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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jubelo" data-source="post: 4464635" data-attributes="member: 50">I noticed that dragonborn were left out of the table of contents, and thought I might give a reason for their appearance in the world.       When the last seal was broken, djinni leaped to the skies in fountains of cloud and lightning, marids returned to their lost coral palaces in floods, efriti burned through the skies like rising stars and dao made the earth tremble with their passage back to their secret homes in the earth.  This troubled Bahumet, the world dragon, who lies curled beneath the emerald mountain of Qaf; his servants were gathered together to see what was transpiring in the world of the Ins.I also thought that tieflings may be descendants of the people that lived in the cities of the Haunted Desert.  Perhaps a pact with Djinn of some sort kept the signs of their ancestor's corruption from showing or perhaps they have only now started to come forth from the ruined cities.I do have a couple design questions though.In the 4e Monster Manual, Efreet are both only in the Epic tier.Do we want to have lesser versions of the djinn, or do we just warn characters that these creatures are near godlike in power?What monsters do you see as being in the epic tier or paragon tier?I'd like to contribute, but don't know that I have the experience you may be looking for.Jon</blockquote>