Dragonlance WotC Officially Confirms Takhisis and Tiamat Are The Same

It's been an issue in dispute for decades, over various editions of D&D, but WotC has officially confirmed that - at least in 5E - Dragonlance's Takhisis is, indeed, currently Tiamat. In previous editions, Tiamat has varied from being a big dragon to a minor goddess, while Takhisis has been a greater god on Krynn. At times they've been the same entity, and at others different entities. Today, WotC is putting its foot down and saying that Takhisis and Tiamat are, indeed, the same being.



Of course, this is not an opinion universally held. Dragonlance co-creator Margaret Weis emphatically stated that "TAKHISIS IS NOT TIAMAT, DAMN IT!"

Fizban's Treasuryof Dragons confirms that the beings echo across various settings.

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...

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[darjr]

Well folks might want to get used to the idea of Tiamat being one in the same as Takhisis.

Cause I’m going to say it right now that I think the TV show just might be Dragonlance.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Well folks might want to get used to the idea of Tiamat being one in the same as Takhisis.

Cause I’m going to say it right now that I think the TV show just might be Dragonlance.

TV show?

 

[Scribe]

Cause I’m going to say it right now that I think the TV show just might be Dragonlance.

Dragonlance TV show?

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

This was even a question?

I must have been living under a rock since 1985 ... always assumed they were the same critter by different names. Like Lolth and Lloth.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

M. Weis' social media posting have been interesting. It seems largely to be "Glad WotC is giving Dragonlance more life. I just wish the weren't messing with it so much."

"They hired me to build a car for them, decades ago, and do some upkeep on it over the years. Now, let me tell you how they're driving it wrong."

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

TV show?

WotC/Hasbro have said the upcoming movie is just part of a multi-prong multimedia strategy that includes one or more TV shows.

 

[wingsandsword]

Is this about Takhisis and Tiamat being one and the same (and Paladine and Bahamut)? Pretty sure that was mentioned back in 1e. I tend to keep them separate but officially, they've been the same for ages.

Yeah, this isn't anything new.

They said it in both 1e and 2e works repeatedly.

They downplayed it/ignored it in 3e and later, as the broader D&D multiverse got downplayed in official works, but indeed they've said it before.

If anything, this is the first time in about a quarter century they've said it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If anything, this is the first time in about a quarter century they've said it.

Didn't they say it in Fizban's?

 

[TerraDave]

They are consistently pushing for a consistent multi-verse, and I wonder why?

Embrace the mystery of the cosmos.

 

[cbwjm]

I think it really got confusing in 2e, when I was getting into planescape and how gods could be multisphere but different power levels, and if defeated and driven out of one crystal sphere, they were unaffected in other spheres. It was hard for me to wrap my head around since in Krynn they're greater gods, everywhere else they were lesser gods.

I also think that, while Takhisis and Paladine were taken from Tiamat and Bahamut as the basis for their gods, Dragonlance very much had its own cosmology which was unrelated to the standard great wheel (or whatever it was called in 1e). You could see that they were based on the original dragon gods based on their appearance and also (in 2e at least) their alternate names, Tii'mhut and Bah'mut.