Editing Tiefling (section)

==Background==
===What's with the name?===
A semi-common question about the tieflings is this: what the heck does the name "tiefling" even mean? Well, according to Wikipedia, tieflings were named by [[Planescape]] co-designer [[Wolfgang Baur]] at the request of David "Zeb" Cook, who suggested a German name would somehow be particularly fitting for these fallen souls. Wolfgang's response was to combine the German word ''"tief"'', meaning "deep" or "low", with the suffix ''"ling"'', Germanic for "offspring". Thusly, "tiefling" directly translates as "Deepling" and spiritually translates as something more like "Low Spawn", a reference to their origins as the bastard progeny of the [[Lower Planes]]. However, it may also have been a somewhat mangled reference to the word ''"Teufel"'' (or perhaps bowdlerized-- they originated in 2nd edition after all), the German for "devil", thus rendering the name into, literally, bad German for "devilspawn".

===Divine Relations===
Mulhorandi tieflings (from planet [[Forgotten_Realms#Setting|Toril]]) deviate somewhat from the concept of [[fiend|fiendish]] ancestry as they primarily descended not from fiends but from the avatars of evil deities, and in the [[Nentir Vale]] setting the majority of first-generation tieflings arose via [[Tiefling#Archdevil_Tieflings|infusions]] of the essences of the devil-god [[Asmodeus]] and his Archdevils.  (See also: [[Bhaalspawn]])

Mulhorandi tieflings derive their surnames from their deific ancestor's name, to which they prepend the Mulhorandi/Thayan prefix of "''Zia-''" meaning "''blood of''", so a tiefling descendant of [[Sebek]] would have a surname of ''Ziasebek''.  ''Aybtep'', meaning "horned one", is perhaps the most common forename among Mulhorandi tieflings.  The Thayan dialect of the Mulhorandi language was written using Infernal Script, and as such is popular among Mulhorandi tieflings and their descendants.  

When the [[edgelord]] players of tiefling [[murderhobo|characters]] want their tieflings to worship a deity, non-evil Death deities such as [[Pharasma]] and [[The_Raven_Queen|Nera]] seem to be the most popular choices.  As tieflings first appeared in the [[Planescape]] setting though, the thematically perfect deity for tiefling [[Planeswalker#In_Planescape|planewalkers]] would be [[Nemorga]], non-evil deity of Death and Portals.