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Typical Physical Characteristics: Like her natural form,
Tiamat’s aspect is a thick-bodied dragon with five heads and
a wyvern’s tail. Each head is a different color: white, black,
green, blue, and red. Her massive body is striped in those
colors.
SOCIETY
Tiamat concerns herself with spreading evil, defeating good,
and propagating evil dragons. She enjoys razing the occasional
village, city, or country, but only as a diversion from
more subtle, world-spanning plots. She is the villain who
lurks in the shadows, and the presence of one of her aspects
is felt but seldom seen.
Tiamat constantly seeks to extend the power and dominion
of evil dragons over the land, particularly when her subjects
become embroiled in territorial disputes with good dragons.
She demands unfailing reverence, homage, and tribute from
her subjects, and her aspects are no different.
All evil dragons pay homage to Tiamat; green and blue
dragons acknowledge her sovereignty the most readily. Evil
dragons that are far more powerful than her aspect still bow
before it because they know it is an extension of their deity’s
will.
On the other hand, few evil dragons keep shrines to Tiamat
in their lairs because they don’t want her greedy eyes gazing
at their treasure hoards. Instead, they dedicate vast, gloomy
caverns to their deity and keep them stocked with treasure and
sacrifices. It is in these places that clerics summon her aspects
or that dragons pray to Tiamat to send an aspect to aid them.
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ASPECT OF TIAMAT LORE
Characters with ranks in Knowledge (arcana) and Knowledge
(religion) can learn more about aspects of Tiamat. When a
character makes a skill check, the following lore is revealed,
including the information from lower DCs.
Knowledge (Arcana)
DC Result
23 The dragon deity Tiamat can send her aspect to aid
worshipers.
28 An aspect of Tiamat can breathe fi re, acid, cold, or
electricity, and it has resistance (but not immunity) to
all those energy types.
Knowledge (Religion)
DC Result
23 Tiamat, the primary deity of evil dragons, can send her
aspect to aid her faithful. Worshipers of Tiamat can
summon an aspect with a planar ally spell, but they
must offer it great wealth to retain its services.
28 Tiamat’s aspects prefer to act from behind the scenes,
so if you meet one, it’s likely that the aspect is desperate
or its appearance is designed to have a particular
effect on events.
33 Tiamat sends her aspects more readily than Bahamut,
the primary god of good dragons. If an aspect of Tiamat
is involved, it’s likely that a planar ally summons to an
aspect of Bahamut will be answered.
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TYPICAL TREASURE
Aspects of Tiamat love treasure as much as the goddess
does. Their hoards are often twice that of similarly powerful
dragons, and an aspect usually has many servant dragons,
half-dragons, and other spawn guarding its treasure.
BLAZEWYRM
A fire tumbles and crackles through the air before you, and as the whirling
slows, you realize that it is a living creature. A dragonlike head of
flame becomes apparent above a sinuous tail of burning air.
Blazewyrm CR 5
Always CE Large elemental (fire)
Init +7; Senses darkvision 60 ft., Listen +2, Spot +2
Languages Draconic, Ignan
AC 17, touch 12, flat-footed 14
(–1 size, +3 Dex, +5 natural)
hp 67 (9 HD); DR 5/magic
Resist evasion
Immune critical hits, fire, flanking, paralysis, poison, sleep,
stunning
Fort +6, Ref +11, Will +3
Weakness vulnerability to cold
Speed 40 ft. (8 squares), fly 60 ft. (perfect)
Melee bite +10 (1d8+7 plus 1d6 fire)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 5 ft.
Base Atk +6; Grp +16
Special Actions tumbling flame
Abilities Str 20, Dex 17, Con 16, Int 4, Wis 11, Cha 10
SQ fiery body
Feats Alertness, Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes, Skill
Focus (Tumble)
Skills Balance +5, Jump +11, Listen +2, Spot +2, Tumble +18
Advancement see text
Vulnerability to Cold (Ex) A blazewyrm takes +50% normal
damage from cold attacks.
Tumbling Flame (Ex) Whenever a blazewyrm uses the
Tumble skill to successfully move through an opponent’s
square, that creature takes 6d6 points of fire damage
(Reflex DC 17 half). A creature can take this damage only
once during the blazewyrm’s turn.
Fiery Body (Ex) A blazewyrm’s body is made of solid flame.
Any creature that strikes or touches a blazewyrm with its
body or that grapples a blazewyrm automatically takes
1d6 points of fire damage. A creature can take this
damage only once per round.
The chaotic blazewyrms delight in burning anything that can
be set alight, especially other creatures. Tumbling through
the air like balls of fire, they move among their enemies with
impunity, leaving smoldering corpses behind.
STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
A blazewyrm attacks foes by tumbling through their squares.
Although it can bite enemies, the creature rarely stands and
fights, preferring to damage multiple opponents by burning
through them.
CHAPTER 4
DRACONIC
BEASTS
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