my30dayworld: Day 17 to 21

City in Shadows

Which races populate your world?

I already mentioned them so, talk about them again will be a bit redundant: but Vampires, Demons, Angels, Skin Changers, Faeries, Wizards and Outer dimensional godlike entities. 

Which Relics of Old shape your world?

A bunch of ancient books and relics of legends are scattered around the world. The big stone tablets written by the outsiders in the time of their first incursion are still out there. Not each tablet was recovered or even found its location. I'll mention a few of the most notable Relics and Amulets within the knowledge of the council.

The Enemies Gate:  This is the name given to stone tablets inscribed with the Others glyph, rites and incantations that will help them get into our reality. Some of them were found in Germany near the end of World War II when the first Incursion was repelled. There are rumors of many more out there but their locations remain unknown for many of the low ranks of all the races. Only the council and their inner circles are the ones with knowledge about them.

The Abominations Tome: Written down by a Wizard with an unholy interest in transgressions against the patterns of life on earth. Within its pages the secrets to create the most unholy aberrations are contained. One of the creations of this Dark Wizard was the inspiration for a certain book in which pages a mad scientist dreaming of perfection created something unholy. 

The Six Swords: The swords of the Executors of the council are on of the most renown Relics in the entire world. All the races know about the swords. They were forged with the remains of an ancient dead god and imbued with the power of the first council members. This swords are meant to cancel the powers of one of the races. Each is possessed by the personal Executor of the representative of such race in the Council to avoid any member to become power hungry and disrupt the order, that is fragile at best.

Other relics will be mention later. For the time this are some of the most relevant ones. 

How are Taxes and Tributes collected in your world?

Not much to mention here. Urban Fantasy reflects our world so many of the taxes are collected as usual in our world. Tributes among the races are not that much of a thing except when doing rituals or summoning them. Topic for another day.

Are there evil races in your world?

Good and evil are within all the races, although one could say an slight exception of this rule are Angels and Demons. Nonetheless the truly evil race seeking for the destruction of everything in existence are the Others, The enemies. Besides them all the races have the potential to play good and evil. Their nature is based in their personality not in their race. The first conflict in heavens proved us that not all angels are free from darkness and many demons aid humanity through the ages proving that not their entire race is free from the capacities of doing good. 

Are there many Underground locations beneath your world?

There exist a place that is called Undercity created out of the mix of magical energies from the various individuals of their cities and the constant presence of the void trying to break through into our reality. within this place lay a great place in which various races established merchant guilds, information brokers nets and many more things under the cities of the mundanes. Finding entrances to the Undercity is hard and in most of the cases you need to be invite to the Undercity if you want to find it. Not all the races now where it is. Not all members of each race are allowed in the Undercity. All of those who are within are meant to protect the city and those who invite new members to the city are responsible for their guest actions until membership is extended upon them.