Bahamut (bah-hahm-ut)
The Platinum Dragon, King of the Good Dragons, Master of the North Wind
Bahamut is revered in many locales. Though all good dragons pay homage to Bahamut, gold, silver, and brass dragons hold him in particularly high regard. Other dragons, even evil ones (except perhaps his archrival Tiamat), respect Bahamut for his wisdom and power.
In his natural form, Bahamut is a long, sinuous dragon covered in silver-white scales that sparkle and gleam even in the dimmest light. Bahamut’s catlike eyes are deep blue, as azure as a mid-summer sky, some say. Others insist that Bahamut’s eyes are a frosty indigo, like the heart of a glacier. Perhaps the two accounts merely reflect the Platinum Dragon’s shifting moods.
Divine Domains
Portfolio
Good dragons, wind, wisdom
Domains
Air, Scalykind, Good, Luck, Protection, Nobility
Subdomains
Dragon, Leadership, Purity, Redemption, Wind
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Temples
Temples to Bahamut are almost all shrines within the current or former lairs of dragons. They’re good places to go to ask about ancient lore or get something translated from Draconic — but they’re often in remote, forbidding places. When your fellow worshipers are all dragons, you needn’t bother with elaborate temple defenses.
Quests
Wherever honest folk struggle under the yoke of oppression, Bahamut’s followers are found, striving to protect the righteous from evil. Sometimes worshipers of Bahamut wear their affiliation proudly, charging into battle with the Platinum Dragon as their standard. Just as often, however, the worshipers work undercover and behind the scenes. Common missions include rescuing a village from a rapacious warlord, breaking up a cabal of foul necromancers, or riding at the vanguard of an army that assaults the gates of Hell itself.
Prayers
Many of Bahamut’s proverbs take the form “To [action] is [assessment].” For example, “To oversleep is folly,” or “To smite evil is laudable.”
Rites
Bahamut’s worshipers often celebrate believers who enter some new stage in their life: starting a business venture, becoming a soldier, getting married, and so forth.
Tenets of Faith
Bahamut is stern and very disapproving of evil. He brooks no excuses for evil acts. In spite of this, he is among the most compassionate beings in the multiverse. He has limitless empathy for the downtrodden, the dispossessed, and the helpless. He urges his followers to promote the cause of good, but prefers to let beings fight their own battles when they can. To Bahamut, it is better to offer information, healing, or a (temporary) safe refuge rather than to take other’s burdens upon oneself.
Worshipers
Bahamut is revered by all good dragons, but gold, silver, and brass dragons hold him in particularly high regard.
Clergy
Bahamut has few clerics and even fewer temples. He accepts only good clerics. Clerics of Bahamut, be they dragons, half-dragons, or other beings attracted to Bahamut’s philosophy, strive to take constant, but subtle action on behalf of good, intervening wherever they are needed but striving to do as little harm in the process as possible.
Many gold, silver, and brass dragons maintain simple shrines to Bahamut in their lairs, usually nothing more elaborate than Bahamut’s symbol scribed on a wall.
Cleric Training
Bahamut’s few nondragon clerics learn the Platinum Dragon’s teachings at the foot of a dragon, usually an older gold or silver dragon in humanoid form. The relationship is one of teacher and student, with the duo typically traveling to see the effects of injustice and cruelty firsthand.
Bahamut is served by seven great gold wyrms that often accompany him or one of his avatars.
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