The families who settled furthest up the Rain Wild River, in the most dangerous and transformative environment in the known world. The Rain Wilds physically mark their inhabitants over generations - extra fingers, scaled skin, features that become increasingly non-human with each generation - in ways that set them apart from the Bingtown Traders and make them objects of pity and unease. They control access to the Elderling artefacts recovered from the buried cities along the river, giving them economic power that partially compensates for their physical difference. The Rain Wild Chronicles is centred on their community and its relationship with the dragons.