Yemaja

PEOPLE

People in Yemaja are all human.

...With some changes. The return of magic created physiological changes in most of the population. Most of them are fantastical, with some being born with wings, fangs, unique ears or even odd coloration. To something in past, they likely meant something, but to those now, it's a hallmark of those being born after magic's return.

In truth, not much is known on how they are formed. Multiple generations have shown that they are inherited, suggesting they were dormant, or that the first parent in a family tree exposed to it sets what is expressed to the rest of their children. No current scientific testing can verify the source, being just about as impossible as finding the cure to cancer.

However, studies have shown that these changes do not mean much for the individual. Doctors may perscribe exercise or to watch if any preexisting conditions effect inherited traits, but otherwise, the only challenges people are more likely to face are the social ones.

THE GREATER CHALLENGE

For a general culture that emphasized family relations, the movement to accept the new century- with all its changes- proved a challenge. The first were put under intense concern from their families and religion, leading some to infer a doomsday or assume they had failed as parents in some form. Those with more noticable changes sometimes assumed they were doing something "wrong" and trying finding ways to cope. Socially, they 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. Coping with these changes meant people's perspectives changed. Others found escapism in becoming Magicians.

Beyond this shift, life continues as normal. People still must work and adaptive changes have been introduced slowly. Children often have to shoulder the denialism of their equally changed parents, who have continued to perpetuate generational traumas. Younger magicians increase, without the skewed perception of magic their parents inherited. Public schools touch upon these subjects as normally as any other topic.

People are all still people.