Lycanthropes, vampires and the supernatural have been a part of the world at large since time immemorial. They have been whispered about for ages, feared during full moons and dark nights. It has only been within the past two decades that they have been recognized as people, as more than monsters straight out of myth or legend.

The United States has given the right of citizenship to these preternaturals. It is now no longer legal to hunt down and kill a vampire or lycanthrope, and the law must be obeyed (if not oftentimes bent). But there is still fear and prejudice to move past. Thus, the preternaturals no longer just have each other to worry about, but the rest of the world as well.

Surprisingly enough, it is the vampires –- the undead -– which appear to have an easier time transitioning to this change. Despite their "habits", or perhaps because of them, theirs is a rising popularity. There is something glamorous about the vampiric lifestyle. The same cannot usually be said of lycanthropes. Though closer to life and the living than vampires (and maybe necromancers as well?), lycanthropes are typically viewed by the ordinary person as equivalent to lepers. Needless to say, these particular types of preternaturals have enough to worry about without factoring in a particularly bad reputation.

And so now is a time to worry about living as free as one can without raising an undue amount of attention. After all, someone is always watching, and someone is always waiting to call the hunt against the weres once more. This combined with keeping one's pack, one's pard or one's clan hale and hearty? It’s not for the weak of heart. Or mind.

Or stomach.