Gigimesh

The people of the desert settlements have much to
fear from the wastes. Predators snatch livestock and
children, sandstorms destroy homes, and the punishing heat and scarce water make life miserable.
However, all these dangers pale before the merciless
desert devils that emerge from the night, bent on
murder and mayhem. They are remorseless raiders,
taking no slaves and leaving no survivors. They are
the tieflings, and they are death incarnate.

Tieflings are descended from humans who bar
gained with dark powers for the strength to survive
on Athas and destroy their enemies. Most tieflings
lurk on civilization’s fringes in nomadic bands, drifting through the wastes in search of victims to rob and
kill or hiring themselves out as vicious mercenaries.
Small bands sometimes settle in the city-states, where
they find work as enforcers, overseers, gladiators, and
assassins. In cities where status is determined by personal merit, tieflings can become templars or rise to
the nobility.

Many tieflings believe that they carry a blood
debt the price to be paid for their ancestors’ bar
gain and face an eternity of torment unless the debt
is paid in their lifetime. Some assume that the debt
can’t be paid and live in debauchery while they can,
whereas others lead lives of virtue in the hope of
breaking their patron’s hold. The most dangerous
tieflings are those who believe that their debt must be
paid in blood, and that each soul they send into death
reduces their own burden.

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