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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6396250" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>As others have said, I think the trope or archetype of <em>fiendish</em> or <em>sinister heritage</em> is reasonably classic. Likewise the 4e implementation of this, that Faustian bargains can corrupt a bloodline.</p><p></p><p>In other words, this.</p><p></p><p>From the 4e PHB, pp 48-49:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Heirs to an ancient, infernal bloodline, tieflings have no realms of their own but instead live within human kingdoms and cities. They are descended from human nobles who bargained with dark powers, and long ago their empire subjugated half the world. But the empire was cast down into ruin, and tieflings were left to make their own way in a world that often fears and resents them. . . .</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Centuries of other races’ distrust and outright hatred have made tieflings self-reliant and often too willing to live up to the stereotypes imposed on them. As a race without a homeland, tieflings know that they have to make their own way in the world . . .</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">[M]ost tieflings . . . grow up in the roughest quarters of human cities and towns. These tieflings often become swindlers, thieves, or crime lords, who carve out a niche for themselves amid the squalor of their surroundings. . . .</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Some young tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, choose a name that signifies a concept and then try to embody the concept. For some, the chosen name is a noble quest. For others, it’s a grim destiny.</p><p></p><p>I'm not seeing how this is at odds with an interest in the status of tieflings as outcasts, who define themselves in relation to (human) society's negative expectations of them; nor how it would get in the way of using a tiefling character to explore concepts of racism, classism, and otherization. In fact, it seems to speak exactly to all of those things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6396250, member: 42582"] As others have said, I think the trope or archetype of [I]fiendish[/I] or [I]sinister heritage[/I] is reasonably classic. Likewise the 4e implementation of this, that Faustian bargains can corrupt a bloodline. In other words, this. From the 4e PHB, pp 48-49: [indent]Heirs to an ancient, infernal bloodline, tieflings have no realms of their own but instead live within human kingdoms and cities. They are descended from human nobles who bargained with dark powers, and long ago their empire subjugated half the world. But the empire was cast down into ruin, and tieflings were left to make their own way in a world that often fears and resents them. . . . Centuries of other races’ distrust and outright hatred have made tieflings self-reliant and often too willing to live up to the stereotypes imposed on them. As a race without a homeland, tieflings know that they have to make their own way in the world . . . [M]ost tieflings . . . grow up in the roughest quarters of human cities and towns. These tieflings often become swindlers, thieves, or crime lords, who carve out a niche for themselves amid the squalor of their surroundings. . . . Some young tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, choose a name that signifies a concept and then try to embody the concept. For some, the chosen name is a noble quest. For others, it’s a grim destiny.[/indent] I'm not seeing how this is at odds with an interest in the status of tieflings as outcasts, who define themselves in relation to (human) society's negative expectations of them; nor how it would get in the way of using a tiefling character to explore concepts of racism, classism, and otherization. In fact, it seems to speak exactly to all of those things. [/QUOTE]
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