Tieflings

Tieflings
The Curse: Tieflings used to be a settlement of Humans living in the Helladras desert in small nomadic tribes, rivalling those of the Orcs due to their higher natural intelligence. However, the tribe of humans soon grew greedy, and sought to overthrow the Orcs entirely. They performed a ritual from before the Great War said to grant the casters immeasurable power. However, the entity they ended up summoning was far beyond their control - a near deity level beast. Displeased with being summoned, it cursed the entire tribe for their hubris, cursed to be worse than the Orcs they despised. Demonic. Abnormal. Monstrous.

Physical Description: No two Tieflings look alike; the cursed blood running through their veins manifests inconsistently, granting them an array of fiendish traits. One tiefling might appear as a human with small horns, a barbed tail, and oddly colored eyes, while another might manifest a mouth of fangs, tiny wings, and claws, and yet another might possess the perpetual smell of blood, foul incenses, and brimstone. Typically, the admixture of human and fiendish blood is rarely ruled by sane, mortal laws, and the vast flexibility it produces in Tieflings is a thing of wonder, from oddly beautiful to utterly terrible.

Society: Tieflings exist as a race of slaves to the Orcs they once hated, serving them for all eternity to repent for their ancestors' mistakes. They live in small, beaten down huts and cages either outside their Master's house or in huge Slave Pens. Most Tieflings are resigned to their grim fate, but there are a few who seek to defy their seemingly hopeless existence. They are called The Wanderers.

Relations: Tieflings are subservient to the Orcs, and are generally looked down upon or ignored by the other races. The Humans, however, look at Tieflings with pity, for reasons they aren't quite sure.