Thread:Mechemik/@comment-9435571-20200114024038/@comment-27075564-20200123170405

To clarify though, the books don't use humanoid very often, and when they do it's mostly towards describing what most would label as beasts/monsters, not beings like elves, halfings, etc. The books far more often use nonhuman to refer to those groups instead. For example, the example you gave is the only time it's actually used as a possible reference to other typical races: all other times it's used in conjunction to describe a creature like when Geralt was amushed by the monsters in Toussaint, or when it's mentioning rusalkas and nymphs in TLW, or when Lambert's teaching Ciri how to strike in BoE. Humanoid in all these cases is being used to encompass any creature that has humanoid attributes in some way, even though it may not be sentient (or more beast). For example, nekkers are humanoid but we certainly wouldn't classify them as nonhuman.