The races of Humans which, together, seek to seize Bloodmarsh back from the savage Immortals. Regular Mortals have been taking ship from the Homeland continents into the Crotch to help with The Taking, which has the fatalistic flavor of a Crusade, with the same dim promise of looted riches. These immigrants are the Tallboys and Lowhuts, who are fast friends and close cousins in ancestry, as well as the Goblins, who keep to their own much more but respect what strength and honor the other races show. Endemic to the Crotch and pushing south and seaward from the inland mountains are the Bighornians, whose ancient ancestry carries the last remains of the bloodlines of the Orks, now functionally extinct. Finally, joining some from overseas and some from native fastnesses, are the Screwbros - magically mutated humans with animal affinities and seriously shortened lifetimes. These are the fishy Locathah and the spider-like Ettercaps, both of which races are quite aware of their weirdness and quite salty about it. Especially Locathah. They live in the ocean, you see.