The Local Humans

 Yups I'd be interested too.

Sounds good! Almost can't wait

Okay, I think the first thing we need to decide: how many humans are there, approximately, in the village? 50? 100?

And are they cut off from all other humans, or do they have trading relations with other villages further away?

I too think 50-ish humans who trade with other villages. Any objections?

Also, I'd like there to be no other nearby human settlements reachable by land and that the other human villages take at least a few days to travel to. This is to uncomplicate things for us players Keeping track of one human village, along with the trolls, will be work enough XD

If they were travelling by canoe they would probably stay close to the seashore, and they could sail up rivers. Canoes can even sail on pretty shallow waters so it shouldn't at all be a problem to stay close to shore. It's a pretty efficient way of travelling once you got used to it.

Yups,

Although you must remember that the polynesian boats and maritime culture was more of island nations than on a mainland. They travelled by boat over long distances, theoretically could tell the change in tides, and navigated by the stars. They didn't have maps and fancy middle ages compasses and the like. It was all inherited knowledge, taught and perfected through generations, passed on orally and not written in stone or on fancy tablets like the egyptians. They were also cannibals too. Inter-tribal warfare was common, even if they were fishermen and or traders between allied or friendly tribes.

They also didn't use metal in their technology. It was shell, bone, or wood only along with vegetable fibres and the like. They didn't forge like the Norse or the Britons.

So I think we need to establish a technology level as well for the human villages. If they're a maritime nation, small or large, than they would have used canoes to travel by ocean along the coast and inland via the riverways and tributaries.  Larger canoes with sails and or larger boats were only used for deepsea fishing offshore, or to hunt whales, or to travel between islands for trade. Which would have taken days between provided that the weather was good. No steamboats in this time.

If you're going more medieval than we're talking like the East Indian trading company with ships able to be overstocked with goods and trading up and down continental shipping ways. Major economy and probably large and established human settlements verging on the size of cities and fortified provinces, going onto having feudal lords and kingdoms.

If not than it's probably small and tribal, inter-related nuclear families inhabiting stretches of land that can easily support a small developed population without too much environmental impact. They're more than likely be highly self-sufficient, isolated, and or a fishing settlement supplementing their diets with produce from local forests or coast plains areas. I'm not sure if we're talking big-game too. Since polynesian nations on island communities didn't have large game most of the time. The islands were too small, so no sheep or cattle unless they were introduced from the outside. Most game is either birds, fish or sea mammals, and pigs likely introduced by them originally.

Larger landmasses aka being mainlands have the space for forests and grazing animals as well as predator species like wolves, bears or whichever is appropriate to the local ecology.

We'd need to establish both prey and predator species too for the humans at least if they're trading to both hunt and produce products from i.e weapons, furs, and clothing to trade. They might be potters and or makers of other goods too like woven articals being flax, clothing, or even fabric. If they trade with other settlements than skills and knowledge would be traded too. They therefore have an economy, even a small one, based on barter or are we talking exchange for coin? Then they're part of a fiefdom or kingdom as only lords or nobles ever had the resources to smelt and forge physical currency to trade for goods. Said currency also usually only had worth inside that fiefdom unless it was very large and encompassed broad territories of land and sea. Than currency could be traded across countries.

So yeah I think we need to establish, tech levels, trading level, and what goods they make. Also trading by land is only possible if you have roads. Trying to travel across bush terrain with no clear paths can get you either lost, or dead in handful of days. The ground isn't flat it's steep, hilly, and broken up by treeroots and other anomalies. So we also need to establish a societal level, are we talking Rome with it's roads and trading routes or pre-colonial era without roads and such. Trade would be possible, but only if you know the wilderness well and you're a good navigator. Native americans were pros at this, since they travelled over land, while polynesians travelled mainly by sea or river, although they did tramp around inland by foot too.

Horses too for polynesians were an introduced species, so if our elves have horses and we assume the humans do too, or that they have bullocks or oxen, than at first sight the humans are going to try and catch them.  Horses in any era were a useful resource for trade, meat, and travel.  They could be ridden or hitched to wagons or carriages to draw goods for trade.

You must remember that coastal settlements too close to the shoreline were at risk from flooding or ocean going storms like cyclones, especially when they were built under sea level, or on flood plains.