![]() Servants spread rumors of ghostly footsteps, voices coming from the walls and sudden shifts in temperature from room to room. Whispers started to spread, rumors of ghastly lights streaming from the windows of the mansions, castles and keeps of the nobles. For 20 years they dabbled in the dark arts, hiding from the eyes of the other Princedoms. They were summarily dismissed from his service and ostracized by the sycophantic nobles who were blinded by infernal promises of wealth undreamt of. His masters, alarmed that such a promising student had taken such a drastic turn, attempted to get him to see reason. Looking ever deeper for power and secrets, the prince began to dabble in darker arts, consorting with imps and other lower devils. Eventually though, fascination became dangerous obsession. The nobles of the land willingly followed him in this obsession, hoping for favor and patronage from their liege. From every famous school he summoned the masters of his time, going so far as to track down such wandering wizards of such skill that their names are known to this day. Finally he had found an art that held such depth as to hold his interest. ![]() Then he discovered that he had a talent for magic. ![]() Hunting, fighting, gambling, women, art, music, nothing could hold his interest for long as he quickly mastered each in turn. The prince was young, handsome and thoroughly bored with life at court. The name of this princedom has been struck from every record, an almost unprecedentedly thorough attempt to erase history. It started in one of the Princedoms of Seti, located in the southern part of Kur, a loose confederation of principalities to which both the cities of Dvarnava and Phidri belonged. Only the truly wise scholars, with access to some of Kur’s most ancient libraries, know roughly the series of events that lead to the creation of the tieflings. As such they attract the scorn and prejudice of the ignorant, superstitious and hateful where ever they go. They are a people marked by the sins of their ancestors, unfairly carrying the burden of guilt for sins that they did not commit, indeed, sins whose very nature is unknown to them. The origins of the tieflings is one steeped in magic and fraught with tragedy. A tiefling warning of an approaching enemy.
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