Ever since the dawn of time there have always been magical creatures in the world. You had your faireies and faye's. Elves, of all shapes and sizes, from the most regal looking ones to the not so good looking ones. Goblins and dwarves. Dragons and lake monsters. Vampires, werewolves, unicorns, centaurs and enchanted forests reigned supreme. And they all lived together in harmony.
Elves and werewolves always, ALWAYS helped each other hunt the plentiful game that was in the woods. Dragons and the monsters that ruled over the lakes and oceans and massive seas often let their children play together. The unicorns and fayes were rarely, if never seen away from each other. Centuars usuallyed stayed alone, deep in the dark, uncharted parts of the forests. Sometimes they would venture out to mingle and check on the daily life outside the darkness but not often.
The fairies loved to play jokes on the vampires and would often fly around their head, buzzing or leave their clothing a bright color that they normally didn't wear. Many of the vampiric clan didn't mind much, they usually enjoyed it. And for those who rather want to keep their clothing black tried to find a way to trick the fairies back, and most of the time they failed. The playful banter back and forth was calming and usually brought about new friendships and many tales to tell the young ones.
At the dawn of a new century...no one really cared for dates so we don't really know when...a new type of being arrived that had the possibility to change the world, life as they knew it. So terrifying and great...
Well maybe not that terrifying...Not yet anyway.
Humans came to the world that day. They basically - as the elders now tell us - stumbled into existance. None of the magical creatures that inhabitited the planet knew where they came from. Just out of the blue really. Imagine a unicorn's surprise to see a human shivering and freezing in the frozen tundra that was their home. The centaurs shock to see a skinny, lanky human male sweating and damn near dehydrated in the deserts of Sholok. The lake monsters in amazement to see this small human child soaking wet and very grumpy.
The Elves - the most regal looking ones who were blonde haired and grey eyed with pointed ears - were the first to go up and see these beings that were so like them yet so unlike them as well. Couldn't they make things appear out of thin air too? Change the weather when they got angry? Fly? They came up and fed them, clothed them. Taught them the ways of the enviorment. How to catch things to eat, how to build shelter out of almost any piece of foilage. All the things needed to know to survive in this ever changing, and sometimes exploding - thanks to the dwarves - hostile world.
As the Elves made contact with these beings and told the others stories about what they do and how fast they learned, others started to slowly but surely come foward. They wanted to see this, experience this for themselves.
Dragons, centaurs, goblins and many if not all of the vampires however held their distance. They tried to warn the others of this foreboding sense they all could feel. The dragons and vampires usually would come together and observe the humans from a distance. THey watched as humans began to learn things faster and do things their own way, speak to each other and they got even more efficent with building. Vampires really didn't want to get close or become friends with any of those things down there in the valley or on hills, on mountain tops.
It would save most of their kind and be the other creatures downfall.