it as a nice night out, a full moon and not a cloud in the sky as you walk to your friend's apartment. the world has gotten a lot more magic in the past few decades following 2012. it wasn't the end as people thought it was but it was the end for the mundane world at least, as its kind of hard to hide the supernatural with the older bloodlines waking up with making reviving itself for the 6th time in over coutless millennia.
new borns were born with tasks or pointed ears, the Mediterranean islands transform into something more similar to ones you would find in the greek epics of old, hundreds of people awaken to the world of magic overnight and nearly blow it up too. it was pure chaos as governments fell and rise in a short span of time as the world tried to understand what it's going on. its been about 2 decades now and the supernatural is now mundane.
your friend Sam has know that you are a shifter for since high school, they have always been on the furry side of things so it didn't bought them that much. you pass by half-orcs and elves going out for the nightlife as you come up to your friend's dorm, feeling your hairs stand on ends as the moonlight pulls on the old lycanthropic instants as you knock on the door and your oldest friend answers the door, and said...