-- Setting has all normal Real World animals and plants (especially those appropriate for a given climate/biome), and then of course some monsters, too.

-- Civilization is maybe BARELY at medieval era tech. Bronze is a common metal. (There's probably steel? Maybe? We haven't really talked about it. We haven't really talked about just how common bronze is, for that matter.)

-- Sherpas While actively working along the spine, speak and understand all languages, courtesy of Croneture.