Tiefling

Tieflings are creature plane-touched, native outsiders that are descended from inhabitants of the Outer Planes &mdash; demons, devils, evil deities and other evil creatures. Although their evil ancestors may be many generations removed, the taint lingers. While they are predisposed to evil alignments, tieflings of other alignments, including good, exist as well.

The celestial counterparts of tieflings are called aasimar.

Physical characteristics
Tieflings tend to have an unsettling air about them, and most people are uncomfortable around them, whether they are aware of the tiefling's unsavory ancestry or not. While some look like normal humans, others retain physical characteristics derived from their ancestor, such as horns, pointed teeth, cloven hooves for feet, tails, red skin, etc.

Tieflings even have elven and orc counterparts &mdash; fey'ri and Tanarukk, respectively. Less common varieties of tieflings exist, including a dwarven counterpart, the maeluth and a halfling counterpart, the wispling.

Non-canon

 * Valen from the computer game Neverwinter Nights expansion Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark.
 * Neeshka from the computer game Neverwinter Nights 2.
 * Haer'Dalis from the computer game Baldur's Gate II