#its tiamat

[fearbolgs]

First day acolyting.

Some backstory art for my monk, Felix, in a Tyranny of Dragons campaign. Back when he was a doe-eyed, nervous little church boy instead of a haggard, jaded monk.

[kavalyera]

six-song soundtrack for my oc, Dr. Kelley

thank u to the great @thesixthplaneteer for tagging me!!

Rules: If you're tagged, make a new post with links to music and/or lyrics describing the following..

1. Event that defines your character's past: Cities in Dust by Siouxsie and the Banshees

Water was running, children were running

We found you hiding, we found you lying

Water was running, children were running

We found you hiding, we found you lying

2. How your character sees themselves: Anesthesia by Type O Negative

World reknowned failure at both death and life

Given nothingness, purgatory blight

To run and hide, a cowardly procedure

Options exhausted, except for anesthesia, anesthesia

I don't feel anything, anything

3. How others view them: I Come With Knives by IAMX

The monotony

And the rising tide

Is under my skin, is crawling inside

Adrenaline to rewire my mind

I'm only human, I come with knives

I never promised you an open heart or charity

I never wanted to abuse your imagination

4. Their closest relationship (platonic or romantic): Wings of Heaven by Tiamat

The wings of heaven are descending

The touch of her naked skin's amending

The skies will collide only for a little while

And it will take us through the night

We will make it through the night

5. A major fight scene: Stray Bullet by KMFDM

I am your unconsciousness

I am unrestrained excess

Metamorphic restlessness

I'm your unexpectedness

6. End credits song: Crucifère by Eths

Plus envie de te voir près de moi, non (No longer want to see you near me, no)

Enclin disgracieux (Unsightly prone)

J'irai brûler mes ailes (I will burn my wings)

Mutation corporelle (Body change)

Je m'aime facétieuse (I love myself facetious)

umm idk who 2 tag this time so ummm @kun16 (puta ka mag post ka loko) @toreadorcaretaker @born-to-eat-rats @porcelainseashore

[noodledog]

Opal-hide Tiamat? Opal-hide Tiamat. [Nodding emoji]

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

ALRIGHT Y'ALL!!! The Titans are trending, even my beloved Tiamat!

Please ignore the bald son of a bitch-🙃

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

how it started:

how it's going:

[akimojo]

No but you are absolutely right about how Lunafreya and Jill (haven't played FFXVI yet but still) are supposed to be narratively important but?? Don't really do much on screen? Or anything? They're just kinda there and it's sad because their potential is astronomical! And we know that FF is capable of making fully rounded female characters because just look at the previous games. Kinda sad to see that undermining the females in favor of the males is becoming a trend now.

RIGHT the fact that we KNOW square has made female characters with amazing character arcs before makes it so much more disappointing when they just?? willingly choose not to??? its bizarre

at least nowadays they have the courtesy to come up with some flimsy excuse as for why a female character has to be benched so i guess theres that lmao

[simplegeneral]

How would tiamat fare in the world of wings of the?

I think she would have a pretty freaking hard time there, for:

1- She is a race based deity, meaning mudwings and sandwings wouldn't worship her, so she is left with the rest and no Pantala.

2- The mentality of wof dragons is leaning towards pacificism and anti-war by the beginning of dragonet prophecy, aside a few OBVIOUS evil bad guys. This goes against Tiamat's very core of endless war against her enemies until her children are victorious.

3- The only character I can imagine worshipping Tiamat is Scarlet, as Burn is pratically irreligious (which makes no freaking sense, but you go girlboss, still love you) and she isn't on Tiamat's race list. Coral, Glacier, Battlewinner and the rainwing queens might do worship her timidly, which has no use to Tiamat.

4- By arc 2, Tiamat's cult might be considered all but existing in Pyrrhia after that dastardly daring dragonets (I can only laugh and imagine they being Bahamut worshippers). Since dnd deities gain some amount of power out of their numbers, this time I could consider Tiamat to be willing to drop her whole superior race thing and reach individuals like Vulture, Onyx and Wasp.

5- Kinda tying to point 3, I can see Peril as a champion of Tiamat instead of a feared monster, which is very based of Tiamat.

By the end of arc 3, Tiamat worshippers ceased to exist in numbers, and she might as hell just move on to another plane of existence because she lost here.

[eepy-cat]

Tiamat becoming playable is awesome I love my new mom but at the same time I feel like the writers might take this and remove that weird part of the Gudas and Mash's characters where they have actual PTSD from Babylonia and I think that's a really cool (if underused) part of their characters

[pinnithin]

the "what would your tav's personal quest be called" post got me thinking about my tav who i havent talked about at all but im having a blast playing. this is my second playthrough (excluding the origin runs) so i get to be a little more intentional about choosing their backstory.

enter pyxis, sole caretaker of a small, relatively secret shrine to tiamat in baldur's gate. they're a 22 year old black dragonborn who received a decent formal foundation in cleric work in their youth, but the rest of their magical education as an adult was self-taught (multiclass shenanigans). the only cleric of their order, theyve built a reputation for themself as the annoying evangelist who's always finding ways to squeeze money out of a situation. generally disliked, both for the tiamat worship and their annoying personality, they have a bit of a persecution complex and are convinced they're really, genuinely a good guy when all evidence points to the contrary. they're also very stupid. more on this later.

cue mind flayer abduction and infection. pyxis suddenly finds themself stranded in the wilderness surrounded by people who have no idea who they are and don't automatically treat them with disdain. they can finally prove theyre they good guy they always say they are, and they make promise after promise to help those in need (and complain about all the effort for relatively no coin in private). they're... really bad at being a good guy. they say all the right things to authority figures and people in charge but are generally rude and overly self-important when interacting with the common man.

this includes the companions, whose personal struggles pyxis is largely unsympathetic toward because they're constantly playing the pain olympics. like, yes, hm, that all sounds very tragic. quite the sob story. have i mentioned im the last of my order? that im the only one who can carry the torch of tiamat in my city? we all have problems here. they're not particularly favorable with any of the companions because they have a talent for pissing people off but they're fascinated by wyll's good guy act and how its so much more effective than pyxis' good guy act. hey man how do people actually believe you when you say you're here to help them. teach me your ways.

anyway we finally get around to finding karlach and wyll isn't able to go through with it. that night after mizora visits the camp and punishes wyll, pyxis is in a noticeably sour mood when confronting him about it. how can you be associated with a devil, they demand, especially that devil. and they proceed to reveal that mizora is responsible for pyxis' entire order being wiped out, with the help of one of her warlocks, during a failed summoning ritual about seven years ago. pyxis was the only one left alive after the encounter and now considers maintaining and rebuilding tiamat worship in baldur's gate their sole calling. hence all the evangelizing and gold hoarding.

they conclude this story by warning wyll against working with mizora from the perspective of someone whos been personally wronged by her. when cautiously asked about the warlock's identity, pyxis responds, "i don't know. i never got a good look at him. he left the scene pretty quickly and i was more concerned with not bleeding out. i wonder where he is now, if he's even still alive." because, as stated above, they are very stupid. "anyway, if you need help getting out of your pact, i'll help, if only because she's due for some revenge."

and wyll, unable to say anything about the conditions of his pact, is just left standing there like, oh. oh no.

[everystephoftheway]

Is #31 taken? If so, that one.

50 Types of Kisses - Writing Prompts 31. Pulling away from a kiss, whispering words of love against each other’s lips.

“No…No, no, stop!” 

Vax is pulled out of his sleep by Keyleth’s strained shouts, her body faced away from him in the bed. He’s quick to sit up and turn, any drowsiness quickly overruled by worry. 

“Kiki?” 

Leaning over her, he finds her eyes scrunched closed, forehead damp with sweat. She is curled into a ball, the blanket held tight in her fists.

“Keyleth, wake up. It’s just a dream; wake up, please.” He gently brushes a hand over her hair, and Keyleth suddenly shoots up with a scream, frantically wide eyed and pale.

"Mom!"

Vax leans back, avoiding a nice collision with her head, and immediately moves in front of her, sitting on his knees. The room is dark, only the dull light from the moon in a cloudy sky peeking in through the window.

"Kiki, look at me." He reaches for her hands, but makes sure to keep his movements slow and gentle.

Her eyes find him quickly, but it takes her a second to really see him. The fear in her expression starts to fade as he simply sits there, an unmovable presence; she starts watching him breathe, and slowly but surely matches his rhythm. Looking down, she notices their hands intertwined--how did she not feel it?

"Vax..."

"It's okay. It was just a dream."

She looks up at him again. "A dream...Just--" Her lips curl in as her eyes suddenly become glassy, and she starts to unravel. Vax scoots in immediately, letting go of her hands so he can wrap himself around her, her head against his chest.

"Shhh, it's alright. I'm here, it's alright."

He starts to brush through her hair with his fingers, the other arm strong against her back, willing to hold her up if she feels the need to fully let go. Her arms tuck in between them, rising up to take his face in her hands, and she brings him down to kiss her.

Her lips are salty from tears, but Vax pays no mind. He kisses back, and keeps doing so until she pulls away just enough to speak.

"I love you so much," she whispers. "Promise me you won't leave me."

Vax's heart breaks in his chest, and, at first, all he can think to do is kiss her again before he says, voice strong and clear, "I promise."

"Say the whole thing."

"I promise I won't ever leave you."

"I love you so much."

"I love you too."

They sit like this a little while longer, whispering I love you's back and forth, until Keyleth finally lets out a yawn, and Vax manages to convince her to lay down again, this time in his arms. They sleep like that the rest of the night, neither moving, neither leaving, the dream fading into the night like a distant memory.

[kazu-naito]

i think a lot about the fact that in mythology nikkal and ningal are the same goddess and they're married to sin

[toestalucia]

petra and elmott event this is how ill be winning yet another year in granblu

[thanatoseyes]

I wish I had room to put Brigid, Freyja, and Tiamat on their own separate altars. Right now they are all chilling with Persephone, Hades, Hermes, and Hekate.

[ahumblebox]

THE TIAMAT!

THE TIAMAT IS REAL!

[gothic-cepho]

using my incredible powers of adhd hyperfixation to make as many mtg joke decks as i can before time runs out

[secret-fungi]

might be the mommy issues talkin but she is hotter than any of the lis