Tieflings

To most, Tieflings are corruption incarnate; those who have been cursed by the gods or blessed by evil. Twisted into a demonic visage with sharp teeth, horns, and a wicked tail, these poor wretches are shunned by society and the gods.

Description
Tieflings resemble humans in height and weight, with a few significant differences.

All tieflings have skin that ranges from a deep, almost black purple to a dusty pink. Their hair avoids natural colors, such as brown and blonde, in favor of dark, brooding shades of red, purple, blue, black, or a shockingly bright white.

They have a horny ridge that grows from their brow or hairline.

Most tieflings possess a thick, arrow-tipped tail as well, but others have stranger things.

Some examples of these alterations are:
 * Fused fingers (usually two or three fingers and a thumb)
 * Hand-like feet
 * Elongated bat-ears
 * Vestigial wings
 * Talons at the tips of their fingers
 * A forked tongue or split tail
 * A third eye in the center of their forehead
 * A lingering smell of brimstone or ash

History
Legend states that tieflings are the damned who have called down the wrath of the gods.

However, a second story that runs nearly parallel to the first is that tieflings fulfill a similar divine roll to that of the aasimar, the blessed of the gods, but for the opposing team. If this is true, tieflings are not cursed by the gods, but rather embraced by the dark, evil gods of the world to fulfill a wicked purpose in their stead. Given the strange magics they are endowed with, this may be a more likely

Mating with a tiefling almost always produces a tiefling, unless one of the mates is an aasimar. If two tieflings mate, however, the result is sometimes a child of the race the two parents were before their transformation. Many tieflings see this as a blessing from the gods, or a sign of divine forgiveness.

Tieflings are sometimes also born of wicked deeds of the parents, when a thirteenth child is born of the same woman, or any other occult circumstance stirs latent blood back to life.

Religion
Most Tieflings either fully embrace worship of the god that did curse them or that they assume cursed them.

Nyrn is the most often worshiped of these gods, but Hisk, [SHADOW], and Xialos are often popular options as well.

Society
Society shuns tieflings, by and large, but they can be found in the larger cities where a horned scion of the devils is a far more blase affair than in the Podunk lands of the southern continent.

Notable Tieflings

 * Mars