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This question has been asked before in varying ways:
* Tiefling Eldritch Scion where the question focuses on the bloodlines; and
* Does "Fiendish Sorcery"-trait apply to bloodrager and / or arcanist? this one likewise asks about bloodrager but also arcanists, who get bloodline abilities more directly from the sorcerer class.
Back to the eldritch scion, I understand the opinion on bloodlines since they are bloodrager bloodlines.
However:
1. I've not seen much/any discussion of whether fiendish sorcery could apply to eldritch scion's spontaneous spellcasting; and
2. I'd be interested to hear somebody from Paizo weight in on the RAW vs. RAI here. Is this potential FAQ material?
To be clear, I understand the RAW just fine, and by that it doesn't apply. This is not a petition of opinions, but a request for official input. See question #2 above.
Mechanically, the trait helps a tiefling make up a bit while trying to be a CHA-based spellcasting class, but only in one particular case. Flavor-wise, while these other classes do have entirely distinct class abilities around casting and bloodlines, they do take them as inspired by the sorcerer's original versions. That is, it's implied that these other classes have the same underlying bloodlines but they manifest differently.
Finally, if this has been officially rejected somewhere that I missed, apologies and link please.
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So, to distill out the main question for Paizo:
Is the fiendish sorcery racial trait written as intended, so as to not apply to any class abilities derived-from and/or similar to those of the sorcerer. Including:
* bloodlines and bloodline abilities
* CHA-based spontaneous arcane casting that accompanies bloodlines (particularly of the Eldritch Scion archetype).
Or were the intentions of this trait to help out tieflings in some of these other cases too.
Thanks.