Technological advances make cyberware (mechanical replacement body parts) and bioware (augmented vat-grown body parts implanted in place of natural organs) common.

Megacorporations control the lives of their employees and command their own armies the ten largest have extraterritoriality, such as currently enjoyed by foreign heads of state. The magical races were named Metahumans are considered by some to be a subspecies of homo sapiens, additionally, a virus known as the Human Meta-Human Vampiric Virus (HMHVV), with many variant strains, has been known to cause further change, far beyond that of traditional vampirism. Following this event human mothers began giving birth to Elf and Dwarf infants and shortly after that a large number of human adults and adolescents were transformed in Trolls, Orks and Goblins through a process that was called Goblinization. As well as magic once mythical races like Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orks, Goblins and Dragons have also returned to the world, all this started when magic returned to the world in the year 2011. The world had to rebuild, and rebuild they did, this time in the image of the megacorporations that seized power. The United States was broken into substates. The emergence of magic, the outbreak of the VITAS plagues, the Computer Crash of 2029, the Euro-Wars, and the fevers for independence of Amerindian tribes, Chinese provinces, and everything else that came with the many struggles that ravaged Europe and Asia left the world's governments tumbling and falling. Set in a world incorporating elements of both cyberpunk and urban fantasy following a great change that returned magic to the world.

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