Tiefling

"You think I don't see your stares or hear your jeers? You good honest folk who lie, steal and murder who also have the gall to call me devil spawn! The difference between you monsters and me is I only look the part of the Devil!" - Makaria the Muse during one of her many tavern brawls.

Basic Information

Anatomy

A medium bipedal creature of varying heights with many different skin tones along with horns and tails.

Biological Traits

A interesting trait besides their innate magical powers would be their natural resistances to certain harsh conditions due to the gift of their infernal blood. Typically fire or some other elemental damage effects them fair less than for example a typical human or gnome.

Genetics and Reproduction

Most tieflings tend to be sired within 9 months and have many variations and sub races to divide them.

Growth Rate & Stages

Tieflings mature at the same rate as humans but can live many years longer with 150 being the maximum.

Ecology and Habitats

Tiefling tends to live on the fringes of society and can live in almost any environment due to their diversity and general toughness.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Like most mortals they require food and drink to live at a slightly higher rate than most due to their innate magical powers.

Biological Cycle

While Tieflings grow and become either older or more powerful many develop infernal powers to better defend themselves along with their tails and horns growing rather quickly as they age.

Additional Information

Social Structure

Although many societies have tieflings few welcome them with open arms. The life of a tiefling is often a hard one and that cases them to either face the world alone or form tight nit communities.

Facial characteristics

Often the most noticably facial trait of tieflings are their horns. A gift of their heritage for better or worse.

Geographic Origin and Distribution

Tieflings are spread all across the world of Ethos and are typically found in either badlands scared with infernal machinations or in larger cities and towns.

Average Intelligence

Tieflings are often slightly more clever and charismatic than other races due to their infernal heritage and being forced to survive in a world where many do not like them on merit of their blood.

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

They have the senses of sight, scent, taste, touch, and hearing along with heightened darkvision from their infernal upbringing.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

Tiefling names fall into three broad categories. Tieflings born into another culture typically have names reflective of that culture. Some have names derived from the Infernal language, passed down through generations, that reflect their fiendish heritage. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other concept and then try to embody that concept. For some, the chosen name is a noble quest. For others, it’s a grim destiny.

Major Organizations

Tieflings due to most societies looking down on them end up being the brains behind thieves guilds or other criminal enterprises as well as organizations that utilize their natural abilities to further their own agendas.

Beauty Ideals

Due to their infernal heritage they are often very beautiful to others. Typically unique horns, skin tones and cleverness are several typical ideals of beauity.

Gender Ideals

Tieflings tend to have more fluid and open ideas of genders and typically don't view gender and sexuality in a binary fashion.

Courtship Ideals

Tieflings have a very wide range of courtship ideals and typically prefer excitement and bravado.

Relationship Ideals

Tieflings tend to either desire life long relationships or causal flings.

Average Technological Level

Tieflings as a result of their skills in speechcraft and natural cleverness have been key in penning many interesting spells and some machinery.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

Tieflings speak either Infernal or Abyssal. Languages of the Hells and the Abyss and are typically regarded with ill rebuke.

Common Etiquette Rules

Typically a common greeting of "Hydda" which is a polite greeting in infernal or Fyxx'dasfz in Abyssal.

Common Dress Code

Tieflings tend to either dress in proud colors to proclaim themselves to a room or dull colors to hide their appearances.

Culture and Cultural Heritage

Tieflings tend to have a close nit and either a nomadic or tribal culture. Others integrate to a given culture to fit in to the best of their abilities.

Common Customs, Traditions and Rituals

Tieflings have many traditions they observe from proud to brutish in nature. Some will adopt Virtue or Vice names to represent who they are as a person. Others will either cut one or both horns and tail or decorate them with jewelry or carvings along with several tattoos on their bodies.

Common Taboos

Due to heavy discrimination most tieflings view it as a unforgivable sin to betray their own kind along. While others who are so self depreciating wish the whole race to be at a end for being born evil. To this end they will kill or castrate all tieflings and do everything in their power to put them to the end.

History

Many stories are told from the origins of tieflings. From trysts with Demons and Devils to dark bargains and deals to incur curses on family lines. The origins of tieflings have been lost to the tides of time but the results speak for themselves.

Historical Figures

Makaria the Muse, Vildric The Villainous, Vance the Valiant, Addam Amnon, Damakos the Despairing.

Common Myths and Legends

Many myths and legends surround the Tiefling race as being spawned from mighty Demon Lords or Archdukes of hell who fancied mortals for a late evening tryst. Others state their lineage is cursed and one day a tiefling among them will break the curse and bring their brothers and sisters to the light of the gods.

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Tieflings are often either loved or loathed. Typically it depends less on race and more on religiosity. However it is most common to find Aasimar to be most loathed against them.

Scientific Name

Filii Diaboli

Origin/Ancestry

Fiendish

Lifespan

100-150 years

Average Height

5'6 to 6'6 feet tall.

Average Weight

120-220 pounds.

Average Physique

Typically Tieflings will have attractive bodies that are well balanced.

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

Tieflings tend to have many colors of skin tone and are the most exotic and varied in terms to skin tint and color. Some tieflings are also born with markings within their skin that often have beautiful design.