Belonging

Humans of this world think they rule. In part they are correct in their thinking. They rule over the other humans, create their own laws, have their own prisons. It was not always this way. They used to rule all. The shifters of this world are stronger, faster, and somewhat smarter than the humans. They just wanted to be left alone. Humans are greedy by nature so they just couldn’t pass up the opportunity. They would capture shifters and keep them as pets. Set up traps, poisoning the shifters whatever they could do to capture them. They even got other shifters to sell out their own kind.

Eventually, the shifters got tired of obeying the humans. They wanted to be treated with the respect that they deserved and should have a right to. All the different kinds of shifters got together. The ones that ruled the Great Forests, also the ones that ruled the Mountains and Skies, even the Waterpeople, all of them got involved. They planned and then they went to War. These Wars lasted years, many died. Humans and shifters alike.

Eventually, the humans surrendered, and agreed to go along with the new governing structure that the shifters came up with. There would be a council with a representative for each group of shifter types and from each major city of the humans. This council would agree on the laws that would apply to all races, shifter and human. Other than the major decisions, the humans would rule the humans and the shifters would rule the shifters.

The Waterpeople, who usually live in the oceans and are rarely seen outside of them, were not part of this council. They do not meddle in the land-dwellers business, so they went back to the oceans after the Wars ended. Years past. They were basically forgotten. The shifters and humans got along to an extent, but usually kept apart from each other. Eventually, however, as it so often does when humans are involved, history starts to repeat itself.