My players are going to fight the cult of the dragon next session and I was looking for some sort of dogma/motivational phrase/maxim or guideline that the goons of the cult might say to themselves just before they are killed. I read the article about the cult on the forgotten realms wiki but I couldn't find anything.
I was thinking about something like "Noting is true; everything is permitted" from Assassin's Creed.
Has something like this ever been provided to us in an official source?
Best Answer
"Dragons rise! You cannot stop us!"
At one point in Rise of Tiamat, the party fights some cultists, and the adventure states:
During another encounter, we see:
These utterances are probably the closest to what you are after, but there are some other sayings that may be eligible candidates for what you are after.
Cult Signs and Signals
In Hoard of the Dragon Queen, we are given some information about common pass phrases used by the cult:
Elsewhere we learn another pass phrase:
We also find a magical spear belonging to the cult that can be activated with the command phrase:
These may also serve as exclamations a cultist might use.
"Praise Tiamat's glory"
During HotDQ, the party encounters a camp of cultists, and can learn some information:
In particular, there are 12 bullet points in this section that the characters may learn about the cult, and three of them contain the exclamation:
The idea here seems to be that as cultists divulge information about the cult and about Tiamat and her ambitions, they frequently utter "praise Tiamat's glory!" as an expression of their piety.