This marks the start of the greatest battle between the Giants and the Dragons. Both had lost a great many lives in the war and so both wanted to see it come to an end. The start of this battle marked the end of strategy. Tiamat and Odin spent most of the war trying to provoke the other, believing themselves the superior intelect and the other a mindless beast. after over 100 years, they had grown tired of this, and so they agreed to have both armies march into battle, the battlefield equadistant from both armies home country. This battle would decide the war.
The battle lasted an entire year, with many soldiers fighting for multiple weeks without sleeping. And though both sides had wins and losses, the dragons were beginning to lose the battle.
For the first 10 months of the battle, both leaders sat back while their soldiers fought, Odin doing it for tactical reasons while Tiamat did it out of pride. But when the dragons began to lose, Tiamat herself joined in the battle. Tiamat turned the tide back in favour of the dragons, wiping out over 30 giants in the span of a day – a feat that would take 30 dragons 3 weeks to do (and not without losses).
This in turn caused Odin to raise his Mountainous Sword, and join the battle too. It is said that Odin stood at such a height that his sword could hit Tiamat out of the air. The point where Tiamat’s hell-rain (the name for their breath attack) first met Odin’s Mountainous sword caused a fissure in the earth so large that it is now known today as “the scar”.
When the king of giants and queen of dragons began their battle within the fissure they had made, both armies paused their fighting. They stood on both sides of the scar, looking down into the pit where the two greatest powers in the world battled to the death. The battle lasted an hour, and both sides were evenly matched. However, the battle came down to one key factor; odin’s soldiers respected him, while Tiamat’s dragons feared her.
A plan was made by the giants on the surface, and when Tiamat was within range, 20 giants all leapt from the top of the scar, falling atop Tiamat’s heads. This of course did no damage to Tiamat who either slammed them against the wall of the scar, or evicerated them with her breath. It did, however, distract her.
In a single swing of his mountainous sword, odin tore through scales, flesh, bone, over and over, severing three of Tiamat’s five heads in a single swing. Tiamat was able to react in time to save the last two, but Odin had already stopped focussing on the heads and had moved on to the wings, tearing a hole in one and rendering them unable to fly. Tiamat let out a roar so loud that it is said to still be the source of the howling winds in the scar.
What Tiamat did next, she would normally be far too proud to resort too. But Tiamat was a hypocrite – as are most people when faced with death. Tiamat polymorphed into the appearance of Odin’s late wife. Odin, blinded once again by grief, faltered. He faltered just long enough for Tiamat to permanently blind Odin, who staggered back and fell to the ground of the fissure. Tiamat couldn’t win, she knew that. And so, for the first time in her life, Tiamat fled, teleporting away to somewhere unknown. And although Odin wasn’t happy about it, that decided the battle. The rest of the Dragons fled to the top of the howling peaks and have not dared descend since, Tiamat scattered to the winds and the Giants claimed victory