Word for non-monstrous peoples?

Hey folks! I'm writing up a description of a town, and in covering the town's history, I'd like to use the phrase "frequent attacks by both monstrous and _______ invaders", with the second word meaning non-monstrous. Is there an official or generally accepted lore word for this? "Sentient" or "sapient" really don't work because there are definitely sentient/sapient monsters—illithids, beholders, dragons, etc.—and all a cursory Google search spits out is "character species", which is a little too rulesy. I'd like something a bit more prosaic if possible; I could rearrange it into "frequent attacks by invaders both monstrous and otherwise", but I'd prefer a descriptive word to replace "others"/"otherwise" if possible. I'd reach out to a writing forum, but I thought I'd try here in case there's something D&D-specific that applies. Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

"Humanoid" might be the closest thing to what you're looking for, though that has a specific meaning within D&D rules as a Creature Type that doesn't always match what people think of as its general meaning.

What, exactly, are you using as a difference between "monstrous" and not? Perhaps change monstrous to be something you can more easily write an antonym for?

I use "mortal" in my settings to collectively refer to all the various humanoid species such as elves, dwarves, humans etc. If however it's being used in contrast with the unusual, I'll often use "mundane". So in your example I might say "frequent attacks by both monstrous and mundane invaders". Or for slightly more dramatic grammar "Frequent attacks by invaders both monstrous and mundane". The later phrasing also works with "mortal"—"Frequent attacks by invaders both monstrous and mortal"

Invert the order

"frequent attacks by peoples and monstrous invaders"

All the thinking/playable species are peoples in my world. I think that works for modern D&D quite well. 

How about mundane. Where monstrous is the more fantastical D&D stuff, it could be describing bandits and wolves such. Also a nice little alliteration. 

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Hey folks! I'm writing up a description of a town, and in covering the town's history, I'd like to use the phrase "frequent attacks by both monstrous and _______ invaders", with the second word meaning non-monstrous. Is there an official or generally accepted lore word for this? "Sentient" or "sapient" really don't work because there are definitely sentient/sapient monsters—illithids, beholders, dragons, etc.—and all a cursory Google search spits out is "character species", which is a little too rulesy. I'd like something a bit more prosaic if possible; I could rearrange it into "frequent attacks by invaders both monstrous and otherwise", but I'd prefer a descriptive word to replace "others"/"otherwise" if possible. I'd reach out to a writing forum, but I thought I'd try here in case there's something D&D-specific that applies. Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Specifically what invaders are we talking about here? What are you putting in the "monstrous" and "non-monstrous" categories?

Aaa sorry guys, I didn’t get any notifications for some reason. So the “monstrous” would be like illithids, And sapient creatures from the Feywild and the Abyss, or maybe dragons; the other would be like a standard army of peoples for example. Xalthu and Davyd suggested “mundane” and I think that’s actually a pretty solid suggestion and I feel kind of stupid for not thinking of it. Thanks for your suggestions guys 😊

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Aaa sorry guys, I didn’t get any notifications for some reason. 

Just FYI, email notifications for forum threads have not worked properly since March and there has not been any indication of when or if they're coming back.

you’re thinking about it too hard. soft language will fail here, because you’re describing a threat. 

Instead, describe the raiders based on what the town “assumes” they’re from.  If its too mixed, just use generic raiders, and if pressed say its a mixture of species and the town doesn’t know where they are from.  If info is key to the situation, focus on that instead, like what the leader looks like. 

This is just a brief mention of history in passing, not meant to be a compleat record of the attacks; it wouldn't benefit from going into lengthy details about the exact makeup of the invading armies nor addressing each one individually, that would get too long and tedious in this context ("60 years ago this army invaded, 40 years ago that army invaded, 20 years ago yet another army invaded, ad nauseum"). It's just meant to say briefly that a variety of armies invaded, with a little flourish other than "a bunch of armies have invaded". Apologies if that was unclear in my original post.