Mortals

"“Beast of flesh with mind of reason and a shard of divinity tucked neatly away inside.”  - The Palandyne"In many ways, Mortals have always been the favored children of all the gods the most numerous sapient species in all of creation. It was mortal wizards who cast out all others from the World and tore the bridges between realms asunder, fastening the arcane fortress of Evaron forever between the two.

Fragile, slow, and even dimwitted compared to most every other creature, even the simplest of Mortals bear within them a power which challenges the very divines - their simple acknowledgement of a fact, place, or even entity can make it real and true, even where it was not before. More importantly, the absence of that recognition can in due time whittle the very gates of Hell down to mouseholes, or the True Names of Gods to empty whispers.

All of creation bows to the will of these inexplicably beloved people, and it is this power which so few Mortals even recognize that makes them so very dangerous.

Mortal wizards crushed the dragons beneath their heel and cut down the Unseelie Court of the Faeries to the last changeling child. It was the Mortal Tzadikim Nistarim which unwove Mab into the Northern Lights, imprisoned the gods they once revered, and even harried Death itself into hiding.

Even more terrifying, it was Mortal armies that laid waste to all of Faerie, reducing the cities of Gorias and Finnias to radioactive ash in the War."“In the last few thousand years, humans have gotten really, really good at killing stuff. We’ve been practicing on ourselves since we figured out which end of the stick was pointy.  By now, I figure we’re about ready for you.” - Jennifer Crombie, to all of Faerie, via the Numina."