[Byleth couldn't help but think about the dark mages from his world, who spat "beast" at the people of Fódlan. He thought about how the people of Fódlan used almost the same words and tone for the Almyrans, or Dagdans, or those from Sreng and Brigid. He thought about Sothis's sheer, towering fury upon realising what those 'Heroes Relics' were, and how the noble houses gained their Crests - the bones and hearts of her children repurposed into weapons, with their existence wiped out from history.

("The Relics are gifts from the Goddess," the politely smiling priest had told him, oblivious to the 'Goddess's disgusted rage thrumming through Byleth's being. "It is assumed that in those ancient times, she blessed weapons bound by animal bone and sinew and-"

"Animals," Sothis had hissed. "Animals?!")

Regrettably, Hayame was right.]

...yes. I can... see that.

[Despite verbally agreeing, however, Byleth sounded incredibly downcast by it. A part of him was just tired thinking about it, the endless cycle of prejudice and dehumanising that others used to suppress those thought beneath them.]

I'm not truly surprised, though. I'm more than aware of the lengths humans go to to dehumanise their enemies or rivals. It makes sense that other sapient races would indulge in the same vice for their own ambitions.