I'm at work and don't have any of my reference materials in front of me and I was wondering: what areas of Greyhawk are most tieflings from?
I would think the remains of the Great Kingdom and the Empire of Iuz would be the most prominent, with possibly the city of Greyhawk having a few as well. Are there any others or am I totally wrong on my guesses?
Also, how would most Rhennee feel about tieflings?
Thanks!
the Dizz
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I'm at work and don't have any of my reference materials in front of me and I was wondering: what areas of Greyhawk are most tieflings from?
I would think the remains of the Great Kingdom and the Empire of Iuz would be the most prominent, with possibly the city of Greyhawk having a few as well. Are there any others or am I totally wrong on my guesses?
Most tieflings wouldn't come from a specific place. That's like asking where most half-elves come from. Tieflings have a great deal of genetic diversity so it's rare that one would look like another. Just look at the Planescape setting's huge table of different traits that a tiefling might have to see that.
Anyplace someone might have a fiend as a genetic ancestor could work. Places of evil might be prime candidates, as well as places where the Scarlet Brotherhood exists, though I don't know how popular that tieflings would be there.
Looking for the biggest population center...I'd probably say the City of Greyhawk itself for that. Biggest mix of diversity population there. Either that or one of the outer planes that sees a lot of interaction between mortals and outsiders. Sigil wouldn't be a bad suggestion.
I suppose my basis for comparison is the Realms, where tieflings tend to come from certain places and so do other plane-touched like aasimar and genasi.
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I'd look for the places where the highest number of devils, demons, and other fiends can be found.
Or rather, were found. Tiefling traits can fade away and flare right back up many generations down the line long after one's ancestor had contact with a fiend.(which is probably an argument for them to be spread thin rather than concentrated as argued above, I suppose)
(Knows next to nothing about Grayhawk geography and demographics, but dammit I got my planetouched biology down!)
That's a pretty good plan, I think. I like that it simplifies something which I don't really know much about.
If I were to include any significant number of tieflings in my Greyhawk campaign, primary locations would include:
any area currently or previously dominated by Iuz (Iuz, Shield Lands, Horned Society, Bandit Kingdoms, Vesve Forest)
the core area of the Great Kingdom (Rauxes vicinity)
Thanks for all the help guys. My Greyhawk-fu isn't as good as I would like for it to be, but I was looking for a place for my new Shackled City character to be from.
Two other possibilities exist -
In the Pomraj, that hilly humanoid filled land south of Greyhawk city. A devil-tiefling cult could be behind the humanoid threat, the thing that stops the orks and goblins from tearing eachother apart is deep fear of a worse and more powerful evil.
Also the 'Silent Ones' of Keoland, could be Tieflings, humans and fiends made pacts in their hidden towers, perhaps with lore from the Invoked Devastation that their ancestors caused?
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The lands of Iuz, already run by the ultimate 'tiefling-done-good,' the Cambion Iuz, would probably be rife with demon-descended people (and the surrounding lands as well, due to raids).
In the Great Kingdom, devils are involved in the reign of the current undead ruler in Rauxes, so that would be the most likely place to see devil-descended people, in numbers, with the Horned Society (currently absorbed anyway) being another nation/power group that is reputed to truck with fiends.
Other than those two primary sources (the lands around Iuz and the capital areas of the Great Kingdom), I'm not aware of any other places that would have concentrations of fiend-touched people.
It's possible that the Scarlet Brotherhood, already fond of breeding experiments with the 'lesser races,' might dabble in crossbreeding fiendish traits into some, but they wouldn't sully their own bloodline with any sort of non-Suel blood (not even that of powerful outsiders), and, unlike crossbreeding non-Suel humans with orcs and even animals, empowering a slave race with potentially powerful and unpredictable outsider blood would be a carefully-watched experiment, and not a practice likely to lead to any breeding programs. Giving a slave the strength (and intellect) of an ape is one thing. Possibly giving it fiendish cunning, spell-like abilities and spell resistance is quite another!
Places like the Theocracy of the Pale would be spectacularly unfriendly to anyone with visible fiendish ancestry...
The lands of Iuz, already run by the ultimate 'tiefling-done-good,' the Cambion Iuz, would probably be rife with demon-descended people (and the surrounding lands as well, due to raids)...
This. Example:
According to the Living Greyhawk Gazeteer (which, among others, happened to be designed by a couple of guys with the initials EM and SKR), the Free City of Rookroost in the Bandit Kingdoms has "many" nonhumans, including half-fiends after the Greyhawk Wars. The ruler is implied to be an unrecognized half-fiend. Tieflings would be a natural extension there.