Welcome to New Hope, Pennsylvania, the perfect place to raise a family. With luscious greenery and a rich history, New Hope is the home to many different people from all walks of life. All of the townspeople will proclaim this proudly but there is much more to that than even they realize. Beneath the picturesque houses and happy families living their lives, working at local businesses, there is a whole world that not many people know about.
Starting with the local werewolf pack, the Masque.
This pack include all types of people. Some of them may be your neighbor. Once the full moon rolls around, they became their canis lupus counterparts. While they only appear as just regular wolves, they have elevated strength and rapid healing (especially in animal form). When they are in their human forms, they do share a slight telepathy with their pack members. Only with some serious practice can they keep the rest of the pack out of their heads, and even then, the Alpha male (or in this case Alpha female) can still hear them.
Werewolves are born in two sorts of ways. One, they are born with the gene and phase typically sometime during their puberty when emotions and hormones are raging. Or two, they are turned. One can only turn a human into a werewolf with the permission of their alpha. The punishment for turning without permission includes banishment or death.
But the wolves aren't the only creatures in the night. There are also vampires walking the night, and sometimes the day. The vampires, who will burn and turn to ash if caught in the brilliant rays, can only walk during the day if they wear one of three existing pieces of jewelry. One is a ring, the other is a necklace and the third is a bracelet. Only the ring and necklace's whereabouts are known. (Vampires without the necklace or ring are completely unable to be outside in the daylight)
There's a darker past when it comes to the lives of those in the underworld. There was a vampire named Phillip who wanted to rise up against the group of vampires that play as the preternatural judge and jury (Called the Council). He was a member of the local vampire coven. His first step was to take over the city, and he wanted to accomplish this by taking down the wolf pack. This was something that the other vampires in the coven did not know about so when they saw the devastation he started to create among the wolves, they backed out. Phillip was run out of town but he had caused his damage. The elder Alpha male leader of the pack was one of those killed, leaving his young daughter to take over.
Despite being natural enemies, this caused an even wider rift between the coven and the wolf pack. But the drama wasn't over. The Council approached the vampires and warned them that if a single human was harmed, all of the vampires would be killed off. So would the wolves. But Phillip still wants his revenge so he is constantly trying to cause problems in town. Amidst that, they kind of have to protect the town, and try to keep everyone alive.
This is the world of New Hope. Welcome, and we hope you enjoy your stay.