Hunters (Supernatural)

Hunters are people who hunt and destroy malevolent "supernatural" creatures.

There are countless other universes existing tangential to our own. In these realms, physical laws as we know them do not pertain. Since time immaterial there have been intrusions between our universe and others. From these intrusions have emerged countless energies and lifeforms.

The effects these forces have had on the development of life on Earth is vast. For example one type of extradimensional lifeform bonded themselves to all of the prehistoric hominids. Eventually, through a process of symbiogenesis and co-evolution, this lifeform has become an intrinsic aspect of human physiology. Its reproduction is even simultaneous with human reproduction so every human is conceived and born with this lifeform bonded to his or her body. In their symbiotic relationship with the human they inhabit, they records the essence of experience and therefore the essence of personality. Sometimes, when a person dies, the lifeform continues to exist as an entity commonly referred to as a "ghost."

Various other extradimensional lifeforms and energies are responsible for the multitude of supernatural creatures such as vampires, werewolves, ghouls, banshees, demons, and others. For as long as these otherworldly and malevolent beings have roamed the Earth, there have been those that hunt them in order to protect and defend humanity.

In modern times, these hunters exist as a loose network of men and women who covertly travel across a country investigating paranormal events and combating the supernatural. Most typically have had some kind of negative encounter with the supernatural that prompted them to become hunters. Others have inherited the mantle of a hunter as a family tradition.