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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[Rabulias]

So Margaret Weis has said Takhisis is not Tiamat. But note that that does not rule out that Tiamat is Takhisis.

 

[Zardnaar]

I kinda liked the are the same or not vibe. Definitive answer either way meh.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Yes, cause it was clearly based on Tiamat. Also pretty sure Tracey Hickman had just as much involvement. Now he also would probably not agree with Tiamat and Takhisis being the same being. But the official story is that they are.

Legally, they definitely are. And I like Planescape, which equated the two, so it doesn't really matter to me. But it does seem unnecessary for WotC to make a definite stand over the wishes of one of the creators of the setting. What exactly do they hope to gain by this?

 

[Incenjucar]

Are we not all a little Tiamat on a Monday morning?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Didn't they say it in Fizban's?

Fizban's First World is, according to posters that have responded to me, just one view of the multiverse. You don't have to take it seriously, and I don't.

 

[CleverNickName]

It's an interesting bit of trivia.

 

[Scribe]

What exactly do they hope to gain by this?

Perhaps provide an evergreen, unified and cohesive cosmology and/or mythology. Their present multiverse focus, Spelljammer and Planescape and "one d&d" all point to it, no?

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Paladine: "Takhisis, eat a <generic candy bar>."
Takhisis: "Why?"
Paladine: "Because you're not you when you're hungry."

Eats five <generic candy bars>

Bahamut: "Better?"
Tiamat: "Better."

 

[Micah Sweet]

Perhaps provide an evergreen, unified and cohesive cosmology and/or mythology. Their present multiverse focus, Spelljammer and Planescape and "one d&d" all point to it, no?

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

 

[Lidgar]

Seems a weird hill to die on, and I have died on many a hill.

How about this one?