Tiamat's Consorts & Her Radiant Saints

When the Goddess of Queens, Rulership, Divorce, and Rebirth was consumed by dragons, her symbols became perverted and her powers stained by draconian radiance. From the hellish space between worlds where souls are tortured and memories are lost she pulled her new consorts to serve both her and the crazed dragons she now ruled.

Tiamat; Goddess of Radiance & Armageddon & Life Cycles
Also known as Cihuacoatl

These consorts are half-dragons each, for she births them when the shattered moon eclipses the whole and when the sun can just barely rise over the blasted horizon. Those whose souls are not plucked from Somewhere Else instead must lay with Tiamat for a night. Regardless of their sex, they will awaken the next day changed and morphed. The radiance pulls apart their DNA and replaces precious chromosomes with dragon runes and rewrites their biology to be more like their goddess. When they step into sunlight the next day they are Ascended.

Precious few Consorts ever live long. Many are fed to wyrms in order to wipe the madness from their mind. Others are hunted by Dragon Wives, who see them as blasphemies that must be destroyed; Old Dragonslayers think much the same way. Those who do survive are those who have done something amazing. In the name of Tiamat, they have performed a miracle, and thus they have become Saints.

Drake Saints, Wyrm Saints, Radiant Saints and more--they are the greatest enemies of the Dragon Wives, beyond that of the Burned Widows and their apocalyptic husbands. They are intelligent and powerful, manipulators of draconian radiance and capable of performing feats of magic that test even the gods. Indeed, they are deiciders. It was they who killed the Father of Cities, and who vanquished much of the old pantheon.

The miracles of Saints are beautiful to behold to all with dragon eyes. Poor bastards lacking in blessings cannot distinguish the difference between them and the end of days.

Dragonmaster Swain is an inspiration for the Saints.

6 SAINTS AND THEIR GENERATOR

St. Itzcoatl, Who Widowed Armageddon

He who killed Tiamat's husband, the Father of Cities. He conjured fireballs the size of cities and laid waste to many gods. As the blood trickled down his arm and into his mouth, a Dragon Wife grabbed him my the throat and ripped the organs from his chest. His death led to apotheosis of Tiamat.

St. Papalotl, Weaver of the Chrysalis

She learned how to turn draconian radiance into a cocoon in which someone could be reborn as a consort, drake, or even a wyrmling. Countless survivors in the Bless'd Lands have been kidnapped and transformed by her. Eventually she weaved a cocoon around herself after perfecting her art; she has yet to eme

St. Roksana, Eater of Prophecies & Flesh

She infiltrated the City of the Dragon Wives and devoured the flesh of a hundred gatherers, a thousand civilizations, ten handless priests, and a single god. In addition to crippling the forces of the city, she momentarily achieved the ability to peer into the future. She shared her visions with Tiamat and the other consorts before being caught and flayed by a Dragon Wife.

St. Sargon, Sun-Throttler

He studied the sun for ten years, meditating on a mountain that only had one side and whose surface was made of swirling fire and melted ash. In a moment of enlightenment, he spoke a prayer to Tiamat, slicing the sun in half. This act allowed countless wyrmlings to devour the severed fire, and thus grow rapidly into ancient wyrms. The prayer turned St. Sargon into an obsidian statue when it finished.

St. Mixminu, Saint of First Blood

They took it upon themselves to duel the first Dragon Wife before the city walls. The battle was so ferocious that neither sister-wife nor dragon could intervene. In the end, Mixminu severed the head and removed the heart of the First Wife before succumbing to their wounds.

St. Ra'Coszcatl, Who Told the Truth

The first Conspirator-Consort of Tiamat, they used their ability to shift form to invade the City of the Dragon Wives and baited one of their gods out to be devoured by direwolves. The direwolves, it is said, did not trust them, but upon seeing that they told the truth, the wolves swore themselves to St. Ra'Coszcatl. Since then, they have proven invaluable allies to the will of dragons.

Creating a New Saint

Identifying Feature(s)

1. Their horns replace both their ears and their eyes.
2. They have a second mouth on their throat which speaks in draconic.
3. From the shadows of their cape's folds sprout massive dragon wings.
4. Wyrmlings crawl out of their mouth when they talk, consume a bit of their flesh, and fly back inside.
5. Where they walk, ash turns to fire, and fire to ash.
6. Draconian radiance is so strong around them that they appear covered in static and white noise.
7. Their arms are missing, replaced by limbs made out of dragon breath. Roll to see which kind.
8. They are scaled, but the scales change from flesh to glass to human skin as they move.
9. An umbilical chord hangs from their stomach. At the end of it is a wyrmling.
10. They are nude, and instead of sex organs they have the heads of dragons.

Saintly Moment

1. Became a saint because they somehow killed and devoured a god.
2. Became a saint because they turned a number of Dragon Wives into Burned Widows.
3. They reduced a city to ash and fed the inhabitants to Tiamat.
4. They died killing Old Dragonslayers and were born from their pyres 5 days later.
5. They learned how to replace destroyed dragon hearts out of obsidian and gold.
6. They fed themselves to a clutch of wyrmlings and were reborn from their eggs. There are d100 of copies of this Saint.
7. They found the lost symbols of a god and wear them, stealing their power.
8. They've cut the left arms off of a dozen Dragon Wives.
9. They learned Draconic words and wrote them down for other consorts to speak.
10. They used fragments of the Shattered Moon to birth a new First Dragon.

There are never more than 5 Saints at any one time.

OSR Stats for Tiamat's Consorts & Saints

Typical Consort
HD 5 (30) SPEED As per human
ARMOR As Studded Leather (unnaturally tough skin)
MORALE 12 normally ; 20 in Tiamat's presence
ATTACK

• Smite: +5 to hit 2d6hp
• Claws: +5 to hit d4hp
• Gore: +5 to hit d6hp

SPECIAL

Roll a d6 when generating a Consort or a group of Consorts. They have the following ability on the below tables.

1. Roll on the Dragon Breath Weapon table.
2. Roll on the Dragon Roar table.
3. The Consort knows Draconic; give it 3 spells of 4th level or lower. Can cast each once per day.
4. The Consort has scales; increase AC to Scale Mail + Shield.
5. The Consort has wings; has a flying speed human x2
6. Roll twice on this table.

Typical Saint

HD 10 (60) SPEED As per human

ARMOR As half-plate + shield

MORALE 16 ; 20 in Tiamat's presence

ATTACK

• Choke: +7 to hit 1d10hp
• Smite: +7 to hit 2d10hp

SPECIAL

• The Radiant Saint knows magic as if a magic user. They have 1 spell for levels 6-9, and then 3 spell slots for 1-5. 
• The Radiant Saint has all 5 features of the Typical Consort.
• The Radiant Saint can ignite their hands with their breath weapons. Any melee attacks made create the breath weapon's effect on touch.
• Dragons & Drakes will always follow the commands of Radiant Saints.
• Damage from Radiant Saints increases your Radiance Score by the same amount.