It is Ivalice. [He will still correct you!]
Thieves and other lowlifes, displaced by the end of the war. Engagement is common between clans, or between beast and man.
[He wishes he could talk down more of the clans he had to fight, though... so much death in his world.
His clanmates aren't here, either. Perhaps these people do come from quite a different time period, if they do not know of the state of the land...]