Supernaturals

Savannah’s Supernatural allure seems to stem from an old, potent energy tied to the city’s turbulent and rich history. Settlers may have unknowingly brought with them remnants of their own haunted lands, or perhaps their presence fed the spirits of Savannah with human passion, sorrow, and fear. This connection formed a symbiotic, almost magnetic pull for supernatural beings seeking purpose, power, or just survival, resulting in a population of vampires, shifters, witches and other supernatural entities within Savannah's shadowed corners and hidden tunnels.

Age: Because of their intimate connection to the Earth's Telluric energies the process for aging has slowed for Supernaturals; some are known to live to 500 years and retain a much more youthful appearance.

Sex/gender identification: Supernaturals can be any gender or identification. There are no biases or stereotypes towards any particular gender. 

Children: Supernaturals (except Vampires) are fertile and are able to have children. They can mate and birth children with every race but vampires, who by their nature are infertile.

• • When bearing a  child with a Human there is a 50% chance of the child being a supernatural and 50% of being human (no powers),

  • When bearing a child with a Gifted there is a 50 - 50 chance of the child being a supernatural or Gifted

  • When bearing a child with a Supernatural of another race there is a 50 - 50 chance of the child being a supernatural of either race.

  • When bearing a child with another Supernatural of the same race, it is  guaranteed that the child will be a supernatural of the same race.

See Rules about minors in the Sim in the RULES pages

Telluric Energy: The Double-Edged Current

All supernatural life in Savannah draws from the same buried current: Telluric Energy.

It is the city’s hidden lifeblood, a geomantic pulse that flows beneath cobblestones, along ley lines, and through the bones of the dead. Those attuned to it gain power, perception, and endurance beyond mortal reach. But Telluric Energy is not a passive force.

To draw from it is to enter a pact of temperance versus consumption. The energy demands harmony between body, mind, and spirit. Those who take too deeply, too often, or without respect for the equilibrium find that the same current which elevates them also begins to erode them from within.

Telluric energy is thus both source and poison, a divine paradox that sustains the supernatural order while ensuring that none can master it completely. Its flow demands respect, restraint, and renewal; to lose that balance is to fall into obsession, madness, or monstrous decay.

Supernatural Perception & Telluric Sensitivity

Across Savannah’s Shrouded world, supernaturals experience reality through heightened sensitivity to the telluric energies that pulse beneath the city’s streets, rivers, and history. These currents, ancient, volatile, and woven into the land, resonate differently through each race, creating a subtle but unmistakable awareness when one supernatural encounters another. This “sense” is not visual, verbal, or clairvoyant; rather, it is a tension in the air,a hum in the bones, an instinctual recognition that someone else is other.

However, this perception has limits. Supernaturals cannot identify another’s race through this sensitivity alone. A vampire cannot distinguish a shifter from a witch on first contact; a witch cannot immediately tell a Strix from a white-claw from resonance alone. ll they perceive is that the person before them is not human. Only with time, observation, behavior, and experience does one begin to recognize the hallmarks of another. In contrast, members of the same race can often identify one another more quickly, sometimes instantly, sometimes gradually, through shared resonance, instinct, or subtle energetic patterns unique to their kind. 

The Gifted, however, stand apart. Although they can sense the presence of the supernatural, they cannot discern the nature of the supernatural. And unlike other supernaturals, the Gifted cannot be sensed by vampires, witches, shifters, Masons, Strix, or even their own kind. To the supernaturals, humans and the gifted would feel the same. Gifted move through the Shrouded world as anomalies in the telluric field, present but undetectable unless they reveal themselves. This makes the Gifted both invaluable and dangerously unpredictable in Savannah’s delicate balance of power.