Tiamat

Tiamat is a Deity—primordial mother of the salt sea, often rendered as a vast coiling Dragon of brine and basalt. Field-naturalist notes: she feels less like a single body and more like a condition laid across the coastlines and deep channels where fresh water and salt meet. Smell: an ancient, biting brine with the metallic whisper of submerged stone and old rain. Sound: a low, distant thunder—surf folded into thunderheads, undercut by the brittle clink of shells and the hollow echo of caverns. Temperature: the air near her tightens and chills, a clammy cold like a deep trench breath rising to the shore. When she is near, shorelines seem to remember older shapes, cliffs hold spiral scars, and a brackish mist settles that tastes of very old oceans.