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.

Expression and Art

Common types of artworks are paintings, large-scale murals, pottery, and small sculptures. Paintings are often abstract with their focus on certain colors to convey the actual subject of the picture (such as having an abstract painting with many blues and greens to convey the sea and land, or wisdom and greed.) Pots are made from colored clays and are often used in worship and ceremonies rather than simple decoration. Small sculptures are made out of cheap, soft materials that the majority of people have access to, things such as soapstone, wood, and clay. It is rare to find metal or glass sculptures, simply because the majority of Tieflings don’t have the tools to do such, and sculptures are rarely large since they have to be easy to move.

Dance and song are other common forms of self-expression and are often incorporated in plays and stories to give them more depth and complexity. It is common to use song and music to paint scenes, with dance used to portray characters and the internal self.

Tieflings are rather fond of string instruments such as lutes and harps.

Food and Table manners

The Devenir aren’t so complicated when it comes to food. They love spices of any and every kind and prefer dishes that include many parts. Simple chicken on rice can be turned into a Devenir-esque dish by marinating the chicken, baking it in a blend of five spices, serving it with white rice, and covered in some sweet sauce. There aren’t many set preferences for taste— the Devenir not only love to explore the world, but they love to explore food as well. Anything from salty to sour to savory, just as long as it’s never bland.

In terms of table manners, they don’t have many standards either, though some would say that their standards are opposed to the norm. The Tieflings are a very social race, and represent that in their dinner etiquette. If you’re dining at a bar or at home, part of the standard is to be loud. Slurping up your noodles and burping after a beer might be seen as distasteful, but to a Tiefling chef, it is the highest praise. If you’re eating around others, it’s customary to talk to them, especially about the dish. What’s good about it? What’s bad about it? A Tiefling restaurant is a loud place. Telling one of your guests to “mind their manners” or “quiet down” is extremely rude. Let the people enjoy their dinner and their company.

One of the few “no-no’s” of dining is not using a napkin. Clean dining is supreme dining, as it’s said. While they might be boisterous and rowdy, it is always a sin to spill a drink, especially on oneself or another person. Ruining someone’s clothes is such an offense that it can get a patron banned from a bar or household. Even accidentally dipping a sleeve in one’s meal is a reason for embarrassment. It’s not only a waste of wonderful food but a stain on a perfectly beautiful outfit.

Something that isn’t necessarily held up at home but is expected within courts or restaurants, is that one must finish their entire meal or risk deeply upsetting the chef. Yes, even if it’s bad

Religion

From the beginning the Tieflings have believed in the Nature, spirits and grounds that surrounded their home or settlement that they reside in. Tieflings are strongly aware of the natural world and see the power of the spirits in the ongoing cycle of life and death.

They believe that the cycles of life and death are the centre of everything that is living in the world.

This was the case before the fall of nous, During the current times Tieflings are either very dedicated to what their Ancestors believed or They adopt the predominant religion of the nation they reside in