Tiefling

## **Tieflings**

Tieflings are humanoid planetouched, native outsiders that were infused with the touch of the fiendish planes, most often through descent from fiends—demons, Yugoloths, devils, evil deities, and others who had bred with humans. Tieflings were known for their cunning and personal allure, which made them excellent deceivers as well as inspiring leaders when prejudices were laid aside.

Although their evil ancestors could be many generations removed, the taint lingered. Unlike half-fiends, tieflings were not predisposed to evil alignments and varied in alignment nearly as widely as full humans, though tieflings were certainly devious. The celestial counterparts of tieflings were called aasimar.

### History

Tieflings across Evis have faced constant and persistant discrimination from all of the other races. Often viewed as creations of evil, there have been many wars of extermination waged aganist Tieflings.

While many tieflings consider their lineage to be a curse it does have some benefits. They have learned to use their seductive charms, night vision, quick wits, and agility to their advantage and they make excellent rogues, rangers, and warlocks. While some embrace a darker and more violent path others attempt a more peaceful approach, using their charm and seduction abilities to beguile humanoids or command the beasts of the forest.

Tieflings are rarely seen, and even less so in traditional positions of power. Since the War of the Horses there has been a large ammount of Tieflings who have been born or have come out of hiding. It is becoming more and more common to see a Tiefling in cities and in villages.

### The Bloodline of the Tieflings

Tieflings are derived from human bloodlines, and in the broadest possible sense, they still look human. However, their infernal heritage has left a clear imprint on their appearance. Tieflings have large horns that take any of a variety of shapes: some have curling horns like a ram, others have straight and tall horns like a gazelle’s, and some spiral upward like an antelopes’ horns. They have thick tails, four to five feet long, which lash or coil around their legs when they get upset or nervous. Their canine teeth are sharply pointed, and their eyes are solid colors—black, red, white, silver, or gold—with no visible sclera or pupil. Their skin tones cover the full range of human coloration, but also include various shades of red. Their hair, cascading down from behind their horns, is usually dark, from black or brown to dark red, blue, or purple.

### Looking after one's self

Tieflings subsist in small minorities found mostly in human cities or towns, often in the roughest quarters of those places, where they grow up to be swindlers, thieves, or crime lords. Sometimes they live among other minority populations in enclaves where they are treated with more respect.

Lacking a homeland, tieflings know that they have to make their own way in the world and that they have to be strong to survive. They are not quick to trust anyone who claims to be a friend, but when a tiefling’s companions demonstrate that they trust him or her, the tiefling learns to extend the same trust to them. And once a tiefling gives someone loyalty, the tiefling is a firm friend or ally for life.