Tiamat

Tiamat, Queen of the Chromatic Dragons, is a powerful Low God of Draconic form. Born from Odeus' nightmares, of Dragons bringing unmatched death and destruction to his beautiful world. Each of her five heads could act independently, but with the red Dragon head being biggest and "leader". Tiamat was arrogant, greedy, hateful, spiteful and vain. She never forgives any kind of slight and was focused on obtaining more power and wealth. She disdains mortals, regarding them as mere disposable tools in her schemes. When needed, she is charming and fey, but her self-serving and reptilian personality betrays her sooner or later. Tiamat's realm, known as the Dragonspawn Pits of Azharul or simply as Tiamat's Lair, sprawls in a cluster of tall hills and mountains near a lake of maggots from which new lemures emerge. One must fly (or, heavens forbid, swim) across the maggot pit to reach Tiamat's caves. Tiamat's lair contains the main gate to the second of the Nine Hells, Dis. To reach it, one must pass a chamber known as the Cave of Greed, which is filled with cursed treasure that compels the weak-willed to try to steal it. Tiamat has her own chamber within the complex, as do each of her five consorts, but it is possible to travel to Dis without disturbing her.  

The Heads of Tiamat:

• Blue Head: Thir’rixan, AL: LE / Vanity, Rulership, Order, Storms.
• Red Head: Sarth’arx’nirr, AL: CE / Arrogance, Hatred, Vengeance, Fire.
• Green Head: Eraz’xark’vul, AL: LE / Cunning, Schemes, corruption, Poison.
• Black Head: Zarnn’lee’garsh, AL: CE / Ancient times, necromantic magic, Cruelty.
• White Head: G’grazh’lorhh, AL: CE / Savagery, Beastial Fury, Frost & Cold, Blizzards.

Together they make up the entity known as “Tiamat”. Sometimes also referred to as “The Tiamat”. Understood to be more a title than an actual name. Yet these heads, whenever referring to them all at once, referred to themselves as “Tiamat”.  

Appearance & Depiction

Tiamat's main avatar form was a gargantuan Dragon with five heads. One red, blue, white, green, and black. Each head was able to operate entirely independently of each other and had the powers of a member of the respective race of dragonkind. Her body also had traits in common with a wyvern, including a long tail tipped with a poisonous stinger.   Her second avatar form is more humanoid in nature, but with each of the five colors represented upon her body or clothing. This form still has massive wings and horns that adorn her head.

Worship

Tiamat is a greedy, vain, and arrogant goddess who embodies all the strengths of evil dragonkind, and few of their weaknesses. Tiamat is most concerned with spreading evil, defeating good, and propagating chromatic dragons. She never forgives a slight. Although she is not averse to razing the occasional village, her true schemes are subtle and hard to detect. From the shadows she moves her puppets' strings. The Queen of Evil Dragons demands reverence, homage, supplication, and tribute from her subjects. Few humans or other humanoids worship Tiamat, but her children, the chromatic dragons, all acknowledge her sovereignty. Blue and green dragons obey her most readily. Naturally, the grotesque reptilian creatures known as the spawn of Tiamat worship her as their mother. Kobolds may also revere her as their progenitor.   Although she claims dominance over all evil dragons (and despite her misleading title, Queen of Chaos), Tiamat's priests, who are known as Wyrmlairds or Wyrmkeepers, are either neutral evil or lawful evil. Tiamat's church has a rigid hierarchy, beginning with the lowly Custodians of the Copper Chalice and continuing with, in ascending rank, the Defenders of the Silver Shield, Wardens of the Electrum Mail, Guardians of the Gold Scepter, Keepers of the Platinum Crown, Scales of the White Wyrm, Horns of the Black Beast, Wings of the Green Gargantua, Talons of the Blue Baatoran, Breaths of the Red Ravager, and the Dark Scaly Ones leading them all. Priests of Tiamat are preoccupied with gathering treasure and undermining other faiths. The ceremony garb of a humanoid priest of Tiamat is a form-fitting suit of scales. Dragons or those whose scales naturally cover their bodies don't require this, of course. Adventuring garb typically includes scale mail.   Temples to Tiamat are often built within the lairs of long-dead dragons. They are filled with piles of wealth to be sacrificed to the Chromatic Dragon, as well as traps to keep out heretics and the unfaithful. Few dragons keep shrines to her in their own lairs, because they don't wish the goddess to know exactly how much treasure they have, for fear she will demand a greater cut of it. As for rituals, evil dragons celebrate great victories by torturing prisoners and committing other atrocities in Tiamat's name. Prayers to the Dragon Queen focus on the promise of filling the world with evil dragons and either destroying it or dominating it utterly. The two most important daily ceremonies are the Tithing and the Rite of Respect. The former is an offering of a small amount of treasure to the goddess; the tithe is cupped in the priest's hands or talons, and when a prayer is completed, the valuables have sometimes (10% of the time) simply vanished. The Rite of Respect is performed by non-dragons; it is a complicated ceremony of kow-towing in the presence of a dragon or other spawn of Tiamat.

Symbology

Tiamat's symbology mainly consists of different draconic imagery. The five heads, or five colors usually wrapped with eachother

Holy Texts

The holy texts of Tiamat are five-fold. Each head has dictated their teachings into separate tomes, but they're all combined into the text known as the Chroma-tomes.

Holidays

The first full moon after Midsummer is a holy day dedicated to Tiamat. Known as the Festival of Vengeance, it celebrates her glory and followers sing songs of the defeat of Odeus and his Metallic Dragon children.

Tenets of Faith

• Forgive no slight and leave no wrong unpunished
• Take what you desire from others
• Wealth is power
• Power is only for the strongest to hold
• Leave not a single enemy alive