Hey there. If you are set on choosing a specific race, you'll want to hold off on settling down. Kingdoms haven't officially chosen their lands and biomes yet, so that's kind of up in the air and the duke you tie yourself to may not have hrothi in their biome to start.

A good place to begin would be deciding on a server then visiting the kingdom discords associated with it. Start making friends in your server's kingdoms and things will work out from there.