Right, she's been described as unified chorus of sorts, but given the different personality profiles ascribed to the different chromatic dragons, a vocalized internal debate is possible. If you don't want to belabor that with a sound collage you could look at the Quintessons (five faces with five distinct voices) seen in varying renditions of the Transformers cartoons and comics as a model for how that could work/be performed. Sometimes they are pretty integrated but the Earthrise arc of War for Cybertron portrayed one whose five personalities were at war with itself (though that situation resolved itself too quickly probably because the series was a short order of episodes and on a tight schedule).
I'm actually liking this "divided Tiamat" (more likely to occur on matters she's ambivalent about, like most PC interactions). And doing something where I take different trains of thought and use either colored cards or die in hand as a prop to indicate which head is speaking.
If you want a lore idea then you could say that the curse cast by the giants that caused Tiamat to be sent to Hell split her personalities up. This is the approach I took when I went with Gith being Tiamat, Tiamat was able to splinter out an aspect of itself to sneak out of hell and influence other species on other planes.
I have a question about Tiamat and her "home plane". Currently (depending on what, if any, of the big campaigns you have played and how they ended) Tiamat is trapped in Avernus, the 1st layer of Hell. As I understand it, this is not her native plane, but she is trapped there by some powerful magic. I would assume, given her chaotic evil alignment, that her native plane is somewhere in the Abyss.
Now, in Rise of Tiamat, it is possible that cultists successfully manage to get her to escape her confinement and summon her to the Realms. There she is fought by some heroes and (hopefully!) has her mortal form destroyed. This is where I am confused, as when this happens the module (RoT) says that she returns to her confinement in Avernus.
Why is that? If the cultists released her from her imprisonment in Hell, should she not then be free to return to the Abyss if "killed" on the prime material plane?
If anyone can clear up this confusion for me, it would be really helpful.
Thanks Blakey
Tiamat wouldn't go to the abyss, as she's not a demon, she's a fiend.
I have a question about Tiamat and her "home plane". Currently (depending on what, if any, of the big campaigns you have played and how they ended) Tiamat is trapped in Avernus, the 1st layer of Hell. As I understand it, this is not her native plane, but she is trapped there by some powerful magic. I would assume, given her chaotic evil alignment, that her native plane is somewhere in the Abyss.
Now, in Rise of Tiamat, it is possible that cultists successfully manage to get her to escape her confinement and summon her to the Realms. There she is fought by some heroes and (hopefully!) has her mortal form destroyed. This is where I am confused, as when this happens the module (RoT) says that she returns to her confinement in Avernus.
Why is that? If the cultists released her from her imprisonment in Hell, should she not then be free to return to the Abyss if "killed" on the prime material plane?
If anyone can clear up this confusion for me, it would be really helpful.
Thanks Blakey
Tiamat wouldn't go to the abyss, as she's not a demon, she's a fiend.
Honestly, I wouldn't put it past her since she's basically a force of NE destruction.
She doesn't like the Hells, and might see the Abyss as an ideal place to conquer and settle. After all, the Abyss is described as a place where anyone with the power to do so can carve out their own dominion in the plane.
Even if she's not chaotic evil, a force of relative law in a plane of chaos, I can see her shifting her lair there since there she would be enslaved to no master and can come and go to pillage and plunder the planes as much as she likes. She could even get back at Bel, Zariel, Asmodeus and any and all of those devils who belittled and enslaved her.
That being said, she's definitely not from the Abyss at the moment, and the Hells and the Abyss are not the same place :)
If you want a lore idea then you could say that the curse cast by the giants that caused Tiamat to be sent to Hell split her personalities up. This is the approach I took when I went with Gith being Tiamat, Tiamat was able to splinter out an aspect of itself to sneak out of hell and influence other species on other planes.
Tiamat wouldn't go to the abyss, as she's not a demon, she's a fiend.
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Honestly, I wouldn't put it past her since she's basically a force of NE destruction.
She doesn't like the Hells, and might see the Abyss as an ideal place to conquer and settle. After all, the Abyss is described as a place where anyone with the power to do so can carve out their own dominion in the plane.
Even if she's not chaotic evil, a force of relative law in a plane of chaos, I can see her shifting her lair there since there she would be enslaved to no master and can come and go to pillage and plunder the planes as much as she likes. She could even get back at Bel, Zariel, Asmodeus and any and all of those devils who belittled and enslaved her.
That being said, she's definitely not from the Abyss at the moment, and the Hells and the Abyss are not the same place :)