River Kingdoms

[GM Ryan]

Hello all!
I am currently starting up a campaign and I would like to know what races inhabit the River Kingdoms, I don't need an exact percentage of races, I just wanted to know the different races so I could give my players some more race options. Unique and rare races are always welcome, thank you!

[Imbicatus]

Of the core races they are all there, with Humans, Elves, and Halflings being the most common. There are a lot of goblin tribes in the area, and ogres around some of the lost areas like mosswater.

[GM Ryan]

Awesome thank you!

[AntiDjinn]

Also boggards, a matriarchal tribe of centaurs, kobolds, spriggans, bog striders, a tribe of rat folk, and lots of fey of various types because the boundary with the First World is thin there. In one specific area there is just about every aquatic humanoid race.

[Vanlo Dariav]

I would expect that one could encounter just about any race there.

A few quotes from the Inner Sea World Guide pgs 162-165:

"...the River Kingdoms are where desperate men go to escape their pasts and carve out new lives."

"Slavers may visit the River Kingdoms, but taking or holding slaves there upsets the many people who were once slaves themselves."

A couple of the individual Kingdoms have non-humans called out as leaders: the dwarf Lord Captain in Daggermark, and the half-orc leader of Tymon. There are settlements of elves, merfolk, sahuagin, fey, and "monstrous humanoids" specifically listed.

Note that there are over a dozen individual and autonomous kingdoms within the River Kingdoms territory, and the ISWG only discussed a few in detail and gave one sentence descriptions for the rest. You could easily set a settlement of any race in one of the lesser described regions, or certainly justify a family or individual member of any race being there.

One of my PFS characters is from the River Kingdoms, even though he's a Nagaji. He's an escaped slave who went there to escape his past, like many others.

[Physically Unfeasible]

Breaking it down to settlements (iirc):
Core races, kobolds, bog striders: damn near everywhere.
Fey: Particularly prominent around Uringen and Sevenarches
Merfolk, Sahuagin: Outsea

[Eric Hinkle]

I have to agree with the folks who said that you can find just about anyone or thing in the River Kingdoms if you look long enough. Used as a homeland it can justify practically anything with 'Mom and Dad ran away from our homeland, settled here, and had me.'