So the main reason I want the 8 to be human is just for the general purpose of their ignorance to the magical world being more relatable. If you want your character to be turned into something else, or possibly have a super distant ancestor that was part of the magical world but generations of...
A question, should sexuality be included in the character profile or allowed to be expressed (PG only) in our writings?
Edit, I mean this as an identifier. So in essence: We know how that person swings, or we let that person show us through writing?
So just the 8 are stuck being human. Initially, who says they can't be bit by a vamp or lycan? Or turned by a Fae? But to answer your question, everyone outside the 8 are able to start as any race. There will be however, a request for a racial skelly, depending on how involved this gets so...
Once we have the majority of the 8 filled, character skellies will be built and general story plot ground out. I intend for the 8 to get their powers in the very first post, but that doesn't mean they will be able to use them, just wanna start the story out hard and fast <3