The People and the Otherkin
The people tell the story that they came from the stars. That each star is a sun, and many of those suns have worlds around them. The people also say they came on a great ship that flew from the sky of a world called "Dirt" or "past," it depends on who tells the story, to the sky of our world. They say our world was named for a place in old poems, "
Arcadia" Which is funny, Arcadia was a paradise.
This is basically a reworking of a Golden Age trope. The colony ship crashed long ago. Earth was caught up in a series of wars and the colonists were forgotten presumed lost. Various parahumans were sent along on the colony ship, the various parahuman groups together are only 30% of the total population. However, as planetary society transitions from TL3 to TL4 the parahumans often find that they have advantages that offset their disadvantages. Sure, parahumans may breed more slowly and individually require more food, but they have their own advantages.
Humans call themselves the People, parahumans are called the Otherkin.
More later.