Bahamut

The First World belongs to later Draconic creation mythology.

Official discussion surrounding Fizban's Treasury of Dragons presents a primordial unity associated with Bahamut and Tiamat, and the possibility that the many worlds descend from a shattered beginning.

This is a cosmological telling.

It is not a securely dated event on a map of Tyrell, and the familiar word first does not make every earlier plane called a first world the same place.

We must attend to the wording, including the difference between a playtest and the published discussion which followed it.

A small change in how a claim is presented can make a large difference to how confidently a narrator ought to repeat it.

In the 2021 Unearthed Arcana playtest, Draconic Options, Gem Dragonborn trace a heritage through gem dragons to Sardior, described there as the first creation of Bahamut and Tiamat in the First World's early days.

That is explicit playtest language.

Like, it's just epic D&D art.

They show one, like, preview of a Black Dragon, a Red Dragon, and Bahamut.

And like the Bahamut one's iconic.

I showed it to my daughter.

She was like instantly Bahamut.

That is the one dragon.

It's Bahamut.

She knew right away.

No, this was before then.

The one on the boat was Bahamut.

Oh, gosh.

I don't think Tiamat likes me anymore.

Mm-hmm

... they'll probably tell, [laughs] tell Dagol to enter.

I'll say I wasn't actually trying to hide the fact that Tiamat doesn't like me, and, uh, I also talked to Bahamut.

I feel like those are good things.

Yeah.

Do you remember we talked about a month ago, I think, about a comic book series which featured Bahamut, a new look.

This is vaguely ringing a bell.

It was illustrated by Antonio Jose Manzanito.

And we had a new look at Bahamut, who's the platinum dragon.

And also, so the Bahamut's wings have this magical aura rather than being sort of like physical wings.

And there's a scale there because you can see how much bigger than the gold dragons are.

Oh,