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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[Tales and Chronicles]

I think its a pretty huge missed opportunity to use the the gosh-darned ''echoes of the First World'' they were pushing hard last year. Just say Tiamat and Takitos are echoes of the same uber mother of abominations who inhabited the first world of Io (?) before it was shattered.

Boom. Same yet not same. Done.

 

[HammerMan]

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.

I would love a Dragonlance show

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

I always thought of them as different expressions of the same archetype.

 

[HammerMan]

I always thought of them as different expressions of the same archetype.

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Great panel

 

[pukunui]

I can link you to the post on Facebook and you can tell her she's wrong.

Please do. I keep seeing that tiny little screenshot shared around and would love to know the source/context.

 

[Scribe]

So marketing. That's definitely worth irritating the co-creator of a setting they're currently trying to re-sell to its fans.

Play MTG at all? I've been going into this deep dive over the last few days as its a hobby I was addicted too really, left it, and now see its imploding a bit.

Maro (one of the lead guys) recently said 75% of magic players dont know what a Planeswalker is. This is...really really REALLY hard for me to accept, but I have no reason to believe its a lie, just a statistic (a higher form of lie, but still) and it makes you think.

If 75% of players have no clue what really THE central focus of play, design, and story has been for a major game like MTG?

How many people within the D&D sphere, by %, are going to even know who co-created Dragonlance?

 

[cbwjm]

How about this one?

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That would be a weird hill to die on.

 

[TwiceBorn2]

This is the original Tiamat: Tiamat - Wikipedia

EDIT: According to Wikipedia: "The depiction of Tiamat as a multi-headed dragon was popularized in the 1970s as a fixture of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game inspired by earlier sources associating Tiamat with later mythological characters such as Lotan (Leviathan)."

 

[Scribe]

This is the original Tiamat: Tiamat - Wikipedia

must....resist....comment

 

[Vaalingrade]

"That's preposterous. Palpatine doesn't even wear a hood."

"Seriously? First of all, why would Superman need glasses?"