Meta:Cambion

Renaming and retroactive changes

The Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster Project renamed tieflings to cambions, and both Pathfinder Second Edition and the Remaster Project changed some details about the origins and nature of cambions, and more broadly planar scions.

For the version of this article prior to these changes, see 383167. -Oznogon (talk) 15:49, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Removed content

Removed this statement:

Though tieflings have the blood of fiendish beings, their ancestry is at least one step removed from the original introduction of that blood; the child of a union of a mortal with a fiendish being is a half-fiend, not a tiefling. Tieflings might, but not necessarily, then be born from the union of the half-fiend with another mortal being. The possibility of a tiefling birth continues to many generations after that union, even when two mortals have children, so long as one of the mortals is a direct descendant of the half-fiend.

Player Core pg. 78 negates this origin for nephilim, who can be directly descended from fiends (among other extraplanar beings). -Oznogon (talk) 06:41, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

The Advanced Player's Guide (Second Edition) pg. 34 seemed to first establish that planar scions can be born to an outsider parent:

Countless legends tell of mortals and immortals entwined, and of the children born to those lovers. These children, known as planar scions,

Also ever since APG 2e, planar scions are all kinds of "mortals", not restricted to only humanoid species. Versatile heritages are available regardless of ancestry, automaton, awakened animal, conrasu, leshy, skeleton, or sprite. -- Descriptivist (talk) 15:21, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Also removed this as a result of the above:

Half-fiend creatures can be of many types, but cambions are born only from humanoids.✝

-Oznogon (talk) 15:49, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Unincorporated sources

• Paizo has released a major book specifically about tieflings: Blood of Fiends. --Fleanetha 11:25, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
• Bastards of Golarion --Fleanetha (talk) 15:20, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
• People of the Wastes 25 --Fleanetha (talk) 23:32, 15 February 2018 (UTC)