For every happy ending, every handshake sealing a new peace treaty... there's a knife in the back. A bullet in a skull. Magic didnt change that. It only brought new ways to do the same old things.
And with new ways come old enemies. The boogeymen that we lived in fear of as cavemen and villagers. When our greatest technological advancement was fire and rock. The things that go bump in the night.... they did so much more then.
But humans are if anything resilient and we thrived. Spread across the world. Through the Ice and Snow of the far Arctic. Through Jungles of China and her neighbors. Even to the Land down under. A mystery for quite some time...
But we brought our fears and boogeymen with us. At least until we turned on the light of science. As the years and generations grew our foes and fears retreated. We didnt know why... but eventually the real threat of vampires, werewolves, tricksters, and demons... faded away into the ether they came from.
And now they're back.
And we have no defenses. What were once instructions to ward oneself from the dangers of the night have become muddied and distorted.
And so we were formed.
We have no nation.
We dont exist.
Something has to take care of the things that go bump in the night and those that make deals with them.
We are the Goddamn Batman.
We are the Fifth Element.
*B-weeee...*