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Welcome to Etiterum

There was a time in the past where supernatural creatures were the stuff of legends. Vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts -- they were stories told to children to scare them, to keep them in when the sun went down or to keep them in line when they misbehaved. Nowadays the secret is out. No longer are supernaturals just myths and legends and tall tales. They are real. They live among humankind as they have been for centuries, they strive to be a part of society without having the bury what they are and what they can do.

For a while, humankind shakily lived alongside the creatures that had haunted their nightmares, trying to adjust to the knowledge that those scary stories of demons and dragons weren't just stories. Suddenly the neighbours were shapeshifters, the local grocery run by phoenixes, there were psychics among the police. The supernatural world became very real and very close, the tension grew by the day until the uproar got loud.

Supernaturals were dangerous. They were too powerful. They couldn't be controlled. There were too many of them.

Scores of voices rose up to protest the skeletons that had escaped their closets, and with the voices came action: violent uprisings where supernatural creatures were hunted down en masse, picked out of their homes and communities and branded as lesser beings. For their own protection, they were forced to carry identification cards, made to register with the governments of the world so they could be identified, tracked and monitored for the threat they may pose. These races of power and mystery were treated like second-class citizens, slowly stripped of the rights they had enjoyed when the world thought they were only human.

It was recently that a bold move was made by England. They abolished the identification cards, opened their borders and declared that all species would be considered equal. All species would get the basic rights and freedoms that everyone deserved. There would be no more hate, no more racism, no more government supervision and all species would co-exist within their borders. Of course, this brought an influx of immigrants from all over the world to the U.K, the population boomed; the other countries of the United Kingdom quickly adopting England's ideology to help try and spread out the crowds of refugees. The process was rocky, tensions rose again between races as they struggled to make a new home away from home in a country that was under-equipped for the population skyrocketing. To this day, no one is quite sure how the United Kingdom kept themselves in working order, but they managed.

In light of their shocking success, other countries of the European union began following England's lead: abolishing the identification cards and reinstating equal rights for all citizens. Travel in Europe is becoming easier than it has in years, with witches and psychics and other species of magical connection lending their abilities to help along modern technology. Visiting countries is as easy as taking the designated portal at specially designed ports. One can cross a city in a heartbeat with an enchanted stone, or visit the local healer to help along wounds that would regularly take weeks to heal. Societies that embraced their supernatural neighbours as equals gained valuable assets to their communities.

But that doesn't mean everyone did.

In the Western Hemisphere, the 'supernatural uprising' was thoroughly crushed and contained. Humans developed technology to nullify the abilities of the other species: guns that would temporarily turn the target near-entirely mortal, and wearable items that would make the transformation permanent so long as they were worn. Supernaturals were caught and contained, nullified and made to work and live in servitude to humans, or deposited into 'freak-ghettos' where crime and violence ran rampant. While small resistances still exist in the rainforests of South America and the frozen tundra of Nothern Canada, the 'problem' with supernaturals has been solved, but now they turn their attention to countries across the ocean that are still afflicted.

The countries of Asia have handled their problem similarly, but they do not keep the supernatural species they feel so threatened by within their borders. The 'undesirable races' are caught and ejected immediately, shipped somewhere across the ocean to become another nation's problem. Australia found their population shift mirrored Asia's. Supernaturals seized power quickly, with tribes dealing with human intruders however they see fit. Russia has become a warzone of quarreling factions, both human and non-human alike, while Africa struggles to follow after Australia, though the human rebellion is strong.

Amidst a world of conflict, all eyes are slowly turning to the United Kingdom and the European countries they have inspired. Some seek to replicate the shaky peace and harmony of all races, while others believe that kind of lifestyle to be a time bomb waiting to go off and take everything else down with it. And again, it's only a matter of time before the shaky peace created by the UK is challenged. The question remains as to who will win out in the end.