Children

The Children is the new generation of mortality inhabiting the many Worlds. They come in all shapes and sizes, many different forms and colors and figures. They are the playable characters of Gateways.

Origin
The origin of the Children is very questionable and unrecorded, but the story is that there were a species of human that existed before the Children that functioned the same as the modern Children, but their society was great and powerful. They had a great palace that was the center of their government and the many Schools were regulated through seven Keeps.. However, little remains today of their civilization, save for the ruins outside of the City Above the Nexus, as well as smaller remains scattered across the Worlds, such as the Catacombs, the Mysterious Tower, and the Abandoned Castle.

Nobody knows for sure why they were wiped out, but the popular story is that a war broke out between the seven Keeps and they began to take too much magic from the realms, threatening their safety and causing the Guardians to take action. Destruction rained down and completely eradicated every living human, leaving nothing but smoldering remains.

The Children began to appear an indeterminate amount of time later, long after the ruins had settled and buried, fusions of the magic of the Guardians, the humans, and the Nexus itself. They slowly began to rebuild parts of society and discover their abilities in magic and, so far, the Guardians have left them alone.