[Early morning, walking around]
"You're getting into Archadian teaching issues. The general racist belief was animals and non-hume races felt the mist more, but using magic as we knew it involved having hume style speaking abilities. So there was prejudice against some races for not being able to use magic as a hume would." Balthier pats the ground as his wards are set up. "But Mist was corrosive and damaging in excessive amounts. Think sort of - like radiation? You can kill with it, but it sticks?"