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Tieflings are human-based planetouched, native outsiders that are infused with blood of the fiendish planes, most often through descent from fiends—demons, Yugoloths, devils, evil deities, and others who have bred with humans. Tieflings are known for their cunning and personal allure, which makes them excellent deceivers as well as inspiring leaders.
In many ways, Tieflings are similar to humans physically being, on average, just as tall, from 5'6" – 6'2" (1.67 – 1.88 m) and weighing just a little bit heavier at 140 – 220 lbs (64 – 91 kg). Tiefling skin can be human-like in color, though it may be nearly any hue shared with their ancestor. Tiefling hair is often the same color as human hair as well, though dark blue, red, or purple are also common shades among the race. Although not always the case, Tieflings tend to have slightly better reflexes than their human kin. This, along with their natural propensity for hiding and deceit, helps to give Tieflings a reputation for thievery and duplicity.
Tieflings tend to have an unsettling air about them, making most people uncomfortable in their presence, whether they are aware of the Tiefling's unsavory ancestry or not. Most retain physical characteristics derived from their ancestor, with the most common such features being horns, prehensile tails, and pointed teeth. Some Tieflings also have eyes that are solid orbs of black, red, white, silver, or gold, while others have eyes more similar to those of humans. Other, more unusual characteristics include a sulfurous odor, cloven feet, or a general aura of despair or malevolence.
Tieflings in Orben
Tieflings have likely existed from the time of Mankind's own beginning, and have no true history to call their own, appearing randomly among Human children whenever their lineage rears its head.
Tiefling Society and Culture
Like other races that are the result of the breeding of two or more others, Tieflings have no true culture to call their own. However, there are certain archetypal features of tieflings that are not necessarily innate. This includes the attitude regarding their heritage; some Tieflings embrace it, others are repulsed by it, forging the two most common trends of Tiefling behavior.
The former Tieflings, proud of their fiendish past, are often fascinated by the dark and sinister events that touch the world, but are not necessarily evil or inclined to perpetuate them. Some Tieflings of this type chose to use their knowledge of evil and their own fiendish abilities to thwart these dark plots and schemes. Others sought to learn more and to emulate these evil deeds.
Other tieflings are ashamed or even frightened of their heritage and wish only to escape the shadow that lurked over them as a result. Some did this through constantly doing good, often following deities that offer redemption through personal sacrifice, as though to make up for the evil that begot them. Others instead hide and try to go unnoticed as they pass through the world, preferring to be ignored and forgotten than noticed and made a target because of their past.
Tieflings in Mhirdrun
Tieflings are an utter rarity, as the simple, often superstitious, people of Mhirdrun tolerate them poorly. Ignorance abounds regarding the emergence of a Tiefling from any womb, and the mother is nearly always presumed to have consorted herself with fiends, and both she and her child are punished accordingly, being killed either with or without mercy. Of course it is just as often the father to whom a Tiefling's breeding is owed, but the particulars of the generational gap between Tieflings and true demonspawn and devilspawn is poorly understood in Mhirdrun, except among the most learned.