The history of elves and humans coexisting on the Sains Continent stretched back more than five thousand years.
Throughout those five thousand years, relations between elves and humans had never been particularly harmonious.
When elves first ruled the continent, they regarded all but a very few other races as inferior and beneath their notice. Humans were no exception.
After the Race War broke out, humans took control of the entire continent, and elves gradually vanished from sight. Relations between humans and elves grew even more strained.
Under normal circumstances, there was no possibility of a union between members of the two races.
But there were exceptions to everything.
Throughout those five thousand years, both when elves ruled the continent and later when humans ruled it, there had always been examples of elves and humans crossing racial boundaries to become couples.
Yet without exception, these interracial unions met with fierce opposition from both sides.
Elves opposed them because they felt that a union with a human utterly sullied their noble bloodline, while humans considered it a betrayal of their own kind.
As a result, all half-elves born to human and elven couples faced discrimination from both races. Their status on the Sains Continent was extremely low, and they rarely received formal recognition.
Elder Windini's claim that a child born to Xu Yi and Anise would be the first half-elf in the history of the Sains Continent to be accepted and recognized by both sides was certainly no empty statement.
Of course, that also had to do with Xu Yi's and Anise's positions.
Although Xu Yi's current standing in human society was not quite at the very top, his position as Xinfei Merchant Guild President, along with his formidable personal strength as a Great Mage, meant that hardly anyone in human society