Timestamps and Spoilers Below: 0:06 Intro, Become a Member! 0:15 Tiamat Inspiration and Mythology 1:06 Presence in early D&D 2:02 Godhood 4:52 Immortal and Her Conflict with Bahumat 6:17 Children and Consorts, Consorts in Combat 7:52 Former Queen of Avernus and the Favor of Asmodeus 8:49 Armies in Avernus and the Abashai 12:45 Dragon Queen and her Other Aspects in the multiverse 13:49 Cults and Priests of Tiamat 16:15 Tiamat in Combat 17:17 Five Heads, One Mind 18:59 Symbology and World Ending Catastrophy Like, Share, Comment, Subscribe, I was surprised to find that this video didn't have someone who had done timestamps yet. I think I knew about Tiamat before I knew of just about any other of the Evil Gods in D&D, she is legitimately that classic. Definitely check out AJ's Bahumat video if you enjoyed this content, subscribe if you haven't already, and see you all next time. Bahumat Video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e5-esdJsft26d5c.html

@yehudaquinton1069

3 жыл бұрын

i realize I am quite off topic but does anyone know of a good place to watch new tv shows online?

@bradachtilabestaak4809

2 жыл бұрын

I’m just asking

@bradachtilabestaak4809

2 жыл бұрын

I’m just asking

@playlist4637

Жыл бұрын

'Tathamet and Anu' and Bahamut and tiamat...any resemblance? 5 head vs. 7 head dragon? Anu and Ao? Diablo and D&D lore...just something I noticed, might not mean anything...

Ok if they where to do a dnd movie that has Tiamat in it and she gets voiced by Cate Blanchett “Galadriel” when she was doing the whole “in place of a dark lord you would have a queen” good idea or nay?

@AJPickett

Жыл бұрын

Well, when Tiamat calls herself "we" it makes a lot more sense than when queen Elisabeth does it.

I like how you explained the relation of Tiamat and Bahamut: Love Hate, then Hate Hate, finally she loves to Hate him XD

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I liked that bit to :D

@felixrivera895

4 жыл бұрын

So Rich Siblings who have beef

@lorekeeper685

3 жыл бұрын

Tiamat is the more knowledgable of two also

She is a boss among bosses. What an incredibly frightening arch-nemesis for an epic party in an epic campaign. I find her Krynnish aspect, that of Takhisis, to be absolutely terrifying as the central antagonist of the Dragonlance Chronicles. Wonderful video.

@barrystrayer5794

3 ай бұрын

She got hers in the war of souls, shame about paladine though

Tiamat."Everything will be mine, and if it isn't mine... *I WILL KILL IT.*"

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

I hear she once killed a mountain. And yes, it can be done.

@firetarrasque4667

5 жыл бұрын

I'd like to thank you foor not making an ex joke.

@dubuyajay9964

4 жыл бұрын

Yeesh! At least take me out to dinner first! Note, not as dinner-AAAHHH!!! *Runs from flame breath.*

@jameswagstaff984

3 жыл бұрын

Those who are not with me are against me, and I destroy all who stand against me!

I first remember Tiamat from the Dungeon & Dragons cartoon from the 80's.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

I lost all respect for unicorns thanks to that show.

@spunkyspaz

6 жыл бұрын

Ha! Well the other unicorns were pretty cool it was just Uni who was an annoying child. Tiamat should have been able to take the 6 of them out in 1 round, I think she was just toying with them.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

The realm seemed to be very sparsely populated, she must have been bored as hell.. maybe she was stuck on a demi-plane with that idiot Venger, as he and the Dungeon Master sorted out their family scwabble.

@Jianju69

6 жыл бұрын

The only cool thing about that show was the ranger's bow. Everything else was troll poop.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

The Wizard, pulls things out of his magic hat, has no knowledge of spells what so ever... clearly, these people are experts on the game.

Nowadays, Tahkisis has been killed by the other Krynnish gods for stealing their world from them. However, in the Dragonlance saga, it is said that Tahkisis isn't really dead, just dormant like an Elder God. If she wakes up, then the Final Cataclysm begins and destroys Krynn.

@AJPickett

3 жыл бұрын

Dragonlance lore is a slight mess.

@jacobfreeman5444

3 жыл бұрын

I can't see them killing her. But I can see them using combined divine power to put her in a death like sleep. As a punishment for her unrepentant selfishness. No willful interactions until such time the other gods get things sorted to their liking. That is, to the point she can do minimal damage.

@EctoToad

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacobfreeman5444 Nah removed her godhood then stabbed through the chest with a Dragonlance. She dead dead.

"... The default state of hiding from tiamat." I laughed so hard I frightened my dog. :p

@scottmcley5111

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Dungeons and Dragons the cartoon. 😆

Tiamat is my favorite evil God. She is so fckn badass. 5 Godamned Chromatic dragon heads?! That shit *screams* kneel & gravel.

You saying "abishai with intoxicating breath" I was inspired to create a captured abishai that breathes alcoholic fumes for use in a tavern!

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Well, the Alehouse drakes have to come from somewhere...

@benthomason3307

4 жыл бұрын

"no smoking allowed"

Fun fact: Tiamat is officially part of the Godzilla cannon! :D

@barbatosmcmurderton4209

2 жыл бұрын

Details plz?

@gaffawebber

2 жыл бұрын

No.

@fifthhorseman1632

Жыл бұрын

I rly hope ur joking lol

@s0ph053

3 ай бұрын

King Ghidora: oh shit oh fu-

Im currently running a campaighn where Tiamat took over. Its fun.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Nice, throw the Mindflayers and Aboleth in there, see how the players handle it :)

@cheeselord8153

5 жыл бұрын

AJ Pickett is the aboleth named whimsy and have a split personality??😃😃

@awesomepocalypse3203

5 жыл бұрын

Daniel Cuevas Puffin Forest?

@thepoeticdragon5649

5 жыл бұрын

ABSERD

@battlemaster4208

5 жыл бұрын

I became done with rise of tiamat not so long ago

You seem to have skipped the entire thing about the Tiamat murdering her unnamed sister over the creation of the Lesser Chromatics who aren't really under her control

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

I didn't come across that lore, can you point me to where to find that please?

@AzraelThanatos

6 жыл бұрын

Originally, it was in Dragon and Dungeon magazines during at least the AD&D era, the info was reworked in the 3rd edition period somewhat, before being reprinted with an update to 3.5 in the Dragon Compendium. It was part of the Lore of the Orange, Purple, and Yellow dragons.

Dude you earned a sub. For the very first time ever, KZread put something in my recommended that I love

Need this now more than ever, DMing Baldur’s Gate: Decent into Avernus and my group has had run-ins with Cult of the Dragon since their inception (albeit, having Not run Rise of Tiamat) and the Arkhan the Cruel side quest is a key place I’d like them to go. This detailed video is amazing, bringing lore and insight to portray Tiamat in the light needed. Thank you

I kind of wish she had a different form than just her five heads. Like, she would be chromatic like a rainbow, but is a seamless fusion of all five dragons.

@luclin92

4 жыл бұрын

Nothing stopping you from doing something like that. I would use it more as a underling. Where it is the herald of Tiamat since having 5 heads is really strong for her since she usually could focus pretty easily on different things with them. But the other version works fine as a dragon that is the aspect of tiamat, but not as strong. But it has access to all the different breath attacks that she has

@Giles29

4 жыл бұрын

If you're going with the "Takhisis is Tiamat" thing then she can also appear as a human(ish) woman. The standard version might also be able to do that if she wanted to.

@menghao737

4 жыл бұрын

It's a God. Have it look like whatever you want.

@jacobfreeman5444

4 жыл бұрын

She is a greater god. She can look however she pleases. Maybe you could have her with iridecent scales that shift colors constantly?

@gusargoan

3 жыл бұрын

A gay dragon, interesting.

I really enjoyed tiamat in the dragonlance setting. The whole raistlin series was pretty fantastic.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Great fiction, the Dragonlance books were some of the first I ever read. I think the first novel I read was 'Voyage of the Dawntreader.'

@brotherj7328

5 жыл бұрын

The Dark Queen. Vintage DL was amazing.

@brightglory5734

4 жыл бұрын

Takhisis, you put some respect on her name.

I killed her champion under a contract and offered one to her right after she was shocked but accepted so long as I became her new champion for 100 years I agreed and I'm now a unique Dragon actually just a modified Red Dragon with black& red scales

All hail Tiamat! May her dominion over the materiel plane come swiftly!

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Alexander Bahn huzzah! *fires magic missiles into the air at random*

@nirvanah2029

2 жыл бұрын

🙏🐉🙏🐉🙏🐉

Just found your channel. You got so many video I don't even know where to begin. I guess this video im already on.

Wonderful work as always A.J. You always seem to be putting out the perfect info at just the right time. Bravo good Sir. I’m still a relative newbie, and dming my first campaign for a couple 15+ year vets of the game. Your info has made me look like I know what I’m doing, even when I am floundering a bit. You have my deepest thanks, and I’m sure, the thanks of many others.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, don't forget, if you ever have any D&D questions, I am right here, ready to help out.

Currently in a campaign where my character is a Tiamat cultist and due to it going all the way to level 20 he was able to form his own cult and meet Tiamat in person. This weekend he’s going to be proposing to her with a legendary magic ring because he’s deeply in love with her! Wish me luck!

@tree_alone

Жыл бұрын

dead.

@wherewiiwentwrong

Жыл бұрын

How bad was the party TPK'd?

@julianhyams9392

Жыл бұрын

@@wherewiiwentwrong It actually went kinda well in the end! We were all level 20 and prepared for a fight to basically win her respect over for my character to then do the proposal. He'd been a very loyal servant up until that point and had a grand vision of creating a nation of dragons with her aid so chromatics could have somewhere to live where they weren't hunted. The battle was by no means easy and we had several go down, but thanks to our teamwork we eventually swung a victory. I made the proposal to her with the ring successfully, and then me with my other cultists formed a new Wyrmspeaker council under her to go about enacting my dragon nation plan. In the campaign epilogue, we were successful in doing so, carving out a territory near some mountains for us to settle down and start building in. And thus the nation of Scalinkirr was born! And the story of Kilmash Krenkus came to a close, as the first Dragonfather of the new nation.

Running Rise of Tiamat is pretty fun I gotta say. Knowing the horrors that await my players is just lovely.

I like to think her heads operate like a sub-hivemind. Technically separate, but also acting as a single entity. If that makes sense.

Thank you for making this video on my fav evil D&D goddess.

I have a weird idea that was inspired by a science fiction novel for a dnd campaign . Essentially you start out as a Deity , then you go backwards in time on each level starting a new adventure each time. Until you see your own origin based upon your actions the story of your origin changes based upon your actions as a deity showing who you are based upon how you acted in the origin.

Keep up the hard work AJ! These videos make the vast collaborative lore created by all the writers of this marvelous game accessible to those of us who want to plunge face first into this Rich well of inspiration. Thank you.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

SO MUCH LORE! I could make these videos forever.

Just trap in a pit with a carpet over it

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Fool proof

@pepsicrusader535

5 жыл бұрын

Yes the d&d cartoon I see you are a man that enjoys the finer arts

I play as a red Dragonborn Sorcerer who's clan gives worship to Tiamat. She is incredibly passionate and prone to anger, with which once she's broken bad will set things on fire in a hissy fit. Though she is quite useful to the party and is not very hostile when calmed down, she tends to command a bit of respect from NPC's who talk to her. Very fun to role play. One thing the party doesn't like about her (other than being Neutral Evil) is that she tends to covet and horde any gold she gets her clutches on and she has been caught a few times performing a personal version of "The Tything" when she is silently holding clawfuls of gold over a lit candle silently and waiting for it to disappear. It's only worked once so far but when it did it was an awesome "Bless" spell that the DM gave her after rolling the percentile dice. The way he does it, the more gold I offer to Tiamat, the better the chance for the percentile. So far she's convinced the two party paladins not to attack her because of persuasion and a score of beneficial things she has done for the party. But I think I'm on borrowed time. And yes, she's slept with the Bard once too. Not very proud about that one but hey, it was cold outside and Bard "Needed warmth", which I rolled a "1" for as far as persuasion/insight goes!

As always, informative and engaging. Thanks AJ!

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

most welcome Mike!

Only way to beat her is get some epic dragon buddies that would be hard.

I am a fan of warhammer, warcraft, and elder scrolls. Glad to see I can now get into dnd also. Great videos man, ty ty

Awesomeness! Thank you AJ!

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Most welcome :)

Love this! Thank you sir! 👍🏻

Thanks for the info!

Great video! 😀

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jorphdan!

@draxthemsklonst

5 жыл бұрын

Love your vids, too, Jorphdan!

Thanks, man, I'll be using Tiamat in a adventure...this helps immensely.

@darktrooper2099

6 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@Jianju69

6 жыл бұрын

Same here.

Just don't tell Venger.

Holy shit bro I love this so.much. keep the mythos in our cosmos

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

You bet!

I got hooked on Tiamat from the D&D cartoon.

@brotherj7328

5 жыл бұрын

Venger WAS my childhood!

Great informative vid. I always liked the idea she has a hive mind, but that each head is almost like a distilled part of her personality, and that is how kinda the extreme personalities of her children come into being thru. Though i always also liked to play her as unknown to her children, and even other Dragon kind via her assuming a different god-personas suited to her worshippers an using that head alone to interact with them. Though in a story-line in which she is not banished, I could see maybe she was sundered into five dragon-aspects of her divinity an seek to be merged back into her true form, maybe even with her sundered form being sealed/pinned into specific places that she needs worshippers to help unseal/unbind before being able to become whole again (maybe why she created her five chromatic breeds of dragons).. THough in the Cult of Tiamat I like to use the idea of the hierarchy of chromatic dragons for how they structure themselves, with the top priest/priestess alone using a similar style of combining all five colors. So kinda like in ways that a kingdom/area would be divided into five (maybe more) zones that are not equally divided among the five head dragon-priests/priestesses, which than would directly report to the high-priest/priestess or chromatic priest/priestess.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Excellent reasoning for the operation of her cult. (I looked it up, cult is the correct name for a group who worship a living leader, which I thought was pretty interesting).

18:28 nice reference to one of the best DnD shows ever made.

0:26 The first son or daughter of the Sea Goddess, Tiamat and the Fresh Water God, Abzu should have been named Brackish... Eh? Eh?! Anyone?:D Door's this way, yea?

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Never stop trying.

@sintechnics7838

6 жыл бұрын

I get it

@Awesomeisme7000

6 жыл бұрын

I don't get it

@leonmclaren5699

6 жыл бұрын

Tatsusama 😔😔😔😔

@wingedhussarswiss4703

6 жыл бұрын

LegitGamerXpro Brackish water is when fresh and salt water mix.

Awesome!

"I can fix her" -The Bard.

AJ, have you considered to upload these as podcasts? I'd love to binge these on headphones while doing my daily strolls.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

I am considering all sorts of options for next year. nice to hear from you, it's been a while :)

@dvklaveren

6 жыл бұрын

I'd be around more, but I'm more on the move these days! :D

The Dragon of many colors and none.

Still love this video

Tiamat does in fact have 5 seperate minds, as this is stated in both her entry in the 4e draconomicon and in The Rise of Tiamat campaign for 5e

@dubuyajay9964

4 жыл бұрын

Yikes...how dumb is the White Dragon head?

@JanusHoW

4 жыл бұрын

So you could potentially distract her - even momentarily - with the old "Which head is the best head" trick?

@JanusHoW

4 жыл бұрын

@@dubuyajay9964 Considering that her base Int is 26, which is supra-genius, I'd say it's probably at least 20, since the ancient white has an Int of 10.

@st4ne4rmthevill63

3 жыл бұрын

@@JanusHoW the white & blue heads might fall for that but I highly doubt the Red & Green heads would fall prey to that shit.

@JanusHoW

3 жыл бұрын

@@st4ne4rmthevill63 True, but also remember that red dragons are supremely egotistical. Unless all of the heads have worked out in advance who the "best head" is, the trick might be enough to catch her off guard for at least a combat round, maybe two.

Tiamat rules and Venger drools.

I need need a refresher on some of these I-O-H named gods. It was really confusing for a while hearing about Ayoh, Ioh, and Ioun

I would love to see a little piece about Kurtulmak :3 once you have time.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

I talked a little bit about him in my video on Kobolds, but he does need his own video.

Awesome memories

Love this. Makes me wish Horde of the Dragon Queen and Rise og Tiamat were better written campaigns.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

They make for a pretty dry read.

@Jianju69

6 жыл бұрын

Good to know; I'll skip those. After viewing a video like this, my mind is bubbling with great Tiamat stories...

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the WoTC team have been pretty honest about those two books, they admit they were not great, but, for the first foray into 5th edition adventures, they don't suck entirely.

@Jianju69

6 жыл бұрын

Haven't read such books since the days of Gord the Rogue & the earliest Xanth series. Seventh Son is on my shelf, eyeing me..

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Tell me about it, I have a pile of books that are basically just a quality housing complex for a colony of dust mites.

I remember a story my dad told me, it was his 2nd edition character wielding frostbrand and flametongue, then fought and defeated tiamat.

Glad Fifth Edition has whole Rise of Tiamat storyline.Epic!

A cool and icon monster! :D

@rookieweeabo8575

6 жыл бұрын

“Iconic.”

5:00 the green dragons high af

@ImperialCoffee769

5 жыл бұрын

XD

Your vids are great. I love the lore. Although I think you should keep a more steady, constant and strong volume and accentuation on your voice. Some time i can understand perfectly but other times you drop your voice too much and at the same time speed it up. Just a tought though. Your vids are great anyway!! :D

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the good critique Jaime, stuff like that is actually really helpful to me, I have found, oddly enough, that if I make hand gestures when I talk, my voice does sound a bit more even, rather than when I am sort of just staring at the script pages.

@jjjames4484

6 жыл бұрын

AJ Pickett Thanks to you mate for doing this videos! Also I really prefered to have images about what im being told. I had this idea to actually for every video of this type make every images (digital drawing) so if you tell about some flying cosmic castle you dont use images from google but actually have the exact images for this. If you want to try sometime let me know! (Im a 3d artist)

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jaime, feel free to send me an email and we can have a chat about it.

cool video ty

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

most welcome :)

Strange, you didn't describe the White Abishai's abilities and preferred combat tactics.

Can you do a video on Zariel, the current ruler of the 1st level of hell? Nothing on youtube about her that I can find. From what I can find she is a fallen angel trapped in hell by Asmodeus. That is begging for more information!

I'd like to know more about felazure, you should if you haven't already do a video on him

@michaelkelligan7931

5 жыл бұрын

Hhmmnoname my deity of death and necromancy uses Falazure as a mount! Hes his bitch😉

Perhaps the mother of monsters is more fitting since the mother or father of dragons is more akin to asgorath since he or she originated all dragons and is a greater god

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

I think of him as Io.

@digicool2

6 жыл бұрын

Lamstu is the mother of monster

@dawsonhelf7922

5 жыл бұрын

AJ Pickett, I think Asgorath is the incarnation of Io, like Mystra is the incarnation of Mystryl🤔 -Double D

@felixrivera895

5 жыл бұрын

Also, Bahumat and Tiamat created the Metalic and Chromatic dragons respectively, but there were many other draconic monstrosities born in the dawn age.

Tiamat: "This plane of existence is below me!!!" Asmodeus: "Hey boo this will always be your realm even though the creators deem it not. Also your my number 1 bestie. Call on me anytime."

4:55 : I don't know which edition you use, but concerning 3rd edition, even if she's immortal (like all gods), she can be killed. Being immortal meaning, in their case, that they can't die by natural means (old age, starvation, natural illness, breathe). But they can die during a physical or magical fight, against anyone who's strong enough to beat them.

@dupondavignon869

5 жыл бұрын

@DreamPioneer12777 : so you're both (you and Pickett) considering the 5th edition. Ok, that was just to be sure.

Great video AJ, i was wondering can Tiamat have paladins in service to her and if so what changes would the class need if any.

@AJPickett

2 жыл бұрын

Totally up to the DM, I just answer lore questions, it's not really my place to tell anyone how to play their own homebrew games 😎

@AJ Pickett I'd be interested in knowing where you got the picture at 20:00, as it's the only place I've seen Tiamat portrayed with seven heads rather than five. I can't tell what color two of them are meant to be, and obviously this is crucial information. :)

to simplify the multiple heads thing, I usually recommend taking a page from Larry Niven's Puppeteers, and declaring that Tiamat has a single brain, which lies within her torso rather than in any of her heads.

@AJPickett

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the individual dragon skulls are full of ear wax and cotton bugs... its a nightmare. :)

@jacobfreeman5444

3 жыл бұрын

She is a God. She can multitask to an extant we cannot comprehend. I see the multiple heads as a kind of physical manifestation of this. Maybe the limit of the lines of thought she can entertain while performing all her godly functions. Which when you consider all the stuff the gods must be doing in the background is still a shocking amount.

@benthomason3307

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacobfreeman5444 fun fact: that's actually the exact logic behind all the hindu gods being depicted with multiple arms.

@JanusHoW

2 жыл бұрын

If I were to run her, I'd have each of her heads has a personality that roughly coincides with the basic temperament of each of the five chromatic dragon species - the black head is the most vile and evil-tempered; the blue head is the most vain and territorial; the green head is the most cunning and treacherous; the red head is the most covetous and proud, and would be the "leader"; and the white head is the most savage and brutal. Of course, Tiamat has all of these traits at once, but players might be able to read her mood depending on which head is doing the talking.

lol sorry about this, but Tiamat & Asmodeus relationship is now not good. In 5ed Monster Manual, it reads: "She also holds special enmity for Asmodeus, who long ago stripped her of the rule of Avernus and who continues to curb the Dragon Queen's power."

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

WarnarI aha! The plot thickens. Thanks for the update.

@thepoeticdragon5649

5 жыл бұрын

AJ Pickett the thick plottens

She is the best of all worlds!

I have this idea for a scenario with Tiamat in _Baldur's Gate Descent Into Avernus_ that I may or may not have posted in one of your other videos, but here it is again: Party is cruising along in one of their infernal war machines when Tiamat shows up on one of her regular jaunts around Avernus, and catches up to them. But she's not in the mood to kill them, and instead demands them to entertain her because she's bored - probably using the skills the party has. For example, she might demand a bard come up with a short ballad for her on the spot, or a cleric come up with a prayer dedicated to her. If their efforts please her, and especially if they cooperated with the dragon cultists back in Baldur's Gate, Tiamat says she might do them a small favor down the line if it piques her interest. If the PCs fail to amuse her, attack her, or run away, she leaves in disgust and nothing more comes of it. Those who succeed in amusing the Dragon Queen can get some surprisingly significant leverage in dealing with her and her servants in two ways: 1. If the PCs dealing with Arkhan the Cruel to get the reliquary of Tiamat's blood for Uldrak, the empyrean-turned-spine devil to spill, she will force Arkhan to trade the reliquary for the _orb of dragonkind_ without having to sacrifice a celestial ally such as Lulu or Mooncolor the unicorn. She might even mention that Arkhan, while a useful servant, is ultimately expendable, and the _Hand of Vecna_ would occupy a prime space in her hoard if he should perish. 2. If the PCs meet Arkhan to try to convince Tiamat to shatter the chains holding the Companion, she will ask for less in return.

@VITAS874

Жыл бұрын

Its need in neverwinter nights 😔

Big question: would Tiamat recruit evil dragons from other realms and pantheons? Like trying to poach the Typhoon Dragons of Kara-tur? Or coerce stronger dragons to try and serve her, like Time and Astral Dragons? What do you think she feels about these other kinds of dragons?

Malphas has long been my handle online from its proper origins, but I know many devils names have their roots in biblical or occult roots. So I'm glad to find that my namesake serves the Queen of Dragons.

she is also the mother of monsters in babylonian mythology

if her heads talk to each other like we can talk to ourself then getting them to argue among each other would not break them all being one her. we can get into arguments with ourself if we can truly see reasons for both sides. with her it's just more visual.

Finally!

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry it took so long.

I've read about her before but I didn't know she's on good terms with Asmodeus, nice info. Also, I wanna ask about her five consorts, who are they? Are they always the chromatic dragons or not?

She’s sound to OP for any party to fight. It’s pretty cool that she can shapeshift into a woman w/ black hair.

@jacobfreeman5444

4 жыл бұрын

She is a greater god. She should only be capable of being defeated by puny mortals when they are recieving some equivalent aid. Thankfully you can count on Bahamut to at least keep an eye on her so there is a ready ally.

I'm curious if the various monsters and major NPCs (like Tiamat) would still be viable if they retained their 1E stat blocks in 5E. Like were they buffed over time due to power creep? Or did their stats just change to fit in better with the updated game mechanics? Like would 1E Tiamat still be Endgame boss level against a 5E party at the same level you'd expect a 1E party to be facing 1E Tiamat back in the day?

@AJPickett

4 жыл бұрын

The stats get updated, or altered, there is not a whole lot of consistency to it to be honest.

@PlanetZoidstar

4 жыл бұрын

@@AJPickett Thanks. I recall checking out the stats to alot of high tier 1E bosses and thinking their HP seemed really low. I figured this was because for the time those were considered high HP for bosses and a decent mid-level 5E team could blow through that easily. Hardly something a high-level 5E team would struggle with. But maybe in most cases the way AC and resistances/immunities were calculated back in 1E made up for the seemingly low HP. For example in 1E you can decap Tiamat's heads with 16 dmg each and if you inflict 48 damage to her body you banish her to Hell. Having 128 HP total 1E Tiamat has incredibly low HP for a boss from my 5E perspective. In 5E Tiamat has 600+ HP. Putting her 1E HP to shame.

Has anyone ever playtested a Tiamat Vs. Terrasque fight to see who would beat who? Or worse, can she control the Terrasque due to her extreme magical prowress and/or her ability to control reptiles?

@VetusDea

5 жыл бұрын

Tiamat will win every time. Immunity to non-magical damage of any form, ability to fly, and her literal god-tier elemental breaths lead to the Tarrasque being one very crusty reptile. In regards to control, I do not think any god can control the Tarrasque as much as point it in the right direction and hope for the best.

@michaelkelligan7931

5 жыл бұрын

Brother Malachai yeah Tiamat would win due to the simple fact she can summon other evil dragons as well as cast spells!

Ok, I didn't hear you mention the fact that Tiamat is Io's daughter. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong about him mentioning it) and she didn't kill her brother, she killed Io's pet and blamed her brother, Bahamut, simply because she was jealous and believed that Io loved Bahamut more than her. This was untrue, as Io loves all of his children equally, and had tolerated Tiamat's scheming, proud of her intellect and ingenuity. However, that day, Io saw through her machinations and banished Tiamat from his house in the Outlands. Bahamut, seeing his sister for what she truly is, decided to dedicated his life to being her antithesis. Where as Tiamat embodies evil, is the Queen of all Evil Dragonkind, scheming and plotting akin to Lolth; Bahamut is the Platinum Godking of all Good Dragonkind. Bahamut embodies wisdom, the North wind, and is the adoptive father to all Dragonborn. Tiamat is NOT a demon, devil, fiend or any other creature from the Lower Planes. Tiamat is a goddess. A Lesser Deity of Divine Rank 10 (as of D&D 3.5e Deities and Demigods supplement Pg. 93) However, this is directly following both her an Bahamut's reduction in Divine rank for their fighting on the Prime Material plane. Since then, both Bahamut and Tiamat have been restored to their original place as Intermediate Deities (Rank 11-15), however, neither of them are allowed on the Prime Material Plane in their natural forms. Tiamat gets around this by flooding Faerun with evil dragonkind, and building up her influence, indirectly inhabiting the Prime Material Plane. Bahamut gets around this by travelling as a hermit. If ever you meet an old, bald hermit carrying a gnarled oaken staff, surrounded by seven yellow canaries on your journeys throughout Faerun, I suggest you pay the old man respect, for you are in the presence of the Platinum Godking and his 7 Celestial Gold Great Wyrm Dragons.

@Oskanwhitchfather

5 жыл бұрын

Ok, this needs a little explaining... See, Io created the first dragons, and many dragon deities, all of which are his children. There are Bahamut and Tiamat, obviously, but their siblings include: Aasterinian, Chronepsis, Garyx, Lendys, and Tamara to name a few. After he had created the others, Io set out to create a child that embodied all the aspects of Chromatic Dragonkind, but would hopefully rise above the limitations of the Chromatics, hoping she would be a fine ruler for them, without being wicked at heart herself. And so Tiamat came into being. At first, Io was sure he succeeded, and so, spurned by his apparent success, Io created a ruler for the Metallic Dragons. One that he hoped would be as impartial as Tiamat was, so that they could rule over all of Dragonkind impartially. And at first, this is how it was. However, Tiamat was just as dark and twisted as the Chromatics over which she held dominion... Tiamat grew jealous of Bahamut and her other siblings, wanting all of Io's affection for herself. And so she plotted and schemed to gain more of Io's affection. However, for all of Tiamat's schemes, and for as proud of her a Io was for showing such a remarkable intellect, she never could take more of his love than her siblings received, and this infuriated the Chromatic Queen. She despised Bahamut most of all, as he ruled the Metallic Dragons, those directly in opposition of her children. Not only did Tiamat attempt, on multiple occasions, to kill Bahamut, but one day she hatched a plan to finally get Bahamut banished from Io's house. She slaughtered Io's favorite pet, leaving both the blood and the corpse near Bahamut's sleeping form (and it the case of the blood, all over him). Tiamat called out for Io, claiming Bahamut the guilty party, and Io saw through her deception. Saddened and ashamed that she would do something so evil and twisted, Io banished Tiamat from his house, and his very realm, casting her down into the pits of Ba'ator. Bahamut, seeing Tiamat for what she was, the embodiment of all the shortcomings of the Evil Dragons, decided to leave Io's house and rule the Good Dragonkind from Mt. Celestia, and Io weeped that day, for he had lost both of his children. One to Evil, and the other to Good. From that day, Bahamut and Tiamat have ever been the bitterest of enemies. Tiamat scheming to take Bahamut's life, and Bahamut doing everything in his power to check her influence in Aber-Toril. This clashing of Dragon Gods came to a head in the Dragonfall War, and has, in recent years, been... almost peaceful. Tiamat still plots, creating more and more Chromatic Dragons, Dragon Chimeras, and other evil draconic abominations. To combat this, Bahamut began recruiting mortals to help him. He sent out a call, and those who answered his call became his adoptive children, the Dragonborn. But, the tale of the Dragonborn, and more specifically, the first Dragonborn, the Bard Marlow Rodan, is a tale for another time...

Question if tiamat would "breed" with an humanoid to have an humanoid servant for whatever reason Would it be an tiefling or a dragonborn or an halfdragon?

@kendrickrochelanzot2053

5 жыл бұрын

Good question. Create a new race

@royhenning7867

4 жыл бұрын

Demonic multicolored halfdragon?

@biblebot3947

4 жыл бұрын

Dragon born She isn’t an actual devil She just lives in Baator

@jacobfreeman5444

3 жыл бұрын

Draconic demigod. She is a god, even if she is evil and locked up in Avernus. So anything mortal that bred with her would result in a demigod. But I can't see her breeding with anything not a full dragon(because of her vanity and pride). She does produce children from time to time, as if I remember right that is how Kurtelmak came to be.

I've been arguing with my friends about this for weeks and I suppose this is the perfect time to ask, how do you suppose Tiamat feels about her Worshippers in relation to Vampirism? That is to say, Say a Githyanki sworn to her becomes a full blown Vampire, Would she reject them? What about one of her direct creations, like a Red Dragon? (Though I suppose Fang and Gray dragons could help answer that in one way or another)

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

She would be fine with it, Vampires, after all, are apex predators, as you say, a full blown vampire is not in thrall to any master, other than it's appetite.

@InfiniteBalance

6 жыл бұрын

AJ Pickett Quick Follow up, is there enough on Undead transformations of Illithids to ever do a video on them (not necessarily soon), or is there just not enough there?

@InfiniteBalance

6 жыл бұрын

AJ Pickett Also, >When Senpai Notices You

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

I actually want to do a follow up video on Illithid, since my first one has crappy sound quality and there is SO MUCH lore on them.. I think I could make a better video now. So yeah, its in the pipeline.

@InfiniteBalance

6 жыл бұрын

AJ Pickett Well I'm Very Excited

Can u do a video for the Great Wyrm Prismatic Dragon & The Great Wyrm Force Dragon

@AJPickett

4 жыл бұрын

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Tiamat has been officially "folded" into the Godzilla Monsterverse, really hoping we get to see her onscreen at some point!

@James11111

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry what?

The earth name a long time ago was tiamat

You only have her enemies side of the Story she is back now with us

@AJPickett

2 жыл бұрын

Do tell...

@kevinmichaelbergman8276

2 жыл бұрын

@@AJPickett She was erased from all records by her Murderer We had to go get her back from a trap box in Space

FGO: *It's free real estate*

Did you ever do a deep dive on the Spawn of Tiamat?

@AJPickett

Жыл бұрын

I can...

Was that hank from the cartoons fighting Tiamat?

@jerkfudgewater147

5 жыл бұрын

Jonah Marx no the hawk works for Shonuff and as such cannot actually “Fight” Tiamak It is like trying the art of love when one “does not have a paintbrush... does not even know how to draw.”

You missed talking about the white abishai.

She’s like Tikesis in Dragon Lance

Funny. Got an ad for Alexstraza in Heroes of the Storm while watching this.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

I had to look up what that was.. well, at least it is gaming related.

@Brutalyte616

6 жыл бұрын

AJ Pickett Not just gaming related. Also dragon and RPG related. And a female dragon no less.

@TraciPeteyforlife

6 жыл бұрын

I got the greatest showman trailer.

@nicholasfarrell5981

6 жыл бұрын

I got a rock.

Does Tiamat speak with one head at a time or with all 5 heads at once?

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Either, she often speaks with the Red dragon head, but they can all speak (they don't hold individual conversations though).

@nevermore7285

5 жыл бұрын

So it’s not like a hydra and they all share a mind?

@VetusDea

5 жыл бұрын

Correct. Tiamat is a god, embodying all Chromatic aspects in a single, unified, divine entity (rather than being various individuals divided across mortal brains).

@darthchocolate7911

5 жыл бұрын

Depending on the subject being discussed Tiamat might respond with a different head which is more inclined to be interested in a particular issue she's being addressed about...

@justas423

5 жыл бұрын

That echo effect would be sick.

I saw the thumbnail for this video and had to change my pants and smoke a cigg. I feel like I owe you flowers and dinner now, Mr. Pickett;3

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Bring me Subs worthy of Mordor! :)

@tatsusama3192

6 жыл бұрын

- bows and heads to twitter -

@thedarkmaster4747

6 жыл бұрын

lmao!!!

I suspect the next big bad in Stranger Things will be called Tiamat.

Also everyone is scared of tiamat so doesn't have any worshippers.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

totally fine if you want to run it like that.

Nice work. However, I can't conceive of a monster like this ever facing defeat at the hands of a PC party. I would like to take a long hard look at that 5th Edition module. How could she possibly be slain??

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

She is not intended to be faced in the module, essentially it ends with either the cult managing to summon her and game over.. or the PC's thwart the cult and retire as heroes... Tiamat doesn't even get a stat block. I might make a vid at some point on how a very high level game could encompass the god killer story lines, it is as much about (actually more about) cosmic politics as it is about combat and such.

@duhg599

6 жыл бұрын

AJ, Tiamat does have a stat block in the 5E book Rise of Tiamat. While it’s possible to prevent the summoning ritual and keep Her from entering the world, it is also possible to fight Her. And she’s a rightfully hard fight. The book explicitly tells the DM to play Her ruthlessly, because anything less would undermine the entire adventure. And yes, it’s very likely that the fight will end in a TPK, but that’s okay; that just means the DM can expand on that and start a new campaign in which Tiamat has taken over, and now new adventurers need to figure out how to end this Tyranny of Dragons.

@AJPickett

6 жыл бұрын

Aha! There she is on page 92, thank you Doug, don't know how I missed that.