creepr and the henchman capture taran but not the pig who escapes in a moat. The gwythaints chained up to the wall, off-screen,

They are later sent to follow Taran to find the Black Cauldron. they succeed. They are chained up again. One of them is killed when the Horned King's castle is destroyed and the other gwythaints is saved by creeper, off-screen . The gwythaint escapes with Creeper, laughing madly that the Horned is dead and that he cannot punish him, riding on his back and flies away.

Gallery

For more pictures and screenshots of Gwythaints, click here.

Trivia

Their design is exactly the Wyverns design. (A wyvern is a type of dragon-like creature sporting two wings and two legs (as opposed to four legs and two wings like a typical Western dragon), much like a pterosaur)
Unlike Creeper and the other minions, the dragons seem to love and respect the Horned King.
They have appeared in Numerous Occasions in House of Mouse.
They are as Raspacious as their master.
In the original book series by Lloyd Alexander, Chronicles of Prydain the Gwythaints are giant bird-like creatures that are in no way reptilian as they are portrayed in the movie.
The Gwythaints' roars are actually the trumpeting of an elephant.