It's just a question of maths, really.
Humans are 7 billion (7,000,000,000) people.
Half of them are women. (3,500,000,000)
Approximatedly 1 in each 100,000 shows the genetic markers to become a Witch and manipulate arcane powers that defy comprehension (35,000)
Add that the ratio of arcane powers between women and men is 1000:1 (35,035)
This is a world where 90% of the wealth is accumulated on 10% of the people.
When these Witches awoke, be it because solar activity, climate change, pollution or cosmic alignments, how many of these were born in the 90% of the world who struggled to make a living?(31,532)
And... how many of those, having gained reality bending powers overnight, sought to overturn their situation?
The world as we knew... was torn aside in what we know as the Great Awakening, the Walpurgisnacht.
Humans are 7 billion (7,000,000,000) people.
Half of them are women. (3,500,000,000)
Approximatedly 1 in each 100,000 shows the genetic markers to become a Witch and manipulate arcane powers that defy comprehension (35,000)
Add that the ratio of arcane powers between women and men is 1000:1 (35,035)
This is a world where 90% of the wealth is accumulated on 10% of the people.
When these Witches awoke, be it because solar activity, climate change, pollution or cosmic alignments, how many of these were born in the 90% of the world who struggled to make a living?(31,532)
And... how many of those, having gained reality bending powers overnight, sought to overturn their situation?
The world as we knew... was torn aside in what we know as the Great Awakening, the Walpurgisnacht.
- Extract from the handwritten notes of a scientist found in Geneva, Switzerland
Okay, so this is my third attempt at doing a RPG ever in this board. Witch Hunter - Apocalyse, as its name indicates, will be about hunting witches. But it will also be set in a world that is very much like our own, except it was turned upside down by the surgence of the supernatural, long thought to be just an old wives' tale.
As a result of a lot of people (the eponymous Witches, often women, but very rarely men) gaining game-changing power overnight, Governments collapsed, and the world was turned around in a state of disrepair and anarchy, where Witches like ages old warlords, or in this case warladies compete fiercely for resources and thralls, much like the ones before them. With this surgence of magic unto the world, creatures of myth that were thought to not have existed (what we will be calling supernals for the sake of simplicity, even if it's an eclectic group that includes from unicorns to undead) have returned.
However, not everything was destroyed. The embers of civilization still are lit, in the form of Operation Zero, or OZ for short. The last ditch effort of all the old world's government to restore order. People, supernals, and even witches who don't wish ill to mankind fill their ranks (although witches get a lot of flak for the sins of their kin).
You will be one of them.
You will hunt witches.
