1000 Tiefling Appearance Quirks

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by  Johan Holm

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1000 Tiefling Appearance Quirks
1. Vestigal bat-like wings grow from the character's shoulders. They flap instinctively and uselessly
whenever she jumps or is falling.
2. The character has two eyes, but also a third pupil that seems to float across the surface of his eyes
independent of whatever he's looking at.
3. No nose. The character's face is completely smooth and blank where she should have a nose.
4. Shark-teeth. The character's teeth may look normal. Or they may be triangular shark's teeth. Either
way, he always has rows of replacement teeth ready to replace his old ones, sometimes even forcing old
ones out if they are not lost in a span of five years.
5. Any tattoos, scars, freckles, or other markings this character has seems to rearrange themselves
whenever no one is watching, including herself.
6. The character has a small, snake-like something under the skin of his shoulder which shifts about if
touched.
7. Popeye arms. The character's forearms are thicker and far more developed than her biceps. Her
hands are larger than the norm as well.
8. The character is always warm to the touch, but not alarmingly so. However, people looking at him
note that there's always a heat distortion effect outlining his form.
9. Instead of hair on her head, the character has long, sharp quills.
10. The character's fingertips are wider and flatter than usual, like those of a gecko.
11. The character's skin becomes more pale and her veins become more visible and deeper shades of
blue as she becomes excited or upset.
12. The character's singing voice always includes unintended frequencies inaudible to humanoid ears.
But dogs in the area always start barking....
13. The character's eyelids are transparent from the outside.
14. The character's body hair is concentrated in the opposite areas of his body from the norm(inside of
the arms, stomach and sides more than on the chest, etc.)
15. The character's legs are covered in snake-like scales. If she doesn't keep her legs from having skin-to-
skin contact for more than four hours, they begin to "grow together" with a secondary skin forming over
them. Cutting away and shedding this skin is troublesome, but harmless.
16. The character's breath always "fogs" as if the air around him was cold.
17. Goat-like ears that hang down and away from her head.
18. Coarse black hair with ember-bright tips that constantly ooze greasy smoke.
19. A birthmark resembling of an unholy symbol.
20. Glass-like fingernails.
21. A wide, frog-like mouth and tiny teeth numbering double or triple the normal amount.
22. There is always a one or two second delay between the character's actions and the corresponding
response of his shadow or mirror image.
23. No mouth and an absurdly large nose, through which she snorts broth and spirits.
24. An inconstant number of fingers and toes.
25. Jaw hinged like a snake allowing for the vertical insertion of tacos, hot dogs and other foods
normally eaten lengthwise.
26. Instead of hair and ears, a single hairless, tapered, tail-like appendage grows from the character's
head. The appendage is sensitive to sound (allowing the character to hear) and whips uncontrollably at
any sudden loud noise.
27. An extra pair of small withered, useless arms sprouts from the character's chest. The arms are
always folded mantis-style and never move...while the character is awake.
28. The character has a unibrow.
29. The character's eyes function normally but appear to be empty black sockets. A tiny point of light
like a small candle's flame in each socket serves as the pupil of each eye.
30. Blobbish. Though suffering no actual loss of strength or dexterity, the character has an abundance of
flesh that hangs and folds in on itself or flaps obscenely as if there is no muscle tissue beneath the skin.
31. The characters's flesh is distorted by patterns and impressions similar to marks left behind by chains
being wrapped tightly around the body.
32. No bellybutton. While in the womb, the child absorbed ejected nutrients from its mother's umbilical
cord through it's skin.
33. Regardless of gender, the character's chin and jawline is covered in a thick, tangled beard of hard,
wiry hair that grows to a length of 8-12 centimeters. The beard grows back completely within hours if it
is ever removed.
34. Oily gray feathers occasionally push through the character's skin only to fall out as soon as they
emerge. The fallen feathers reek of decay and rotting meat.
35. Character has pliable elbow-spikes that aren't suitable for combat, but are quite ticklish.
36. Character's tongue has several tiny claw-fingered hands that grab anything placed in his/her mouth.
37: Healing magic from a Good Source causes scars that have to naturally heal, the character looks as if
they healed but half of damage they had.
38: Your human tongue is twice as long as normal.
39: You have raven feathers growing in your hair.
40: Your eyes change colors with the phases of the moon.
41: You shed your skin every summer.
42: When you receive magical healing, your skin heals a different color, causing a calico appearance.
43: You crave an unnatural snack; raw fish, rotten eggs, glass, mice.
44: Your eyes shine when someone catches sight of you out of the corner of their eyes.
45: Your hair turns white every winter, and back to normal in the spring.
46. When you bleed, your wounds reek of sulfur.
47. Your shadow looks like a hulking figure nearly twice your height, with massive bat wings and sharp,
curved horns.
48. Your legs appear completely normal, except that your knees bend backwards.
49: You cry tears of Blood
50: There are tiny, visible(possibly pulsating) veins in your fingernails and teeth
51: You never sweat and your clothing is always dry.
52: You always sweat and your clothing is soaked.
53: When people describe you, they always say you have Black hair and Black eyes, even though you
don't.
54: You have sharp teeth where others have molars.
55: Your mouth open wider than most, this is only noticed when you are eating or smiling.
56. A clear yellow slime coats your skin.
57. When you sweat, it smells of ash.
58. You can swivel your head all the way around allowing you to see what is behind.
59. Your footsteps ring like steel when walking barefoot.
60. Long feline whiskers sprout from your cheeks.
61. Your hair is coarse yet transparent.
62. A faint buzzing sound accompanies your otherwise normal speaking voice.
63. A forked tongue.
64. A hollow, echoing voice whisper that repeats everything you say a split second out-of-sync.
65. Spines erupting from the knuckles.
66. No discernible heartbeat.
67. Saliva that boils and hisses at room temperature.
68. Sweat that is laced with tiny, wriggling maggots.
69. Occasional brief coughing fits cause the character to expectorate locusts and/or flies.
70. The character has two tongues set side-by-side in its mouth.
71. A rooster spur grows from the calf or ankle of one or both of the character’s legs.
72. The back of the character’s head features a twisted, gargoyle-like corpse version of the character’s
face that appears to become youthful and lifelike as the character ages. Anyone standing close behind
the character might swear they hear choked, whispered mutterings from the face’s unmoving mouth.
73. The character farts small clouds of sulfur dioxide making them somewhat dangerous to stand behind
during heavy fog.
74. Your fingernails grow incredibly rapidly, elongating roughly an inch in any given day.
75. Instead of bleeding blood, you bleed a thick black substance that is similar in consistency to
molasses.
76. Your eyes have no visible pupils.
77. Your eyes have no visible irises.
78. When small quantities of water strike your skin they quickly boil and evaporate. When you submerge
yourself in water, the act is met with a loud hissing sound.
79. You possess no body hair.
80. During the day your skin is charcoal black, but during nights when the moon shines it is chalk white.
81. Your left eye socket has no eye, but instead houses a little set of discolored and jaundiced looking
jaws with sharp teeth. The tiny mouth has an impossibly long black tongue, which constantly flicks out
and whips the air. While eating, the tongue reaches out and steals portions of food off your utensils.
After a meal, the tongue wipes your regular set of lips clean.
82. Character possesses a subtle cartilaginous exoskeleton that provides no real protection to the body
but makes the character appear slightly monstrous and demonic.
83. Character’s teeth slightly protrude from a lipless mouth in an arc shape like that of a clamshell.
84. Character possesses twin sets of sexual organs and becomes visibly aroused whenever targeted by a
spell with the evil descriptor or similar effect.
85. Character possesses a single horn curving down from the side of its head.
86. A distinctive dorsal ridge rises from the base of the character’s skull and stretches to just above the
character’s butt.
87. A large, throbbing hump grows from the character’s back that, from a certain angle, appears to be
shaped like a tiny creature wrapped in flesh and clutching the tiefling’s shoulders.
88. Regardless of gender, the character is pot-bellied as if constantly pregnant. A barely perceptible
aroma of putrefaction can be detected near the surface of the skin though something appears to
occasionally move below the surface.
89. The character looks like Harley Quinn.
*Change to lower 89
90. The character has permanent markings about his wrists, ankles, and neck, as if he were fully
shackled by invisible manacles and chains.
91. The character bears birthmarks which resemble faces of people of her age. She is also an only child,
where her mother had been expecting twins or even triplets...
92. The back of the character's head bears vestigal, half-formed features of a second face, possibly
hidden by his hair. * Conflict with 72
93. In place of eyebrows, the character has short, chitinous growths above her eyes, like rudimentary
antennae.
94. The character smells faintly of sulphur when angry, burning lamp oil when sad, and burning wood
when happy.
95. Anyone closely examining the character's ears might spot "something" hiding deep within which
always flees further in whenever someone tries to remove it. The character can't feel anything unusual.
96. No matter how muscular or obese the character becomes, his ribs always press out visibly against his
skin.
97. Any joint the character doesn't move for longer than five minutes pops quietly.
98. The character's growling stomach sounds more like a growling animal or a crackling fire when he's
very hungry.
99. The character's body produces excess bone matter, which is expelled slowly and painlessly in the
form of bone spurs and chips that push through her skin.
100. The skin going from your forearm to your fingertips visibly darkens from your normal skin color to
deep crimson.
101. your body hair is more akin to quills than hair.
*Conflict with # 9
102. Your genitalia is concealed deep within your body, requiring considerable effort to prepare for sex,
although everything functions normally afterwards.
103. You have non-functional gills, though they do flex as if you're breathing.
104. You have Klingon like brow ridges.
105. You are rail thin, and exceptionally tall (like Doc Hammer)
106. Your nails are black
107. Your teeth are black
108. You have black eyes with white pupils
109. Your eyes are like semi-solid quicksilver
110. Your eyes are extremely large
111. Your eyes are set far to the outside of your facial structure
112. You have a single eye with dual pupils
113. You have the scars of Lamashtu on your belly.
114. One or all your fingers have an extra digit
115. You have 2 thumbs on opposite sides of three fingers.
116. You smell like onions or garlic all the time.
117. You smell like brimstone or sulphur all the time.
118. You smell like rotting kelp all the time.
119. You have no body scent whatsoever.
120. Your pinky fingers have two extra digits and end in a tiny claw.
121. You have an enormous physical feature, your hands, feet or "other" parts are well beyond normal
size, though they function normally.
122. You are a perfect specimen of human kind...too perfect...and for some reason, everyone describes
you as their perfect ideal.
123. You only have 3 fingers and a thumb per hand.
124. You're built more like a dwarf than a human.
125. You have bony ridges on your hands.
126. You have HUGE cheekbones.
127. You have jaggedly pointed ears.
128. Your lips are blackish red.
129. You have reddish-orange skin.
130. You have a serious penchant for knives, and proudly display the carvings you've done in your own
skin with them. This self inflicted damage heals unusually quickly.
131. Your eyes are always bloodshot, no white showing.
132. You smell like stale urine...like behind a dumpster
133. You smell like garbage...like in a dumpster
134. Your breath smells like spoiled milk.
135. Your mouth is normally tiny, but extremely pliable, so when you smile it stretches from ear to ear,
which is extremely unnerving.
136. You are completely double jointed...and have muscular control over it.
137. You have 12 abdominal muscles.
138. You have 8 nerples, like a cat.
139. You are completely androgynous. *needs more definition
140. Summon Swarm spells you cast cause the swarms to fly from your mouth like Imotep from the first
Mummy movie.
141. Your eyes turn pure black when your angry.
142. You have retractable toe and fingernails, that appear to be demonic in origin.
143. Two thin tentacles come from your mouth whenever you are eating, so you no longer need utensils
for certain foods.
144. You go into churches and sit in the back booing the Cleric as he/she preaches about his/her god.
*needs more definition
145. You have several snake-like tattoos that slither along your skin. Any who touch you without your
permission feel like they have been bitten by a serpent.
146. Lost teeth regrow in a week. *needs more definition
147. Succubi/incubi blood; your scent is intoxicating. *needs more definition
148. Succubi/incubi blood; people often get lost in your eyes *needs more defintion
149. Succubi/incubi blood; you are very lecherous...you really really can't get enough. Anytime,
anywhere, anything... *needs more defintion
150. Succubi/incubi blood; you're hot! literally your body temperature is always around 105 degrees.
151. Succubi/incubi blood; corruptor, you love nothing more than causing the fall of other's morals, it's
better than the act.
152. Ice devil blood; your skin is extremely cool and very pallid, you feel dead to the touch.
153. Long feline feet, you have very long feet and walk on your toes quite often,
154. People always look at you, they can't place what's wrong with you, but something about you freaks
them out.
155. Coal black skin...but very shiny... (thus not sneak bonuses)
156. Rakshasa blood; your hands aren't on backwards, but your pinky strongly resembles a thumb in
shape, and vice versa
157. You can't stand the taste of cooked meat, it has to be raw for you to savor it, though you can eat it
just the same.
158. The skin inside your mouth is purple.
159. *
160. Your skin is very translucent, this causes your veins and arteries to be extremely apparent.
161. You have 0% visible body fat, your musculature is excessively striated, and every movement of the
muscles is apparent.
162. Webbed fingers and toes
163. Chintacles! You have 1d6 dangly tentacles on your chin
164. Bone goatee, your chin is shaped like a goatee, regardless of gender
165. Pointy bones, all of your bones that are rounded in a normal human are very angular, and sharp,
from your cheekbones, jaw and brow ridges, to your wrists ankles and elbows.
166. You have extra segments in your digits (ie. 4 in your fingers)
* Conflict with 114
166. You have a tongue that appears to be made of stone, shaped into a piercing blade.
167. Your skin is solid white, but with no translucence whatsoever. No veins or blemishes are visible on
your skin, instead being an eerily monochromatic alabaster.
167. The sickly sweet smell of a rotting corpse emanates from your path a few minutes after you pass.
168. Your skin has the appearance of molten rock, with chunks of dark skin floating on a glowing orange
river of flesh.
169. You have no external ears, replaced with an amphibian's tympanum.
170. Your sweat is ash.
171. Sharp thorns protrude from the tiefling's skin. They are too small to be used offensively and too
weak to provide any bonuses to escaping ropes, but make the tiefling uncomfortable to hug.
172. No more tears. The tiefling has no tear ducts resulting in dry, bloodshot eyes.
173. The tiefling's skin has the texture of asphalt and smells like fresh tar.
174. Tripod feet. Beginning at the ankle, each of the tiefling's legs ends in a set of three small, strong,
thin, hoofed feet facing in different directions.
175. No outward difference in appearance, but the tiefling's heart is too small or black and shriveled.
While this results in no loss to circulation, the tiefling has a feeling like something is missing or slightly
off in their life.
176.The tiefling's skin is covered in millions of tiny hooks. Though not strong enough to support the
character's weight while climbing, the hooks do cause fibrous materials to stick to the character's skin.
177. Golden Iris, where normal humans would have blue, green, hazel, etc, with a metallic sheen
178. Red Feathered wings.
179.) Cloven Feet, much like a Satyr *conflict with earlier submissions
180.) Pointed, golden teeth. Shiny and metallic, as not to be confused with simple gingivitis
181.) Golden Arrow-head shaped tail, much like classic depictions of the devil, but yellow-ish in color
instead of red
182.) A semi-translucent, nearly ethereal red halo appears when the character is upset or about to enter
combat.
183. The visage of everyone the tiefling kills appears on his chest and stomach...this can lead to quite a
crowd for the typical adventurer.
184. The tiefling is covered in boils- weeping, pulsing and erupting boils.
185. The character has no facial features except for a small slit for eating and speaking, but still has the
normal range of hearing and sight.
186. The tiefling has misplaced facial features, i.e. nose on top of head, mouth on the back of their head,
etc.
187. You constanltly have thoughts of murder...no matter what your alignment...ONE EIGHT SEVEN!
MDK Murder Death Kill...
188. The tiefling has shifting facial features, they move during times of stress, often visibly, it's very
disconcerting.
189. Monstrous hands, the tiefling has vicious looking hands, with the index/middle finger fused into a
single wide flat finger, with a single heavy nail.
190. One of the tiefling's arms ends in a enormous hand/forearm. This arm has a Rocky appearance.
191. The tiefling's body is covered in bumps and knobs.
192. Vrock blood. Feathers for hair. *Conflict with 39
193. Your blood turns to red sand on exposure to air.
194. You have a birthmark that looks like it is in the process of being branded into your skin. It
occasionally gives off the scent of cooked meat.
195. Your body is covered in a geometric pattern that looks like open wounds but does not bleed.
196. You have a body suit tattoo that is a message or prophecy that grows by one symbol per year.
197. Your palms are covered in a fine fur that grows back in one minute if shaved off.
198. When you blow your nose you produce almost a quart of mucus.
199. Your bare feet leave flaming footprints that do no harm to anything and vanish after 30 seconds
200. You randomly have small bugs and worms that crawl out from innocuous openings in your
garments
201. Your body is covered in pustules...ick *conflict with 184
202. You have a moderately acidic spittle, not enough to cause any real damage, but it is not
comfortable on the skin.
203. You do not excrete waste products, like your demonic kin.
204. You are always at your optimal body weight, no matter how much or little you eat. However, you
are always ravenously hungry.
205. You possess no lips. You constantly drool to keep your teeth and mouth from drying out.
206. You possess no eyelids, although you do have nictitating membranes.
207. Your irises are crimson. *Conflict with above
208. Your eyes reflect the deceased image of whoever is looking into them.
209. Demonic Ears (pick a species)
210. Your feet always appear cracked and burned.
211. Portions of your skin appear cracked and burned.
212. You smell like a loaf of fresh baked buttertop bread.
213. Your skin tastes extremely salty, cats- and other animals- love to lick your skin.
214. You have excessively slimy mucous mouth, so much that it forms strings in your mouth when you
talk...YUCK
215. Your gums constantly bleed moderately, so you constantly have the taste of iron in your mouth.
216. When bleeding, your blood flows in the opposite direction of gravity.
217. Smoke comes out you your ears when angered.
218. You smell like peppermint.
219. Green mold forms on your clothing, in splotchy patterns and only the outermost layer.
220. Water will not come within one inch of you- even when under water- but you remain capable of
drowning.