The Great Emergence

This is a present day urban fantasy RPG.

You remember the day everything changed.

It was ten years ago. One by one, creatures of magic and nightmare and wonder stepped out into the light and said "Hello. We exist." It was The Great Emergence. There were press conferences, news specials, congressional hearings. Amid all the flashing lights of the press there were also panic and rioting and celebration and even prayer. Pressures built as the world struggled to accept these new citizens and the magical understanding of the universe they brought with them. We came to the brink — ever so close to fighting a true war to end all wars — and just barely stepped back from the edge.

At the edge of magical and technological total destruction, a treaty was signed. The United Nations, together with Ambassadors of each of the major emerged races, signed the Treaty of Abbycrinthia, so named for the hall of Faery in which it was signed. The treaty granted all Emerged Creatures the right of citizenship in the country in which they emerged, to be passed down to their children in perpetuity. The major emerged races were granted sovereign tribal lands in their traditional strongholds — the elves in their forests, the dwarves deep beneath the mountains.

Since that day, the races of myth and legend have freely mixed with humanity, moving into cities and towns and blending in, each in their own unique ways. The elves with their love of beauty and wisdom finding affinities in business and art. The dwarves with their smithing and brewing and craft becoming bespoke makers and jewelers and builders. The gruff orcs in construction and manual labor. The vampires living within the law — at least publicly. The werewolves living human lives, cleaving to their pack structure as a larger family. The beast folk, whose talents are as varied as their forms.

This is not a perfect magical world. Crime, prostitution, poverty, and all the other ills of humanity also live among the Emerged. Ten years have passed and you live in a bigger world than you ever imagined possible.

Tell me who you are. Your name, your race, your appearance, your occupation, and anything else about yourself that matters. The emerged world is waiting.