Like the 'real world' has lots of races (Chinese, German, etc.), so does the 'Buffy-verse', except it's Orc, Shedar-Kai, etc. (We're merging Buffy, modern world, and D&D universes...)
Like the 'real world', everyone has heard of Vampires & magic from myths & fantasy stories, but nobody actually believes in them. Except, of course, the covert Vampire nation whose immortal elders have centuries ago secreted away all knowledge of magic & Undead from the living.
Among secret Vampiric circles, magic is openly used and practiced, but this secret is gaurded from the living at the highest costs. Over the centuries, the elders and their spawn have infiltrated the highest ranks of religion, government, etc.
Unknown to the world at large, magic exists and it (and the world) is controlled by a heirarchy of ancient and powerful Vampire Covens. All the world disbelieves in Vampires, expect for 'the Watchers', a religious order of largely Devas trained and sworn to watch for and train the Zodiac Slayers prophesized to tip the scales in the final times in the covert war between living and dead.
Through Vampire political manipulations, Devas as a race are wanted globally as criminals, and because of their infinite previous lifetimes, is largely assumed to be true by most of the living. The Vampires hate them because their immortality means they remember a thousand years ago before they changed all the historic and religious tomes, artifacts, hiding the truth of magic and Undead. The Vampires also hate Devas because their immortality makes them un-sireable into Undead. Covertly the Vampires have been hunting down and destroying their holy spots to eliminate this 'living surge'.
The power and numbers of the Vampire Nation is growing to critical mass & many Covens are beginning to whisper the time of the 'Great Feast' is at hand... an all out feeding and open war against the living.
Giles, a Deva and Watcher, upset that he failed to find all 12 of the Zodiac Slayers, traveled from one end of the continent to the other seeking out, gathering, and training Slayers (PCs) along the way. Giles finds each of you (adolescent/puberty age) in some level of fighting Vampires and/or rebelling against the law (controlled by Vampires) and having suddenly experienced a spurt in abilities (stats changed with puberty/adolescence).
Giles' training so far basically can be summed up as: gives you each a wooden stake, Vampires are real, magic is real, the PCs are the prophesized Zodiac Slayers destined to awaken super abilites and rid the world of Vampires and other Undead.
It is the night before the Harvest Moon and Giles tells you all that inside this coastal casino the following night will be a Vampire ritual at 5 minutes to Dawn (the Undead 'witching hour') that needs to be stopped. Giles assures you that this trial will unlock untapped abilities in each of you (we will roleplay the PCs' first use ever of Class powers/magic).
The casino is more like the cantina in Star Wars than real world. Youth are warned against entering as they tend to be 'wild west' and sinful, but there's no such thing as a 'drinking age' or anything. As Devas are wanted and arrested on sight by the Vampire controlled law, Giles is hanging out deep in the woods outside the casino waiting for the party, and gives each PC 100gp to eat, drink, gamble, investigate the casino before tomorrow's ritual...
...Let me know if I missed anything crucial describing the new campaign that you want to know to build a fun PC. Note: each PC just so happens to have a birthmark or childhod scar earily in the shape of one of the 12 Zodiac symbols somewhere on their person.
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