4:20 “the queens legs are as thicc as great trees” Brother that’s all you got to say 😎

I just imagine Tiamat in hell just flipping through Netflix, forever unable to find anything to watch because each head likes something different. That's why she's bound there.

"The queen's legs are THICC as great trees." Damn. Okay, I'm sold, Cleric of Tiamat is my next character.

Tiamat: has alignment lawful evil Also tiamat: is the queen of chaos

Tune in next week for "What They Don't Tell You About Yourself," an in-depth analysis of your deepest insecurities.

*Hears a knock at the door. Goes to open it. Stares in awe as a Blue Dragon stands there in a button up shirt and tie.* "Excuse me sir, but have you heard the good word of our lord and savior Tiamat?"

"Is Tiamat a deity or just a unique legendary monster?" That answer depends *heavily* on edition and campaign setting. XD

Rhexx: "the queen's legs are as thick as great trees" Rule 34 artists, already scribbling down: "yes, continue"

Next episode. "What they don't tell you about: Bahamut the metallic King"

Last time I was this early Tiamat wasn't stuck in Avernus.

According to 5e's Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, "dracohydras are the result of arcane experimentation dedicated to recreating Tiamat's power." Of course, that book was published over a year after the making of this lore video. Great stuff!!

Tiamat is so famous that she was just thrown into the D&D kids show. A terribly underrated show

so basically, the queen and mother of dragons just has a draconic harem

She’s treated by dragons as a mom, not a god. They even give her Mother’s Day gifts.

Interesting Story... When my group did the Tyranny of Dragons campaign, we actually stopped the ritual to summon Tiamat from completing. She was never summoned in our game. So our Avernus campaign is going to be a bit more interesting since in the canon of our game she still has her Secound Avatar.

I remember that time my wizard accidentally uncovered her plan...in person...in an enclosed space (the tomb of Strahd...makes sense in the campaign). We used the single wish on our Luck Blade to travel back 3 days and that we would be the only ones who remember. She was apparently a divine exception. Yeah, my wizard was panicking while everyone else made a gameplan

Earlier Rhexx said, he wasn't sure about long videos, but this seems dope

Tiamat: *Becomes dracolich* Ao: I allow it.

It's worth mentioning that the name "Tiamat" comes from the Sumerian creation myth; the god Enki slew her, and from her created the material world; from drops of his blood shed during this battle, humans were created (not D&D lore, but interesting).

"The dragon essence within the orb might want many things: the annihilation of a particular people, freedom from the orb, to spread suffering in the world, to advance the worship of Takhisis (Tiamat's name on Krynn), or something else the DM decides." Page 225 of the DMG for 5th edition. So yeah, Takhisis IS Tiamat according to WotC. At least in 5e.

I've always assumed that everything in the Nine Hells is a prisoner, even the lords themselves. Hell is a place of punishment, and just like how the Devil is a prisoner in ice in Dante's Inferno (the main inspiration for the Nine Hells concept), every demon lord is bound to their layer in some way and has limitations placed on their powers. That would explain the variance in the description of Tiamat's role in Avernus.

Imagine a “what they don’t tell you about Waterdeep”, video would be awesome

I love learning lore about DND, it's so interesting and vast and it fills my mind with the longing for the fantasy world. And when you tell it, you just make it seem even more real.

Yeah, Tiamat was a great goddess loved by my friends in our group ADnD 2nd e. group. So much so we played an almost nonstop campaign that spanned from 1993 to 1999. Playing almost every weekend during the school year. Playing all night from Friday at 6pm all the way to 9 or 10am Saturday morning. Sleep then start again around 2 or 3 pm and play till Sunday morning. lol, Sleep all day Sunday for school Monday. When summer vacation came around. It was more spread out during the week. So what did we do during these 6 years of play? Well once our players got max level. We Took over all 9 layers of hell. Ended the eternal war with Devils and Demons. With the same method use in the Diablo game with e prime evils. Our characters separated the rulers of the 9 hells from their bodies, soul, and power. Shattered their soul crystal so they couldn't return ever. Feed their bodies to Tiamat, Freeing her in the process but instead of to attack Bahamut full-on once free. The Tiamat and the party made it still look like she is caged in hell so that scrying gods don't try to interfere and warn the other realms. Each of us players took all the powers for our selves and dominated all 9 hells. Turning the 9 hells from a chaotic mess to a united and organized front of both devils and demons. Thus remaking the entire layers in a new image. My character took the Malbolge layer and made it into the crown jewel of hell for all things magics creating the realms own magical weave for 9 layers that eventually bleed into all realms completing a circuit were the 9 hells has access to all realms and planes, but we didn't attack them. That would have been a dumb thing to do. Instead, we turn the 9 hells into the most prosperous plane that made everyone want to come to hell. The players were elevated to godhood in the 9 hells we were we all worked together to maintain this new version of hell. Don't get me wrong hell still place for suffering for the sins but now it is 1000 times more efficient and with add tourism that makes you keep wanting to come back. lol

Ah yes me and the rest of the party being level 2 and the DM says “so Tiamat walks in”

So the ultimate objective is to get Tiamat and Bahamuth to reproduce and create the perfect offspring? That sounds like a really cool campaign honestly.

7:55 Tiamat rolls for Seduction? 26:40 Nat 20!

I do hope you'll get around to doing Dwarves like you did Elves. All of these have been a blast to watch and listen too.

Tiamat could be the ruler of Avernus and still be a prisoner. Hell is essentially a prison for Satan, but he still rules over it.

7:29 I can't believe you used a picture of the old D&D cartoon.

I have a plan for a high level part of my campaign where an ancient gold dragon has been raising a multi-headed or rainbow spawn of Tiamat that it rescued from her before it was identified, and raised them too be good and to one day become the queen of Chromatic dragons

4:50 Gonna be that guy, but Brimstone IS sulfur. So saying that when Tiamat opens her mouth it smells of "brimstone and sulfur", means that it smells of "sulfur and sulfur". I'm not sure what the other smell is supposed to be, but the common phrase used to describe something like hell is "fire and brimstone".

tiamat gets her own dragon simps. i wouldnt expect anything less

Tiamat's General's force that you didn't fully identify, Gope's Erinyes, was the Furies/Fates from Greek Lore, one of the few things more fearsome than a Valkrye would be a Fury, much less an entire Army of them. There's only 3 Groups of them in existence, hence why they have the Lore of only having 3 in existence, specifically the 3 Hags of Fate that cuts the Threads of Fate would be the Generals of the Furies, ranked directly beneath Tiamat's General (whomever they might be).

I think the "Force dragons" and the "Prismatic dragons" you mentioned in "The Single Strongest Monster of All Time" are most likely the spawns of Bahamut and Tiamat that would reflect the God Plan of creating perfect dragons. It would make sense with the myth from "the races of dragons" you talked about in this video...

It would be interesting to see if Asmodeus will ever excuse himself and try to fix their relationship again. It would be double interesting if Tiamat and Asmodeus mated and gave rise to a new demigod. I would love such a story.

Remember when Mr. Rhexx made fun of being sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends? I do.

Tiamat has a great design of DnD, as said the 5 headed Dragon Queen of Chaos.

Honestly this was way more informative than I thought, It was cool to learn that Tiamat isn't limited to her five heads and can switch to yellow, purple, orange, etc. I wonder if you can do one on Bahamut since I can't find much on him

Another case where draconic lore deviates between Krynn/Dragonlance and most of the rest of D&D settings. Takhisis is a similar but very different deity. The image of the wizard in front of her is actually Raistlin in front of Takhisis, referencing his trip into the Abyss (also uniquely different in Dragonlance than other settings) and there is even a comic image that says Takhisis.

I would love to see a 40min video just covering human Liches, they seem to have tons of lore behind them

i feel like a grey dragon head would be pretty solid, those are the advanced fang dragons right?

I was introduced to dnd through the books. My family actually did their best to keep it out of my sphere! The books were amazing and led me to do more and more research and officially realized that it was all based into dnd.

Love your content. So hard to find an enjoyable and informative D&D lore channel that covers every fact of the subject, in a way that feels exciting and rewarding. I feel I have learnt so much from your content and made me a better player and DM for your efforts! I appreciate the work you do brother! Would love to see a video on Strahd!!! Keep going man, We'll be here to support and enjoy the fruits of your labour!

Can we actually get a part 2 of this video where you cover the stuff you didn’t get a chance to in this video.

Tiamat the Queen of Dragons the destroyer of Gods and assumed to be one of my character waifu

28:00 Hold up. You said earlier that she eats those hydra dragon kids specifically to safeguard her own power. And she lives in the Hells, a place where everyone will overthrow you if you take a second to breath. She is also evidently not even a true God since she can age and such...and she basically does the conquest and break out thing specifically to A: Survive and B: Cause she was betrayed. Look, I get her actions are 100% evil and selfish, but it kinda feels unfair to say she does this because she enjoys it. She needs minions, Mortal plane dragons aren't always strong enough and she readily loses the souls of Dragons who come to her. Also there are a lot of reptile species that will mate with offspring because inbreeding isn't an issue for them...thus the same stigma that most races have with it just doesn't exist for her. Really Tiamat's entire gig kinda sounds like she is getting beaten down on every day of the week and then blamed for getting beaten down on. As in, she does what she does to survive, not cause she enjoys it. Plus her own kids are well known to be extremely power hungry, so keeping the ranks low in number basically ensures she survives. Geez, someone give these dragons a hug. If they had the opportunity to change and the belief that they would be able to benefit from the change I'm pretty sure their evil tendencies to survive would go away. Yo Bahamut, I've got an idea!

Tiamat is a major character in my campaign. She is not directly the villain, but the Goddess of all evil. That makes her essentially the most powerful evil creature in the campaign, but her chaotic nature lets her be... a bit weird. Helping the heroes at times, eating people alive...

Thanks for this it explains a ton. We just played decent into Avernus and I played a kobold evocation wizard that was an acolyte of Tiamat. Our group ended up helping her escape her shackles and she offered some of her warriors to help us defeat the current ruler.

Honestly, I am ok with the sponsor if it helps MrRhexx, as long as he's fine and rewarded for making videos, all Gucci.

8:00 the look that your dragon gid waifu gives you when she comes home from a long day of work and sees the meal of gold dragon steak you made for her

I love this so much! I'm actually running two games of the Tyranny of Dragons campaign and this gives me so much more information and content for that. I really love all your work, thank you very much. Cheers from Argentina! I would love to see a Bahamut one as well if possible :D

Last I heard, she’s still showing up 24 times a day in Neverwinter. Give up already. Smh...

Holy cow, you decided to skip a lot of things. I'd totally watch more videos about Tiamat. Or Bahamut too :O

So great! I'm actually playing a character who's Tiamat's bard/fool. This totally helps me background. Would you ever do a video on Olidammara? I feel like he doesn't get any attention

This is the video I've dreamed of! Always loved dragons and was interested about her. Tiamat was what got me interested in D&D in the first place. Thank you for such amazing and interesting videos

me 5 videos before: "he will never do anything even better - there is no chance!" me now: "I`ve never been so wrong in my life"

45 minutes ohh men this is gonna be great

I like the long videos. I love you being able to go more in depth and explain side subjects more as well. I find these videos motivating and entertaining and I enjoy your voice and accent. I love your videos, thank you.

Seeing this video right now, when Fazbin's Treasury of Dragons is about to come out and finally shed light on the First World, it's, it's mindboggling, really.

Wait those hooded figures didn't tell me she was evil

Fun fact: There is one (1) other chromatic dragon in the official lore, the Dragon Queen of Krynn, Thakisis. One has to wonder what would happen if the two should meet. Another Fun fact: Tiamat has started (since 4th edition) to bolster her armies with weird chromatic hybrids known as the Dragonspawn of Tiamat. These hybrid creatures breed true among themselves, and are almost universally used to spread her influence on the prime material.

Fantastic video! Loved the depth of information you provided. Good job!

Love all your vids! I miss playing D&D but your vids help a lot especially if I decide to play again lol. Each vid is highly educational and intriguing and shows how much it has changed. I was a 2e player.

A part 2 ! With historical events as well ! Thank you !

This is why I started Tyranny of Dragons as my first campaign to DM. Her power. So many things to throw at adventures. So much to gain as the story leads to the final battle........ sigh*... and ofcourse, lots of DM work... lol.

I love this style of long videos! I would love to see a video about the different patrons of the warlock and telling about what they offer you I feel like that would be sick

Nice video, really like Tiamat and this did give me a better insight on the lore of Tiamat. also did decide to play Raid using your refferal as well. keep up the great work on the videos of D&D. :)

26:42 The sheer vibe of "fucky" eyes here is so strong I can only infer that while searching for images of tiamat for the vid, Rhexx found a tiamat dakimura and is too much of a coward to show the whole thing . . . or maybe its worse than that

There was a two headed white dragon that got her blessing.

This was so entertaining and informative! Also the pictures and footage was awesome. You could make a seperate video about vlaakith, the Gith and Tiamat. We need more of this

Wonderful video. That was 3-4 sleepy time stories worth. I love your content its very interesting!

Look man, I have absolutely no interest in Raid, have seen countless ads for it and have ignored countless ads for it, but you're absolutely one of my favorite youtubers on the platform, and for you, and you only, I'll probably download it, use your code, do the tutorial, and uninstall it. Keep doing what you're doing man, we love your content.

Oh hell yeah, an entire documentary!

I gotta say, being new here, I like 👍the longer videos. I would happily watch this as a multi part video of however long you wanted to make it. That said, I enjoyed this video very much and will be sharing this channel as much as I am able. Well Done, Sir.

You just got a new follower!! This video was amazing!

1:15: A poster of a Dragonlance scene as told in "Dragons Of Spring Dawning", featuring Takhisis, Queen Of Darkness in her temple in Sanction. The prisoner, Laurana (Lauralanthalasa), known by the entire continent of Ansalon by that point in the War Of The Lance as the Golden General, is flanked by a Sivak Draconian on the viewer's right (Silver) and either a Baaz or Kapak Draconian (Brass or Copper respectively) 4:32: Apparently a Dragonlance portrait due to the name Takhisis present in the top panel. I don't speak the language, though. 11:10: "Takhisis is not Tiamat'' -- Yet, here we are with another Dragonlance image. The Black Robed mage, Raistlin Majere is here with the glowing hourglass. In the Twins Trilogy (Time Of The Twins, War Of The Twins, Test Of The Twins) Raistlin's ultimate goal is to enter the Abyss and battle Takhisis with the intent to kill her and take her place amidst the pantheon. Whether this image takes place in the Abyss or not is not known to me The three major gods of Krynn - Paladine, Takhisis, and Gilean, are all known by different names in the world. Gilean is the God Of Neutrality and is the Lorekeeper, whose avatar resides in Palanthas' Great Library recording everything that is happening in the world. Throughout the novels I read I never saw any other names given to him. Paladine, however, very blatantly advertises who he is by the end of "Dragons Of Spring Dawning" to both the reader and to Tasslehoff, telling him names like Bahamut among one race, Io to the Elves, the Platinum Dragon to others, and a few other names. He is introduced in the prologue of the first novel, "Dragons Of Autumn Twilight" but his identity is never hinted at until partway through the second novel, "Dragons Of Winter NIght'' when he confronts Silvara, a Silver Dragon disguised as an elf, about breaking 'The Pact' in front of the Companions Of The Lance. Takhisis, on the other hand, has titles that are by no means hidden by anyone. Queen Of Darkness is her official title, and Tiamat is stated outright on many occasions as being one of the other names she goes by, not just by the entire dragon population. Her symbol? A dragon with five chromatic heads. The portal to the abyss in the Tower Of High Sorcery even has a portal to the Abyss that, in Ouroboros style, has five dragon heads of chromatic coloring that circle the outside of what is otherwise a mirror. These three gods each have a constellation in the sky, Gilean in the middle while the other two are on either side of him facing one another. If their avatars are on Krynn there is an empty void where their constellations are...even though Gilean is always present. Also, Paladine and Takhisis are constantly being referred to as brother and sister, watching over one another in case of treachery. After the War Of Souls trilogy, which transitioned the world from 2e to 3.0 / 3.5e I stopped reading the novels altogether from bother Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms. One day I will pick that back up again. I'd love to TRY and catch up on the Saurials of the Forgotten Realms as well as what the former First Dragonarmy Engineers are doing these days.

6:04 That's a pretty cool fact! Not only was it a new piece of info for me (relatively new to D&D), but also secretly eludes to this information in her MTG Card form, a 5-color creature with the ability to search out up to 5 other Dragons (not named Tiamat) with different names!

so awesome ! great work on all the information in the video

I can't thank you enough for doing these, it really adds to my day. Take care and stay safe 😎 🍻 🤘

This seems like it needs a part 2. I want to know why gith have red dragons and how clerics get her favor. Does tiamat actively hunt giants? Since I though dragons and giants hate each other.

Yoooo, a part two going over the church and other info would be great.

Dude awesome video. Building a home brew post rise of Tiamat and after they have been through “decent into Avernus” so super helpful summary!

That was a lot of info and damn if you didnt seem to have a lot more to cover. Love these videos. Keep em coming!

From 4e, Hammerfast and one of the Scales of War adventures each include a multiheaded dragon. The Scales of War adventure is Alliance at Nefelus in Dungeon 165 and has a two-headed white dragon. Hammerfast isn't explicitly an adventure, it's an adventure site for, like, a West Marches style game and the final villain is a three-headed red dragon.

Joined the raid to help man, love your work

Great stuff, thanks for posting!

The only thing I wish to point out is Takhisis has been confirmed by Wotc to be Tiamat, as Paladine has also been confirmed to be Bahamut/Fizban.

I'm playing a cleric of Tiamat, I'm going to have to ask my DM about those spells

Damn, I didn't even mind the Raid ad, it was actually convincing. Well done!

Love the videos man great job

Pretty sure an official source book on dragons stated Takhisis from Dragonlance and Tiamat are indeed the same diety. As you point out she is of multi-sphere influence and exists on multiple realms

In the Curse of Strahd campaign I'm in, I play a Chromatic Dragonborn, Lawful Good paladin. He made it clear that he served the holy dragons. Every time he prayed to Bahamut, the DM would say that Tiamat answered, instead. I've turned it into a joke. Now, I say "Damn, Tiamat just stole the phone again." My ultimate goal is, when he says "Tiamat answers instead," I'm gonna pop off with "Instead? Hell naw, I'm asking Tiamat what she's wearing right now."

Great art at 7:26 ! What a wonderful shout-out to the Saturday morning cartoon🙂👍

Thanks for making this video! A lot of other videos don't really go too far in depth or just lower quality. Also can you do a video on Jubilex the oozing hunger?

“The queens legs are as thicc as great trees” A quote any man will appreciate Also 32:26 I fought that boss once, but I forgot where it was. Now I can kill them.

The first ten minutes of the video: "Schrodinger's Dragon Queen"

As a big fan of the Dragons part in DnD i really apreciate this vdeo hahah. Loved how you covered everything you could in just 40 mins., kind of "long" video but SO worthed!

2 years later, I'm still listening to this.

"if you want to move further into hell you have to pass through Tiamat" Doomguy: loads shotgun with malicious intention