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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8198482" data-attributes="member: 14159">While the term "tiefling" is a D&D invention, the idea of a person with a fiendish bloodline that makes them distinct from humans is NOT.In Arthurian legend, that was the explanation for the origin of Merlin's powers. . .his mother was seduced by a fiend and the inhuman heritage is where his magical talent came from.  Perhaps the more common (and public domain) term Nephilim for a person descended of angels or devils would be used in place of Aasimar and Tiefling as a character race, and Nephilim definitely are a part of broader literature and popular culture beyond D&D that could become a PC race.The last official stats for Merlin in D&D I know of made him a Human Wizard 17/Druid 14, but that was in 1990 in Legends and Lore, published 4 years before Tieflings were added to D&D in Planescape in 1994, and a decade before Sorcerers were added in 3rd Edition in 2000 (Sorcerer would definitely fit the description of someone who got their magical ability from ancestry instead of study more accurately than Wizard).Perhaps Tiefling Sorcerer 17/Druid 3 might describe Merlin more accurately in 5th edition terms (or Tiefling Sorcerer 7/Druid 3/Mystic Theurge 10 in 3.5e terms) (using the formulas in the 2nd to 3rd edition conversion book to translate 2e multiclass stats into the unified level system of 3rd and later editions he'd be 21st level, but Tiefling is Level Adjustment +1 in 3.5e, and levels caps at 20 in 5e but there's no level adjustments)</blockquote>

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