that was later writers fault tho.
4e tieflings were specifically Nentir Vale tieflings, that all came from the same empire and had interbred a lot so they all had a uniform look.
This never was meant to apply to Forgotten Realm tieflings, but later writers got lazy and just copied the look.
Also id like to point out that Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2 very much already had the "Cute demon horns" look, long before 4e was a thing
>Like in universe they don't, but don't dragonborn come from people wanting to play the draconians from dragonlance but in other settings?
They come form people wanting to play Dragon people.
Draconians are not very popular, mostly due to exploding on deaht.
There were tons of options for draconic humanoids in 3.5, Half dragons,Dray , Dragon templates or the original Dragonborn which had this weird thing going on where a follower of bahamuth would encase himself in an egg and turn into a dragonborn.
The problem was that there were 500 different "Half dragon" races or templates and each and every one of them was either very weird or very overpowered.
Dragonborn basically simplified this to one non overpowered (and in 5e sadly underpowered) race that makes sense in most settings
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