Oh... it is true, Speaks called them humans from the start... at that point it was so subtle I entirely forgot, considering things, that is actually a big character development.
He didn't say much... but it seems Brute has reasons that aren't about greed, it seems he doesn't agree with his home culture, especially in how they are choosing a hero.
Considering Speaks is his aide, and she seems not to strongly adhere to the animosity between animalians and humans, there is more depth in his reasoning.
Because of Ed's cheat abilities, you kinda forget... Tia is strong as fuck.
People don't react when Tia uses her magic, but we haven't seen animalians use overt magic... I call it overt because their adventurer ensignias clearly have some magical properties, and there is that place they used for training; the focus was on the voidling, but the whole place needs to have some other things going on to even exist.
So I am curious if there is a reason for that.
I am curious too how Tia's spirit magic is working in this world... considering she could recover her memories of a past life because of "how her soul works", there is a "connective tissue" between the various worlds... so maybe the spirits that inhabit each world are pretty much the same or similar enough she can converse with them.