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<blockquote data-quote="Veltharis ap Rylix" data-source="post: 8841390" data-attributes="member: 66357">Nope. Pre-4e, tieflings were just people who had some fiendish blood somewhere in their ancestry, completely non-specific on where that fiendish blood came from. But as a result, they were also highly varied in appearance, body type, etc. (standard human-style feet, digitigrade legs, hooves, any kind of tail or no tail at all, fur, scales, multiple arms, wings, horns, and so on), so they didn't have a unified &quot;look&quot; to them.When 4e came around, WotC wanted to move them into the PHB and since they were now going to be far more prominent that previously, they needed something more...&quot;copyrightable&quot; to work with for art and mini design purposes. So they revised tieflings to be strictly Infernal in origin and settled on the standard Tiefling appearance (humanoid feet, horns, tail, varying skin colors usually in the red-ish region) they've used ever since.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Veltharis ap Rylix, post: 8841390, member: 66357"] Nope. Pre-4e, tieflings were just people who had some fiendish blood somewhere in their ancestry, completely non-specific on where that fiendish blood came from. But as a result, they were also highly varied in appearance, body type, etc. (standard human-style feet, digitigrade legs, hooves, any kind of tail or no tail at all, fur, scales, multiple arms, wings, horns, and so on), so they didn't have a unified "look" to them. When 4e came around, WotC wanted to move them into the PHB and since they were now going to be far more prominent that previously, they needed something more..."copyrightable" to work with for art and mini design purposes. So they revised tieflings to be strictly Infernal in origin and settled on the standard Tiefling appearance (humanoid feet, horns, tail, varying skin colors usually in the red-ish region) they've used ever since. [/QUOTE]

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