Merkuri
Explorer
Hmm... I studied sign language in college for a few semesters, and we had a lot of discussion about deaf subculture and how being born a deaf person into a hearing family was kind of like if you were somehow an American born in France to a French family. The language barrier between deaf and speaking people meant that deaf people had their own subculture, even though they could live next to and interact with hearing people all day long.
It's not that defined with tieflings and humans because they will probably share a language, but that might be an interesting thing to explore in a fantasy world if tieflings could be randomly born to two humans. The tiefling child would find more of a connection to other tieflings in a city or region and they would probably develop their own subculture within the human culture of the region. And if somebody came up with a magical "cure" for tiefling-ism (so tieflings who took it became human), what would the tiefling community think of that?
It's not an exact match to real-world issues, but it's just something I thought might be fun to try for groups that don't mind real-world-type problems invading into their fantasy.
It's not that defined with tieflings and humans because they will probably share a language, but that might be an interesting thing to explore in a fantasy world if tieflings could be randomly born to two humans. The tiefling child would find more of a connection to other tieflings in a city or region and they would probably develop their own subculture within the human culture of the region. And if somebody came up with a magical "cure" for tiefling-ism (so tieflings who took it became human), what would the tiefling community think of that?
It's not an exact match to real-world issues, but it's just something I thought might be fun to try for groups that don't mind real-world-type problems invading into their fantasy.