Tieflings

People that once sought power, that lusted for strength or immortality or material gain so strongly they took to forming pacts with devilish entities sometimes found themselves cursed beyond recovery. In rare cases where a careless mortal consorted with powerful, beguiling devils, their entire bloodline can feel the consequences. 
Tieflings are the children of these cursed bloodlines. In most cases, both parents are relatively normal humanoids in appearance, but the curse of their blood that manifests sporadically forces devilish features on the child: the most common being horns, a tail, leathery skin, infernal speech or dark magics. On rare occasions, these tiefling children manifest hellish eyes, cloven hooves for feet, claws, fangs, and any other manner of otherworldly feature that points to the devilish origin of their curse. Many tieflings are rejected by their parents as a result.
Tieflings have no culture of their own, for they are a race of people only in the most abstract sense. If two tieflings were to have children, in most cases the offspring would be regular humanoids, though they would carry the infernal curses of both bloodlines all their lives, passing them on to the next generation. The fusing of infernal curses in this manner is heavily discouraged, for who knows what would happen if a child were eventually born manifesting the aspects of two separate devilish entities.
Category:Humanoids