Bahamut

The Proud and Noble Dragon, Bahamut

**Bahamut** was/is one of the original two dragons that supposedly created the earth and responsible for giving Dragons the ability to procreate with each other. How he was created is unknown. He was also the eternal rival of his sister Tiamat, who was said to be completely different to him.

## Lore

### **Bahamut, The Proud and Noble Dragon God**

Bahamut was described as a Dragon Deity, said to be a one-of-a-kind Large Platinum Dragon that acted as a god of justice and honour, very different or completely opposite to his sister Tiamat. They were the first known recorded sentient life forms on Solara, which led to rumours that they created the world, but this is still largely unknown.

Bahamut was known to try to bring order to the dragons and ruled with a certain wisdom. There was a constant rivalry between Bahamut and Tiamat as they both saw themselves as the others better, but there was never any true conflict between the two and instead ruled the dragons their own way.

### The Flame Appears

Bahamut became very intrigued by the creatures that came from the First Flame when it first appeared, but did not necessarily class them as a threat, which surprisingly was the same stance as Tiamat, believe herself to be almighty. But when the four creatures discovered the Great Souls within the Fire and drew power from them, they challenged the Everlasting Dragons for rule of the earth. Bahamut wanted to strategise and did not want to just eagerly send in his dragons, unlike Tiamat who, with her second in command, Kalameet, immediately went out to face the armies of Humanity and in the first years of the war, managed to wipe out entire armies.

After a couple of years Bahamut wanted to try and make peace with Gwyn and the Soul Wielders, offering to be able to live peacefully together which left Gwyn to ponder. This mostly came after the death of the Great Dragon Sinh and the defection of Seath the Scaleless. But this action of peace talks greatly angered Tiamat, to the point that Tiamat disclosed the secret location of Bahamut and was subsequently captured by Gwyn and was imprisoned deep below the earth using an ancient form of magic.

Tiamat subsequently became the leader of both Dragon armies and decided to attack with her entire army, in a reckless attempt to destroy humanity in one go. This however was her greatest mistake, as what followed was a great massacre of both Dragons and Humans as the wielders of the Great Souls combined their power. The Gravelord Nito unleashed a miasma of death and destruction. Gwyn conjured sunlight beams that ripped apart the scales of the Dragons. The Witch of Izalith weaved great firestorms that brought the dragons to their knees.

### Imprisonment

Tiamat and Bahamut were both imprisoned in different undisclosed locations, noted only to the Catarinian King, Aldricius I. The Dragon Armies were effectively decimated with few named and unknown dragons surviving the war and flying off to distant lands.

The magic that was said to be used to bind the two Dragons were so ancient that it had never been used again, leading to many trying to learn the magic, but none have managed recreate it as of yet, nor has the Dragons location been discovered.