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Trying to come up with a new character background for my Kingmaker PC, tiefling paladin of Iomedae.
The original character would have spent much of his childhood on the streets, getting the crap kicked out of him and nearly starving to death a couple of times, hence the Infernal Bastard trait that brings him into balance with the standard race PCs.
My first idea to bring him over to Kingmaker was to have him as one of the three children of a knight descended from a tragically fallen paladin who was seduced by something demonic during one of the Mendevian crusades. Our father was perfectly human, as the tiefling traits hadn't surfaced in generations, but all three of us displayed our tiefling heritage to some degree. The two eldest, my character and his sister, were the most obvious, so we spent most of our childhood locked in the cellar while the third was brought up to be the inheritor of the family title. Said father would likely try to beat the "evil" out of us before the two eldest siblings(who never knew of the third) managed to escape and were eventually picked up by the church of Iomedae. My guy would have gone down the path of the paladin, his sister went cleric. They are highly protective of each other to this day.
I can work with that, but it starts treading dangerously close to Flowers in the Attic territory...or at least making itself open to Flowers in the Attic jokes. I kind of want to get back to the basics of just getting the crap beaten out of my character on the mean streets of Brevoy after he and his sister were just dumped by their father once he lucked out with a "mostly normal looking" kid. But I'm not sure if Brevoy has the right mean streets for it.
Hoping to find at least the right level of social acceptance that would make it reasonable for my PC to be long-time friends with another PC who's taking the Bastard trait(and is the primary candidate for king in our game).
Most tieflings in Brevoy would likely be those whose ancestors wandered over from the Worldwound/Mendev, right?
How are tieflings viewed in general in Brevoy and the River Kingdoms? Do the greatest cities in Brevoy have ghettos on par with some of the worst neighborhoods/docks in Cheliax's Westcrown?
Brevoy isn't the kind of place where tieflings are likely torch-and-pitchforked outside the more rural areas, correct? I'm not sure how I got it in my head that Brevoy was more "backwards" compared to the more contemporary attitudes found in Varisia. I'm fairly certain I was wrong in that initial assumption.