Play a human with the Tiefling heritage and use your 1st level ancestry feat to take General Training with which you use to take Adopted Ancestry (elf).
Human is an Ancestry.
Elf is an Ancestry.
Half-elf is a Heritage.
Tiefling is a Heritage.
You choose one Ancestry and then only get one Heritage.
So without houserules, half-elf tiefling is not possible.
What Lucerious recommended would not exactly do the trick. It would get you a human tiefling that could take elf feats that are not in any way dependent on elf physiology, just the ones tied to elf culture.
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The APG, which introduced versatile heritages, has a sidebar about this.
MANY ANCESTRIES
Though a character can have only one heritage, it doesn't mean characters with lineages tracing back to multiple ancestries or heritages don't exist. It's certainly possible for a dhampir to be born to a hlaf-elf mother, or for a duskwalker to appear in a community of death warden dwarves. In these cases, the influence of the versatile heritage overshadows the other heritage--the dhampir heritage overshadows the half-elf heritage, and the duskwalker abilities replace those of the death warden dwarf heritage. So while, superficially, a character might bear a resemblance to both heritages, mechanically, they only gain the benefits of the versatile heritage.
Anyway, consider the benefits of Tiefling and Half-elf: Low-light vision. They do exactly the same thing for you.
Of course, both of them also grant you access to additional pools of ancestry feats, but... you only get so many of those, and only one at first level. Were you actually planning on taking feats from both lists? If you weren't, no problem. Pick the one whose feats you want, if either. If you were, you can start Tiefling and pick up Adopted Ancestry (Elf).
Though admittedly that does lock you out of the few specific half-elf feats.
What Lucerious recommended would not exactly do the trick. It would get you a human tiefling that could take elf feats that are not in any way dependent on elf physiology, just the ones tied to elf culture.
Technically, this is true if playing PFS or with a GM who is very rules strict. However, it does open up ancestry feats from all three- Tiefling, Human, and Elf. This also allows for a GM who at least wants a cost paid to have it. Like Super Zero’s post indicates, one can be both Tiefling and Half-elf, but the Tiefling heritage will overshadow the Half-elf heritage. All one needs to do (especially for a home game) is to say the character is both. Taking Adopted Ancestry then fixes any further issues.
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Note that most Human feats are not dependent on any special physiology. So, playing a Tiefling Elf with Adopted (Human) will give more possibilities than the other way around
Would also net you darkvision instead of low light which can be significant.
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Note that most Human feats are not dependent on any special physiology. So, playing a Tiefling Elf with Adopted (Human) will give more possibilities than the other way around
It was considered, but then Adopted Ancestry would have to wait until level 3 and the OP wanted it all at first level.
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Of note are the Lineage feats : Ancestry feats that you can take only at 1st level and that are linked to the kind of outsider whose touch you bear. So different kinds of fiends for a Tiefling.
You do not have to take a Lineage feat at 1st level, but I do not know if you can retrain in one later on.
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You do not have to take a Lineage feat at 1st level, but I do not know if you can retrain in one later on."You can have only one lineage feat; you can select such a feat only at 1st level, and you can’t retrain into or out of this feat."
Indeed.
So, a Tiefling's Lineage feat competes with Form of the Fiend, the feat that gives you claws.
Actually, most 1st level Tiefling feats are of the only at 1st level, cannot be retrained category.