Bahamut

The Platinum Dragon, King of the Good Dragons, Master of the North Wind

Symbol: Star above a milky nebula or a platinum dragon head surrounded by golden canaries
Home Plane: Celestia
Alignment: Lawful Good
Portfolio: Good dragons, Wind, Protection
Worshipers: Good dragons, anyone seeking protection from evil dragons
Cleric Alignments: NG
Domains: Air, Good, Luck, Protection
Favored Weapon: Claw

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.
Bahamut (ba-HA-mut or BA-ha-mut) the Platinum Dragon has been described both as the King of All Good Dragons, and more accurately, as a glorious and resplendent deity in his own right. He is ever watchful for the cause of lawful good and sits unsleepingly in his palace on Mount Celestia, the Seven Heavens. Bahamut is the protector of all good dragons and a fierce opponent of evil. In addition to being the god of good and metallic dragons, wisdom, and enlightened justice, on many worlds, Bahamut is also seen as a power of virtue in general and as a minor draconic power of the firmament, especially clear and bright skies, whether night or day.
Bahamut is noble, wise, judicious, kind, helpful, and among the most compassionate beings in the multiverse, but he can also be stern. He has a genuine fondness for and believes in the sanctity of life, and will not willingly kill another creature unless he has no other choice, preferring to polymorph them into a harmless form instead of slay them.

Appearance, Manifestations

Bahamut normally appears as the Platinum Dragon, a huge dragon wrapped in a scintillating aura of light often so brilliant that it is impossible to tell his true coloration of platinum. But for this silver-white hue of his scales and a stiff horse-like mane of silver-black, the Platinum Dragon’s body resembles the lean sinuous form of a winged gold dragon (though his body is not quite as elongated and serpentine). Bahamut’s catlike eyes are a deep blue, as azure as a midsummer sky, some say. Others insist that Bahamut’s eyes are a frosty indigo, like the heart of glacier. Perhaps the two accounts merely reflect the Platinum Dragon’s shifting moods.
Bahamut is also fond of appearing as a frail Old Hermit, with a great white beard, or less frequently as a callow youth. In these forms, he tests the virtue of his mortal worshippers and travels unnoticed among the lesser races across many worlds. His subtle prophecies unlock great mysteries and his beneficence provides safe refuge or a badly needed spell.
Bahamut is served by seven great gold wyrms that often accompany him or one of his avatars. As the Old Hermit, they often take the shapes of canaries.

Dogma

The Code of Bahamut is similar to the code of chivalry adopted by certain segments of humanity. In its full form, it comprises several hundred lines of elements, nuances, and commentary. The major precepts, however, include: Justice and Good above all; Honor and Fealty to the King; Honor and Respect to Righteous Innocence; Honor and Duty to the Justicemaker; Honor and Protection to the Lesser Races; Honor and Correction to the Enemies of Justice and Good; and Honor and Forbearance for oneself. Notably, the third precept refers to the protection and respect for good aligned innocents. The code also discourages excessive greed.

Clergy

The virtues of Bahamut spend the bulk of their days combating evil, aiding the weak, and ferreting out the nefarious plots and plans of the cults of Tiamat. He accepts only good clerics. Clerics of Bahamut, be they dragons, dragonborn, 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.

Priestly Vestments

Bahamut’s faithful don simple robes of bronze, silver, gold, or platinum (white) hue to conduct holy rituals. The color of the robes also denotes the priest’s general rank. The holy symbol of the faith depends upon the region of the faithful. Worshipers of Bahamut prefer a platinum or silver amulet with their holy symbol engraved into it. In ages past, Bahamut allowed the use of a blessed claw to serve as his clergy’s holy symbols.

Temples

Bahamut has few major centers of worship, as many of his draconic faithful simply worship him under the open sky. His non-draconic followers rarely congregate in large enough numbers to build temples, though small shrines to the platinum dragon can often be found in larger towns and cities.

Rituals

While Bahamut’s draconic worshipers have developed numerous rituals, which generally involve singing the Lord of the North Wind’s praise under an open sky, his humanoid worshipers are still developing their rituals. However, once each month during the quarter moon the faithful are to sacrifice jewelry (and other treasures) to their god’s great hoard.

Affiliated Orders

Bahamut maintains many combatant orders of dragons and a few including humans and demihumans.
One example of such an order are the Talons of Justice, a group of silver dragons that have sworn an oath to follow the Code of Bahamut. These dragons are of all ages, although most originally swore the oath when they were young and energetic. No one knows exactly how many Talons there are, but the group probably numbers in the scores. Group members are spread throughout the world, many living in human and demihuman form in cities and towns.
Bahamut’s human faithful have also begun a military order dedicated to stopping Tiamat, the Knights Resplendent. Although the group is made up primarily of human crusaders and paladins, as well as a handful of dragonborn, a number of good dragons have partnered with their human compatriots.

Divine Classification

Lesser Draconic Deity