Tiefling

These planetouched are shunned in many societies because of their bloodline connection to unwanted and mostly evil outsiders, many tieflings have to learn to fend for themselves early on in life.

Physical Description

Tieflings most distinct feature is their horns that prominently sprout from their heads, generally emerging from the top of their forehead. All tieflings have long but thin tails that they have fine control over. Having darker complections, they are easily distinguishable from many races. Tieflings have brown, black, violet, orange or red eye colors, and similar hair colors. Interestingly, tieflings seem to have a shorter lifespan than most, only live to 70 or 80 years, and reaching physical maturity around the age of 14.

Personalities

Of all the planetouched, none are as stereotyped as the tiefling. To a degree, many have fallen prey to this stereotype of being the cheat, cutpurse, or scoundrel, but just as many live their lives free of these vices. Their racial abilities are determinedly helpful for such underhanded professions; those tieflings are usually quite proud of their heritage. Tieflings tend to be ostentatious and aggressive, willing to take calculated risks to accomplish their goals. Known for their cunning intellect, tieflings generally prefer to make elaborate plans. Although they take risks, their risks are known and weighed, a tiefling is rarely rash.

In the World

Having been persecuted for their heritage, few Tieflings can be found in Ruberia, especially in the western regions. In Chromia tieflings are marked as cheats and thieves by the elves, but goliaths hold a very neutral opinion overall. Shatterhelm dwarves absolutely despise tieflings for their connection to their ancestral slavers. These relations lead to tieflings leaving to regions that have a neutral opinion of their race such as Cyrne, Djarin, Xerell, and Azurti.

Racial Traits

• Ability Score Racial Traits: All tieflings gain +2 Dexterity and +2 Intelligence but suffer -2 Charisma due to their brashness and intimidating physical features.
• Size: Tieflings are Medium creatures and thus have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
• Base Speed: Tieflings have a base speed of 30 feet.
• Type: Tieflings are Outsiders with the Native subtype.

Senses Racial Traits

[li]Darkvision (Ex): Tieflings can see perfectly in the dark for up to 60 feet.

Magical Racial Traits

• Darkness (Sp): Abyssal tieflings with 10 or more intelligence gain the ability to cast Darkness once per day. The caster level for this effect is equal to the tiefling’s number of hit dice. If an abyssal tiefling gains levels in a spellcasting class, they may add Darkness to their list of spells known.

Other Racial Traits

• Prehensile Tail: Tieflings have long tails capable of grasping items. Although not strong enough to effectively wield a weapon or block a strike with shield, they can be used to retrieve items as a swift action, or to hold onto small items.

Abyssal Tielfing

Influenced by their abyssal connection, these tieflings are distinguishable by their black to ashen grey skin colors and more pronounced horns. Abyssal tieflings are often large in stature and more muscular than other tieflings.

Additional Racial Traits

• See in Darkness (Su): Their demonic ancestors having surviving in the lightless pits of the abyss, an abyssal tiefling can see perfectly in any darkness, magical or natural.
• Shadow Blending (Su): Abyssal tieflings have minor control over the shadows around them. Attacks against an abyssal tiefling in dim light have a 50% miss chance instead of the normal 20% miss chance granted by concelment. This ability does not grant total concealment, it just increases the miss chance.

Daemonic Tielfing

Much less known than the others of the tiefling race, the daemonic have ties to the soul trading daemons of abbadon. Daemonic, or claimed, tieflings’ horns are small, sometimes little more than sprouting stumps, and tend to be fairly straight. Although perhaps the least known, they are highly sought after in some regions for their ability to voicelessly communicate.

Additional Racial Traits

• Telepathy (Su): Daemonic tieflings are capable of conversing with the minds of others, able to reach out and bind to the souls of other creatures. They gain telepathy 100 ft.

• Kethix's Claim: Their soul invariably linked to Abbadon, daemonic tieflings souls are claimed by Kethix, Prime Daemon of the End. These tieflings cannot be resurrected, unless the resurrecting party can successfully negotiate a deal with Kethix or a representative from the Nexus. Usually requires both material cost and a concession to act some favor for the Nexus.

  Kethix's claim does not come without its benefits, daemonic tieflings do not die of old age, and are immune to death and aging effects and gain a +2 profane bonus to saves against spells from the school of necromancy.

Fiendish Tielfing

Those related to the fiends of hell have lighter skin tones, ranging from pale white skin to a brimstone red. Their horns are tend to sweep back along the contours of their head, many curling like those of a ram. It is said that you should never get into an argument with a tiefling, they will run circles around you until you are arguing against yourself; the fiendish tieflings are the reason why.

Additional Racial Traits

• Cunning Linguist: Fiendish tieflings find themselves with an eye for detail, capable of finding minor loopholes in contracts and outwitting others in debate. Linguistics is always a class kill for fiendish tieflings and they may use intelligence instead of charisma for Diplomacy, Bluff, and Intimidation skill checks.
• Hellfire Resistance: Fiendish tieflings have resistance to fire and negative energy 3
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