Lot of good ones in here. Only idea I can think of is The Black Company. Not specifically to follow Croakers story either. Could be about battles and drama of the past from the annals.

lol wouldn’t surprise me. Their NPC talk probably is projection like usual.

Science is finding they do indeed likely have lower/under developed empathy capacity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10281241/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/

https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5209/5209.html#%3A~%3Atext=One+indication+that+conservatives+are%2Cimportance+of+teaching+to+children.