Also a note on their discord:
"We've decided to trim the roadmap to only the
"base game", this does not touch upon content we may wish to include in any post-release expansions. Finally it also doesn't include
all the content we plan to port from UE4, as we didn't want to burn space with duplicated "we'll copy/paste this bit" text."
Also, as a reference for the Exotic NPCS, "Tokol" are apparently like goblins and "Sylvan" haven't been mentioned/described before. As for some of the others, here are the early reference pictures used when players voted for each NPC: