Started off as a fae fury but race changed to a dark elf. I still live in Qeynos. As a dark elf, would I be able to sneak into Freeport and do the dark elf racial quests for the silly little aura of the dark elf ring? Or do I need to be a citizen for that?
It's about alignment, not race. I suspect the racial quest person will talk to you, but you will have guard aggro.
you may have troubles unless you're high enough - the DE racial quest starts in the basement of the academy of science and there's guards right outside
I'm not sure the NPC will even talk to you. I think I tried quite a while ago on a live server to get the ring of the opposite faction (Erudite, so there's a quest in each city), and if I remember right, they wouldn't give me the quest until I betrayed. It was a while ago, though, so I might be remembering wrong... That said, on a TLE server there are guards in the way, as was mentioned, making it ever harder to try... Racial ring quests, each gives a unique visual. http://eq2.zam.com/wiki/Racial_Ring_Auras_(EQ2)