Plot

It began slowly, like the first trickle of water into a long forgotten creek bed. A few strange occurrences, a few strange animal tracks, people complaining of being bewitched an awaking with small puncture wounds on their bodies. Things the police had long since disregarded as impossible.

It wasn't that the otherkin had ever left. They had been forgotten. Some had once been worshipped as gods, then disregarded as one disregards broken toys. Some withered and died, many of the fey chose to fade rather than be less important, less wanted and even worse, to be thought of as mere children's tales. The Vampires and Shapeshifters went back into hiding, as not too attract hunters or expose themselves without meaning.

But, when the new millennium came, and fewer still believed in the otherkin, the different groups contacted each other. None of them could abide by human ignorance any longer. It was decided that they would rather die trying to gain back their power, than live and be subject to the humans.

The Witches Council, a neutral barrier between the mundane and the magical had long ago forbidden the otherkin to fight with the humans, believing that it was better to be alive than visible. They caught wind of the alliance forming between the groups of otherkin, they tried to stop it, but because they were neutral territory they could not interfere more than trying to talk them out of it. They failed.

The Council did send word to all of England's Witches, so they would not get dragged under. They did not think it would spread past England's borders.

The Otherkin came out from their shadows in a none too subtle fashion, first they were fairly decent. They went to the Government, to the Monarch, but nothing came of it. By December 2006 London was under siege. The theory was that if London could be taken, then the rest would surrender.

On January 3rd 2007 Queen Elizabeth was assassinated and many of the nobility taken, stolen away by the Otherkin. England was shocked. Vampire slayers, hunters and executioners of varying degrees of ability tried to kill the eldest vampires, they fey, any of the otherkin. They killed the Master of London, but such was the power of the Other kin, most of the vampires were saved. The humans tried bombing, and it worked a little bit, but the were facing a formidable enemy that had lived unseen for centuries.

The humans are frightened, the otherkin are craving their power, or, most of them are. And the Witches are caught between their humanity and their link with all that is other. Who will you fight for?

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