• Jesus_666@lemmy.world
    8·
    25 days ago

    “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?

    • Demdaru@lemmy.world
      2·
      24 days ago

      German cuz spoken deutsch is the most evil sounding language, duh. Beaten only by latin sung in choir. Or latin / runic writing.

    • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      25 days ago

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