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An animal faction that does not appear on the in-game factions list because it is "not real". Its only member is the River Raptor, yet it controls Raptor Island — which is why the map marks that island as Raptor territory.
Raptors are one of Kenshi's animal factions, with one peculiarity: it never appears on the in-game factions list, because in system terms it is "not real". You cannot check its relations and you cannot negotiate with it.
It is worth an article anyway, because there is a piece of the map with its name on it.
It has exactly one member
This is the most counter-intuitive part of the whole entry:
Only the River Raptor is a member of this faction; all other raptors are part of the Swamp Creatures faction.
Which gives:
| Creature | Faction |
|---|---|
| River Raptor | Raptors |
| Swamp Raptor | Swamp Creatures |
| Megaraptor | Swamp Creatures |
And there is another layer: the River Nest — the thing that produces River Raptors — belongs to the Wildlife faction. On the same production line, the nest is one faction and its output is another.
It "controls" Raptor Island
The Raptor faction holds exactly one location: Raptor Island.
That is the basis for the interactive map marking Raptor Island's controlling faction as Raptors — the label is correct, and it comes straight from the Fandom faction page.
But there is a very Kenshi twist here: not one creature actually living on that island belongs to this faction. What roams Raptor Island are Swamp Raptors and the Megaraptor in the half-sunken ancient fortress at its centre — both of which are Swamp Creatures. Fandom lists this in its own trivia: although the location is controlled by Raptors, the Megaraptor is a member of the Swamp Creatures.
In other words: this is a territory with no garrison.
Where the River Raptors are
The faction's only member is distributed as follows:
- River Raptor spawns: Leviathan Coast, Okran's Pride
- River Nest spawns: Darkfinger, Hidden Forest, Northern Coast, Okran's Pride
Okran's Pride is the Holy Nation's granary and also the densest River Raptor habitat — and those two facts are directly causal: there are fields there, so they are there. See River Raptor.
Two relation values
The Raptor faction has only two special relations:
| Towards | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Herbivore | 0 | Coexistence |
| Spiders | +100 | Allied |
Coexistence with herbivores is unsurprising — River Raptors are omnivorous scavengers and do not hunt live prey.
The +100 with Spiders is the strange one. At a system level it makes the raptors allies of the whole Blood Spider and Skin Spider family. The game offers no explanation; in practice it means these two groups of animals will not fight each other when they meet.
What it means for the player
The Raptor faction is not something you "encounter". What you encounter is the River Raptor (harmless, but it will strip your fields) and, on Raptor Island, Swamp Raptors and the Megaraptor.
The use of this article is to sort out the attribution: when the map shows "Raptors" controlling Raptor Island, it means this hollow faction, not the things on the island that bite.