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Player > Races > Tiefling
Starfinder Alien Archive 2 p.99
Tiefling are often Medium, and are outsiders with the native subtype.
Tieflings have darkvision to a range of 60 feet.
Tieflings gain a +2 racial bonus to Bluff and Stealth checks.
As a standard action, the tiefling causes light within 20 feet of her to decrease one step. This gloom lasts for up to 1 minute, but the tiefling can dismiss it as a swift action. Nonmagical light sources can’t increase the light level in this area. Magical light can increase the light level in this area only if it’s from an item or creature of a level or CR higher than that of the tiefling. A tiefling can use this ability once per day, plus a number of times equal to half her CR or level.
Tieflings have resistance 5 to cold, electricity, and fire.
Many kinds of extraplanar beings can infuse
humanoids’ bloodlines, whether as a side
effect of powerful magic or the result of a
tryst; those in whom extraplanar traits surface
strongly are known as planar scions. Aasimars
and tieflings, the mortal offspring of celestials
and fiends, respectively, are the most common
of these. Though planar scions resemble their
humanoid kin, their appearance and demeanor
bear supernatural touches. Tieflings might
have horns, vestigial wings, or cloven hooves,
while aasimars may have glowing eyes or a
metallic sheen to their hair and skin.
Because of their innate curiosity, humans
are more likely to dally with outsiders, and
as a consequence, a significant percentage of
planar scions living in the Pact Worlds are
descended from humans. However, because
humans are far less populous than in pre-Gap
eras, planar scions descended from other
humanoid races are now far more numerous.
A planar scion might pass for a member of
the humanoid parent’s species, or the scion’s
otherworldly features could make their
origin obvious to those who are familiar
with the species’ normal characteristics.
Those whose outsider blood is evident still
find acceptance in most major settlements
across the Pact Worlds, where diverse beings
coexist in peace. On Absalom Station, the hub
of interspecies relations, few people bat an eye
when they meet an aasimar or tiefling.
However, in insular or tradition-bound communities,
any signs of plane-touched heritage can be a blessing—or
a death sentence—depending on the dominant traditions.
The demon-worshiping drow of Apostae see tieflings as a
favor from demonic patrons, while the elves of Sovyrian
on Castrovel are likely to banish children who bear such
fiendish heritage. The Radiant Cathedral, on the other hand,
trains aasimars to become beacons of the Sarenite faith, and
also guides tieflings to a brighter future than their heritage
suggests. Formians, shobhads, vesk, and other species with
flexible morality view aasimars and tieflings, particularly
those descended from their own kind, with both admiration
and suspicion.
Planar scions are often outliers in their community,
either put on a pedestal or ostracized because of their
ancestry. The potent blood that courses through
the veins of aasimars and tieflings also makes them
ambitious; many choose a dangerous but
rewarding profession, such as explorer,
mercenary, spy, or pilot.
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