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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6056899" data-attributes="member: 6696971">You managed to leave off the second portion of the quote and you don't properly canvas the first part.  Tieflings either have infernal bloodlines at some point in their history or their ancestors may have made a pact with a greater infernal power at some point.  This predisposes them toward an intense, possibly temperamental (but not rash) disposition.  A Tiefling Justicar would certainly mete out justice in a different fashion than your standard Paladin, with an inherently askew (but considered) philosophy and unorthodox dogma.  Dealing death to those "who don't ask for it" seems to be much more in-line with a Tiefling servant of the God of Death than that of another race.  Further, (the part you omitted) given their infernal heritage/bloodline, they would have unique insight into the culture and individual mind of the duergar.  There would be a natural kinship in their exile...something of a Stockholm Syndrome relative to the greater culture...even if the two races/cultures are aesthetically different and governed by an opposing moral hierarchy.  The Tiefling portion of this character would have definitive thematic implications that wouldn't necessarily be intuitive or organic with another race.  So.  Required?  No.  Legitimate and thematically compelling in play.  Absolutely.Your (willful?) unfriendly rendering here is far, far worse than the first one.  As I'm certain you know, a typical Drow society is (dis)organized around a Lolth-centric regime.  Worshiping Corellon would, of course, be as heretical as anything you could do.  Reuniting elvenkind into a singular people again is clearly this characters primary motivation/quest.  That is is his end.  His means?  His natural power source is derived from the Elemental Chaos.  However, perhaps somewhere along the way he found that source insufficient to the breadth of the task before him.  He's made a hefty gamble.  Pilfering from the Abyss (where Lolth resides) its very power (Demonskin Adept augmenting, and twisting, his power from his Chaos Sorceror bloodlines) toward an end that the lesser powers, the greater powers, and Lolth herself will inevitably oppose him with unmitigated force.  Perhaps his cultural history with demons and their summonings has desensitized him toward the revolting horror of a "deal with the devil (demon/abyss)".  Perhaps where a human or elf would be afflicted by horror at the idea of harnessing demonic power to undermine a demon lord's agenda...a drow is inclined to unflinchingly feel that the ends justifies the means.Purging the Elemental Chaos of the Abyss is likely an idea borne of self-interest as much as anything else.  His entire life will involve tapping into the power of the Elemental Chaos (even after his quest is finished and he can shed his Demonskin cloak and therefore never tap into the Abyss again).  If demons have access to the Elemental Chaos by way of the Abyss, he leaves a potential opening for retribution every time his bloodline activates its sorcerous power.Point being, in less you aren't trying, its quite easy to see how each aspect of these PC builds and their corresponding thematic color and agenda fit together.  I know nothing about pemerton's campaign and I can throw that together completely off the cuff at a moment's notice.  And it has nothing to do with "munchkinism" as any choice they make is just as powerful as the one they do not choose (given 4e's balance amoung build choices).</blockquote>

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