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 various version can merge into one single form.

Takhisis is the five-headed dragon god of evil from the Dragonlance setting. Paladine is the platinum dragon god of good (and also Fizban's alter-ego).

Additionally, the book will contain psychic gem dragons, with stats for all four age categories of the five varieties (traditionally there are Amethyst, Crystal, Emerald, Sapphire, and Topaz), plus Dragonborn characters based on metallic, chromatic, and gem dragons.

D&D 5E - Check out Fizban's Alternate Cover!

WotC's James Wyatt talked to Polygon about Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, which also revealed the alternate cover, which you can only get from hobby stores. https://www.enworld.org/threads/fizbans-treasury-the-dragon-book-now-has-a-description-and-a-feat.681399/

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D&D 5E - Fizban's Treasury: The Dragon Book Now Has A Description... And A Feat

Courtesy of Amazon, we now have a description for Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, the October D&D hardcover. The book introduces gem dragons, dragon-themed player options, and plenty of draconic lore! This joins September's The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, and November's Strixhaven: Curriculum of...

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[JEB]

Interesting that Eberron is stated to be in the Ethereal Plane now. In Eberron: Rising from the Last War, it just mentioned it being somewhere in the Great Wheel. I would have assumed that it was in the Astral over the Ethereal, actually.

In older editions, the Ethereal was suggested to basically be the raw material where other planes came from (hence all the demiplanes there, which once included the Shadowfell [Demiplane of Shadow] and Ravenloft [Demiplane of Dread]). This may be a callback to that.

 

[Maxperson]

This print kind of makes paladine and bahamut to be different entities…

I saw something in a 1e or 2e product recently that said something like, "Tiamat, Takhisis on Krynn...", but heck if I can find it again. I did find a lot of mentions of them maybe or maybe not being the same entities.

Personally I think they are. As the 5e DMG states, gods can have different power levels and even different portfolios in different settings. And we know from multiple other products that some gods are known by different names as well. Tiamat could easily be Takhisis on Krynn and be a greater godess, while being a lesser goddess in many/most other settings. Same with Paladine and Bahamut.

 

[Bolares]

I personally don’t really care, butI’m not a Dragonlance guy. I think the book gices you enough to decide either way…

 

[TerraDave]

So what is the answer to the question?

Ah, I see, and its they might be.

 

[Bolares]

So what is the answer to the question?

They are easily identifiable as one another

 

[TerraDave]

They are easily identifiable as one another

Thanks, I saw it.

Posting in this thread is too fast.

 

[Parmandur]

Interesting that Eberron is stated to be in the Ethereal Plane now. In Eberron: Rising from the Last War, it just mentioned it being somewhere in the Great Wheel. I would have assumed that it was in the Astral over the Ethereal, actually.

That would make Eberron fit well with tying Magic Settings to D&D Settings, tied through the "Blind Etetnities"/Ethereal Plane. It fits well enough.

 

[Bolares]

That would make Eberron fit well with tying Magic Settings to D&D Settings, tied through the "Blind Etetnities"/Ethereal Plane. It fits well enough.

Fits as well as we need it too if we want to connect it all

 

[Parmandur]

So what is the answer to the question?

Ah, I see, and its they might be.

Ask your DM.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Interesting that Eberron is stated to be in the Ethereal Plane now. In Eberron: Rising from the Last War, it just mentioned it being somewhere in the Great Wheel. I would have assumed that it was in the Astral over the Ethereal, actually.

One theory I had was that Eberron's entire cosmology existed in the liminal space between the Etherial and Astral planes that ether cyclones briefly access.