生命在精灵眼睛的闪烁中闪过，但人类必须在有限的时间内充分利用他们的生命。他们的精力和热情使他们能够完成伟大的事情，但他们相对缺乏历史的视角，这使得他们许多伟大的成就将落在尘土中，被时间之沙所磨灭。
With lifespans that flash by in the blink of an elven eye, humans must make the most of their lives in the limited number of years given to them. Their energy and passion allows them to accomplish great things, yet their relative lack of historical perspective ensures that many of their greatest accomplishments will fall to dust, worn down by the sands of time.
本章详细介绍了费伦北部和中部的七个主要的人类族群，他们的文化、语言、身体和宗教特征在托瑞尔的地区占主导地位。其中五个主要族群是古代部落的后裔，包括卡林杉人、琼达尔人、伊路斯坎人、穆兰人和雷瑟曼人。另外两个族群，达玛拉人和泰瑟尔人，在最近几个世纪已经从文化的熔炉中诞生。还有一些其他的人类族群也被短暂地存在过，这给人一种人类的多样性不可思议的味道。有些族群已经消失，或者全是从艾伯尔-托瑞尔的表明消失了，而被提到只是为了给现代社会提供一个历史背景，而另一些族群虽然数量众多，但很少在费伦的中心地带看到。
This chapter details the seven major human ethnic groups of northern and central Faerun, whose cultural, linguistic, physical, and religious traits predominate in that region of Toril. Five of the major groups are descended from ancient tribes, including the Calishites, Chondathans, Illuskans, Mulan, and Rashemi. Two more groups, the Damarans and Tethyrians, have arisen in recent centuries from melting pot cultures. A number of other human ethnic groups are touched on briefly as well, giving a flavor of humanity’s incredible diversity. Some have vanished or all but vanished from the face of Abeir-Toril and are mentioned only to give a historical context for modern societies, while others are numerous but rarely seen in the heartlands of Faerun.
概述Overview
人类被列为五个造物主种族之一，尽管是最后一个也是最原始的种族。然而，和许多其他知性种族一样，并非所有的人类都起源于艾伯尔-托瑞尔；今天在费伦生活的许多人类至少部分地是来自其他世界的移民的后代。尽管他们是在这里最新取得统治地位的种族，但从大冰川的北极荒地到楚尔特的蒸腾丛林，在费伦的所有地表土地上都能找到人类。
Humanity is numbered as one of the five Creator Races, albeit the last and most primitive. However, like many other sentient races, not all humans originated on Abeir-Toril; many humans alive in Faerun today are descended, at least in part, from immigrants from other worlds. Although they are the most recent race to achieve dominance here, humanity is found all across the surface lands of Faerun, from the arctic wastes of the Great Glacier to the steaming jungles of Chult.
与其他类人种族不同，人类没有被分为容易识别的具有不同种族特征的亚种。然而，人类在外观上确实有很大的差异，并且被划分为无数相互竞争的王国、共和国、宗派、宗教、强盗王国和部落。
Unlike the other humanoid races, humans are not segregated into easily identifiable subraces with distinct racial traits. However, humans do vary greatly in appearance and are divided into innumerable competing nations, states, sects, religions, bandit kingdoms, and tribes.
人类众多分歧的根源在于支离破碎的种族历史。尽管精灵和矮人是外来者种族，他们在几个主要的迁徙过程中获得了统一的文化特征，但是人类在整个艾伯尔-托瑞尔各个地区都合并成了部落，发展了完全独立的当地文化。最早的人类文化出现在其他更强大的种族的阴影下，包括其他造物主种族、精灵和矮人。这些其他种族的统治使各种人类文化在很大程度上互不了解，并且直到费伦历史上相对较近的时候才互相开始交流。
The root of humanity’s many divisions lies in the race’s fragmented history. Whereas elves and dwarves are interloper races who arrived in a few major migrations with unifying cultural traits, humans coalesced into tribes and developed local cultures across Abeir-Toril wholly independent of one another. The earliest human cultures arose in the shadow of other, more powerful races, including the other Creator Races, the elves, and the dwarves. The dominance of these other races kept the various human cultures largely ignorant of one another and barred communications until relatively recently in Faerun’s history.
由于人类可以沿着历史、文化、语言和宗教的界线被隔离，因此有许多方法可以细分费伦的人类。因为几个世纪的定居和征服确保了没有绝对的分裂，所以任何区别都不可避免地被混淆。事实上，在费伦的一些地区，没有一个族群在由两个或两个以上不同的族群建立的大熔炉文化中占主导地位，这些正在建立不同的文化和语言身份，标志着新的不同于他们祖先的族群身份的出现。
As humanity can be segregated along historical, cultural, linguistic, and religious lines, there are many ways to subdivide the humans of Faerun. Any distinctions are inevitably muddled, as centuries of settlement and conquest have ensured that no division is absolute. In fact, in some regions of Faerun, melting pot cultures founded by two or more distinct ethnic groups, none of them dominant, are establishing distinct cultural and linguistic identities that mark the emergence of newly distinct ethnic identities different from their forebears.

现存人物的种族性Ethnicity of Existing Characters
尽管已出版的被遗忘的国度游戏材料长期以来包括对各种人类族群的引用，但个别NPC的实际族群却很少被确定。如果没有为某一特定的特征指定或暗示任何族群，则假定以下族群：Although published FORGOTTEN REALMS game material has long included references to various human ethnic groups, the actual ethnic group of individual NPCs has rarely been identified. If no ethnic group is specified or implied for a particular character, assume the following ethnicity:
费伦西北Northwest Faerun    伊路斯坎人Illuskan
费伦西南Southwest Faerun    泰瑟尔人Tethyrian
费伦中北Northcentral Faerun 琼达尔人Chondathan
费伦中南Southcentral Faerun 夏亚人Shaaran
费伦东北Northeast Faerun    达玛拉人Damaran
费伦东南Southeast Faerun    都帕人Durpari
卡林杉Calimshan          卡林杉人Calishite
古老帝国The Old Empires    穆兰人Mulan
雷瑟曼Rashemen             雷瑟曼人Rashemi