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[โ€“] 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?

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

Hunh. I'd always assumed it was from Teufel ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] circledot@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Jesus is right. Not surprisingly.

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