Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
Player characters - ALL player characters - have one shared race: Adventurer. NPCs never address a player as a Seeker of the Sun, or as a Plainsfolk, or as a Duskwight. Only as an adventurer. SE hasn't acknowledged race up to this point, and I doubt they'll start now.
There's actually a NPC who remarks about hearing that Lalafells aren't trustworthy if you talk to him at a particular point in the HW storyline.

If you're playing as a Lalafell, he'll instead remark about Tataru's popularity at the Forgotten Knight, before mentioning he's heard rumors that they aren't trustworthy and unconvincingly claiming he doesn't believe any of it when he remembers he's talking to one.

So it is present to some degree, just very rarely. They mentioned wanting to have more class-specific dialogue/options in Stormblood, so I can only hope race will be included, too.