If I'm honest, it was always kinda stupid, in DnD and any other rpg, to use "race" as the word.
NOT because of any political sjw nonsense, but because they were never races. They were species.
Drow, Gith, and humans are not different races, they are different species. That is the word that should be used. That is the word that should always have been used.
And in turn race is the subset of the species. So when you pick the human species, and then edit the skin color, *that* is the race setting.
So it is absolutely RIDICULOUS to me to hear that WotC wants to change the word to "lineages". Just WHY. That term doesn't separate types of creatures, it seperates family trees within one type of creature. If they really feel the need to stop using "race" they could at least switch to the term it should have been the whole time.
As for the start of this game, at least, those two tieflings ahead of the grove do have Lae in a cage and instantly go to attack a drow or gith player; then everyone in the Grove has the fact you just helped defend them from a goblin attack to think about.
I gotta say though, I love the interaction between that one tiefling merchant-thief-kid and a Seladrine drown.
Kids sees you walking up and thinks something like *oh hey, it's one of those creatures from those nonsense rumors adults made up to scare me. "Hey dude, is that bs they say about you lot true :)"*
And you just casually go "Nah, that's the other kind, if you see one run TF away little child."
Kid be like "Oh..... 0_0"
Side not for that one commenter who will probably never see this since I didn't quote them:
Don't forget paladins aren't attached to gods anymore. They just make oaths, a god is not needed.
