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Could Theros and Tasha's Cauldron the way they're going to handle real-world pantheons?
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<blockquote data-quote="QuentinGeorge" data-source="post: 8196404" data-attributes="member: 20990"><p>Well, it's complicated. Pre AD&D Bahamut and Tiamat weren't named, they were in OD&D as the "Platinum Dragon" and the "Chromatic Dragon".</p><p></p><p>Before he started with TSR, Jeff Grubb had a homebrew world named Toril, two of the gods in that world were based on the OD&D Dragons, he named them Paladine and Takhisis. Years later, AD&D came out and the official dragon gods were named Bahamut and Tiamat. After this Hickman came up with Dragonlance and Jeff Grubb's gods were ported across wholesale to save time. (His world's name went to the Forgotten Realms).</p><p></p><p>From Day 1 the Dragonlance campaign was pretty consistent that Takhisis was a goddess of Krynn who lived in the Abyss and a had a antagonistic relationship with her former consort Paladine, a god who lived in the Dome of Creation. Tiamat was always a resident of the Nine Hells. Tales of the Lance had Takhisis' Ergothian (or Istarian, I can't remember) name be "Ti'mut", as an easter egg reference to this, but it never appeared outside this source, even in fiction where it might be appropriate (ie set in Ergoth).</p><p></p><p>Takhisis and Tiamat both derive from the original "Chromatic Dragon" concept, but they are two fully realised independent deities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuentinGeorge, post: 8196404, member: 20990"] Well, it's complicated. Pre AD&D Bahamut and Tiamat weren't named, they were in OD&D as the "Platinum Dragon" and the "Chromatic Dragon". Before he started with TSR, Jeff Grubb had a homebrew world named Toril, two of the gods in that world were based on the OD&D Dragons, he named them Paladine and Takhisis. Years later, AD&D came out and the official dragon gods were named Bahamut and Tiamat. After this Hickman came up with Dragonlance and Jeff Grubb's gods were ported across wholesale to save time. (His world's name went to the Forgotten Realms). From Day 1 the Dragonlance campaign was pretty consistent that Takhisis was a goddess of Krynn who lived in the Abyss and a had a antagonistic relationship with her former consort Paladine, a god who lived in the Dome of Creation. Tiamat was always a resident of the Nine Hells. Tales of the Lance had Takhisis' Ergothian (or Istarian, I can't remember) name be "Ti'mut", as an easter egg reference to this, but it never appeared outside this source, even in fiction where it might be appropriate (ie set in Ergoth). Takhisis and Tiamat both derive from the original "Chromatic Dragon" concept, but they are two fully realised independent deities. [/QUOTE]
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