Tiamat, the All Consuming Hunger (TEE-a-mat or TEE-a-maht)

(a.k.a. Cinderwing (Sin-der-weng), The Chromatic Dragon, Creator of Evil Dragonkind)

Also called the Chromatic Dragon, Tiamat is a massive dragon with five heads: black, blue, green, red, and white. She urges her followers—mostly other dragons, but some humanoid cults—to conquer as much as they can, gathering the spoils of war in rich hoards. No cruelty is beyond her desire for plunder and victory in battle.   All evil dragons pay homage to Tiamat; green and blue dragons acknowledge her sovereignty the most readily. Good dragons have a healthy respect for Tiamat, though they usually avoid mentioning her or even thinking about her. In her natural form, Tiamat is a thick-bodied dragon with five heads and a wyvern’s tail. Each head is a different color: white, black, green, blue, and red. Her massive body is striped in those colors. Tiamat has many consorts, including great wyrm dragons of the white, black, green, blue, and red varieties.

Holy Prayers

Prayers to Tiamat are always spoken in first-person plural, even if the worshiper is alone. They also tend to grovel a lot. “Chromatic Dragon, conquer our weakness…” is a common prayer opening.

Holy Rites

Sacrifices are common elements in Tiamat’s few rituals, which almost always bless some new plan of conquest. Her dragon followers generally consume the sacrificial victims.

Dogma

Tiamat concerns herself with spreading evil, defeating good, and propagating evil dragons. She enjoys razing the occasional village, city, or country, but only as a diversion from more subtle, world-spanning plots. She is the villain who lurks in the shadows. Her presence is felt but seldom seen.   Tiamat constantly seeks to extend the power and dominion of evil dragons over the land, particularly when her subjects find themselves embroiled in territorial disputes with good dragons. Tiamat unfailingly demands reverence, homage, and tribute from her subjects.

Clergy

The dragon goddess of greed and queen of evil dragons. Tiamat is the eternal rival of her brother Bahamut, ruler of the good metallic dragons. Tiamat is a unique chromatic dragon, who has one head for each primary color of the most common species of chromatics (black, blue, green, red, white).   Tiamat accepts only evil clerics. Tiamat’s clerics, like Tiamat herself, seek to place the world under the domination of evil dragons.   Though most evil dragons honor Tiamat, few keep shrines dedicated to her in their lairs because they don’t want Tiamat’s greedy eyes gazing at their treasure hoards. Instead, they dedicate vast, gloomy caverns to their deity and keep them stocked with treasure and sacrifices.   Tiamat claims not to need allies, though most believe she has bargains with many archdevils and lawful evil deities such as Hextor. Her enemies are numerous, including St. Heironeous, Moradin, and, of course, Bahamut.

Clerical Training

The Chromatic Dragon has enough dark mystique that humanoid cults often worship her. Sometimes she sends a dragon or two to teach new clerics the way of rapacious conquest. Would-be clerics try their utmost to please their instructors, because students who fail are eaten by their teachers.

Cult of the Dragon

The cult of Tiamat has been around since her rebirth, seeking ways to break the boundaries that prevent outer beings from entering the inner planes.

Temples

Vast, gloomy caverns stocked with treasure and sacrifice are Tiamat’s favorite temples. These caverns draw temple raiders like flies when their location becomes known, but are often guarded by dragons.

Divine Domains

War, Knowledge, Arcane, Dragon

Minor Domains

Destruction, Evil, Law, Trickery.

Portfolio

Evil dragons, conquest.

Artifacts

Chromatic rod, dragonscale cloak.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Five dragon heads in a circle facing right

Divine Goals & Aspirations

Tiamat cares about treasure, cruelty, and conquest—and she’s not even particular whether something conquered is retained thereafter. Her followers form cabals that secretly rule cities, raid the treasure-hoards of metallic dragons, and engage in great wars to conquer some new portion of the lower planes, sending its looted wealth back to Tiamat.

Relationships

Xymor, the Alatum

Brother (Vital)

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Sister (Vital)

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"Look at all this life oh bearer mine. There is so much left to burn..."
Divine Classification
Greater Deity, Wish Dragon
Alignment
Lawful Evil
Realm
Church/Cult
Spouses
Siblings
Xymor, the Alatum (Brother)
Children
Current Residence
Azharul
Gender
Female
Ruled Locations

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