It's race as in species, if you wish to include Race as in skin if yours is a human then go right ahead, otherwise it's just species because the city is massively diverse making all kinds of things you don't normally se. I have re-read the 3 books in the past like 4 days (1 book a day with a break at the end lol) in order to refresh my memory on some of the world's lore and on some of the cannon characters sense their NPCs in regards to the rp.