Quote Originally Posted by Kauthryn View Post
Well, you'd find this out at level 59, but Tiamat is Midgardsormr's daughter and is imprisoned on Azys Lla. She asked for her beloved, Bahamut, to be reincarnated but the monster that he came back as was not the [man] she loved. As a result she is remorseful and believes her current fate is fitting. When Midgardsormr asks her when she will forgive herself, she seems to imply she never can.
You kind of left out that the reason she was able to get Bahamut back was because she consorted with the Ascians, who in turn taught the Allagan Empire how to capture the reborn Bahamut just to screw with Tiamat further. The Bahamut she summoned is the same primal that we all know and "love" today. We are never shown or told how the original Bahamut was like.