[ SECRET POST #2371 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2371 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[ariakas]

It's just a trope, one necessary to keep writing urban fantasy the way it's usually written (i.e. "small group of people have secret powers/knowledge and do battle with others in that small group"). Revealing the supernatural to authority figures or to the public at large would cause a paradigm shift in in our knowledge about the world - it would change everything. At that moment it stops being urban fantasy and becomes speculative fiction. The writer has to guess at how society would change; that's a lot of work, and it may not be what they want to do with their story. ...Even though it seems like ever other person the cast runs into is in on it.

Hahah my tabletop RP group lampooned this trope in a mixed White Wolf game one time: vampires, werewolves, mages, etc., were so good at pretending to be normal that one day a small group of them made a profound realization - "normal" humans were now a dying species. Every other person was a werewolf, vampire, or magic user in disguise - they'd turned/eaten/bred them out to the point of extinction, and there's no point in the Masquerade, or mages hiding their powers, etc., anymore. Of course, if these people reveal this to society at large there will be total war: the vampires need to capture and breed the last remaining humans or they're all going to starve to death, the werewolves can seize the chance to defeat their old enemies for good, and without having to worry about paradox mages can take the very fabric of reality apart.