MORTALS

Humanity

In Persistence, lies Strength

 

Many times, the legends of the night and those of myth were just that–Myth. Humans were told stories of all manner of being from the times they were just learning to walk, and as such took all those to be under the fantastical umbrella to be just that–fantasy. Neither real, nor completely fictional. Vampires became cautionary tales told to misbehaving children, Lost became beings to be revered and respected–or feared. Some of Humanity knows of the Masquerade, of the Veil that blurs the lines between reality and fiction–and whether or not they chose to acknowledge that publically, well, that was their prerogative. 

 

Humanity may not be one of the oldest of races, but they are definitely one of the most stubbornly persistent ones. Easily adaptable, if not just a smidgen squishy, its the Humans that help to keep the ideas of myths and legends alive throughout the ages of time immemorial. While the grandest of all Libraries in human history fell, the knowledge of it and what could have been held within it still exists. Such is the nature of humanity–when all seems to become hopeless, and despair threatens to settle in, one could leave it to the Humans to find a way to persist, to survive–if not by skill or determination, then by sheer spite alone.

 

Such persistence, though, came at a cost.

 

Humanity lost a great deal of knowledge of times before 2027. The world fell to pieces around them–the skies grew dark, and the sun vanished to fall to night eternal. And yet, as death and devastation reigned around them, Humanity survived. In far fewer numbers than there had been before, but they still survived. The groups of humans that came after followed the flow of their new existences, where myth and legend were not only real, but terrifyingly constant. Werewolves and merfolk alike walked the streets side by side to mortal’s own. Terrifying in power, mortals gave both curiosity and berth. Humanity was no longer alone and in the open, and with much of their histories forgotten over time, it was up to them to shape the future as they needed it.

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