The reality is that a tiefling’s bloodline doesn’t affect their personality. Ignorant people tend to be suspicious of tieflings, assuming that their infernal heritage has left its mark on their personality and morality, not just their appearance. “Virtue” Names: Art, Carrion, Chant, Creed, Despair, Excellence, Fear, Glory, Hope, Ideal, Music, Nowhere, Open, Poetry, Quest, Random, Reverence, Sorrow, Temerity, Torment, Weary Male Infernal Names: Akmenos, Amnon, Barakas, Damakos, Ekemon, Iados, Kairon, Leucis, Melech, Mordai, Morthos, Pelaios, Skamos, Theraiįemale Infernal Names: Akta, Anakis, Bryseis, Criella, Damaia, Ea, Kallista, Lerissa, Makaria, Nemeia, Orianna, Phelaia, Rieta For some, the chosen name is a noble quest. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other concept and then try to embody that concept. Some have names derived from the Infernal language, passed down through generations, that reflect their fiendish heritage. Tieflings born into another culture typically have names reflective of that culture. Tiefling names fall into three broad categories. And once a tiefling gives someone loyalty, the tiefling is a firm friend or ally for life.
They are not quick to trust anyone who claims to be a friend, but when a tiefling’s companions demonstrate that they trust him or her, the tiefling learns to extend the same trust to them. Lacking a homeland, tieflings know that they have to make their own way in the world and that they have to be strong to survive. Sometimes they live among other minority populations in enclaves where they are treated with more respect. Tieflings subsist in small minorities found mostly in human cities or towns, often in the roughest quarters of those places, where they grow up to be swindlers, thieves, or crime lords. Their hair, cascading down from behind their horns, is usually dark, from black or brown to dark red, blue, or purple.
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Their skin tones cover the full range of human coloration, but also include various shades of red. Their canine teeth are sharply pointed, and their eyes are solid colors-black, red, white, silver, or gold-with no visible sclera or pupil. They have thick tails, four to five feet long, which lash or coil around their legs when they get upset or nervous. Tieflings have large horns that take any of a variety of shapes: some have curling horns like a ram, others have straight and tall horns like a gazelle’s, and some spiral upward like an antelopes’ horns. However, their infernal heritage has left a clear imprint on their appearance. Tieflings are derived from human bloodlines, and in the broadest possible sense, they still look human. Their appearance and their nature are not their fault but the result of an ancient sin, for which they and their children and their children’s children will always be held accountable. And to twist the knife, tieflings know that this is because a pact struck generations ago infused the essence of Asmodeus-overlord of the Nine Hells-into their bloodline. To be greeted with stares and whispers, to suffer violence and insult on the street, to see mistrust and fear in every eye: this is the lot of the tiefling. Every little jab and comment just sharpens your claws.” “You fight it, don’t you? Like a little wildcat, I wager. Some break under it, some make it the millstone around their neck, some revel in it.” He tilted his head again, scrutinizing her, with that wicked glint in his eyes. “I know you have.” When she glared at him, he added, “It’s not as if I’m plumbing the depths of your mind, dear girl. “You think I haven’t heard that rubbish before?” Those black eyes, cold as a winter storm, were staring right into her heart and the sudden seriousness in his voice jolted her. “But you do see the way people look at you, devil’s child.”
Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
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