And the truth is: Monsters exists. Some are human, some once were. Many faces. Many horrors. All the supernatural creatures from legends and nightmares: vampires, lycanthropes, ghosts, witches, demons and more, all existing at the outline of humanity. They live in the darkest of forests, in that abondoned house that no one walks into anymore or even in plain sight like in the very same mall we buy our groceries in or the same school or workplace our family goes to every day.
Some of these monsters see human population as nothing more than toys, tools or food. Others try to live alongside humankind in peace, even trying to fit in in our world. Unfortunately for humans, regardless how harmless the intent of one of these supernatural creatures might be, their very presence still presents a danger to those around them. They can have abilities, knowledge or enemies that are potentially deadly for those who unknowingly could become caught in the crossfire, facing powers that shouldn't even exist in the first place.
Unfortunately, not believing in these monsters doesn't make these creatures less dangerous. Instead, it creates a space, a safe zone in which they can exist and multiply and continue to threaten humankind. While we live our lives and worry about things like school or work, politics, money and love, these creatures, these unseen threats, continue to endanger us, as they have for centuries, protected by their victims' self-imposed blindness to the peril they face. Protected by the fact that their victims are as if asleep.
But in the darkness, exists light. A miniority of mankind that saw the truth, that encountered one or more of these creatures, woke up from the slumber which traps everyone else, and chose to fight. Every first encounter is different. It can be a police officer who sees a pattern amidst several crimes, where a person can enter locked rooms without a key, disappear into thin air and kill with a single touch. First he rationalizes, he tries to think logically, but the patterns break all laws of logic. It can be a priest who finds himself listening to the slurred tale of a woman who claims to have "stolen" the life of another. It can't be true, but later on he finds her burying a body that looks identical to hers. Or it could be a woman with a violent child who gets confronted by men in ragged clothing. They say that her child is "like them" and that "they" are his family now before stealing the boy.
Whatever the first encounter is, some of these encounters awakens the victim. Some of these awakenings results in granting people special abilities to help them rise to the challenge, while others don't. But one thing is common for all these awakened individuals. They rise to the challenge and become Hunters.
The Hunters may be driven to destroy the source of their hatred, the creatures that live amongst them, or to protect the ones they love. They may be driven by bravery, curiousity, greed, lust, hope or anger. They seek, in one way or another, to turn the tables on the monsters of the world. Armed with weapons or abilities, wits or just bravery, they make the choice to open their eyes. To enter the darkness with the little light they bring with them. They choose to learn, to seek, to explore and to hunt. They choose to become Awakened.
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