Forestfolk

The Forestfolk also called "the ones that dwelled before" were the original inhabitants of the caverns they named Aman-ya.

They lived in the region that is now Styx before the arrival of the Sumraki-Ashaī and made these lands their home.

The Forestfolk practiced and still practice a nature-focused religion that centers the worship of the spirits and gods of the Leshivoi Forest.

When the Sumraki-Ashaī arrived in Aman-ya they drove the Forestfolk off their land and took it for themselves.
A select few of them however joined the Forestfolk and adopted their beliefs forming the basis for what is now called the Eldest Faith.

The Forestfolk are less a race and more a culture made up of many different races that united under the same beliefs, some of them are Widdermannen, satyr-like goat horned humanoids, others are Humans much like the Wsadniki or Orcs that joined their covenant later or even Sumraki-Ashaī that left the city never to return.

The people of Styx consider the Forestfolk to be evil and horrible twisted beings, they live in fear of them every single day and cannot imagine them to have redeemable qualities, this is, of course, not true.

In truth the Forestfolk are simply the nature-worshipping culture indigenous to Aman-ya pushed into the forest by the expansion of the Sumraki-Ashaī.

When the Forestfolk meet members of the Sumraki-Ashaī within the Leshivoi Forest interactions vary: some clanships hunt city-dwellers for sport, others hide from them, none want to be in contact with them.