a Bhaalspawn is actually a half-fiend?
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According to http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Tiefling:
"Some tieflings are not descended from mere fiends at all, but from powerful gods. These tieflings often have their own physical characteristics that set them apart. Tieflings sired by Beshaba, for instance, often have antlers instead of horns and pale, white hair. Those sired by Mask, on the other hand, are known for their tendency to cast no reflection[10] while half-fiends spawned by Bhaal often appear physically identical to humans, a characteristic they may have passed down to their descendants."
So a half-elf is actually a one-third-elf
"Some tieflings are not descended from mere fiends at all, but from powerful gods. These tieflings often have their own physical characteristics that set them apart. Tieflings sired by Beshaba, for instance, often have antlers instead of horns and pale, white hair. Those sired by Mask, on the other hand, are known for their tendency to cast no reflection[10] while half-fiends spawned by Bhaal often appear physically identical to humans, a characteristic they may have passed down to their descendants."
So a half-elf is actually a one-third-elf
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BUT As for bhaalspawn being half-fiends, I might agree with you based on this, except that half-fiends are all supposed to be hideous and evil-looking, like tieflings +100, But you can chock it up to the fact that that "tieflings decended form gods" is a 3e thing, when bg is based on 2e material
In the technical sense of the term, CHARNAME is a tiefling. It's just the way Bhaal mated with stuff, he didn't pass down a physical trait so any given Bhaalspawn is a representation of that race.
edit: well was asked to remove it for copyright...
How come that did not make it to the actual game :P?
I agree that killing a non hostle character once per 13 days is really rich
Bhaal would had to have been out there begetting his mortal progeny before the time of Troubles, actually. Abazigal, who is a Bhaalspawn, has a son, Draconis (who one would assume is more than 15 years old). Bhaal foresaw that he would be killed during the Time of Troubles, so I think he went about plotting his resurrection well before the poop hit the fan in the ToT.
Remember, that Bhaal sired Abazigal!
I'd guess that Abazigal is a relatively mature dragon--at least an adult.
Anyway, that establishes that Bhaal was going around sowing his seed long before the Time of Troubles.
Bhaal gets assassinated during the Godswar because he's vulnerable, as he's forced to walk the planet in an avatar, or body. But he was out there making babies long before that.
Unless Bhaal went the Luis Royo route, we can assume that being a descendent of Bhaal has to due with his divine nature while the actual race has to do with the physical nature of what he was polymorphed into.
The moonshae trilogy happened in 1345/1346, 12 years prior to the year of shadows (1358)
Thought that there were novels from way before that time.
Not to mention that a young adult dragon is at least 50 years old. A full adult is 100-400 years old.
Abazigal is a half-dragon, yes. BUT as the son of Bhaal and an actual blue dragon, this would fall into the "sire is null" in terms of racial engendering. So Abazigal might be technically half-dragon/half-god, but in practice he behaves like a dragon.
My theory where the Bhaalspawn is concerned is that your mortal mother is whatever race you are. So an elf bhaalspawn would have an elf mother, a half-elf would have a half-elf mother, and so on.
...Of course, in ToB, it's "revealed-ish" that your mother was human(?). But that's neither here nor there.
But it would have been nice if it was possible to swap out the model for whichever race you are to make it fit more.