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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8220592" data-attributes="member: 6906155">What happens in the Forgotten Realms between 2nd and 5th edition is tieflings go from being incredibly rare to being far more common. To see this look at Baldur's Gate 2 (2nd edition FR, frozen in aspic). There is a tiefling companion, but he comes from Sigil, and has to explain what a tiefling is because they are pretty much unknown in Amn at that time. Note that his appearance reflects both the diversity in 2nd edition tieflings, and the fact that he had to use a half elf model in the game.[ATTACH=full]133989[/ATTACH]Moving on, but again looking at computer games, since they preserve the status of the game at the time they where written. The next appearance of a tiefling in the Forgotten realms is Neeshka in NWN2 (3.5 edition). She is an FR native, but still unusual enough to have to explain what she is and face a good deal of persecution. It is implied that her grandfather is a pit fiend named Mephasm.[ATTACH=full]133990[/ATTACH]That is all in the past, but 5e does not delete the past, it still happened. It's certainly plausible that Asmodeus was responsible for the vast increase in the number of tieflings in the FR, and thus a great many are connected to him, but that doesn't delete the small number that have different origins.</blockquote>