Jagger "Jag" Crowe (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jaglikethecar) wrote2017-05-20 09:23 pm
jaglikethecar) wrote2017-05-20 09:23 pm
World Information & History
World Information
The time is current, 2017. Jagger's world is much like our own. It's loud, over-populated. Modern. It's the Cycle of Man, and that is what some of the "Other" elements, Hidden from the eyes of the mortal world want to change. The Earth is home to roughly 6.5 billion people who are completely normal. Nothing specifically special about them, they have no knowledge of magic outside their superstitious histories and fiction novels. But there exists a world hidden from their eyes, a world older than modern society, a world that is dying out, whose dwindling numbers were forced into hiding centuries ago, and who are, unbeknownst to the outside world, locked in a war between maintaining the status quo and bringing about a New World in which the Hidden need no longer fear the light. This war is very real to the pockets of Hidden, the werewolves, the vampires, the mages, and the witches, the Minders and the Fae. At least...the ones blessed with being raised by their own...
History
Jag's story starts out a pretty sad one, even before he was born. His mommy was a Minder, a type of Hidden that is technically a sub-species of humanity, which is why they're able to interbreed with them. Her powers, which Jagger inherited part of due to his mixed heredity, were that of clairvoyance and psychometry (touching an object and reading psychic imprints from it). Normally, Minders are taught from a very young age how to control their powers. That was not the case here.
Jagger's mother, Peyton, fled south from the Isle of Man after her clan was slaughtered by an unnamed enemy. She took refuge in the huge human city of London, East End, and met Jagger's father, Harrison Crowe, who ran a bed and breakfast there. She never told him what she was, but they fell in love quickly enough. They married, and two years later, little Jagger was born, which put even more strain on Peyton's already fragile mind. As the war escalated, Peyton's sanity eroded away, by night terrors, visions of death, warnings she couldn't effect. She'd never been a completely stable person, but her sanity quickly forced Harrison to put her in a home...or at least, that was the intention.
Pesky powers like clairvoyance make it hard to spring things on people, and one night, when Jagger was just past his second birthday, Peyton awoke from a vision most foul. She'd always been aware of the fragility of her own mind. Recently, she'd been feeling herself slipping into the abyss her mind was so often forced to peer into, but she was certain of one thing in particular: something was coming for her and her son, and it would continue to come unless she did something to stop it. She spent more and more time forcing herself to use her abilities to look into the future, into the past, at the different threads of time, trying to determine which course of events would lead her Jagger's ultimate safety.
The time is current, 2017. Jagger's world is much like our own. It's loud, over-populated. Modern. It's the Cycle of Man, and that is what some of the "Other" elements, Hidden from the eyes of the mortal world want to change. The Earth is home to roughly 6.5 billion people who are completely normal. Nothing specifically special about them, they have no knowledge of magic outside their superstitious histories and fiction novels. But there exists a world hidden from their eyes, a world older than modern society, a world that is dying out, whose dwindling numbers were forced into hiding centuries ago, and who are, unbeknownst to the outside world, locked in a war between maintaining the status quo and bringing about a New World in which the Hidden need no longer fear the light. This war is very real to the pockets of Hidden, the werewolves, the vampires, the mages, and the witches, the Minders and the Fae. At least...the ones blessed with being raised by their own...
History
Jag's story starts out a pretty sad one, even before he was born. His mommy was a Minder, a type of Hidden that is technically a sub-species of humanity, which is why they're able to interbreed with them. Her powers, which Jagger inherited part of due to his mixed heredity, were that of clairvoyance and psychometry (touching an object and reading psychic imprints from it). Normally, Minders are taught from a very young age how to control their powers. That was not the case here.
Jagger's mother, Peyton, fled south from the Isle of Man after her clan was slaughtered by an unnamed enemy. She took refuge in the huge human city of London, East End, and met Jagger's father, Harrison Crowe, who ran a bed and breakfast there. She never told him what she was, but they fell in love quickly enough. They married, and two years later, little Jagger was born, which put even more strain on Peyton's already fragile mind. As the war escalated, Peyton's sanity eroded away, by night terrors, visions of death, warnings she couldn't effect. She'd never been a completely stable person, but her sanity quickly forced Harrison to put her in a home...or at least, that was the intention.
Pesky powers like clairvoyance make it hard to spring things on people, and one night, when Jagger was just past his second birthday, Peyton awoke from a vision most foul. She'd always been aware of the fragility of her own mind. Recently, she'd been feeling herself slipping into the abyss her mind was so often forced to peer into, but she was certain of one thing in particular: something was coming for her and her son, and it would continue to come unless she did something to stop it. She spent more and more time forcing herself to use her abilities to look into the future, into the past, at the different threads of time, trying to determine which course of events would lead her Jagger's ultimate safety.