Tiefling

**Tieflings** are humanoids with devilish ancestry. They are distinguished by the large horns on their head, and are known for extravagant appearance and their often carefree attitude. Dax, the world creator, and her brother Melech are probably the most known tieflings.

## **Apperance**

A tiefling's diabolic origins results in the presence of an array of fiendish features being present in any given tiefling. Horns, tails, hooves, fangs, and rarely wings are fiendish trademarks, although their appearance and ancestry does not necessarily mean that tieflings are evil themselves. They have a wide array of skin tones, most commonly deep crimson, but also purple, blue, green, and even yellow and pink. Tiefling parents of similar skin colors can have varying-colored children.

#### **Tiefling bloodlines**

The physical appearance of a tiefling often depended on the exact ancestry that spawned it, a bloodline that might have remained dormant for generations. Diabolic or demonic tieflings could, besides the common horns and tails, possess a forked tongue, leathery or scaly skin, the smell of brimstone, or unusually warm flesh. Some accounts even held these tieflings to cast neither shadows nor reflections. Some diabolic tieflings also sported goat-like legs or hooves. Most tieflings had only one or two of these features.

## **Society and culture**

Tiefling are one of the pure races in Daxia. They existed in Arfendas and Aethas too. First born on Tandalin, before Arfendas was vanquished, people tied their bloodlines to Asmodeus himself, in exchange for magic and knowledge.

Tieflings adopted knowledge of Tanda people in Tandalin, adopted their cusine, fashion, love for craft and games. Also, most of them accepted human deities, and worshiping The Novelist only, since in all stories she was one of them, in her past life.

They don't care if you are male or female, old or young, everyone has to pull their own weight. They respect strong leaders, and concept of modesty and democracy are unknown to them because, tiefling will always choose competition over cooperation.

Tieflings are not very common in Daxia, especially after Vanquishment. They rarely live in rural communities, sticking to the more studied and diverse urban cities.

## **Personality**

Tieflings had a number of abilities gifted to them by their fiendish heritage. By and large, tieflings were alluring and intelligent creatures, with a seductive aura in spite of their obviously evil ancestry. To a large degree, tieflings were more capable of guile than a great number of races, but these were not their dominant qualities.

Tieflings respect their own personal space probably the most of all mortal races, keeping everyone at arm's length. They maintain eye contact all time during conversations, and infamous for their over the top facial expressions, that scare other races away. They don't use hand gestures in conversation like humans do, usually just cross their arms under chest. They mistrust animals and don't hold pets.

Because tieflings were generally distrusted throughout the world, owing to their fiendish heritage, many were themselves distrusting and self-reliant. Tieflings were also proud and secretive by nature and possessed a dark demeanor. Unfortunately, this only helped to further the reputation tieflings had for being social outcasts and untrustworthy scoundrels. However, members of other races would find that once they demonstrated friendship and trust towards a tiefling, it would quickly be reciprocated in full. Once that bond was forged, it was rarely broken.

## **Abilities**

Many tieflings are very charismatic and are also quite intelligent. Due to their devilish ancestry, tieflings are resistant to fire and can see in dim light and darkness. Their infernal legacy grants them a small number of magical abilities, including amplifying their voice, changing their eye color, and minor manipulation of fire. More powerful tieflings can wreath their enemies in fire if they are attacked and can create pockets of magical darkness.