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AcornArmy:
Naturals
Uninitiated
Common
Yeratel:
You say the characters are being "descriptive, not judgemental" in describing non-magical humans, but I would guess that they still feel superior to the lesser beings. Something like the Whites referring to humans as "kine" for herd beasts as food. In casual conversation among themselves, they might use shortened descriptions like "Norms" for "normals", or "Humes" for "humans", or "Ords" for "ordinary people", or even an acronym of some sort. Every subculture out there seems prone to creating their own acronyms. Humans in this case could be NPLUs, for Not People Like Us.
Pheynix:
If you wanted to use color as a metaphor for magic, then perhaps the mundane, unempowered, banal, or what have you could simply be...
Pale.
Cyclone Jack:
Telluric.
Materials.
Ephemerals (as opposed to something along the lines of 'Those Who Walk In Forever'.)
Bound (as opposed to those 'freed' by knowledge of magik.)
Mute (as opposed to those who know 'The Language Of The Universe'.)
The Corvidian:
"Streamer", from mainstream.
"Scalie", because of the scales over mortal eyes.
"Daylighter", or "Lighter", for someone not highing the the shadows.
"Fiver", from 9 to 5.
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