[Morgeruat]

Teiflings are "plane-touched" as the Planescape books put it. Some where in their ancestry there is blood of an outerplanar creature, such as demons, devils (the most common types) as well as night hags, their upper planar equivalents are called Aasimar, while Cambions are fully 1/2 Tanar'ri and 1/2 human, a tiefling has more human in them.

you cannot choose to be a tiefling int PlaneScape:Torment, but you do pick up Annah, A tiefling with a tail (she's a fighter/thief).

Tieflings are usually human-looking in appearance, but no two look alike, some of the featurs that distinguish them from normal humans are small horns, scales, pointed ears, clawlike fingers, a cloven hoof, a tail- ratlike, horselike, or lizardlie in appearance, or just a wicked gleam in their eye that never leaves. What they all have in common is a quick temper and a chip on their shoulder.

Often they're confused with alu-fiends, erinyes, incubi, and succubi(which they'll forgive), but never call a tiefling halfbreed or bastard, he'll take it personally. Plane-touched is the word, or sir or lady.

[ 04-28-2002, 04:36 PM: Message edited by: Morgeruat ]