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===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".
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