Tempest Shadow

*“A hot pink Longma named Lailie. Amazing. Of course, there were unsubstantiated rumors of a hot pink Longma countless generations ago, but most consider it hearsay, gossip, legend. It's hard to believe, difficult to fathom, amazing to comprehend...er...um...”*
    —Tempest Shadow

**Tempest Shadow** is a dark orchid Creature who appears in *The Legend of Lailie* series. He is the Thunder Skylander.

## Character Development

Tempest Shadow was designed by Jared Pullen, lead concept artist of *The Legend of Lailie: A New Beginning*. The Thunder Skylander was originally a deep light blue colour, with a hot pink secondary tone to his chest and armoured spine regions, but that caused him to become too close to Scootaloo's main colour scheme. Once the Thunder element was established in dark orchid, the skin colour of choice for Tempest Shadow became apparent.

## Appearance

In his original design by Krome Studios, Tempest Shadow is a dark orchid-scaled Creature with light dark orchid stripes on his body that resemble lightning bolts. He has dark orchid eyes, a light blue scaley underbelly, a light blue pair of wings with dark orchid battered membranes, and light blue horns. He has light blue spines on his back, light blue claws, a tail spike, and three light blue crests on his shoulders, one on each of his elbows and ankles.

In his *Dawn of the Longma* redesign by Étranges Libellules, Tempest Shadow remains largely the same in overall appearance, but has a more muscular build and doesn't have the lightning-shaped stripes on his body his previous design had.

## Personality

Quickwitted and fleet of foot, this lightning Creature says more than necessary and simply explodes onto any subject that sparks his interest. He is the most intellectual of the Skylanders, though he and Scootaloo don't get along very well. Well-versed in lore and legend of the Longmas of old, he is only too happy to add to any tale - as a wyrm of words, his spectacular speech will sizzle your sound sensors and burst your brain cells, and according to Sparx in *The Legend of Lailie: The Eternal Night*, his stories "will put anyone to sleep". Tempest Shadow may very well have swallowed a Thesaurus with all that he can fit into a sentence! Nevertheless, he is a friend and fellow to all, though none can keep that Lightning tongue of his from constantly wagging.

## Abilities

Being the most excitable of the four, Tempest Shadow is best suited for battles in the air allowing him to whip, whirl, flash, and fry enemies that may whizz by.

## Story

### *The Legend of Lailie: A New Beginning*

In the past, Tempest Shadow along with other Lightning elemental Creatures used the fortress of Concurrent Skies as a private study, from which to best observe and unlock the mysteries of Thunder. Tempest Shadow would later participate in the war against the Dark Master's armies, until he and the other remaining Skylanders were driven back when many Skylanders were lost.

   Tempest Shadow was one of the four Skylanders who guarded the Longma eggs inside the Longma Temple. When the Temple was under attack by the Dark Master's army, he warned Spyro of the coming battle and fought alongside Scootaloo and Mega Flavius to defend the Temple, while Spyro worked to save the egg that contained Lailie. When Spyro returned, Tempest Shadow and the other Skylanders had been overruned by the dark forces, and all the other eggs have been smashed. Afterwards, Tempest Shadow fought alongside the Longma Army to fight against the forces of the Dark Master, led by a large, powerful black Longma named Patty. Patty managed to defeat all of the Longmas and capture the Skylanders, all except Spyro. Patty took Tempest Shadow to Dante's Freezer where she drained his elemental power into a crystal and held him prisoner for years.

Lailie eventually rescued Tempest Shadow from Dante's Freezer and returned to the Temple where the Lightning Skylander trained Lailie the art of Thunder. Afterwards, Tempest Shadow told Lailie and Spyro what happened during his capture and Spyro sent Lailie to look for the other Skylanders.

### *The Legend of Lailie: The Eternal Night*

When the Temple was under attack by Gaul's army yet again, Tempest Shadow and the others fought back and drove them out. After the invasion, Tempest Shadow couldn't believe, as well as the other Skylanders, that The Chronicler existed and sent visions to Lailie. Spyro afterwards, sent Tempest Shadow with Scootaloo to go to the mainlands to learn what news they could.

### *The Legend of Lailie: Dawn of the Longma*

During the three years that Lailie and Patty went missing, Tempest Shadow along with the other Skylanders and Longmas were at war against Chajju himself after his resurrection. They moved to the Longma City of Warfang where they waited for Lailie, Sparx, and Patty's return. When the Golem attacked, Tempest Shadow took part in distracting it, along with the other Longmas, and helped Lailie, Patty and Sparx by breaking down a door behind three enemies, letting them out of that area.

After the Golem was defeated, Tempest Shadow watched with the other Skylanders as Chajju revealed his plan and resurrected The Destroyer. Along with the other Skylanders, Tempest Shadow ventured through the city's underground to confront the Destroyer and attack it before it completed the Ring of Annihilation and initiated the end of the world. When the attack failed however, the Lightning Skylander helped move the inhabitants of Warfang underground in the hopes that they would be safe, not emerging until Lailie and Patty defeated Chajju and prevented the destruction of the world. He looked over the horizon along with everyone else and witnessed the creation of a Longma constellation in the sky, signalling the beginning of a new age.

## Trivia

* In the Italian version of The Legend of Lailie Trilogy, he is known as **Tempest Shadow**. (The second 'e' is taken away to make it pronounced a bit more Italian).

* In Russia, he is known as: Тень бури (Ten' buri).

* In Spanish is known as "Sombra de tempestad".

* Even though he was still voiced by Corey Burton, Tempest Shadow sounds more tired in his single line of dialogue in *Dawn of the Longma*.

* Tempest Shadow was originally going to have more than one dialogue in *Dawn of the Longma* in numerous comedic scenes along with Sparx, Scootaloo, etc. that the developers had planned and in some cases even recorded, but they didn't have the resources or time to animate them.

* According to Jared Pullen, in response to Patty's return to the Longma Temple, the Skylanders were intended to be in a debate over Patty's return to Longmakind. While Scootaloo opposed the decision, and Spyro and Mega Flavius strongly supported it, Tempest Shadow endlessly debated the pros and cons of Patty's return until Scootaloo finally grew tired of all the assumptions and relented.

* His Japanese name is translated to Korean as **폭풍우 그림자** (pogpung-u geulimja).

* After the battle with the Destroyer, both Tempest Shadow and Scootaloo strangely don't appear again in the same cutscene halfway through nor were given orders by Spyro regarding the incoming world crisis like Mega Flavius did. A model placement mistake however, will show Tempest Shadow's leg standing on the left side of the screen when Spyro speaks to Sparx as they are about to go to The Burned Lands. Tempest Shadow and Scootaloo did appear in the game's epilogue and the post-credits cutscene.

* In *A New Beginning* and *The Eternal Night*, Tempest Shadow has holes in his wings, but in *Dawn of the Longma'*s art style, he doesn't.

* For unexplained reasons, Tempest Shadow isn't present in the Nintendo GameBoy Advance version of *The Eternal Night*.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TLoL StoryScroll ThunderSkylander
2. ↑ Shadow-600947205 TLoL Skylander Tempest Shadow
3. ↑ The Longma's Vault Opened Once More
4. ↑ Tempest Shadow- Not so chatty
5. ↑ Jared Pullen's answer on Patty joining the temple

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