D&D 5E Is Paladine Bahamut? Is Takhisis Tiamat? Fizban's Treasury Might Reveal The Answer!

According to WotC's James Wyatt, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons introduces a new cosmology for dragon gods, where the same beings, including Fizban, echo across various D&D campaign settings with alternate versions of themselves (presumably like Paladine/Bahamut, or Takhisis/Tiamat). Also... the various version can merge into one single form.

Takhisis is the five-headed dragon god of evil from the Dragonlance setting. Paladine is the platinum dragon god of good (and also Fizban's alter-ego).

Additionally, the book will contain psychic gem dragons, with stats for all four age categories of the five varieties (traditionally there are Amethyst, Crystal, Emerald, Sapphire, and Topaz), plus Dragonborn characters based on metallic, chromatic, and gem dragons.

D&D 5E - Check out Fizban's Alternate Cover!

WotC's James Wyatt talked to Polygon about Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, which also revealed the alternate cover, which you can only get from hobby stores. https://www.enworld.org/threads/fizbans-treasury-the-dragon-book-now-has-a-description-and-a-feat.681399/

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D&D 5E - Fizban's Treasury: The Dragon Book Now Has A Description... And A Feat

Courtesy of Amazon, we now have a description for Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, the October D&D hardcover. The book introduces gem dragons, dragon-themed player options, and plenty of draconic lore! This joins September's The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, and November's Strixhaven: Curriculum of...

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[SkidAce]

we’re describing them as these Great Wyrms who have managed to extend their power and influence beyond a single world and combine the power of multiple echoes to become incredibly powerful creatures.”

How does this work? Wyatt explains: “A given dragon in the Forgotten Realms might have an echo on the World of Greyhawk, and develop that sense of dragonsight in order to be able to communicate, in a waking dream sort of way, with their echo in another world, and then eventually, perhaps, combine that power into a single being.”

Mortal Combat!
"There can be only one" /cue highlander queen song

 

[QuentinGeorge]

I considered that for a moment, but in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes the elven diaspora was said to have been facilitated by them spreading to multiple worlds through the Feywild, which implies that it's only one world connected to multiple Material Plane worlds.

I'm sure people will happily tell me how compatible this is with Dragonlance.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

I'm sure people will happily tell me how compatible this is with Dragonlance.

It is not that it is compatible with your vision of Dragonlance, but that it need not change your vision of Dragonlance. If the roles were reversed I would be happy to say, regardless of what WotC just printed, Krynn is part of the greater multiverse. Your Krynn need not be the Krynn in WotC’s 5e. Nothing is keeping you from having them be separate just as nothing kept me from blending them all together. This changes nothing.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I considered that for a moment, but in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes the elven diaspora was said to have been facilitated by them spreading to multiple worlds through the Feywild, which implies that it's only one world connected to multiple Material Plane worlds.

That doesn't mean that the Feywild doesn't have its own worlds, just that the Elves had means of traveling between them. I mean it mirrors all the setting worlds except maybe Eberron which is closed off, to mirror them, it has to have worlds of its own or its not a mirror, not even a fun house mirror.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

It is not that it is compatible with your vision of Dragonlance, but that it need not change your vision of Dragonlance. If the roles were reversed I would be happy to say, regardless of what WotC just printed, Krynn is part of the greater multiverse. Your Krynn need not be the Krynn in WotC’s 5e. Nothing is keeping you from having them be separate just as nothing kept me from blending them all together. This changes nothing.

Elves are specifically the chosen and created race of Paladine on Krynn. It changes a great deal.

 

[PsyzhranV2]

I considered that for a moment, but in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes the elven diaspora was said to have been facilitated by them spreading to multiple worlds through the Feywild, which implies that it's only one world connected to multiple Material Plane worlds.

Aren't they introducing Demiplanes of Delight in Witchlight, as a mirror to the Shadowfell's Demiplanes of Dread? So different "worlds" in the Feywild wouldn't be different planets but different demiplanes.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I'm sure people will happily tell me how compatible this is with Dragonlance.

Alot of MToFs isn't even compatible with FR, nevermind DL.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

If that's the case, I expect a significant power increase and commonality decrease. I'd want a very few powerful dragons for them to be sort of like minor gods that cast shadows of themselves across the planes.

It is not like ancient dragons are that far from Tiamat as it is. In fact, with the upcoming mythic type great wyrm dragons, they might be even more powerful (at least in terms of their stat block).

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Aren't they introducing Demiplanes of Delight in Witchlight, as a mirror to the Shadowfell's Demiplanes of Dread? So different "worlds" in the Feywild wouldn't be different planets but different demiplanes.

The Material Plane can have Demiplanes, so can the Ethereal, doesn't change that these planes still have worlds.

 

[Maxperson]

It is not like ancient dragons are that far from Tiamat as it is. In fact, with the upcoming mythic type great wyrm dragons, they might be even more powerful (at least in terms of their stat block).

Aren't those stats for Tiamat just her avatar? I'd expect the most powerful dragons to be close to a sliver of Tiamat's power given form.