Dragonlance Takhisis Revealed In New Dragonlance Preview Art

WotC has shared some new art of Takhisis, Dragonlance’s 5-headed dragon queen.

 

[Kai Lord]

While I do appreciate this new take on Takhisis I still very much prefer the versions by Caldwell, Easley, and Stawicki. It looks like the new artist even took some inspiration from Stawicki's armor.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Everyone's different. For me, D&D dragons are the standard I put other dragons up too and I typically find most others lacking. On the other hand, my son thinks the GoT dragons (not HotD) are the gold standard.

Yeah for sure.

I just don’t like the whole thing. If dragons have subspecies I’d rather have potentially limitless variations than 5 evil variations set against 5 good variations and each color looks all the same.

 

[TheSword]

Isn’t that second picture Tiamat? Why on earth would she ever deign to take the form of a human!?

 

[SkidAce]

Yikes, I am the opposite. One thing I generally disliked about old school DL was Caldwell dragons! I always hated when he was given the art commission for dragon.

I can no longer converse with you.

 

[Azzy]

I've always preferred the sleeker Caldwell version of the dragons, so I'm not a huge fan of that art and they way dragons are depicted in D&D now. Eh, I guess that boat sailed more than 20 years ago though...lol

While I like standard AD&D dragon artwork, I've never liked the DL redesigns of the dragons. The newer (post AD&D) dragon artwork is hit or miss with me.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Isn’t that second picture Tiamat? Why on earth would she ever deign to take the form of a human!?

Tiamat = Takhisis

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

But Takhisis after the war of souls.... what happens with Tiamat in the rest of D&D multiverse?

 

[MonsterEnvy]

But Takhisis after the war of souls.... what happens with Tiamat in the rest of D&D multiverse?

Nothing.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Nothing.

Maybe, it depends. Nothing you don't want to have happen at your own table. Or just her aspect on Krynn is killed. Or everything everywhere. To my understanding Weis and Hickman never cared for D&D's multiverse, and always treated Krynn as its own thing.

 

[Seramus]

All hail Ti'mut!