How are the Elves in Kyonin treating their Tieflingchildren? Since Tanglebriar is rather close, Tieflingbirths shouldn´t be very uncommon.
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Imagining elven tieflings with readily visible fungal or fungus-like growths upon their bodies. One with shelf fungi in place of her hair. Another with slowly moving strand-like marks weaving across his skin, as if there were slime molds underneath. And still another whose skin flowers outward at each joint, with each limb seeming like a new pale fibrous stalk growing away from the core of their body.
Such tieflings might be stigmatized as being unsafe to allow near gardens and food. Some tieflings might feel safer staying inside their likely meager homes, being uncomfortable going out amongst others and getting fresh air and sunlight. Depression and long bouts of inactivity might be commonplace among these unfortunate souls, the scorn and mistrust of others only adding to their misery.
Some break out of that rut though, either by desperately embracing a more outgoing and energetic life or by turning their patient, meticulous nature towards more productive goals, be they for good or ill.
Given that the elves do a very good job of keeping it contained, there's no reason to assume that tiefling births are that common outside of the 'briar.
Don´t know about that. Mendevs Wardstones are likely much more powerfull than the elven defenses, and still Tieflingbirths are at an all time high. Plus Demons Revisited mentions one of Treerazers Glabrezus killing a Ranger by twisting his lover back at home against him, so demons can move outside Tanglebriar.
Remember that the tieflings wouldn't come exclusively from demon-on-elf action; sites of unholy power (like Tanglebriar or the Worldwound) give off enough unholy radiation to warp otherwise mundane infants.
So Kyonin could have tieflings with 2 elven parents.
Huh. And now I wonder if that's one of the long term side effects of being part of the Tanglebriar patrols.
I expect the tieflings born in Tanglebriar would be raised to be cultist soldiers of their "god" Treerazer.
The ones born in Kyonin... Well, for one, I suspect would have a pretty high SID rate courtesy of the Winter Council, while the Queen herself would be pushing for tolerance and acceptance.
There's also the matter of elf children being rare enough that giving birth to a "monster" instead of an elf would be emotionally devastating to more than just the parents.
There'd also be the question of whether they'd grow up on the elf time scale or on a faster time scale.
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Given that Cyth-V'sug, Treerazer's ex-'boss' is all about fungal infestation and corruption, far more so than the boring 'I eat all the things' locust-dude in charge of the Worldwound, the incidence of tiefling corruption coming from eating the plant matter from the blighted area would be even more thematic and appropriate than in the area of the Worldwound.
At least *some* Kyonin elves (the Lantern Bearers, for instance) seem to be purist / elitist in nature, and might be pro-kill-tiefling-babies, but Calistria's faith seems to be extremely open to half-breeds, with both half-elves and tieflings being welcome in some of her churches.
So I could see it going any way you want to go, for roleplay purposes.
If you want tiefling X to have been persecuted, run out of the area or even survived an attempt at abandoning her in the forest to die of exposure as an infant, there are undoubtedly elven parents who would be willing to 'go there.'
If you want tiefling Y to have grown up more or less accepted, he might have been left on the doorstep of a Calistrian temple, and grown up blissfully unaware of how the Findeladlarans two temples over grumble about his 'polluted' blood and how the Calistrians are 'letting the ter'rists win' by 'inviting Treerazer's taint into our community.'