Background and lore:
The world has always had people with special abilities - known in this setting as the Gifted.
Some simply outlived their friends and families, never understanding why. Others became powerful warlords, using their abilities to lead armies and plunge the world into wars that claimed uncountable lives. In response, laws were passed declaring that anyone known to possess an ability was to be killed on sight.
That only led to more bloodshed.
When the authorities finally decided enough lives had been lost, they changed their methods. Instead of executing the Gifted outright, they contained them. Some were used as experiments. Some were trained as elite fighters for wars that might one day come. Others were locked away so deep beneath the earth that the only time they would ever see the light again was on the day of their possible execution.
Eventually, a new law was passed: the Gifted could no longer be punished simply for existing. They still held the belief of "Life's Right", meaning they were allowed to walk free unless they actually committed a crime.
Not that this stopped people from seeing them as freaks.
Even after the Gifted were legally free to use their abilities for good, or simply to earn a living, most kept their powers hidden. They feared what the world would think if it saw what they could do, especially given how rare their kind had become.
But all of that fragile progress was undone when a group of self-proclaimed "anti-freaks", backed by several paramilitary organizations with far too many weapons and far too little common sense, launched a cleansing. Thousands of Gifted were killed.
The future looked bleak for those who remained.
Then one person - whose true name was unknown, and who came to be called only the 'Guardian' - somehow managed to wipe the minds of the entire world, making humanity forget that the Gifted had ever existed.
Now, several years later, the world continues as normal, with no knowledge of what happened in the past.
Are there any Gifted still alive? If so, what are they doing?
And did everyone - absolutely everyone - truly forget?
Current setting
The current year is 2036 - 12 years after the 'Forgetting'.
The roleplay takes place in an alternate Earth universe. This means that while the names of cities, countries, cultures, and historical events may resemble those of the real world, they are not exact copies.
Real-world geography, politics, and history may be used as inspiration, but they should not be treated as strict canon. Nations may have different borders, cities may have different names or histories, and major world events may have unfolded differently due to the existence of the Gifted. You're free to invent your own governments, laws, organizations and historical incidents and refer to real-world locations, cultures and aesthetics as long as it's adapted to fit the lore of the roleplay.
If we have enough people interested in the roleplay, I'll post an opening scene and we can go from there. I'm pretty easygoing with ideas and plots as long as they hold the usual RP tenets (no Godmodding, autohitting, metagaming) and they make sense in this world.
