Medallion

Medallion is an Earthlike world in the Incandescence continuity based on the comic Skin Deep. It is superficially identical to our modern world but also contains a magical underworld of legendary and mythical creatures, collectively known as critters.
==Magic==
Anyone in Medallion can learn runecasting magic, whether human or critter. Its existence is not public knowledge, and even critters rarely bother to learn it; teachers are scarce and casting magic is dangerous. Along with runecasting, critters often have magical traits unique to their species, such as the healing powers of sphinxes or the shapeshifting abilities of perytons.
==Population==
The majority of the world's population in Medallion is baseline humans. In addition, most legendary and mythical creatures of our world exist as sapient beings, which go by the umbrella term 'critters'. Some critters live in human society, masquerading as human with the help of medallions, while those without medallions (called 'monsters') live in magically concealed communities called Avalons. Critters originate in all sorts of traditions, from the sphinxes and harpies of Greece to the Frumious Bandersnatches of Wonderland. The full list of known Skin Deep critters can be found in the Skin Deep wiki Bestiary and can be taken as representative of Medallion, but only those critter species specifically mentioned onscreen in Incandescence are listed on this page. Unicorns are explicitly stated to be fictional.
==Similar Settings==
The Myth universe is the Witchlight version of the Skin Deep canon and as such its worldbuilding is nearly identical to Medallion's. The Effulgence universe of Superluminal also borrows from Skin Deep but is mainly set in the Vorkosigan Saga canon, and is therefore much less superficially similar; although it contains critters and runecasting like the others, it takes place in the thirtieth century on the planet of Barrayar rather than in present-day Earth.