Tieflings

Melody adjusted her scarf, the thick fabric hid her horns from view, but the unusual color of her skin couldn’t be hidden, and sometimes her tail poked out from underneath the hem of her skirt. Sometimes she managed to convince people she had caught a bad wild magic storm, if she was lucky, she managed to convince people not to run her out of town. She softly plucked the strings of her dulcimer and began to sing a song about longing.

When the breaking cracked the world of Orizon, numerous fiends took the chaos as an opportunity to possess mortal hosts. But those same energies trapped them in those hosts, sealing the fiends away and forcing to live and die as mortals. This transformed them into the first tieflings and tied their infernal energies to their mortal bloodlines. Children of otherwise normal humans of these bloodlines are born as tieflings up to this very day.
Unfortunately for these innocent children, demons and devils are still present on Orizon, sneaking their way onto the material plane to corrupt and destroy. The resemblance these children share with fiends can awaken religious fear among the community, the children are considered bad omens or simply evil. Some are killed at birth, and they are almost always shunned by those unwilling to look past their fiendish appearance.
Some tieflings embrace their infernal heritage, others try hard to leave it behind and separate themselves from it and strive to do good, still more simply try to live a normal life and ignore their features as best they can. Tieflings tend to settle themselves in large diverse populations where their unique appearance won’t attract as much attention, or as much violence. Most, unfortunately, don’t consider Tieflings past their appearance and believe them to be evil, duplicitous and violent. Regardless of the tiefling’s actual disposition.

Genetic Ancestor(s)

• Humans

Lifespan

90