Loners by nature, they liked to get lost in the crowds of large cities, especially in places where people didn't ask questions. Many though, were made ambassadors to the worshipers of various demonic powers, usually Graz'zt, Demogorgon, Orcus and Lolth. Never accepted by either society, cambions invariably grew up bitter and twisted but, due to their powers, they often became exceptional assassins. The mothers of true cambions always died in childbirth, serving to strand the newborn on the Material Plane, where it would be orphaned, or in the Abyss where it would be abused by the demons who looked down upon such children. The offspring of a mortal male and a succubus was a different creature known as an alu-fiend. After the Spellplague of 1385 DR, the terminology and usage of this term shifted to mean the union of a mortal female and a devil. They also further delineated this terminology to create "noble cambions": marquis and baron cambions were similarly sired by a demon lord father and a female humanoid half-fiend. Some sources stated a "true" cambion" was the union of a planetouched woman (usually a tiefling) and a tanar'ri. The exact meaning of the term "cambion" has differed over the years.
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