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Threats

Threats are everywhere. Legends of Today need Threats to face.

Governments

While it's simple enough to imagine that governments fear the magical, it's really specific segments of the government that may deal with magical threats.

Department of Immigration
The natural choice to control magical beings in the country, Immigration has suddenly become faced with beings it has no chance of controlling. Some magicals work with Immigration, especially Trolls who don't think of national politics as such.

Bureau of Investigation
The BI is in charage of threats to the nation. The sudden return of magic definitely qualifies. Some of its senior members may be magical, or advised by the magical, so this may be more of a targeted witch hunt or vendetta instead.

Department of Defense/military
Weaponizing magic and the magical would be an incredible coup. Scarier to contemplate is that this government is not the first to bring magic to the battlefield.

Corporations

Corporations in this sense are civilian or non-government organizations that have power and resources. Most of these are benign or profit-focused but some have other goals.

Humanity First
While most mundanes don't trust or believe that magic exists, Humanity First actively suppresses knowledge of the supernatural. Their disinformation and 'alternative fact' campaigns make the existence of magic seem like a hoax. They lead events that act against the magical community and offer 'deprogramming' for magicals that are interested in integrating into 'human' society.

Asura Corporation
Asura is rapidly becoming one of the largest corporations in the world. Starting as an Indian biotech company focusing on pharmaceuticals, Asura has suddenly veered into providing private security and 'wet ops' for the governments of the world. They also develop health supplements, frozen and packaged foods and exercise programs. Finally, Asura has begun the process of starting the EFL, the Enhanced Football League, an American Football organization using magical people such as Trolls and Orcs as players with a worldwide audience and very lax safety guidelines.

Forward Thinking
Forward Thinking (FT) is a startup in Silicon Valley. Their focus is finding the overlap between technolgy and the magical. FT is working to make databases of magical people that they plan to offer for employment or other circumstances to customers. Exactly what FT is doing with the data they gather is uncertain, but there is a lot of potential for harm.

The Magical


Dragons
Dragons aren't easy to categorize. Not only do they tend to follow their own agendas but they live essentially forever and can take any shape they desire. Between all of these things, dragons could be terrible enemies or incredible allies.

Demons
Tieflings come from somewhere. There are definitely powerful beings that exist on the far edges of reality but there's no telling what they really are. They exist in every religion and origin story, so there must be something there.

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