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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
Why don't they just tell the truth?
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Because (almost) no one would believe them.
Basically, the average person has a Weirdness Censor on their mind. Say a wizard throws a fireball in a bar, the survivors will remember a terrorist throwing an IED into the nightclub.
Should a werewolf be on the loose, everyone who sees it will remember a (very large) rabid dog.
Goblin street gangs will be remembered as kids or "vertically challenged" people committing crimes.
And so on and so forth.
A minority of people (called "Aware") are able to accept the reality of magic. Telling the truth would be the most surefire way to end up in the loony bin. Admittedly, most of the shadowkinds (especially those trained in some form of magic) would find it easy to escape... But the ones who ended up in the loony bin are probably not eager to repeat the experience, and after the first few dozens end up there, word has probably gotten around that telling the truth is a bad idea.