Homebrew Wood Tiefling Species Details

It’s very surprising when elves and tieflings hang around each other, let alone have children together, but lo and behold it somehow happened. A tiefling and wood elf had a child and now an outcast wanders the world searching for a place to belong. Let’s see if you ever find it.

Mixing and Matching Fey and Infernal

Being part elf gives you their unearthly grace and you appear hauntingly beautiful to humans and members of many other races but, since you are a mix of elf and tiefling, your appearance can include and exclude any of the following traits. You might have horns that take a wide variety of shapes: curling horns like a ram, straight and tall horns like a gazelle, or an upwards spiral like an antelope. You may have a thick tail, four to five feet long, which lashes or coils around your legs when you get upset or nervous. Your canine teeth might be sharply pointed. Your eyes can be solid colors—black, red, white, silver, or gold—with no visible sclera or pupil, or they can be eyes like pools of liquid gold or silver, or just simply green, brown, or hazel eyes. Skin tones cover the full range of human coloration, sometimes with traces of green, but also includes copper, bronze, and various shades of red. Your hair ranges in colors from black, brown, blonde, copper-colored, dark red, blue, green, or purple and can appear in a wide variety of ways from long and straight to short and curly. Although you can’t grow facial hair and have very little body hair. 

Pride and Predjudice 

Because of your tiefling heritage, people tend to be suspicious of you, assuming that your infernal heritage has left its mark on your personality and morality, not just your appearance. Shopkeepers keep a close eye on their goods when you enter their stores, the town watch might follow you around for a while, and demagogues blame you for strange happenings. The reality, though, is that your bloodline doesn’t affect your personality to any great degree. Years of dealing with mistrust does leave its mark on most people however, and they respond to it in different ways. Some choose to live up to the wicked stereotype, but others are virtuous. Most are simply very aware of how people respond to them. After dealing with this mistrust throughout youth, you'll often develop the ability to overcome prejudice through charm or intimidation. Still, because of your fey ancestry, you can find good in just about anyone, even if you can be haughty, you are generally gracious even to those who fall short of your high expectations. Elves are magical people of otherworldly grace, living in the world but not entirely part of it, and this applies to you as well. You love nature and magic, art and artistry, music and poetry, and the good things of the world. Since you have such a long lifespan, you can enjoy centuries of exploration and discovery, so live life however you please.

Naming Conventions

Hybrids usually use the naming conventions of the parent whose culture is more apparent in their life, so both elf and tiefling names might be used. Some even have both an elf and tiefling name that they use around different races. You can use really any name, but here is a long list of suggestions.

Wood Elfling Names - 

Elf: Ara, Bryn, Del, Eryn, Faen, Innil, Lael, Mella, Naill, Naeris, Phann, Rael, Rinn, Sai, Syllin, Thia, Vall, Adran, Aramil, Arannis, Aust, Beiro, Berrian, Carric, Erdan, Erevan, Hadarai, Himo, Immeral, Laucian, Mindartis, Paelias, Peren, Quarion, Riardon, Rolen, Theren, Varis, Adrie, Anastrianna, Andraste, Bethrynna, Birel, Caelynn, Drusilia, Enna, Jelenneth, Keyleth, Leshanna, Lia, Meriele, Mialee, Naivara, Quelenna, Sariel, Shava, Thia, Vadania, Valanthe, Xanaphia

Family Names (Common Translations): Amakiir (Gemflower), Amastacia (Starflower), Galanodel (Moonwhisper), Holimion (Diamonddew), Ilphelkiir (Gemblossom), Liadon (Silverfrond), Meliamne (Oakenheel), Naïlo (Nightbreeze), Siannodel (Moonbrook), Xiloscient (Goldpetal)

Tiefling: Akmenos, Amnon, Barakas, Damakos, Ekemon, Iados, Kairon, Leucis, Melech, Mordai, Morthos, Pelaios, Skamos, Therai, Akta, Anakis, Bryseis, Criella, Damaia, Ea, Kallista, Lerissa, Makaria, Nemeia, Orianna, Phelaia, Rieta

“Virtue” Names: Art, Carrion, Chant, Creed, Despair, Excellence, Fear, Glory, Hope, Ideal, Music, Nowhere, Open, Poetry, Quest, Random, Reverence, Sorrow, Temerity, Torment, Weary

Wood Tiefling Traits

Your infernal bloodline and fey ancestry have combined to give you many different traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score increases by 1, your Charisma score increases by 2, your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age

You've gotten your age from your fey ancestors and can live well over 700 years like most elves but reach maturity at a much faster rate because of your infernal bloodline, usually during your mid-twenties.

Size

Your height on average ranges from well under 5 feet tall to over 6 feet. You are more slender than humans, weighing only 100 to 145 pounds. Males and females are about the same height and weight. You are categorized as medium.

Fleet of Foot

Since you are half wood elf, your base walking speed is 35 feet. 

Darkvision

Thanks to your infernal heritage, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Keen Senses

You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Fey Ancestry

You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Trance

Elves don’t need to sleep therefore you don't. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day.  While meditating, you can dream after a fashion. Such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

Mask of the Wild

Thanks to your wood elf parent, you can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.

Hellish Resistance

You have resistance to fire damage thanks to your infernal bloodline.

Infernal Legacy

You know the thaumaturgy cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the hellish rebuke spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the darkness spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells. 

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Infernal, and Elvish.