CROWNED BY BLOOD
It was Seraphina, with her gift for seeing connections that others missed, who first gave them a name that would stick.
"The Awakened," she said simply, looking up from a stack of incident reports she'd been studying with the intense focus she usually reserved for storm patterns. "They're not like us, not born into magic the way we are. But they're not fully human anymore either. They're something entirely new."
We began careful outreach programs, approaching newly Awakened individuals and their families with the kind of delicate diplomacy usually reserved for first contact with alien civilizations. Those who showed supernatural abilities were quietly invited to Hollowshade or guided to newl