Deities With a Difference - Tchazzar
Tchazzar I find is an interesting deity. He achieved godhood seemingly through his manipulation of human nature, and yet once he became a deity did absolutely nothing and let the nation he had spent so long building fall into ruin.
During the godswar he acted as a vessel for Tiamat allowing her to be reborn after her death, and then he randomly returned in 1373 DR he returned to Faerun as some kind of fiendish dragon to battle Alasklerbanbastos.
The number of errors in Tchazzar's story are almost as numerous as Tiamat's and in many ways he is linked to Tiamat's story and errors.
This link inspired me to make Tchazzar a relative of my newly created Tiamat the Dark Lady, a human with the ability to turn into a dragon. If she mated with a dragon then she might spawn dragon children with the ability to change into humans, and Tchazzar was famous as a human war leader of Chessenta.
Tchazzar's writeup in Dragons of Faerun detailed a ring that was given as part of a pledge which is implied led to Tchazzar becoming a vessel for Tiamat's essence when she was destroyed. Using this idea I figured the Gestaniius and Skuthosiin were also given rings, and each contained a part of Tiamat.
It then occurred to me that Tchazzar may not have known fully what the pledge would involve and so his attempt at divinity could have been a means of escaping the curse.
Of course all of these ideas mean that Tchazzar is not necessarily in service to Tiamat, and so I have him hiding out in the contested region of Chessenta trying to stay out of her way.
His rivalry with Alasklerbanbastos is historic in nature because Alasklerbanbastos is allied with the Church of Tiamat so it makes no sense for her to be using Tchazzar to fight her own servant.
So for the astute reader, where does that leave Gestanius and Skuthosiin, they could be in service to either god, but they have more in common with Tchazzar than may be immediately obvious and therefore have a reason to dislike the current Tiamat.
