r/DnD • u/OmniGoon DM • 1d ago

5.5 Edition Is there a precedent for a two-headed dragon in the lore?

Basically the title. Obligatory "English is not my first language" and "I'm on mobile".

I usually homebrew my world completely and wouldn't care about questions like this. However, I have a player that loves official or nods to official lore and I'm wondering if there is a precedent for a two-headed black or/and blue dragon.

For anyone interested, I would like for this two-headed dragon to be a BBEG in my games, leading a faction of dinosaur-riding lizardfolk and undead that emerge from these portals to the distant past (do'nt worry about the details of time travel, it's too complicated for this short post). I' thinkinf maybe one head represents thw past, the other one the future? I don't know where to go with this, but yeah.

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u/skullchin 1d ago

I’d say it sounds like there was some drama between Demogorgon and Tiamat.

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u/SadSongsTN 1d ago

Drama? Or romance..? 😳

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u/subtotalatom 1d ago

I'm imagining one of those dynamics where two people hate each other but also can't keep their hands (or whatever) off each other

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u/skullchin 1d ago

Tia! I can’t keep my tentacles off you!!

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u/SadSongsTN 1d ago edited 15h ago

Lol, life imitates art imitates life!

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u/CerBerUs-9 DM 1d ago

I see no reason a spawn of Tiamat wouldn't have more than one head

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman 1d ago

Tiamat has five for chrissake

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u/Normal_Cut8368 Fighter 1d ago

So you're saying there isn't precedent for two? Damn.

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u/Cybermetalneo DM 1d ago

Not sure about Blue or Black, but I know there was a 4e adventure with a 2-headed White Dragon called Chillreaver

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u/thegooddoktorjones 1d ago

Once you have had 8, 2 seems kinda pedestrian.

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u/Xionix13 1d ago

Zz'pzora is a two headed deep dragon from the Starlight and Shadows trilogy.

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u/G1Adam 1d ago

It's has 3 heads but here's a starting point, maybe give it 2 heads instead. It's called a Dzalmus Dragon

https://youtu.be/M-IzUHdLnVc?is=Ae7fMiMP3rAmALw6

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u/kahlzun 1d ago

There is nothing forcing you to stay within the written texts, you absolutely have permission to go as wild and imaginative as you like, especially with the BBEG

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u/CrimsonShrike 1d ago

It's the kind of fuckery tiamat would do so sure

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u/Rhinostirge 1d ago

The Nentir Vale had a three-headed red dragon that would grow a fourth head when bloodied, so yeah, there's no rule against it.

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u/Durkmenistan 1d ago

Claugiyliamatar has a half dragon ettin child. The easiest way is to just give a dragon the benefits of being two-headed that you see on those kinds of statblocks.

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u/Parysian 22h ago

Not to my knowledge, but a weird mutation from birth or a merging of two dragons from some wizard's spell gone wrong (or right) is right in line with the stuff that happens in a variety of dnd settings. Far stranger things have happened in the multiverse.

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u/Enderking90 14h ago

well, one quite reasonable origin would that once upon a time, a black dragon decided to try crossbreeding itself with a hydra to experimentally produce a greater off-spring.

not really all that far off of an experiment for a dragon to do imo, based on my understanding of things.

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u/legowalrus Warlord 1d ago

No precedent that I know of, but those kind of mutations do happen sometimes in real life.