D&D (2024) Fate of the feral tiefling?

[Parmandur]

The challenge with knowing how orcs will be portrayed from here on out is how closely tied they are to Gruumsh, about whom we know little at the moment. He was a more balanced figure in 4E, I believe (I noped out of that edition early on), but otherwise, he's been a figure of evil and unchecked violence.

I don't know that we're likely to get the gods in a UA, but it's valuable context that we're missing in this case.

The description in this section makes Gruumsh sound Chaotic Neutral, so good Orcs could be tied to him, and more notably Druidic Orcs (which are part of the description, and common in a lot of existing D&D worlds).

 

[Tonguez]

Depending on what version of Arthurian legend one might go by, Merlin is either a Tiefling or a Cambion/Half-Fiend.

In addition to him possibly being a Druid and not a Wizard.

Merlin is pretty much the ur-cambion of literature. The word means ‘changeling’ and in medieval times it was written that cambiones were the sons of incubi demons…

 

[Scribe]

Ancestors did that not the current ones.

Yes, fairly heroic ones, considering they earned acceptance for their fiendish looking offspring across the multiverse.