Tiefling
" In my travels across the many kingdoms and empires of the world, I have seen many terrible things befall those who were wholly undeserved of it. I have seen whole magic schools burned to cinders, and their students and professors paraded through the streets like captured soldiers from a war, by the same paranoid mob that they swore to protect and enlighten. I have seen tribes of nomads neared to extinction by the progression of ambitious empires, and I have seen the persecution and annihilation of peoples within a kingdom on the grounds of paranoia and fear. But of all these tragedies their is one race that is perused and villainized above all others, and they are the Tieflings."
Tieflings, the offspring of cursed bloodlines who made demonic pacts with ruinous powers, and vile masters unknown centuries before. They are infernal hybridization made real, they are born from human bloodlines, cursed with infernal heritage from a bargain made centuries before by a member of their ancient blood, as a result they are cursed with an appearance akin to that of their demonic counterparts. They have no homeland of their own, and tend to sequester together in small minorities at the fringes of Human cities and towns.
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Social Structure
Many Tieflings seek safety in numbers and will often clump together in small minorities within the criminal depths of human cities and towns. These groups can be peaceful but are often picked up by larger gangs and criminal organizations, preying on the tieflings infernal nature and creating truly frightening thieves, thugs, and crime lords.
Facial characteristics
Tieflings have horns that can appear in many different varieties, some curve and curl like a rams, while others can spiral upwards like an antelopes, and others rise straight up like a gazelle, and some have even been known to resemble more closely to antlers than horns, with many different off shooting branches and beams from the central stalks at the tops or sides of their head. Along with antlers tielfing's teeth come equipped with sharpened and more pronounced canines and some even have thin forked tongues like snakes, the eyes of a tiefling can range in color, from red, purple, blue, pink, or even gold, some are simply solid colors with no visible pupils or sclera, while others can have extremely stylized pupils that change their shape upon the mood of the tiefling they belong to.
Geographic Origin and Distribution
Tieflings primarily find homes in the outskirts of human civilizations, most often in cities and towns, anywhere that humans exist within the world, so do tieflings. Though they are much more common in reaches of Ardath then they are anywhere else in the world, specifically in the North Eastern, Central and South Eastern regions of the continent.
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
Tieflings have the ability to see clearly in the dark giving their eyes a reflective tint a kin to cat eyes.
Civilization and Culture
Naming Traditions
Tielfings take the names of the culture they are born into, be it human or otherwise, but some tieflings choose to take infernal names, openly venerating their fiendish ancestry. Some tieflings take names that act as goals that they wish to one day live up to, these names can be either hopeful quests for a brighter future, or grim fates of a dark destiny they have resigned themselves to.
Beauty Ideals
Tieflings adopt the beauty ideals of whatever culture they claim to belong to, those who claim no place of origin or people to belong tend to focus on their infernal aspects, customizing their tails, horns, and bodies with tattoos, ornaments, and piercings that they feel describes them.
Genetic Ancestor(s)
Genetic Descendants
Lifespan
Tieflings age and mature at the same rate as humans but live a bit longer
Average Height
They range in the same height as humans.
Average Weight
They weigh roughly the same a humans.
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
Their body color has the full range of human coloration, while also being able to tap into more exotic colors depending on their infernal ancestry, these colors can range in shades of red, green, purple, blue, gold, grey, black, or orange. In addition to their color Tielfings can have infernal markings upon their skin, ranging in colors as vast as their skin tones, but usually in reds, black, or white.
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