It's not the tieflings. I had to kill about twenty or so flaming fists, just because I took a fishhead on the upper floor of the Flymm house, while nobody was there. Apparently someone outside in the street had seen it through the window (on the fist floor!) and called the fists.
Or there was this guy at the orc tavern who begs you for a potion of healing. I gave one to him and then picked up a cabbage or tomato or something. Well it may have been a pouch, and he wouldn't let me! So I had to kill him also, and then all the patrons, the bartender and a dozen or so of flaming fists.