I have every confidence that Doric was designed as a character by someone who played and loved Planescape: Torment.
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I don’t know why they made her a tiefling, though. Nothing about her story stood out as being tiefling-y. She was like a human druid with horns and a tail.
I don’t know why they made her a tiefling, though. Nothing about her story stood out as being tiefling-y. She was like a human druid with horns and a tail.
It was literally the fundamental basis for her entire character. She was born to human parents (which, yes, is a thing that can happen) who were horrified by her and abandoned her. This was why her character was distrustful of humans and had an eco-terrorist like devotion to the adoptive family and homeland which took her in.
That is all incredibly consistent with Tiefling lore, which often specifically mentions how human society shuns them. “Humanity turned its back on me, so I left civilisation and learned to love the wilds” is very much a D&D backstory and I could 100% see that as the basis for a Tiefling Druid.
I don’t know why they made her a tiefling, though. Nothing about her story stood out as being tiefling-y. She was like a human druid with horns and a tail.
She was literally expelled from her human family and raised by the enclave for being a tiefling. Her distrust of humans and her overcoming it throughout the movie which makes up most of her character arc, is rooted in her being a tiefling and the stigma that surrounds tieflings in human-dominant society.
Doric was also written to be the audience insert character, and was usually the one asking the "n00b" questions about D&D stuff ("why can you only ask five questions with speak with dead?", or the whole "so you make plans that fail" scene). She's kind of designed to be a character we connect with
That's not to take anything away from Sophia Lillis' performance, cuz she pretty much killed it
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Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock) Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric) Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
I don’t know why they made her a tiefling, though. Nothing about her story stood out as being tiefling-y. She was like a human druid with horns and a tail.
It was literally the fundamental basis for her entire character. She was born to human parents (which, yes, is a thing that can happen) who were horrified by her and abandoned her. This was why her character was distrustful of humans and had an eco-terrorist like devotion to the adoptive family and homeland which took her in.
That is all incredibly consistent with Tiefling lore, which often specifically mentions how human society shuns them. “Humanity turned its back on me, so I left civilisation and learned to love the wilds” is very much a D&D backstory and I could 100% see that as the basis for a Tiefling Druid.
That was, like, one line of backstory and two lines of, "I don't trust humans," for the whole movie, though. Everything else was her being a human druid with horns and a tail. There wasn't anything fiendish about her - no Met With Mistrust, Hellish Resistance, Infernal Legacy, or other characteristics of Tieflings in the Player's Handbook.
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Put simply, I like the old-school look for tieflings much more than the current rams-horn look. To see Doric look that way was fantastic.
I have every confidence that Doric was designed as a character by someone who played and loved Planescape: Torment.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
I don’t know why they made her a tiefling, though. Nothing about her story stood out as being tiefling-y. She was like a human druid with horns and a tail.
It was literally the fundamental basis for her entire character. She was born to human parents (which, yes, is a thing that can happen) who were horrified by her and abandoned her. This was why her character was distrustful of humans and had an eco-terrorist like devotion to the adoptive family and homeland which took her in.
That is all incredibly consistent with Tiefling lore, which often specifically mentions how human society shuns them. “Humanity turned its back on me, so I left civilisation and learned to love the wilds” is very much a D&D backstory and I could 100% see that as the basis for a Tiefling Druid.
She was literally expelled from her human family and raised by the enclave for being a tiefling. Her distrust of humans and her overcoming it throughout the movie which makes up most of her character arc, is rooted in her being a tiefling and the stigma that surrounds tieflings in human-dominant society.
Doric was also written to be the audience insert character, and was usually the one asking the "n00b" questions about D&D stuff ("why can you only ask five questions with speak with dead?", or the whole "so you make plans that fail" scene). She's kind of designed to be a character we connect with
That's not to take anything away from Sophia Lillis' performance, cuz she pretty much killed it
Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
That was, like, one line of backstory and two lines of, "I don't trust humans," for the whole movie, though. Everything else was her being a human druid with horns and a tail. There wasn't anything fiendish about her - no Met With Mistrust, Hellish Resistance, Infernal Legacy, or other characteristics of Tieflings in the Player's Handbook.