Tieflings

Appearance

The Devenir are a pale race that loves to adorn themselves with bright colors, paints, and jewelry, even going as far as to embed patterns of metals into their skin. Many of them dye their hair and paint the skin with colored muds and glittery makeup to cover up their ashen white or light gray skin.

Tieflings are a unique bestial race. They have ivory or black horns that can be grown in the style of short deer antlers, ram horns, or even the back-bent horns similar to the common eland antelope. They have deer-like legs and hooves, though they have forward-facing knees like that of a human. Tieflings even have a small cervine tail to match. They also tend to have longer canines and pointed ears similar to the Elves, though not nearly as long.

Hair and eyes vary between bloodlines, since such fixed things are often bred into children when one can’t get them themselves. Bloodlines are often known for these “bred-in” traits, such as natural stark red hair or bright blue eyes. Their natural eye colors are very similar to humans, though the colors are often deeper. It is common to have bright emerald greens, deep chocolate browns, or stormy blue-gray hazels.

They also tend to have blond/cream to brown hair, though their blonds aren't nearly as stark as the High Elves. Tieflings also share the Elven difficulty to grow facial hair, and curly hair is a rather uncommon thing. Most Tieflings are also covered in short fur-like hair near their tails, which match the color of their head-hair.

Most Tieflings tend to fall in love with appearance and one’s colors rather than personality. They are very look-oriented people and often try to palette match their partners. Do your blues look good with my greens? For how long can I stand to look at that obnoxious yellow you love so much?

It is often said that the self is a blank slate, and it is up to the individual to paint it. Some Tieflings even worship this idea of the “blank slate” and wish to remain colorless.

Beauty and class standards are often synonymous with how many colors one has or how many one can show. The rich tend to hoard colorful things, clothes, and jewelry, but often display what they can't wear in their homes. For most people, to be beautiful is to simply have and show off many beautiful things. A lot of pressure is put on the Tieflings to have bright, colorful clothes. They feel the need to paint themselves in a way that looks good instead of gaudy, and to cover themselves with precious metals and stones.

Celebrations and Holidays

Since the fall of Nous many of the tieflings no longer practice their predominant Culture that was once part of nous, instead they practice the culture of the nation they reside in

Some of the holidays they previously practiced were:

• Fire Festival
  • Typically, at the start of Summer, the Fire Festival is to celebrate the coming hot season through bonfires, burning wishes (and therefore granting them), smoke fortunes (to see how the season will go), gambling tournaments, and fire-dances.

• Color Festival/Turning of the Leaves
  • This festival is at the start of the First Autumn, and it is to celebrate and show appreciation towards the colors of Autumn. This day holds painting competitions, art booths, paint and dye-making workshops, fashion and design shows, as well as, of course, song and food. When the Color Festival ends, the first trading season is to begin.

• The Giving of Belle
  • This is a day to gather all the trinkets picked up on the road, organize them, sell the unwanted things, and give gifts away to your loved ones. It, too, is celebrated with a feast and a “raising of spirits,” which is a toast to life and love. Each person celebrating is to raise their glass and give a toast based on what they are thankful for and something they have learned this year.

• Flower Festival
  • The Flower Festival is exactly what it sounds like! Flowers are collected from gardens and the surrounding area and shown off in extravagant displays. There is a flower parade through town that shows off these displays, as well as baking competitions, community gardening, and, of course, another feast. When the day is done, people can take the leftover flowers for use in dye and paint making, or to dry and reuse next season. It is also to celebrate the last season of the year.