Tiefling
Tieflings are the offspring of devils or demons and a mortal race. Often distrusted due to this connection to the hells, Tieflings are however their own people and are not all as evil as their demonic parentage.
Tiefling Traits
- Size: 1
- Speed: 5
- Bonus Language: Infernal
- Immune: Exposure
- Fire Resistance: You take half damage from fire. Should you catch fire, make a luck roll; on a success, the affliction ends.
Tiefling Novice Path
Level 1 Tiefling
Suggested Attributes: Strength 10, Agility 10, Intellect 11, Will 12
Natural Defense: 12
Health: 14
Bonus Languages: Common, Infernal (from the Tiefling Trait)
Traditions: Two
- Fiery Weapon (Magical): You can use this talent when you attack. Flames erupt from your weapon for 1 minute. Your attacks with it deal an extra 1d6 damage from the flames. If you use this talent on a ranged weapon, the flames affect the ammunition instead. If you use this talent on an ordinary weapon with flammable components, the weapon is destroyed when the effect ends. You have uses of this talent equal to 1+ half your level and regain expended uses after you rest.
- Sulfurous Leap (Magical): When you move at least 1 yard, you can target one empty space you can see within 10 yards. You teleport to that space, then thick clouds of black smoke billow out around you to fill a Size 3 space centered on you. This total obscurement lasts until the start of your next turn. Once you use this talent, you lose access to it for 1 minute..
Level 2 Tiefling
Health: +4
Bonus Damage: +1d6
Spells: Two novice
- Blazing Recovery (Magical): You can use an action to heal half your damage total and become engulfed in flames for 1 minute or until you are doused in water. The flames harm neither you nor anything you wear or carry, and they make you immune to damage from cold and fire. During this blaze, any creature within 1 yard of you attacking you successfully with a weapon or unarmed attack takes 1d6 damage from the flames if their result was less than 20. The damage increases to 3d6 at level 5. Once you use this talent, you lose access to it until after you’ve rested.
Level 5 Tiefling
Health: +4
Spells: One expert
- Fiery Evasion (Magical) You can use this talent when you dodge an attack from an enemy within 1 yard of you. If the roll results in failure, the enemy takes 2d6 damage. In either case, you gain the Slippery trait until the end of your next turn. Once you use this talent, you lose access to it (luck ends).
Lore
Tieflings are the offspring of devils or demons and a mortal race. Often distrusted due to this connection to the hells, Tieflings are however their own people and are not all as evil as their demonic parentage.
Infernal Blood
All Tieflings have infernal bloodline. Commonly this is due to a parent being a devil or demon of some sort, the mortal parent is almost always a human due to the ease of interbreeding, but some elven tieflings have been known. Tieflings can also be born of other tieflings, as tieflings always breed true, but only with other tieflings.
This infernal heritage has a clear effect on their appearance, this blood from the lower planes leads to a great variety in tiefling appearances. Some have long, barbed tails, others have large rams horns, pointjed ears, round ears, cloven hooves similar to a satyr, goats horns, scales, wings, many eyes, 1 eye. It's said that no two tieflings look alike. The easiest indicators are their eyes, which are almost invariable a solid color — black, red, white, silver, or gold — with no visible sclera or pupils. Skin tones also cover almost the full rainbow, but usually settle on common human skin tones, shades of red, purple and charcoal gray.
A Common people
While Tieflings are rarely seen on the Prime Material planes, the outter and inner planes are lousy with them due to both sides,but primarily demons deciding creating more of “their kind” a good way to win the blood_war. When a berk from the prime material reaches beyond the prime and material planes, they often are surprised by how many Tieflings they will see. While they do face some discrimination in the greater multiverse, as a whole Tieflings in the planes have a better go of life than those on the Prime Material.
If one wants proof that Tieflings are not restricted by their parentage, one only needs look to Prima.
After the fall of Primus, the head of the modrons, one of the most lawful gods in the universe, it was a young tiefling who took up the mantle of his godhood and became the new leader and mother of the modrons. There are very few in the universe who could be lawful enough to take up the mantle of Primus and not have it immediately reject them outright. The fact that it was a tiefling, born of demons, the purest agents of chaos in the multiverse is astounding.
Some have tried to argue Orphei was born of the lawful Devils to explain this away, but testimony by her group and those who knew her before her ascension all attest to her Demonic heritage. Being involved in her quest, I know this to be true as well. Our mutual acquaintance and her fellow tiefling, Kylie frequently would shake her head at just how lawful Orphei could be, especially in comparison to her chaotic self.
It is of course still unknown what effect if any her demon blood could be having on the modrons because, of course, they have not yet begun their latest march and Prima has kept them mostly to Mechanus and visitors out as the plane restabilizes after the events of The Final Modron March.
—Estavon the Former Merchant,
An Insider's Guide to The Final Modron March.
A Rare People
Much rarer due to the more limited touch and presence of the lower planes, some tieflings do live in and are born in the prime material planes. They are often viewed with much mistrust, assumed to be a demon or like their devilish forefathers. Many are killed at birth for having their more obvious traits and those that are not are usually more subtle in their demonic and often try to keep that a secret to avoid persecution and murder.
Watchful of Conscription
Many tieflings were once sired for the purpose of fighting in the eternal blood war between demons and devils, thinking that it may turn the tide. Because of this, Tieflings must be careful when visiting the hells if they wish to avoid conscription. Nevertheless, some wish to know their hellish parent and will travel to find more about their past or because they feel they can better fit in there. Some are purposefully raised to fight in the blood war even by human parents involved in a demonic cult.
A People Without a Home
There are few tiefling societies, those that do exist are out in the planes, almost never on any prime material plane. Because of this, many on the material planes become nomadic if they are not able to easily fit into a society. This leads to them becoming adventurers and often makes them distrustful of others as mistreatment is very common.
Tiefling Names
Tieflings born to other races typically have names reflective of that culture. Those born to other Tieflings and those who take on a new name more reflective of their hellish identity have names derived from the Infernal language.
Male Names: Amenos, Amnon, Barakas, Damankos, Ekemon, Iados, Kairon, Leucis, Melech, Mordai, Morthos, Pelaios, Skamos, Therai.
Female Names: Orphei, Kylie, Akta, Anakis, Bryseis, Cirella, Damaia, Ea, Kallista, Lerissa, Makaira, Nemia, Orianna, Phelaia, Rieta.