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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5103011" data-attributes="member: 54846">While it's not a reflavoring, the DM in one game I'm in gave Tieflings a new creation myth:[sblock]The Tieflings were once a humble people living in what is now Ravahc. Not two thousand years ago, as best as any scholars can place the time, Ravahc was a lush valley of arable soil. It was called Tiefwuld then and its human inhabitants tieflings. Tiefwuld was a relatively peaceful realm, and the wealth of its people was sung about far and wide.Few of the people of Tiefwuld knew of or suspected the massive network of underground tunnels that was being fought over beneath them. Ancient and vast, this subterranean world was home to numerous vile creatures at war with each other.As the yuan-ti began to consolidate power and push back their enemies, they set their eyes to new prey, the supple farmers andartisans of Tiefwuld. Suddenly one summer eve the people of Tiefwuld were overcome by the invading yuan-ti. Hundreds of tieflings were slaughtered while others were taken as slaves.It is said in an hour of desperation, the king of Tiefwuld called out every name of every god he had ever heard, but only one responded. In that hour, the king made a vow with Telesk. The king promised his people would do anything required in order that they might live without the threat of the yuan-ti. Days passed with no change. The king was slaughtered and his people made to live as cattle among the plundering yuan-ti.On the fourteenth day after the king's vow, Tiefwuld was set aflame. Fire fell upon the earth for miles, scorching everything above and below land. The ground collapsed into the underground tunnels. The land burned for three days, the black smoke rising to the sky in an otherworldly vortex. Every living thing was turned to ash. The story of Tiefwuld's fall was hereafter known as the Deceiver's Gift.One morning many months later, the tieflings were resurrected from the blackened char, forever changed. Their heads were horned and their skin was red and rigid. They had long tails where their spines should have ended.Accursed and universally hated, even at times by each other, the tieflings scattered far and wide. They were hunted for years by the dwarves as demons and servants of Telesk. Tiefwuld became in time a barren, colorless desert. It is now called Ravahc, the Sea of Ashes.Tieflings have been redeemed somewhat in the eyes of the other civilized races by the acts of a few notable pioneers who went to great lengths to dispel common misconceptions. Though no longer actively hunted, they are still treated with great suspicion and forced to live on the outskirts of society. Their numbers are small but they can be found if sought after in the dark alleys of the cities of men.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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