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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

"Tiefling" looks like a German word, "tief" meaning "deep". As a matter of fact, that's exactly where they got the name from, referring to their "lower planes" heritage. And it's in German because, well, no idea. Maybe Sigil has a significant German minority?

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Hunh. I'd always assumed it was from Teufel 🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] circledot@feddit.org 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Jesus is right. Not surprisingly.

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