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I want to specifically define our two half fiend races for my Homebrew cosmology but since I try to make my Homebrew as close as possible to published stuff, I want to run this by other D&D grognards & old-schoolers.
Does anyone know of any examples that contradict the following definitions:
Cambion: The "always male" offspring of a male Demon and a mortal female. (Iuz the Old, Vheod Runechild, etc.)
Alu-Fiend: The "always female" offspring of a female demon and a mortal male. (Umbra, etc.)
I think that's already pretty concrete for Alu-Fiends. At least the first part of the definition. The way I have it here, a Succubus (Red Shroud, for example) could never have a son with a mortal, just daughters.
Moreover, Fraz Urb Lu or Graz'zt (for example) could never have a daughter with a mortal, just sons.
I doubt there are any published female Cambions. What about any published line of text that refers to a daughter (half mortal) of Graz'zt or someone -- or of a published succubus or marilith with a half mortal son???
The Demonomicon of Iggwilv featuring Graz'zt mentions two of his daughters - Thraxxia (CE female human half-fiend sorcerer 11) and Belyara (CE female half-fiend lamia rogue 3/bard 7/arcane trickster 8).
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Thanks.
I think I knew of Thraxxia but I didn't realize she was half-human. I thought she was full-blooded Demon. Damn. (I seem to think I remember her as a sister).
Oh well. How 'bout this: I change Thraxxia's race (give her a Demon mother) thereby denying her status as a Cambion. Here's the catch from my perspective:
Is there anything published elsewhere about Thraxxia and her sister other than the Jacobs' article in Dragon? Any mention of her (them) at all? Anywhere?
This may be more a question for James -- probably only he knows where he got the names Thraxxia and Belyare for the "Demonomicon." So how 'bout it, James (or anyone else who knows), did you just make up those names of Graz'zt's Cambion daughters for a little flavor bulk for the article? Or are they mentioned in some other old Dragon?
If Thraxxia and Belyara are only (barely) footnotes in the "Demonomicon" then I don't have too much a problem ruling that Iggwilv, for whatever personal reasons, wrote false or misleading info on that particular Fragment. If they're in a couple different sources I dunno if I like the idea of changing it.
Here James tells a little about where Thraxxia came from. Still relatively minor.
Unique demons / demon lords could always be exempt from the rule of cambions / alu-fiends.