Tiefling

Tieflings are planar scions native to prime planes, yet with the blood of Tenari, Baatetzu , or other Obyrim in their veins. Also known colloquially (and somewhat pejoratively) as hellspawn or devilblooded, they are often distrusted and feared for this evil lineage. Even in infernal Cheliax where some tieflings serve as middlemen between the people and the denizens of Hell, they are second-class citizens at best.

Culture

Shared customary codes and values

Tieflings are rarely welcomed in humanoid society due to their fiendish descent and outwardly fiendish appearances. As such, many tieflings live in ghettos and other undesirable areas of their settlements. Some tieflings attempt to counteract this stigma by amassing personal wealth or power, while others seek to form communities with other tieflings where they can live without needing to hide their natures. Occasionally, tieflings may associate with other marginalized or distrusted species, such as Half-Orc.
Some tieflings choose to ease their solitude by adopting pets. While many animals are instinctively put off by the scent of fiendish blood, this can be overcome with sufficient training. Additionally, tieflings are known to develop affinities for specific types of animals if they are descended from a fiend associated with specific creatures. A tiefling descended from a Vrock may share a bond with vultures, for example, while one descended from a tiger-like Rakshasa may have one with cats.
Tieflings are rarely religious, although some seek faith to find the acceptance and affection that their lives often lack. Many tieflings who tend towards religion are driven off from good faiths by both their persecutions of tiefling-kind and by the thought of sharing an afterlife with people who despise them, leading them to the worship of evil deities or of powerful fiends. However, many revere neutral deities such as Gorum or Nethys, who value a worshipper's abilities and actions more than their race or appearance, or more open-minded good deities such as Desna. Many religious tieflings become inquisitors, distancing themselves from their persecuted past by themselves becoming the ones seeking out impurities and heresies.

Ideals

Beauty Ideals

Tieflings vary greatly in individual appearance from one another, depending not only on the ethnicity of the prime parent but also the type of the fiendish parent. They can have horns, greatly varying skin colors, hooves for feet, tails, unusual eyes, and so on. Tieflings descended from Tenari, for instance, often develop asymmetrical markings or growths, while tieflings descended from Divs tend to manifest various abnormalities related to their skin and those descended from Rakshasas typically develop animalistic appearances. These variances mean that two tieflings born from two different fiends might have vast differences in appearance.

Major organizations

In Golarion

Tieflings often face discrimination in the nations of the Inner Sea region. Chelish tieflings form an oppressed underclass despite their association with the devils that the empire often works with, as the nobility of Cheliax views devils as servants to be bound and controlled and dislikes the thought of uniting mortal and infernal blood. Tieflings of demonic blood or otherwise non-infernal fiendish heritages face even greater prejudice, and are rarely tolerated within Cheliax's borders. Chelish tieflings fleeing discrimination often head to Cheliax's neighbor and rival, Andoran, but can find themselves facing prejudice there as well due to their association with fiends and Cheliax's infernal regime.
Tieflings face greater discrimination in Jalmeray, where they are considered unclean and relegated to jobs such as sewage and garbage collection and life in crowded ghettos. Most Jalmeri tieflings are beastbroods descended from rakshasas.
Likewise, tieflings are rarely welcomed in Mendev and other lands affected by the demons of the Worldwound, where they are seen as agents of their demonic progenitors. Mendevian tieflings are often killed as soon as they are discovered, forcing them to live in hiding or head south to less hostile lands. Tieflings born within the Worldwound itself find little acceptance from either their mortal parents, who see them as unwelcome reminders of their fates, or their demonic ones, who see them as either slaves or mortal victims like all others.
In Tian Xia, the nation of Chu Ye is home to numerous hungerseed tieflings descended from the nation's oni rulers, who use their descendants as agents and spies. Tieflings are also found in Shenmen, where the difficulty of day-to-day life allows them to find acceptance among villagers more concerned with whether they can aid in their towns' survival than in their heritage.

Encompassed species

• Obyrim

Ancestry Feats

First

• Blood of the Rising
  Blood of the Rising - Ancestry Feat 1

  TRAIT
  
  

  Requirements Half-Elf Heritage

  Description Your ancestors eventually overcame the lure of evil, which has partially cleansed your bloodline. 
  Applications You can take aasimar racial feats, and you gain the aasimar trait, in addition to the tiefling and humanoid traits.
  

Tiefling - Heritage

TRAIT

Requirements Any Non-Obyrim Ancestry

Description Either one of your parents was an Obyrim, or one or both were Tiefling. You have a tail and other telltale signs of Obyric heritage.
Applications You gain the Obyrim trait and Darkvision. In addition, you can select Obyrim, Tiefling, and your original ancestry feats whenever you gain an ancestry feat.