Golem (character)

Golem
Species:	Golem of the Deep
Affiliation:	Malefor
First appearance:	The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon (2008)

“Spyro, you're lucky to be alive, all of you. That was no ordinary creature back there. It was an ancient earth golem from the deep. They are the embodiment of destruction summoned by Malefor himself.”

– Hunter

The Golem is a giant monster made of earth and lava; part of an ancient species that are the embodiment of destruction. This creature was summoned by Malefor prior to the events of The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, where it eventually crossed paths with Spyro, Cynder and Sparx have encountered in the game.

Personality

Fused by the dark will of Malefor, the Golem's sole purpose is the destruction of Spyro and anything else that happens to get in its way. Like others of its kind, it is the embodiment of destruction, capable of razing cities to the ground. During Spyro and Cynder's escape through the Catacombs, the beast was shown to be persistent in its attempts to kill its two sacrifices; even an arrow to the eye and the loss of its left arm didn't slow down its pursuit.

Abilities

Besides using its massive strength to crush its enemies, the Golem can breathe fire and release fireballs. It can even scale buildings with the use of its spider-like legs. Its tail is also used as a weapon, whipping away Spyro and Cynder, as well as other enemies in its path, and the Golem has the ability to regenerate missing limbs (as when it used the rubble of Dragon City to build a new hand).

Story

The Golem was summoned from the depths of the earth by Malefor sometime after his return. At the start of Dawn of the Dragon, the Golem was to be given Spyro and Cynder as sacrifices under Malefor's orders. To prepare, the Grublins magically chained Spyro and Cynder together and brought them to the Catacombs to be sacrificed before a Grublin audience that stood on the sidelines. The two dragons woke up too soon however, and a Hero Orc sent Grublins underlings to subdue Spyro and Cynder to buy the Golem time to arrive. The lava monster soon emerged from the fiery depths of the area and attempted to stop Spyro and Cynder from escaping, only to be temporarily driven away when Hunter shot the monster in the eye with an arrow.

Within the depths of the Catacombs, the Golem reappeared and continued its attempts to capture and kill Spyro and Cynder, resulting in them being able to escape and inadvertently destroy one of the Golem's arms in the process. The Golem later played a major role in Malefor's attack on the Dragon City of Warfang. After the siege engines had been destroyed, and despite Malefor's massive army nearly taking the city, the Grublin forces retreated to allow the Golem to lay waste to Warfang. It emerged behind the city's walls from underground, smashing a wall as it did, and briefly stopped its rampage to create a new hand out of the debris.

Ignitus, Volteer, Terrador and Cyril defended Spyro and Cynder from the Golem as the young dragons navigated their way through a portion of the city, but the Guardians were defeated one by one. Realizing that the monster was heading towards the upper part of the city where the inhabitants were taking shelter in, Spyro and Cynder engaged the Golem within a large building to stop the monster for good, breaking off half of its jaw during the struggle. Ignitus showed Spyro and Cynder a small bump on the Golem's head by breathing fire on it, indicating that the main dark crystal that controlled the monster was hidden underneath. Despite the Golem's attempts to crush them, Spyro and Cynder tore the bump off and destroyed the crystal inside. With its main dark crystal destroyed, the Golem perished as it fell off the building and hit the ground below.

Profile

“Fused by the dark will of Malefor, this hulking giant dwarfs even the mightiest of dragons. Its sole purpose is the destruction of Spyro and anything else that happens to get in the way.”

– The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon Prima Strategy Guide, page 28

Gallery

For this subject's image gallery, see Golem (character)/Gallery.

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  The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon
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  The Golem facing Spyro and Cynder in a final showdown

Trivia

• The Golem is the only boss in Dawn of the Dragon that causes the most death scenes to both Spyro and Cynder if the quicktime events are done wrong.
• The Golem resembles the Balrog from The Lord of the Rings.
  • It also resembles Iblis from the 2006 game of Sonic the Hedgehog.
• When the Golem falls off the side of the building, it resembles the last scene of the movie King Kong.
• After the last quicktime event between Spyro and the Golem in the Catacombs, the creature changed positions from the left side of the platform to the right as Spyro and Cynder enter the hall to escape. As the Golem reaches into the hall for Cynder with its right arm, it suddenly teleports to the right side of the platform.