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Long ago monsters and humans lived in harmony with one another. They were as one, and there was peace.
However, the peace would not last.
One day, a young monster killed a human child. The humans wept for the child, and banished the monsters from their cities, fearing they would loose their own young ones.
Monsters became second-rate citizens, forced to do hard labor with barely enough pay to feed their families, much less keep a roof over their head. The monsters, in their desperation, lashed out at the humans knowing they would not be able to live in conditions like this for long. But the humans refused.
Tightening their policy on monsters, the humans prohibited having anything to do with them. Often going out of their way to hunt down and kill monsters for sport.
Having enough, the monsters retaliated and started a war, a war the monsters could not win. A monster’s soul is weak, and cannot stand up to a human’s, as a human’s soul is filled with something called DETERMINATION.
Lacking this, the monsters were slaughtered. Having no other choice, they surrendered and were banished to the slums of Ebott, a smog-infested city where the sun was never seen. Monsters seen outside of Ebott were killed on sight.
Not having a proper justice system, the monsters formed a Mafia gang known as The Ancients, which roughly ruled over Ebott.
There was a tentative peace.
The Mafia Boss and his wife had a child, who had one day saved a young human from a bear. The Mafia Bosses took the child in as their own, raising both of them with love and compassion. Ebott was happy.
The human fell ill. The child wished to see the sun again, but the smog covered the city blocked the sun. Since monsters would be killed on sight outside of Ebott, the wish could not be fulfilled. With few doctors, and none that had access to the latest technology, the human child died.
Wracked with grief, the son picked up the corpse of his sibling and snuck out of the city. He carried the child into the sun and cried out his anguish. But he was heard.
Humans had been in the area, and seeing the monster with the dead child in his arms, they had assumed the worst. They attacked the son, but the son did not retaliate.
He smiled sadly, and returned back to Ebott. Where upon entering his parent’s garden, died. His dust spread across the flowers his mother loved so much.
The Mafia boss and his wife had lost two children that night.
Inflicted with grief, the Boss declared that all humans who entered the city were to be killed on sight. His wife, destroyed over the loss of his children and disgusted at her husband’s barbaric actions, disappeared.
A new gang with a mysterious Boss has since risen up to rival The Ancient’s reign: The Ruins. While the two do not actively fight, tensions are high. Both are in a stalemate, waiting for the other to give them a reason to attack.
The monsters no longer dream of peace.