[Astromancer]

This is a magical world but it was less so once. Yeats, who in this world convinced Alister Crowley that his poetry needed a good editor ( in Homeline history Yeats was simply cruel and Crowley hated him for it) and won Crowley's undying friendship.

The two performed rituals together and discovered a unique synergy between themselves. This led to powerful rituals that made magic easier for everyone involved. Yeats' on again off again girlfriend, Maude Gonne suggested awakening the fearie nature of the Irish people. Both men were loopy enough to go for it.

The ritual was disastrous and potent. Everyone on Earth who has more than one Irish great-grandparent is now an Elf ( or as the Irish say it a Sidhe) they are plus two to all stats, unaging, beautiful or handsome, with regrow and fast regeneration, plus a few other goodies. This adds strongly to Irish nationalism and English paranoia.

The local year is 1912, twenty years since the transformation. The Irish want either Home rule or independence, and now. Britain fears the lost of Empire. Germany just wants Britain and Ireland at each others throats. Russia wants Istanbul and control of the passage between the Aegean and Black Seas. Which is what caused WWI in most worlds.

Neither Homeline nor Centrum want this world exploding into war. But their reasons and goals are so different their fights make them part of the problem.

Can your Cabalists keep the factions from ripping this world apart?