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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zeromaru X" data-source="post: 9406736" data-attributes="member: 65487">Curiously enough, this is the same what happened to Bahamut. He started as this cosmic whale from the Arabic traditions that carried the world on its back (or more accurately, carried a bull* that in turn carried an angel that in turn carried the world), that may or may have not been an adaptation of the Hebrew Behemoth, but for some reason Gygax decided that he wanted Bahamut to be a dragon instead, based on the eastern traditions of good dragons.And people in Japan loved that version so much, that they began to use Bahamut as a dragon in a lot of products, <a href="https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Bahamut" target="_blank">starting with Final Fantasy</a>. And now our modern conception of Bahamut is that he is a dragon and not a whale, a conception that is still perpetuated by D&D and a lot of Japanese anime and videogames.*As an aside, Kuyutha (or Kujata) is the name of the bull that is on top of Bahamut's back in the Arabian traditions, and in the Dawn War pantheon (from the World Axis cosmology of 4e), Kuyutha is a dragonborn demigod who serves Bahamut. I really loved that addition to the D&D mythology!</blockquote>