Tiamat (EvilHack)
& Tiamat 
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| Difficulty | 53 |
| Attacks |
Breath 6d6 random, Spell-casting 2d4 mage, Claw 4d6 amulet-stealing, Bite 6d6 physical, Bite 6d6 physical, Sting 2d4 poison |
| Base level | 48 (103) |
| Base experience | 3172 |
| Speed | 15 |
| Base AC | -8 |
| Base MR | 80 |
| Alignment | -20 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Unique |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 6000 |
| Nutritional value | 3000 |
| Size | Gigantic |
| Resistances | fire, cold, sleep, disintegration, shock, poison, acid, petrification, level drain, magic |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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Tiamat:
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| Reference | EvilHack 0.8.4 - monst.c, line 3615 |
- For the monster as she appears in NetHack and other variants, see Chromatic Dragon (disambiguation).
Tiamat, &, is a unique monster that appears in EvilHack and Hack'EM. Tiamat is a strong and carnivorous demon princess in the form of a dragon: she is thick-skinned and capable of flight, has infravision, can be seen via infravision, can see invisible, and can follow the hero to other levels if she is adjacent. Tiamat will pick up any gold, gems and magical item she comes across - she is covetous and capable of warping several squares at a time, and desires the Amulet of Yendor.
Tiamat has a breath weapon that is randomized from the following breath types: magic missile, fire, frost, sleeping gas, disintegration, lightning, poison clouds, acid, high-pressure water blasts, or dark energy blasts that drain life. She also has the ability to cast one mage monster spell per round of attacks, a strong claw attack that can steal the Amulet of Yendor, two strong bite attacks, and a poisonous sting attack. Tiamat possesses the resistances of all dragons: fire resistance, shock resistance, cold resistance, sleep resistance, disintegration resistance, poison resistance, acid resistance, drain resistance, magic resistance, and reflection.
Tiamat is poisonous if she is somehow consumed.
Generation
Tiamat is always generated hostile, and is not a valid form for polymorph.
Tiamat is one of the four demon princes who can occupy the third-tier demon lair in Gehennom, and has a 1⁄4 chance of being generated meditating in the center of the rightmost tower.
Tiamat does not leave a corpse upon death, and has a 1⁄3 chance of dropping uncursed +0 chromatic dragon scales.
Origin
In Dungeons & Dragons, Tiamat is a supremely strong and powerful draconic goddess and the queen and mother of evil dragons. A member of the setting's default pantheon, Tiamat was introduced to the game in the first supplement Greyhawk, where she was only known as "the Dragon Queen" and "the Chromatic Dragon", but did not yet have a personal name. Her name is derived from the Mesopotamian religion, where Tiamat (Akkadian: 𒀭𒋾𒊩𒆳 DTI.AMAT or 𒀭𒌓𒌈 DTAM.TUM, Ancient Greek: Θαλάττη, romanized: Thaláttē) is a primordial goddess of the sea symbolizing the chaos of primordial creation, and is often portrayed as a sea serpent or dragon
In the Enûma Elish, the Babylonian epic of creation, Tiamat bears the first generation of deities; when her husband Apsu correctly assumes that they are planning to kill him and usurp his throne, he makes war upon them and is killed, enraging Tiamat into continuing the wars against her husband's murderers. Tiamat births the first dragons, whose bodies she filled with "poison instead of blood", alongside multitudes of other monsters; she is finally slain by Enki's storm-god son Marduk, who uses her body to craft the heavens and the earth.
In the Dungeons & Dragons settings, Tiamat's symbol and most common appearance there is that of a five-headed dragon, each corresponding to five chromatic dragons: black, blue, green, red, and white. Tiamat's body is a blending of various chromatic dragon forms with an appropriately multicolored hide, a poisonous stinger-tipped tail, and the powers of those respective chromatic dragons; she has also been known to manifest as a dark-haired human sorceress. Some settings also describe her as a denizen of the Nine Hells, with her lair containing the main gate to the second of the Nine Hells, Dis; others additionally include tales of her battles with the Babylonian god Marduk and her opposite number, the metallic dragon Bahamut. Tiamat is also one of the first deities to have aspects, or lesser avatars, which may appear as either powerful versions of her chromatic children, or as versions of her own five-headed form.
Encyclopedia entry
Tiamat is said to be the mother of evil dragonkind. She is
extremely vain.
