Over time, the world has had its fair share of oddities. None of them were as odd as the monsters and beings you hear about in stories living right next door to you though. In the past, these beings were hidden away in plain sight from the world by an organization known as “The Magisters' Roundtable”. The year is 2018, and the world has changed so much. The Roundtable had managed to integrate the empowered after finding a way for both the humans and supernatural to work and make society better. A power move made by the Roundtable that kept society from suffering from an economic crisis was made, and the price was to allow the supernatural to inhabit the land safely and be given the same rights as the people. There were, of course, a few extra laws that applied to them, as they all aren’t exactly human. Accepting of the laws placed upon them, the empowered that were in hiding for so long proved to the humans that they were capable of coexisting.
[[IC of Empowered, Co-GMed with Roman ]]
Tall tales, myths, legends both urban and not, for many years they were thought to be fiction and superstition; however, now we know they were not but a veil of misdirection that had persisted for thousands of years. The source of this veil was the Magisters’ Roundtable, an ancient organization made up of human spellcasters and friendly empowered races. Through the organization’s efforts, those touched by the supernatural could live relatively normal and safe lives for countless generations, twisting potential breaches in their secrecy into opportunities to create skepticism. However, over time there were a few notable slip-ups that changed into long-lasting mythologies, religions, and folk tales.
With the turn of the 19th century and the industrial revolution, the organization was given several hurdles to overcome with the advancing of technology and accelerating rate at which information traveled, having to recruit and train more spellcasters to keep up with the rate at which the educated, perceptive populace of normal humans grew. By the 20th the Magisters’ Roundtable had infiltrated a majority of news companies and fed the public lies and slander in order to hide the supernatural side of the world and throughout the century they “debunked” many claims of unnatural/otherworld beings and events, even going as far as to pull the strings to start the world wars, subsequent cold war, and caused several other events to keep focus away from their charges.
At the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, the Roundtable saw the changes humanity was taking upon itself and started to have a change in heart. In wake of the age of the internet upon them, the Magisters decided it would be easier to step out of the shadows before it was too late. Biding their time, the Roundtable informed everyone protected by them, helping them prepare, and preparing strongholds that could resist the modern weaponry of humanity in case the worse happened, but it never came to that due to the Magisters’ timing. During 2007 an economic crisis occurred that gave the Roundtable the opportunity to not only safely reveal the existence of the supernatural, but make it one of the new supporting pillars of modern society.
Now, eleven years later, humanity has come to peace with itself and for the most part, accepted it's supernatural bedfellows. The year is 2018, many social reforms have been made as supernaturally inclined humans and other species have taken to openly living with the rest of the world. The supernaturally inclined were titled the “empowered” and given different ID than the rest of the world and had to go through several tests and licensings in order to be allowed to use their powers. Our story takes place in King County, Washington, following the normal and not so normal lives of our characters whether they be a supernatural race, empowered human, or simply a random normal joe going about their life in this world now changed from the one we know, with companies run for, by, and or against the empowered, families being able to reveal their powers after generations of studying and hiding them, and Magisters now able to do as they please since they’re no longer needed in order to keep the empowered a tightly guarded secret.
With the turn of the 19th century and the industrial revolution, the organization was given several hurdles to overcome with the advancing of technology and accelerating rate at which information traveled, having to recruit and train more spellcasters to keep up with the rate at which the educated, perceptive populace of normal humans grew. By the 20th the Magisters’ Roundtable had infiltrated a majority of news companies and fed the public lies and slander in order to hide the supernatural side of the world and throughout the century they “debunked” many claims of unnatural/otherworld beings and events, even going as far as to pull the strings to start the world wars, subsequent cold war, and caused several other events to keep focus away from their charges.
At the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, the Roundtable saw the changes humanity was taking upon itself and started to have a change in heart. In wake of the age of the internet upon them, the Magisters decided it would be easier to step out of the shadows before it was too late. Biding their time, the Roundtable informed everyone protected by them, helping them prepare, and preparing strongholds that could resist the modern weaponry of humanity in case the worse happened, but it never came to that due to the Magisters’ timing. During 2007 an economic crisis occurred that gave the Roundtable the opportunity to not only safely reveal the existence of the supernatural, but make it one of the new supporting pillars of modern society.
Now, eleven years later, humanity has come to peace with itself and for the most part, accepted it's supernatural bedfellows. The year is 2018, many social reforms have been made as supernaturally inclined humans and other species have taken to openly living with the rest of the world. The supernaturally inclined were titled the “empowered” and given different ID than the rest of the world and had to go through several tests and licensings in order to be allowed to use their powers. Our story takes place in King County, Washington, following the normal and not so normal lives of our characters whether they be a supernatural race, empowered human, or simply a random normal joe going about their life in this world now changed from the one we know, with companies run for, by, and or against the empowered, families being able to reveal their powers after generations of studying and hiding them, and Magisters now able to do as they please since they’re no longer needed in order to keep the empowered a tightly guarded secret.
[[IC of Empowered, Co-GMed with Roman ]]
Last edited: