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<blockquote data-quote="DMZ2112" data-source="post: 8897220" data-attributes="member: 78752"><p>I always start with a different humanoid because IMHO the best tiefling lore has always been the original Planescape lore, where tieflings and genasi are magical mutants.</p><p></p><p>I’ve had a tiefling who was a human-descended scion of a long time demonic foe of Kostchtchie who was tall and attractive, covered lightly in faintly tiger-striped white fur with an ice-blue high-and-tight. He had long, thin ears perpendicular to his head, cross-shaped pupils in blood red eyes, and a perfect, gleaming grin, and he suffered from blackout rages. </p><p></p><p>I’ve had a Mammonite mountain dwarf tiefling with fiery eyes and golden skin who passed themself off as a duergar because no one else had ever seen one.</p><p></p><p>I’ve had a tortle fire genasi inspired by an alligator snapping turtle, black as basalt, whose shell joints glowed like lava vents and who could snort fireballs. They <em>hated</em> plumbers.</p><p></p><p>I had a second fire genasi, of human descent, who was extinguished in a mudslide while he was cleansing a pagan temple. He had been walking glory, and was now all ash grey skin and charcoal hair, white at the tips and faintly trailing smoke.</p><p></p><p>My favorite, though, thus far, has been a Levistan moon elf tiefling with long, straight, sea-green hair that flowed like water and faintly bluish skin that was always cold to the touch. Their breath misted in the air no matter the ambient temperature. When they usurped Strahd von Zarovich, they became a terrible cross between a fae princess and a gelugon, with compound eyes, elegant antennae, and scintillating moth wings of ice crystals.</p><p></p><p>But anyway, I start with a different humanoid. I find that having an established culture to either cleave to or reject helps greatly to define a tiefling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DMZ2112, post: 8897220, member: 78752"] I always start with a different humanoid because IMHO the best tiefling lore has always been the original Planescape lore, where tieflings and genasi are magical mutants. I’ve had a tiefling who was a human-descended scion of a long time demonic foe of Kostchtchie who was tall and attractive, covered lightly in faintly tiger-striped white fur with an ice-blue high-and-tight. He had long, thin ears perpendicular to his head, cross-shaped pupils in blood red eyes, and a perfect, gleaming grin, and he suffered from blackout rages. I’ve had a Mammonite mountain dwarf tiefling with fiery eyes and golden skin who passed themself off as a duergar because no one else had ever seen one. I’ve had a tortle fire genasi inspired by an alligator snapping turtle, black as basalt, whose shell joints glowed like lava vents and who could snort fireballs. They [I]hated[/I] plumbers. I had a second fire genasi, of human descent, who was extinguished in a mudslide while he was cleansing a pagan temple. He had been walking glory, and was now all ash grey skin and charcoal hair, white at the tips and faintly trailing smoke. My favorite, though, thus far, has been a Levistan moon elf tiefling with long, straight, sea-green hair that flowed like water and faintly bluish skin that was always cold to the touch. Their breath misted in the air no matter the ambient temperature. When they usurped Strahd von Zarovich, they became a terrible cross between a fae princess and a gelugon, with compound eyes, elegant antennae, and scintillating moth wings of ice crystals. But anyway, I start with a different humanoid. I find that having an established culture to either cleave to or reject helps greatly to define a tiefling. [/QUOTE]
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