My advice would be to take your cue from real world migration patterns--you can justify any race from any location (at least at current apparent tech level in the setting) until informed otherwise by lore. Keep in mind however that they would be in the minority, likely subject to prejudice, and if the family lived there for several generations probably divorced from their native culture. Before you choose to go with it I'd examine those aspects, and then also ask yourself what Othard specifically brings to the narrative that nowhere else can.
I can't speak to keeper-seeker relations fairly considering I've avoided the obvious cats and dogs joke.
I can't speak to keeper-seeker relations fairly considering I've avoided the obvious cats and dogs joke.
