Editing Planetouched (section)

===Tiefling===
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The original and, in the eyes of many, the best Planetouched, tieflings started it all when they appeared way back in the [[Planescape]] Campaign setting. They are the descendants of mortals and fiends - the denizens of the [[Lower Planes]], such as [[demon]]s, [[devil]]s and [[Daemon#Dungeons_.26_Dragons_and_Pathfinder|daemon]]s.

The general tiefling is expected to be of human ancestry; demihuman tieflings consist of the [[Fey'ri]] ([[Elf]]) and [[Tanarukk]] ([[Orc]]) from Monsters of Faerun, the [[Maeluth]] ([[dwarf]]/[[devil]]) and [[whispling]] ([[halfling]]/[[demon]]) in the ''Fiend Folio'', and the [[Worghest]] ([[goblin]]/[[barghest]]) from [[Dragon Magazine]] #350.  ''[[Pathfinder Roleplaying Game|Pathfinder]]'' actually stated out a number of different strains, originating from mortals with one predominant kind of fiendish ancestor.

In an interview, [[Mike Mearls]] has stated that the plan for [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] is to use "tiefling" specifically to refer to [[Baator]]ian planetouched (homaging the "tiefling is derived from (bad) German for devilspawn" thing), whilst "planetouched" takes the tiefling name's former role as "catch-all term for any mortal with heritage tainted by the [[Lower Planes]]"... what? Don't believe us? Here's what the man said himself:

::''A tiefling describes a planetouched person who traces their ancestry to the Nine Hells. But planetouched describes in broader terms what in second edition would have been called a tiefling. So this idea that you could have someone whose ancestry is traced to a [[Yugoloth]] or a [[hag]], that’s still part of the D&D universe, and tiefling has gone from being the name of that category to the name of a specific portion of that category, and planetouched describes the general thing of a humanoid who has [[fiend]]ish ancestry of some sort.''

As it turns out, the actual result was that Nine Hells and Abyssal-deriving Tieflings were turned into separate Tiefling subraces in the PHB with slightly differing stats.