¶ Tiamat
“Greed is creation’s truest fire.”
¶ Overview
The Chromatic Queen, Tiamat, is the Five-Headed Dragon of Avarice — the shadowed reflection of Bahamut’s light.
Where he embodies mercy and order, she is the patroness of greed, tyranny, and ambition, her hunger endless and her splendor terrible to behold.
Once she and Bahamut ruled the heavens as twin forces of balance, but her craving for dominion sundered their bond. Cast down to the lower planes, she gathered the chromatic broods — red, blue, green, black, and white — as her children and weapons alike.
Though bound to the Nine Hells, Tiamat’s presence seeps into the Material Plane through the dreams of dragons and the promises of mortals who mistake desire for destiny.
¶ Tiamat
Titles: The Chromatic Queen, The Nemesis of the Gods
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Domains: Greed, Tyranny, Vengeance, Destruction
Symbol: Five dragon heads in a circle
Pantheon: Draconic, Faerûnian
Manifestations: Five-headed dragon, queen of gold and ash
“Her hunger shapes empires, her breath reshapes the world.”
¶ Cults & Worship
Tiamat’s followers range from tyrants and hoarders to entire chromatic broods who seek her favor.
Her temples are underground vaults and desert shrines — places of echoing wealth and whispered pacts.
Unlike Bahamut’s humble shrines, hers are gilded in false gold and sealed with blood.
In Athkatla, rumors speak of hidden cults within the Shifting Sands, where merchants pray to her for endless profit and dragons’ return to power.
¶ Myth & Legend
- Each of her five heads commands one of the chromatic breeds — red, blue, green, black, and white — united only by her will.
- Tiamat’s eternal feud with Bahamut defines the cosmic struggle between greed and grace.
- Some claim her prison lies beneath the Desert of Glass, where her dreams still birth storms of gold dust.