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Caught in a storm
Recovered pages from the Diary of Victoria Swan ~The Races
Werewolves:
Generally werewolves are said to have been the result of a witch in the 6th century cursing a family's bloodline, turning them into werewolves at the occurence of a full moon, over the centuries they have figured out how to transform without the use of a moon.Werewolves look exactly what you think they do when transformed, and look human when not. They are generally known for their strength and ferocity. Are generally fast and resilient to pain or damage. For the war, they generally are used as infantry soldiers. As they pretty much aren't very well equipped for magic or technology.
They are a prime standing race in society and have been for centuries, everyone knows werewolves and they even have some of their kind in positions of power.
They generally have had a rivalry against vampires for centuries due to both being some of the earliest supernatural races to exist.
Vampires:
Unlike werewolves, nobody knows when or where they started to appear. They have been a race shrouded in mystery due to them preferring the night. A witchdoctor vampire in the 12th century however proved to the supernaturals that they weren't harmed by sunlight, they simply preferred the night. Perhaps it was easier to hunt humans back in the middle ages during the night. Or perhaps they just hate the day.Vampires are charactized by pale skin and sharp fangs, possessing superhuman capabilities of strength speed and durability, although are allergic to garlic and can be killed instantly by being staked in the heart, although in my opinion, everyone dies if they get impaled in the heart.
Vampires are also a primestanding race in society, workers, soldiers, or any job that can benefit from superhuman qualities with the adeptness of the human physique. Some say that they have a league in the shadows of spies and assassins but nobody cannot prove the existence. I belief this is much the case and certain fees or bribes are paid to keep this from the spotlight.
Fae:
Fairies. That's exactly what it sounds like. Faeries can come up in all sizes, but they are very apparent when you see one, they possess glittery skin of varying colors and pointed ears and most of all wings. Faeries came from another dimension, or so they claim, when they were forced to leave their own by an invading race, but that kinda makes them invaders themselves. Ugh. Hypocritical much?They are very intelligent and they possess magic, something that some other races do not. So some like to hate on them but they're also generally weaker physically than even humans.
They've been apart of the world for centuries, earlier reports place them appearing in the renaissance. Perhaps that's actually what caused the renaissance, i mean, they clearly are expert craftsmen and intelligent, they probably brought their inventions and ideas from their world. But that's my theory.
Humans:
Yes. The Original Race. They've been around for maybe 100,000 year, evolved right here on our planet naturally. Or scientists and historians say. But who knows maybe even they were the result of something or came from somewhere. Although no evidence suggests this.They're humans, what more can I say, they are of average physical capability but damn do they do shit when they have to, they invented many incredible things over the years. The wheel, pyramids, castles. Many things before the supernaturals came. Some humans have somehow figured out how to do magic, potentially making them a very dangerous race potentially due to their strong willpower and impatience for getting things done, a dangerous combination.
It's beginning to get more common and it's very much a mystery how it was achieved. They call themselves wizards or witches, few appeared in past centuries, the old ages through the middle ages, but there is a bigger rising community now.
Some used to think humans weren't good for much but even back when they didn't possess magic they were some of the most creative builders and inventors with some of their feats even surpassing the Fae. Think pyramids, castles, the invention of the wheel itself. Most of what was invented before the Renaissance was due to humans, largely them being the most common race, although populations have sorta evened out now. And they even have some inventions past the renaissance that are still quite impressive.
Merfolk:
Some say they're their own race while others speculate they are related to humans who were forced to retreat to islands and eventually became sea folk. I'm not sure myself but there are some similarities.
They are the another prime standing race in society. I think they kinda have been apart of the world for as long as anyone can remember, some historians found records of cavemen or natives trading with folk who came from the water. Depictions of interaction between humans and merfolk. A good unity that seems to have placed modern relations quite well.
The War
This is the most abominable war anyone has ever seen. Dear Lord. I've never seen any war create and commit as much atrocities as this one. Blimps using flying beasts and Warplanes duking it out.People riding mythical beasts and automatons. Explosions of bombs and Magical Spells.
This is the most atrocious thing I've witnessed. The sides are simply. If you believe that science is better than magic, you're a Teslanians. They believe that everyone is equal under science, which is bullshit but whatever. They propose their clockwork gear and automatons, flying planes, bombs, and mechanical inventions.
If you think that magic is better, then you're a Darwinist, a product of evolution, a focus on the study of magical beasts, preservation of magic and the natural world, and as they claim "none of these atrocious inventions that will be the end of us"
Also bullshit but again, whatever.
If you're a equalist trying to bridge the sides, give up, the different countries are already too far involved, you're preaching on dead ears I'm afraid.
Oh right the countries, well it's abit of a mess.
Spain, United States, Canada, India, Britain and a few others are Darwinists,
While Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan and their allies are Teslanians.
The Technology and Magic of the World.
While not everyone is capable of using all the diferent kinds of magic that however doesn't mean that magic is completely unusable by that individual , spell scrolls and spell sigils are basically stored spells that can be kept for a limited amount of time before they must be used, the creation must be done by a Fae or a Human possessing magic, one who is quite skilled at creating scrolls or sigils. These spells when used will unleash a limited power version of the intended spells.However since these can be mass produced, the Darwinist use these as common supply for the war.
Magic generally falls under the 8 catagories
Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Energy, Light, Darkness, Ice.
There is a 9th element of Psychic but it's a very hard to define catagorie that basically defines anything that is otherwise non applicable to the 8 schools.
Fire, as obvious as it sounds, is anything that pertains to fire, or heat, closely related to energy and as far from Water and Ice as it can be, invokes anger, destruction, aggression but that does not mean that all pyromancers are blindly enraged. General use from heating homes, powering engines, to explosives, to powering trains, whatever you need fire for.
Water, an essential element to life but also a powerful source of power and energy, You should use water for everything from cleaning your homes and clothes, to powering steam machines or cooking.
Wind, wind is also a good source of energy, it has some application in household machinery but is a much bigger source of travel, many mythical beasts that fly or move quickly generally have abit of wind magic.
Earth, this is incredibly useful for farming and building, Agriculture uses much of this. But this also has it's own hand in destructive spells. Just as earth is seen as a useful magic, it is also quite a wild and unpredictable magic in destruction.
Energy: This is a source of power for machinery almost excusively, most if not all clockwork use abit of energy magic, this can be useful for powering cities too.
Light: Light is abit of a loose term, for it also pertains to healing magic, life magic and holy magic, as well as light magic itself, it's somewhat related to energy and fire magic but it's it's own category
Darkness: Darkness magic is the opposite of life magic, cursed magic, death magic and destruction magic are common within this and it's generally used by experimental witchdoctors or as a means of destructive war.
Ice: Ice magic is useful for keeping things cold, generally not the most often practical magic but it certainly has it's uses.
Psychic generally falls under anything else. You know. Anything that doesn't fit in the 8 categories.
Technology
The world uses alot of steampunk technologyFrom automatons, to house appliances to machinery in watches
(This is a steampunk world, there are no computers or modern devices, many people rely on industrial like steampunk technology which is deeply ingrained in the world, however the most modern invention is fighter planes and tanks, but everything else is very much 1800sesque. I'll allow some discussion and leeway for how technology is ingrained in society and what is included and not included)