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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 2958545" data-attributes="member: 40176">When I ran Red Hand of Doom in Eberron, I found a way to leave Tiamat as a mythical being, by having the "Aspect of Tiamat" be a chimeric dragon bred to fight in the wars during the Age of Demons. Chromatic dragon blood was used because they turned out to be more amenable to the process of creating a composite creature than metallic dragons. Several such creatures were created, but only one survived.She was indeed powerful, and opposed to the demonic forces, but was also insane and megalomaniacal. Taking on the name Tiamat in reflection of the mythical goddess of chromatic dragons, she created a cult founded upon her belief in the supremacy of chromatic dragons above all other creatures (including metallic dragons), attracting a number of young and impressionable draconic followers.Her rise in power was swift but brief. Supremely confident in her powers, she led her entire cult upon a raid that struck deep into demonic territory, but was eventually broken against the walls of one of the rajahs' keeps, in a massive expenditure of magics from both sides.Tiamat was thrown out into the astral plane, where she drifted for millenia, insensate and alone. Eventually, she came to rest upon a secluded part of the plane of Shavarath. Roused back to life by the devils who attempted to destroy her, she quickly defeated and dominated them, shaping them into the core of a new Cult of Tiamat. From there, she began to exert her influence over Eberron, again attracting young and impressionable chromatic dragons to her cause, and gaining influence over goblinoid tribes in the Endworld Mountains. Choosing them as her instrument to begin preparing the world for her return, she provided them with fiendish troops and twisted spawn creatures for them to breed and raise for war.This version of Tiamat - a very powerful dragon whose values have been twisted far from those of her creators, rather than an actual deity - fits reasonably within Eberron, and can still fulfill the role of the focal point of a religion of Tiamat worshippers. Since she herself believes that she is simply the material personification of the deity Tiamat, it's even possible to use this version without invalidating the core version of Tiamat, who might still exist somewhere in the cosmology, as silent as the other Eberron deities.</blockquote>

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