Ettina
2021-06-06, 08:24 AM
Do you imagine the children of warlocks being different because of their parent's pact? I've always figured that fiendlocks are significantly more likely to have tiefling children - in fact, our Descent into Avernus campaign has a tiefling daughter of a major NPC as a PC because of his pact with Zariel that doomed Elturel. Similarly, kids of celestial warlocks are more likely to be aasimar and/or divine soul sorcerers, kids of feylocks are more likely to have the feytouched feat, etc.
I feel like it's got good roleplay potential. The reason tiefling kids are more often abandoned or treated poorly is because their appearance advertises what is likely to be a dirty secret for their parents. Meanwhile, an aasimar or divine soul child reflects that their parent is likely to have cooperated with good beings. Of course, these traits also crop up spontaneously or due to other factors, so you don't know for sure why they had a tiefling or aasimar kid, but it's enough that stereotypes form and are acted upon.
I feel like it's got good roleplay potential. The reason tiefling kids are more often abandoned or treated poorly is because their appearance advertises what is likely to be a dirty secret for their parents. Meanwhile, an aasimar or divine soul child reflects that their parent is likely to have cooperated with good beings. Of course, these traits also crop up spontaneously or due to other factors, so you don't know for sure why they had a tiefling or aasimar kid, but it's enough that stereotypes form and are acted upon.