Monster

**Monsters** are a supernatural race that also inhabit the Earth but hidden from humanity. They were created by Typhon and Tiamat, the latter being the second former wife of Adam before Eve and her sisters, and are subjects of legends and myths.

## History

### Background

Almost all monsters descend from Typhon and Tiamat, the progenitors of monsters. Most species of monsters were created from other external forces but the most prevalent ones are of Typhon and Tiamat's lineage. It is also shown that this lineage extends to the Giants themselves who consorted with some of Typhon and Tiamat's first line of children to produce powerful hybrid offsprings. These hybrids would then go on to produce their own line of unique monstrous children and the cycle would continue from then on.

Monsters have been labelled as a blight on the Earth and threat to humanity itself by the gods. This can be counted as prejudice of sorts seeing as how the monsters' hatred towards the gods are a result of their attempts to wipe them out in order not to threaten their reign. The monsters also hold utter contempt towards humans as they have been instrumental in hunting them down and destroying them under the command of their gods and later the ruling powers of their own kind. In the end, most of the monsters disappeared and reside in regions that cannot be accessed by humans where they built their own societies that roughly resembles humanity's and are silently ruled over by Marduk, the firstborn son of Typhon and Tiamat, alongside his wife Melusine and their son Dagon.

## Description

Much like demons, monsters come in all shapes and sizes. A vast majority of them bear the appearance of classical creatures in folklore such as werewolves, dragons, vampires, manticores, goblins, gorgons, mermaids and the like. Monsters are shown to behave and act like humans and are capable of coherent speech and intelligence. They even dress quite similarly to humans.

All sorts of monsters, both known and unknown, inhabit the world that is hidden behind the veil. The two known classifications of monsters are "modern" and "classic" with the latter being the more iconic monsters and the "modern" are the ones that were created in the modern day.

## Culture

Monster society is very, if not exactly, similar to that of humanity. Due to the fact that they live closest to humans, monsters would imitate their ways of society, tradition, and culture but over the years they would warp such behavior to suit their needs whereas simple games in the human world would be harmless for the monsters it is extremely dangerous for humans. Moreover, while the existence of Hell is kept secret from humanity, monsterkind is very much aware of Hell's existence as well as Heaven but they tend to associate themselves more with Hell than Heaven.

Monsters also have their systems and laws though most monsters do not uphold the law as chaos often reigns throughout the monster world as a result. They do have their own education systems such as schools and colleges with one such example being Spooky Academy, a prestigious school that Charlie herself once attended during her teen years. All manner of supernatural activity occurs in their world and the monsters treat it like it's completely normal.

Monsters are perhaps the most diverse compared to most species as they are categorized as Living, Undead, Extraterrestrial, Thing, and Eldritch. Despite the stark contrast in category these monsters can share and be one single community. "Undead" monsters are monsters that have either come back to life after dying (such as vampires and zombies), or exist specifically through death (such as ghosts and skeletons). "Thing" monsters are monsters that are neither dead nor alive, and/or are not or do not adhere to the typical criteria of being organic. Or, they are the embodiment or agent of a mortal concept. There also hybrid monsters such as a Crab-Dragon and an Ifrit-Werewolf.

### Religion/Tradition

It is unknown what sort of religion monsters practice but it is confirmed that there are many cults present throughout their world. Most cults have been shown to worship the likes of Satan, Azathoth and other eldritch beings. There is also a religion centered around Typhon or Tiamat.

Monsters also celebrate holidays similar to humans and have their own festivals. They celebrate Christmas, Halloween, Dia de Los Muertos, Thanksgiving, Saint Patrick's Day, and New Year's Eve. Like the way demons celebrate Christmas, they wait for Krampus to give them gifts though according to Vera, they usually sit outside their house and watch Santa Claus and Krampus engaging in a fierce fight over a house they get to dump their presents inside. Halloween is said to be their favorite as it's the one time of the year where they get to go out into the human world to scare or murder any human unlucky enough to walk in their path.

Monsters have pagan festivals where they throw large parties in honor of a god though according to Polly they don't really care about the god and are more focused on the party itself.

## Gallery

* Modern monsters
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## Trivia

* Culturally old and common monsters, such as ghosts, vampires, werewolves, etc. are identified as "classic monsters". Alternatively, monsters based on Creepypastas, cryptids, and viral internet memes are identified as "modern monsters".
* As magic is taught to and can be learned by any species, it is unknown what classifies magical humans like witches "monster enough" to attend Spooky Academy.
* Japanese monsters are referred to as yōkai.
* While monsters hate the gods there are very few exceptions with such monsters actually being servants of the gods. One example are the Empusa who work under Hecate the goddess of witchcraft.
* Contrary to belief, Nebuchadnezzar was never turned into a werewolf but was instead so hairy that Heaven decided to punish him by giving him fleas which made him act like a rabid dog.