Lore reason for them not attacking you because
1. You're by yourself so they don't feel threaten by you.
2. You look different than all the monsters and races in akavir
3. They could tell you're a intelligence being by the way you look instead of a wild animal.
Mid way through the game, you caught a tang mo with a few items from your crashed boat. The items are trueflame and hopesfire.
Main plot of the game is about the tiger dragons and vampire snake men fighting for control over a large region that contains a massive ancient structure.
Main side quest is about a invasion from the snow demons led by another demon king. The tang mo are building up defenses and gathering warriors from all across the thousand monkey isles to hold this invasion off. You could help them defend against mutiple areas against the kamal.
The game will not contain all of akavir but a big enough part that at least let you see enough of all the major akavir races.