Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

Tieflings don't have any unusual naming traditions, however, some tieflings may choose their own name in accordance with what they aspire to be.

Beauty Ideals

Having long, healthy horns are desired, and so is a long tail. Additionally, the intensity of the colour of their skin shows how young and healthy they are. Tieflings desire a more curvaceous figure, whereas the males generally prefer to be muscular and stocky.

Gender Ideals

Tieflings gender is fluid, and so, there aren't any gender roles associated with either male or female.

Courtship Ideals

Romance is important but integrity and love is more than anything, tieflings look for security and support with each other. But also they want to find someone who matches their personalities well.

Relationship Ideals

Tieflings tend to marry early in life and often have two to four children. Arguments are commonplace and quite explosive in nature, often involving thrown objects and loud invectives between both husband and wife. These arguments aren't a sign of a bad marriage, however, but simply the way married tieflings deal with irreconcilable ideals with their mates, while allowing both parties to retain their pride. Marriages last until death, though it is not unheard of for a married tiefling to take leaves of absence from their spouse for years at a time. While gallivanting about the countryside, these individuals are still expected to remain faithful.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

Tieflings have adapted to learn Common and Elven in order to integrate into the society they reside in. Some still speak Infernal, but most keep this within the Tiefling home and community as it is labelled the language of the devils.

Common Etiquette Rules

When among non-tieflings, a tiefling is the soul of propriety, and is full of smiles and friendly greetings with everyone they meet. Even in the presence of rudeness or bigotry, a tiefling will most often laugh it off, or, at worst, make a curt remark, but will never display the fiery temper they would show at home.

Common Dress Code

There is wide variety in the clothes worn by the Tieflings as with most races; a popular look with young tieflings is to wear all black- baggy trousers, a cloth shirt, walking boots, a leather trenchcoat and usually a hat or pair of glasses, however, only the wealthiest can afford such attire.

Culture and Cultural Heritage

Tieflings adapt and integrate easily into foreign cultures, but within a year or two of being accepted in some new place, they begin to gently insist on a few cultural accommodations of their own. These start out as small, benign requests, such as chairs in the local tavern being redesigned slightly to accommodate a tiefling's tail. Then, as time goes by, the requests grow in impact on their societies, like a shift in local fashions, or the passage of anti-discrimination laws.

Common Customs, Traditions and Rituals

Most tieflings celebrate the solstices and equinoxes, the harvest cycles and the end of winter, which aligns nicely with most other races and cultures, whilst adding their own personal traditions to the holidays. Cutting down a living tree and bringing it inside for the Winter Solstice, for example, is quite trendy in some tiefling communities, and seems to be catching on elsewhere.
Most tiefling culture is so individualized that it seems made-up. Each tiefling will find ways to slowly influence the culture of the people around them to suit whatever tastes they happen to enjoy.

Common Taboos

Because tiefling society treasures marriage so strongly, those tieflings who marry non-tieflings are ostracized and publicly scorned. Divorce or separation among tieflings is also exceedingly rare. Physical violence between couples is strictly taboo among tieflings, even in regions where such spousal behaviour is socially acceptable.

Common Myths and Legends

The first is that many people believe that a tiefling can't break his word, no matter what. While many tieflings are perfectly honest people, this superstition isn't really any more true than it is for any other race.

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Tieflings rarely build villages that are exclusively tiefling, as they find the company of other races to be enriching and intriguing.