Connects to: 03.13, 29.14.32 and 40.20.02.
There is a reaction against the Cult of Dead Tiamat (03.13) among the worshippers of Tiamat. These Tiamatan Revivalists reject the desperate and often destructive attempts by the Cult to resurrect Tiamat and hold that—now she is dead—the only way to truly honour Tiamat is to live as she taught her followers to live.
Although Tiamat has always emphasised ruthlessness, ambition and pragmatism, Revivalists usually hold that the stage of violence and repression before her death represented a madness or senility not true to Tiamat’s legacy. They focus instead on personal excellence and esoteric mysticism.
The Revival is still unpopular among Tiamat’s faithful, but it is growing in power and popularity: partly because of its message of self-chosen morality and self-directed living.
At the end of the Street of Small Gods in the Shuttered City is a brave preacher who talks of Tiamat as the Empty God and spreads word of the revival. Because he has avoided violating Temple doctrine (how can it be sin to say Tiamat is dead and will not return?) the Temple is yet to deal with him.
Connection:
- A member of the Revival has failed to retrieve a charm known as Tiamat’s Nurse (40.20.02).
Hooks:
- Where are there still faithful of Tiamat?
- What does the established Temple Indivisible think of the Revival?
- Is the Revival as innocent as they appear?