D&D (2024) Do you think they will add more races to PHB2024 to make up for dropping other stuff?

[MonsterEnvy]

Tief is German for low or deep.

So it literally means Lowling. Reflecting the lower planes origin.

 

[Azzy]

Growing up, I always wondered what people thought I was. If I ask 5 people what they think I am, I will get 6 answers.

Then Obama became President, and I noticed something odd. Everyone called him our first Black President, conveniently forgetting his White half, and the fact that he was raised by his White mother and grandparents. This wasn't lopsided treatment; both the Blacks and Whites did this.

The reason for this is that there's a looong history of racism in the US. Between slavery (where the birth between a slave and a white father was almost invariably relegated to being a slave) and the "one-drop rule" of the Jim Crow-era qualifying anyone of even slightly mixed-African American heritage was regarded as "black" and had the life-experienced of being black. Even in the Post-Jim Crow, the legacy of the one-drop rule casts a long shadow.

 

[Corinnguard]

Tief is German for low or deep.

So it literally means Lowling. Reflecting the lower planes origin.

I suppose it's a good thing that they didn't decide to use a word to reflect the Aasimar's upper planes origin. The German word for up is Auf. Aufling? And since fling is a substitute for the word throw...

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I suppose it's a good thing that they didn't decide to use a word to reflect the Aasimar's upper planes origin. The German word for up is Auf. Aufling? And since fling is a substitute for the word throw...

The Ard in ardling is Irish for High or Exalted

 

[Corinnguard]

The Ard in ardling is Irish for High or Exalted

Now that could explain WoTC's interest in wanting to make the Ardlings into the Tieflings' upper planes counterpart.

 

[mamba]

Tief is German for low or deep.

So it literally means Lowling. Reflecting the lower planes origin.

yeah, I'd have translated it as Deepkin, as the ending -ling is used to characterize a group with shared attributes in that way frequently.

 

[mamba]

I suppose it's a good thing that they didn't decide to use a word to reflect the Aasimar's upper planes origin. The German word for up is Auf. Aufling? And since fling is a substitute for the word throw...

more Hochling than Aufling, Hoch is the opposite to Tief, auf is more 'on' / 'on top' as in 'on (top of) the table'

 

[Aldarc]

I suppose it's a good thing that they didn't decide to use a word to reflect the Aasimar's upper planes origin. The German word for up is Auf. Aufling? And since fling is a substitute for the word throw...

"Nieder" and "Ober" are often used to refer to the "lower" and "upper" parts of the country, such as in "Oberösterreich" and "Niederösterreich" or "Upper Austria" and "Lower Austria," respectively. "Niederlande" is also the German name for the Netherlands, which itself basically means "the low-lying country."

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Tief is German for low or deep.

So it literally means Lowling. Reflecting the lower planes origin.

What does Aasimar mean?

 

[Remathilis]

What does Aasimar mean?

So when D&D got all skittish about religion in 2e, they renamed several outer planar beings. We know any demons (tanar'ri), devils (baatezu) and daemons (yugoloths) but angels also got renamed to aasimon. Aasimar are derived from that.

It's a very obscure bit of Planescape lore.