Yemaja

PEOPLE

People in Yemaja are all human.

...With some changes. The return of what’s only known as magic created physiological changes in most of the population. Most of them are fantastical, with some being born with wings, fangs, or whatever else. To something in the past, they likely meant something, but to those now, it just means being born after magic's return.

Not much is known on how they are formed. Multiple generations have shown that they can be inherited, suggesting that it could have run in the family for centuries, and only showed up now.

Doctors may perscribe exercise or to watch if any preexisting conditions affect inherited traits, but otherwise, the only challenges people are more likely to face are the social ones. Despite the first magic generations being decades ago, superstition, refusal to change, and shame still run deep.

THE GREATER CHALLENGE

When the first visually magically affected people emerged, about fifty or so years ago, the movement to accept the new century with all its changes proved a challenge. The first few were put under intense concern from their families and the media, leading to greater upset. Some of the more dramatic changes were followed by news outlets extensively until they refused further comment. Religious upset was created when scripture and reality now had dissonance, and leaders of faith have scrambled to reinterpret reality through belief, with historians following suit.

Those changed were often limited in the fashion they could wear, either learning to sew their own alterations or buy from expensive small businesses who catered to those like them. Countercultures emerged at the time that are not looked on favorably by those who once participated in them, scorning, hypocritically, those that now behave like their past selves.

Coping with these changes meant people's perspective changes, eventually. More and more people being born with these magical marks meant that it was here for good, for better or worse.

Beyond this shift, life continued as normal. People still must work and adaptive changes have been introduced slowly. Children often have to shoulder the denial of their equally changed parents, who have continued to perpetuate their biases. Public schools struggle to touch upon these subjects as normally as any other topic.

People are all still people.

A NEW GENERATION

Beyond the physical changes magic has brought, a newer, more volatile mark of its presence has appeared among a few– powers. Some have even called them Magicians.

Little know of their existence, and rather it being a grand scheme of secrecy, most are simply ashamed and scared. As real as they may be, will they face the same scrutiny their parents did? Will they be met with the same backlash? Only time will tell.