Human with tiefling/flame eyes

[Bones Malone]

I want to make a human cleric to tiamat, is it inherently wrong lorewise to give him tiefling/flame colored eyes? I wanted to sell the “demonic hell acolyte” persona

[Ironwu]

This is D&D not LOTRO. You make your own lore here. Write your own justification. :)

[NixAhmose]

Lorewise its definitely not a thing, but ♥♥♥♥ it it sounds cool so you should do it anyway.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by ViceroyIV:

I want to make a human cleric to tiamat, is it inherently wrong lorewise to give him tiefling/flame colored eyes? I wanted to sell the “demonic hell acolyte” persona

Not really.
Just justify it as a gift from his goddess.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by Ironwu:

This is D&D not LOTRO. You make your own lore here. Write your own justification. :)

It is the forgotten realms it has lore.

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

It's a single player game and lore is not very respected by the writers themselves. You do you, sounds like a dope character

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by Tomas Mac Mordain:

lore is not very respected by the writers themselves

Can you give examples.
I feel the same but cannot place my finger on why it feels that way.

[Greenegg]

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

Originally posted by Tomas Mac Mordain:

lore is not very respected by the writers themselves

Can you give examples.
I feel the same but cannot place my finger on why it feels that way.

the emperors true identity is a big one iirc

though I guess that's the Larian writers and not the WOTC writers.

I don't know how to do spoiler text so trying to keep things as vague as possible.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by Greenegg:

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

Can you give examples.
I feel the same but cannot place my finger on why it feels that way.

the emperors true identity is a big one iirc

though I guess that's the Larian writers and not the WOTC writers.

I thought the emperor was just lying.

[Loot]

You were given Demonic eyes by a Devil after feeding them when they were on the brink of starving to death. /shrug

[GARFIELF]

Originally posted by Greenegg:

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

Can you give examples.
I feel the same but cannot place my finger on why it feels that way.

the emperors true identity is a big one iirc

though I guess that's the Larian writers and not the WOTC writers.

I don't know how to do spoiler text so trying to keep things as vague as possible.

Honestly that one had to have been approved by WotC, no way they'd just let it go in.

[Runic Tunic]

Originally posted by Greenegg:

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

Can you give examples.
I feel the same but cannot place my finger on why it feels that way.

the emperors true identity is a big one iirc

though I guess that's the Larian writers and not the WOTC writers.

I don't know how to do spoiler text so trying to keep things as vague as possible.

Guarantee most of the major decisions had to be OK'd by WoTC. That's also a major reason why Viconia DeVir was given the shaft despite a lot of fans preferring her "turned good" outcome in BG1/2.

WoTC wanted it to follow more closely to Minsc's and Boo's Journal of Evil and other lore-related DnD stuff, regardless of what people preferred. So I highly doubt WoTC would let Larian make such a massive implication with Balduran without giving consent to it first.

[HTakara]

are you asking if you can? just check the box to open all options when selecting your eyes.

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

Originally posted by Tomas Mac Mordain:

lore is not very respected by the writers themselves

Can you give examples.
I feel the same but cannot place my finger on why it feels that way.

As others stated. Biggest one is spoiler heavy about the nature and identity of some major character...

[magattatou]

Originally posted by Runic Tunic:

WoTC wanted it to follow more closely to Minsc's and Boo's Journal of Evil and other lore-related DnD stuff. So I highly doubt WoTC would let Larian make such a massive implication with Balduran without giving consent to it.

That is such an awful book that I was stunned to find out it is supposed to be an official source.

The best part about anything D&D is that at best you are given suggestions of how things can go in your campaign/game. Don't like a particular rule? Don't use it. The people who write books involving Forgotten Realms and other D&D based material often change "the rules" as it suits what's deemed best for their characters.

For example, Rai-guy Bondalek is a male high cleric of Lloth, even though males weren't allowed positions of power, much less be a cleric. Drizzt was introduced as the first with purple eyes. Etc.

For every "rule" there is an exception, so go ahead and create it.

[Runic Tunic]

Originally posted by magattatou:

Originally posted by Runic Tunic:

WoTC wanted it to follow more closely to Minsc's and Boo's Journal of Evil and other lore-related DnD stuff. So I highly doubt WoTC would let Larian make such a massive implication with Balduran without giving consent to it.

That is such an awful book that I was stunned to find out it is supposed to be an official source.

The best part about anything D&D is that at best you are given suggestions of how things can go in your campaign/game. Don't like a particular rule? Don't use it. The people who write books involving Forgotten Realms and other D&D based material often change "the rules" as it suits what's deemed best for their characters.

For example, Rai-guy Bondalek is a male high cleric of Lloth, even though males weren't allowed positions of power, much less be a cleric. Drizzt was introduced as the first with purple eyes. Etc.

For every "rule" there is an exception, so go ahead and create it.

Yup it's unfortunate. People blaming Larian for poor narrative decisions really should look at WoTC's history.

Besides the fact it's fairly normal for companies to directly supervise how things are handled with their IP, but WoTC has made some REALLY rough decisions regarding what's "canon" over the past few years. I'm just glad that at least Minsc and Jaheira are mostly faithful to their BG1/2 renditions here.