San Francisco is a real city and almost any location you can google for San Francisco exists in the game. There are, however, a few points of interest that you aren't going to be able to google, or if you can google them, they're going to be a bit different in this universe ( Read more... )

A lot of the time it can be difficult to figure out how characters from disparate factions or backgrounds can get together, meet, and let you make beautiful plottiness together. Welcome to the DMZ, your all-character-ages-allowed deus ex machina for giving your characters a chance to meet and greet.

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Understand that all of the groups live in detente. It may seem that one group has an advantage over the other, but consider:

• Vampires are faster and stronger and can roll humans and many other beings with their power, but they are vulnerable during the day, can be turned away by the power of faith, and are as a group subject to infighting and their ( Read more... )

I warn you, mortal. Release me now, or you will feel the awful, terrible, irresistible might of the faery magic! I will rot your teeth from your head! Take your eyes from their sockets! Fill your mouth with dung and your ears with worms! -Toot Toot ( Read more... )

The Nevernever is a big place. In fact, it's the biggest place. The Nevernever is what the wizards call the entirety of the realm of spirit. It isn't a physical place, with geography and weather patterns and so on. It's a shadow world, a magical realm, and its substance is as mutable as thought. It has a lot of names, like the Other Side and the ( Read more... )

The Summer Court is the more warm and caring side, but is just as scheming as its Winter counterpart. Summer faeries typically are more nurturing of mortals, but this is not always true. They are associated with the element of fire. Their lands in the Nevernever are bright, sunny, warm, and lush with vegetation. Most of the lesser creatures of ( Read more... )

The Unseelie weren't universally vicious and evil, any more than the Seelie, the Summer fae, were all kind and wise. They were much like the season for which they had been named-cold, beautiful, pitiless, and entirely without remorse.The Winter Court is colder and much more merciless than its Summer counterpart. The lands of Winter resemble a ( Read more... )

The Wyldfae are creatures of Faerie which do not belong to either Winter or Summer. Most of them do freelance work instead, capable of choosing whichever side they want in a given conflict. During full-scale conflicts, the Wyldfae feel a "calling" which drives them to choose one side or the other. If they are forced to choose sides in a war between ( Read more... )

Want to piss off a Sidhe? Call her a faerie.

Many lesser fae love bread and milk and honey. They aren't usually willing to take on a nest of bees to get to the honey, and there's been a real dearth of milk in the Nevernever since hi-tech dairy farms took over most of the industry. They don't grow their own wheat, harvest it, thresh it, and then ( Read more... )

Magic in this universe can come from a myriad of sources. Some magic users utilize their inborn power, some have found or stolen power from other sources. All magic users have limitations of one kind or another, but there are myriad options open to a player.

Animators
Sorcerers
Voodoo
Wizardsand more. You may choose to play a practitioner who ( Read more... )