Vallaki, 4th January 770.
Planes of existance, tieflings, the rules of the Church, and other more mundane business have kept me busy in these days. Tiefling was nothing I knew of before coming here and I had my hard time to understand in full what they are, and I don't believe I have grasped most of it. An elf had already explained me the matter of the half-blood and the difference between devils and demons. At that time the conversaion derailed on the planes of existance, in which, it seems, there are proper different worlds, which can communicate through what he called portals. As a matter of fact, that elf was still in doubt whether this world is just another different world or, in fact, a world in another plane, different from all the other worlds. He said also there is also a sort of corridor, a plane of illusion he called it, which somehow links everything, a sort of main road. I have no books confirming this, maybe I will find them in time, but the theory is worth of speculation. The Mists may actually work as this form of communication, however all the Outlander were quite surprised to be dragged by them, thus it cannot be anything usual in their worlds (or planes), while for us born here it is quite the mystery, but something we know being existing and working in specific ways (sometimes unknown too).
The tiefling, thus, is a creature of partial human and fiendish blood. Templar De'Scusa confirmed what I had thought about this matter. Though fiends can be actually listed among the Legions, as Stealers of Breath, the tieflings are not inherently evil or Legion themselves but it depends on their chosen or provided role, more or less the Church considers them as the calibans. Of course, for matters of circumstance, they may tend to be outlaw because spurned from society and of course in some societies they can be labelled as abominions (such as in Barovia); and of course the Church would never too openly accept them in their ranks, and for sure not in any official way. However they are not to be hunted or fought just because they are what they are, the chances they can enlist in the Legions are the same of any human, elf, dwarf, hin.
I was finally welcomed to the Church in Vallaki, and I found out something odd. It seems a former Toret is now Bourgemester of Vallaki, and it seems also that this is not really helpling the Church, though I have doubts this is true, at least on an unofficial level. The Refuge of the Fifth Light has not great relationship with the Raduta in the west, and this probably lays more on the dogmatic different views than else. As a layman I am, moreover, forbidden to spend nights in the temple of the Morning Lord. On this, I will return later on.
I provided my confession and I had a little epiphany as I talked. I need a conversion, as soon as possible, to the Third Sect. A pilgrimage to St.Mere was mentioned, maybe that could be the occasion to mark it as official. Time will tell. For now I will focus on the immediate needs.