Setting
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Dark Radiance is set
in the late Victorian era, the year about 1890, in a
fictitious corner of London named Cruor Cross. It may bear
some resemblance to Victorian London in our history books, but
is a darker, more sinister, a hopeless place. Things
hide in the shadows here. Are they human? Are they
something else? Maybe it is only your
imagination?
Dark Radiance is a world unlike ours. Here supernatural races have existed for millennia side by side with humans, only hidden. In years past, humans lived in small villages, most humans did not travel very far, communication between places was unreliable and slow. Supernatural creatures could hide themselves well and if by chance they were discovered to humans the exposure was contained to just a few humans. A whole village could disappear if need be or if in a large city death and disease take many what is a few more. By the Victorian period, things had changed. In the past few centuries, humans had become numerous, exceptionally numerous. Humanity now outnumbered the supernatural creatures by thousands to one. Humans had created communications "technology" that linked the cities and most small villages, communications that could be fast. Human innovation also developed more and more devastating weapons, some powerful enough to give the strongest supernaturals pause. No longer could the supernaturals be casual about hiding from humanity, hiding became imperative. "The Masquerade" as the vampires term it is absolutely necessary. |
London
As mentioned earlier, Dark Radiance is set in a
small corner of a fictitious London named Cruor Cross and is bordered by forest. It is not
meant to represent any specific part of London, it could not anyway since Dark Radiance is
on the coast and London is not. The intention is to have some city area but still have some
wilder area to play in.
