For centuries, the races of Human and Beastfolk lived in relative peace. The Beastfolk ran free in the forests and wilds, and the Humans built settlements where they worked and toiled in the earth. Both races prospered, and there was peace in the land.
Then, exactly one hundred years ago, a rift opened in time and space. From a realm known as the Before Times, there emerged the very ancient race of Vampires. These otherworldly beings knew only war and bloodshed, and sought to consume and conquer the inhabitants of this new world they found themselves in.
Great conflict engulfed the land. After a long struggle, the Beastfolk were able to use their wild magic to seal the Vampires back into the Before Times. While the Beastfolk were successful in sealing the threat away, such power took an immense strain on their druids, and they perished. The Humans also suffered heavy losses, and in their weakness became suspicious and untrusting. They had witnessed the feral might of the Beastfolk and came to fear it.
A rift formed between the two races. Humans looked at the Beastfolk as though they were ‘monsters’ and dedicated themselves to discovering how to defeat their former neighbors. In turn, the Beastfolk slowly became resentful and aggressive towards the increasingly antagonistic human patrols.
The Humans erected from the ruins a great settlement, and they named this and the surrounding lands Transhelensvania.
As the friction between races grew, the land fell out of balance. The Humans destroyed the landscape in order to fuel their rapid developments. The Beastfolk, infuriated with the destruction of their homes and the persecution of their people, fell deeper and deeper into beastial states. They became indistinguishable from the beasts of the woods, and the Humans made new names for them - berserker. Skinchanger. Warg. Werebeast. It has come to the point where both Humans and Werebeast will attack each other on sight, and there is very little love lost between these former allies.
While all of this conflict grew over a hundred years, the destruction of the land and the fighting between Humans and Werebeasts have weakened the magic sealing the portal to the Before Times. Every once in a while, a Vampire slips through, and when it does chaos ensues until the creature is destroyed. Now, on All Hallows Eve, the portal is ready to reopen, unleashing the Vampires back into the world. And with the rising of the moon, one faction may find a way to use its powers for their own. Will the warring factions of Humans and Werebeasts put their differences aside to ally against the returning threat? Or will the Vampires take advantage of the tensions between these factions, to ensure a foothold in this land? You decide!
