Editing Bael Turath (section)

==Legacy==
Much of Bael Turath's lore has been lost since the War of Ruin. Only fragments, many jealously guarded by tiefling families, still linger in the world today.

===Noble Houses===
Whilst all tieflings ultimately descend from one noble house or another, only a handful remain relatively known today.

'''Achazriel''', ''The Destroyer's House'', may not even be a House; these tieflings claim descent from Achazriel, the brilliant and ruthless tiefling general who finally ended the ten-year seige of the Arkhosian citadel of Razortear by leading a charge of ten thousand slave-soldiers into it through an underground passageway.

'''Khalir''', ''The House of Blood'', was considered lurid and depraved even in the height of Bael Turath's powers. Led entirely by an internal caste of tiefling [[vampire]]s, it is rumored that obscene necromantic rituals allowed these blood-drinking fiend-touched to actually procreate, proliferating a tainted bloodline of tiefling [[dhampir]]s and [[necromancer]]s that is said to continue to this day.

'''Dreygu''', ''The Lover's House'', earned its title through the story of two star-crossed tiefling lovers; Ivania of Dreygu and her beloved, Vorno of Kahnebor. Imagine if Romeo & Juliet had been savvy and ruthless enough to survive the fighting of their houses, outwit the assassination attempts, and come to dominate their two houses, forcing a merger through marriage and by murdering all of their kin who dared to object.

'''Kahnebor''', ''The House of Feasting'', was a family of hedonism and depravity that even the tieflings of Khalir looked askance at, host to rumors so dark that even today, few tieflings will ever voluntarily confess to tracing their lineage to Khanebore.

'''Zannifer''', ''The Red House'', is of little repute and import, save for the story of a family curse that forces those of its bloodline to either wear red or murder a criminal once per month, lest they begin constantly oozing blood.

'''Zolfura''', ''House of Ice and Fire'', was a powerful house of arcanists with a strong natural affinity for the destructive potential of [[elementalism]].

===Institutes===
Whilst Bael Turath is dead, some of the teachings of its more powerful institutes remain, preserving fighting techniques and combative skills honed under diabolic tutors.

The '''Turathi Hell-kite''' [[Paragon Path]] represents the most simple of those legacies, preserving a martial arts style designed specifically to take advantage of tiefling biology, from the use of the tail to sweep foes from their feet or pull allies to safety when you dodge, to crushing skulls with a horn-buffered headbutt, to tapping into the infernal energies boiling within all tieflings to coat a weapon in hellish flames.

In the empire's heyday, the '''Crimson Legion''' were some of its most elite - and feared - troops; an order of [[multiclassing|multi-classed and hybrid-classes]] [[Paladin]]-[[Warlock]]s sworn to the Lord of All Devils. The practice of combining infernal warlockery with divine might remains; the loyalty to Asmodeus is gone. Viewing their former patron as having betrayed them, these tieflings instead serve as an unlikely medium between gods who wish to oppose Asmodeus and the myriad devils who wish to betray him.

This antipathy towards their former racial patron drives many of the few tieflings who seek divine power to pursue the path of the '''Hell's Keeper'''; a vengeful spirit seeking to become a divine jailer, in order to transform [[Baator]] into a place of suffering, torment and imprisonment for the devils that claim to rule it, whether or not they belong to the Crimson Legion.

Whilst the '''Bleak Academy''' of old may be gone, fragments of this devil-tutored arcane school's teachings remain, ensuring that tieflings still have an inherent advantage in the fields of magical fire and fear.

Whilst few tieflings ever hear the call of the [[Primal Spirits]], those who do - mostly [[barbarian]]s and [[shaman]]s - often become '''Redeemers of the Damned''', exploiting loopholes in infernal contracts granted by their connection to the Spirits to draw the spirits of their ancestors from the Nine Hells and give them a chance to find redemption from the torment they suffer there.

===Bloodlines===
Although most think of the tieflings as a fairly monolithic race, the reality is that many houses formed unique pacts with various [[archdevil]]s or other patron fiends, or engaged in unusual practices. The subspecies of tiefling may go unnoticed in the crowd, but they are there.

The '''Blood-Crowned Courtiers''' have actual devil's blood in their veins, allowing them to assume the form of powerful fiendish versrions of themselves when roused to battle.

The '''Broken Mirrors''' bear a pact to Levistus, causing misfortune to follow them like a loyal dog.

The '''Blightseers''' are heirs to a pact with Baalzebul, allowing them to see the decay and degeneration of all things - and to force what will be to become what is.

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