People are people, regardless of what they look like. All humans are people, but not all people are humans.

[It's a very important distinction in his mind.]

There's individual names for each species besides humans in my world, but they all fall under one umbrella term: Immortals. Which is honestly a bit misleading, they're not really immortal at all. All can be killed in some way, it's just that most have longer lifespans than humans.