The soirée with the Castro princess and her friends ended up just being the first instance of a very repetitive clash between me and other people.
Be it with the history and society teachers, with classmates, seniors, and, once, even with Academy staff, the beastkin issue sooner or later would come up.
The official name for all intelligent races that are not human is demihumans.
According to the Church, they were created after the humans by demons who were trying to imitate the act of creation of the goddess.
And that's why, they would say, those races are only half-human and not entirely human. That is the reason for the 'demi-' part of their name.
The beastkin use the word mankind to refer to all intelligent races, including humans. That term is not acknowledged by the human kingdoms.
Lovelace told me that before the rise of the goddess, the term Mankind was widely used in the human realms.
