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Tiamat
Tiamat
Job: Warrior
Family: Wyrm
Crystal: Fire
Weak to: Water, Thunder
Strong to: Fire, Ice
Notorious Monster
Title Obtained: Tiamat Trouncer
| Zone | Level | Drops | Steal | Spawns | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attohwa Chasm | 95 |
|
1 | Aggressive, Detects by true sight ~120,000 HP ??? MP | |
| Riverne - Site #B01 | 1 Summoned by Bahamut |
Aggressive, Detects by true sight ~6,500 HP ??? MP |
Spawn Conditions
- Spawns around E-9 every 3-5 days. (24-72 hours after maintenance)
- Chance to spawn in 30 minute windows.
Special Abilities and Traits
While grounded
- Draw In
- Mighty Strikes (multiple times)
- Absolute Terror: Inflicts terror on a single target.
- Fiery Breath: Breath Attack which deals fire damage. Avoided by standing on the wyrm's feet.
- Tebbad Wing: Wing attack which afflicts anyone hit with Plague. Can be used in flight also.
- Horrid Roar: Dispels all buffs including food and resets enmity.
- Spike Flail: Massive AoE damage; only used if someone outside the range of the wyrm's head pulls hate.
- Possesses the Counter trait.
While in flight
- Attacks are fire-based when the wyrm is in flight.
- Fiery Blast: High fire-based damage AoE attack.
- Touchdown: Used upon landing.
- Takes ~50% damage from magical attacks and ranged attacks.
- Casts Blaze Spikes and Firaga III.
- Fairly susceptible to both Water and Thunder elements.
- Can be slept fairly easily by level 90 players, even without Elemental Seal.
- Tiamat lands and flies on two-minute intervals. However, a phase change will be forced after 10,000 damage is dealt, regardless of the time spent in its current phase. (Note: If Mighty Strikes is active while Tiamat is on the ground, she will not fly under any circumstances until the duration of Mighty Strikes has expired. Nor will Tiamat use any TP abilities during Mighty Strikes.)
Derivations
In Mesopotamian mythology, Tiamat (Tiamat (Babylonian), Tamtu (Sumerian)) is a giant female dragon which was the primordial creatrix of all existence. She created the world and the gods, though this world had no land and was a vast water-world, filled with the waters of chaos. Tiamat personified the saltwater (ocean) while her consort Apsu (Apsu (Babylonian), Abzu (Sumerian)) personified the 'sweetwater' (freshwater). The intermingling of these two waters created the gods. In the Enuma Elish (the Mesopotamian creation epic), the gods bother Tiamat & Apsu, so the two decide to kill all their children. The god Ea discovers their plan and preemptively slays Apsu or casts a spell that puts him in a death-like sleep (since the waters of Apsu still exist even after his 'death'). Tiamat then sought revenge by creating an army of monsters and a new consort, Kingu (alt. Qingu) to be their general. Tiamat was slain by Marduk who trapped her with a "net of winds", shot arrows down her throat, and then cleaved her body in two, with the upper half creating the heavens and the sky and the lower half creating the earth. Tiamat is Akkadian for "sea".
Dungeons & Dragons (one of the inspirations for the original Final Fantasy) used Tiamat as an evil dragon goddess, specifically a 5-headed dragon (one black, one red, one green, one white, one blue). This is likely where Square got the idea to place her in Final Fantasy I.
Source entry: Tiamat. Cached on this server on 3 November 2026.