Tieflings

Tieflings are the spawn of fallen devils. They emerged only after the Godswar, when the servants of the Gods were left abandoned in the wake of their demise. Forced to live among mortals, and finding their own immortality waning with their loss of magic, many of the abyssal and divine spawn of the Gods made their contingencies in the wombs of mortal women. Tieflings are born of one devil parent and one mortal. Some female devils were able to use the last of their dying magic to alter their biology, so it is not uncommon for a tiefling to have an infernal parent of either gender. Most devils took the form of exceedingly attractive mortal men to hide their true form, their true ancestry not apparent until their birth of their offspring.

Tieflings resemble a mix of human and devil. They typically stand at average human height and weight, though it is offset by their large tails and horns. A tiefling's infernal parent determines the appearance of their horns and tails. Their skin is typically a shade of red, purple, or gray, and their eyes are solid colors with no pupils. There are no easy ways to conceal these traits, and thus most tieflings choose to walk undisguised.

Naturally their appearance brooks much fear among the general population. This fear turns most tieflings into petty criminals and low-lives. The knowledge of their origin leaves them with little room for pride. Tieflings are a pragmatic and distrustful people. They have no homeland and often make their homes in human cities and town. While slow to trust, a friend of a tiefling is a friend for life.

In the central continent, Tieflings are regarded with hesitation but only rarely outright hostility. This hestitation grows when more than one acts in a group, espoused by the famous Velendian saying "One's a curiosity, two's a conspiracy, and three's a curse." While most of this reputation is based on prejudice, the frequently criminal nature of a tiefling hardly helps their cause. The life span of a tiefling is roughly that of an average human, with the fourth generation of their kind reaching maturity in the year 100. They can reproduce with either humans or tieflings, with a fifty percent chance of forming a human in the former case.