@O-louth said in v5 spoilers:

Also, what was the idea behind the secret bedine npcs that wandered around at the beginning of V5? Think they were mostly done by Lizard man?

They were a PC faction of Bedine outcasts pursuing black magics to combat their Shadovar oppressors. The entity they followed turned out to be a Wish spell which eventually destroyed them all.
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/12244/sons-of-the-pale-sands