Humanity has been gone for just over a millennium, their infighting caused their civilization to come and go in the blink of an eye for the longer-lived races.
Some barbarians are still said to be seen in Western Continent but they are more a legend than anything.
That is, until The Party found a field of basilisk victims, and revived a handful of them.
The humans carried some sort of disease, causing a short-lived plague in town they passed through. Luckily Hikari, as a paladin, was able to remove the disease before it did much, if any, harm.
Zahir now serves on the The Council of Karn