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Also often referred to as the conflict, or the struggle the supernatural
cold war is the battle that goes on between disparate supernaturals and
supernatural groups for dominance.
As this is a cold war open fatal conflict is very rarely involved with most
of the struggle conducted in battles of influence and backroom dealings over
control. Opportunistic violence does occur however, and if a society member
found themselves in an isolated area without witnesses encountering members
of other societies they're likely to be roughed up or robbed. In contested
territories such as Haven opportunistic violence is even more common, and
even sought out as participants in the cold war use roughing up, harvesting,
temporary detainment, humiliations or other measures to assert their
dominance to the supernatural community at large or disrupt the operations
of their opponents. Higher levels of violence that involve permanent injury
or death only occurs in those territories which break out into a full war
state, if they occurred anywhere else and the perpetrator wasn't brought to
swift justice that territory would likely devolve into a war state until the
issue was resolved. Even in territories in war lethal violence is rare,
both owing to people being wary of crossing that line lest they end up on
the wrong side of it later on, and the responsibility to keep the conflict
While successfully carrying out harassment against other participants of the
supernatural cold war might bring you acclaim from your fellows, harassing
or assaulting people who are acknowledge non participants tends to only
generate a negative reputation for bullying.
Lore wise Haven is considered a territory constantly in a contested state.
With the Sanctuary spell effectively preventing escalation into a war state
unless it can be successfully lowered.
Supernatural Cold War
Also often referred to as the conflict, or the struggle the supernatural
cold war is the battle that goes on between disparate supernaturals and
supernatural groups for dominance.
As this is a cold war open fatal conflict is very rarely involved with most
of the struggle conducted in battles of influence and backroom dealings over
control. Opportunistic violence does occur however, and if a society member
found themselves in an isolated area without witnesses encountering members
of other societies they're likely to be roughed up or robbed. In contested
territories such as Haven opportunistic violence is even more common, and
even sought out as participants in the cold war use roughing up, harvesting,
temporary detainment, humiliations or other measures to assert their
dominance to the supernatural community at large or disrupt the operations
of their opponents. Higher levels of violence that involve permanent injury
or death only occurs in those territories which break out into a full war
state, if they occurred anywhere else and the perpetrator wasn't brought to
swift justice that territory would likely devolve into a war state until the
issue was resolved. Even in territories in war lethal violence is rare,
both owing to people being wary of crossing that line lest they end up on
the wrong side of it later on, and the responsibility to keep the conflict
While successfully carrying out harassment against other participants of the
supernatural cold war might bring you acclaim from your fellows, harassing
or assaulting people who are acknowledge non participants tends to only
generate a negative reputation for bullying.
Lore wise Haven is considered a territory constantly in a contested state.
With the Sanctuary spell effectively preventing escalation into a war state
unless it can be successfully lowered.