Looking for guidance on: The GTA/Golden Horseshoe By Night

[Judging__Eagle]

I'll be honest, it's something that I want, but have a lot of trouble wrapping my head around.

I know that for me, it needs to minimally include:

[*]The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) itself, I'm a resident of Burlington myself.

[*]Hopefully Hamilton

[*]Possibly the notion of the Golden Horseshoe

What it doesn't need to include:
[*]Other large population regions in Southern Ontario and Quebec

[*]London Ontario (could be it's own region, since it is separated by physical distance from the rest of the GTA)

[*]Ottawa and vicinity

[*]Quebec & Montreal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Toronto_Area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Ontario
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Horseshoe

Like the other sections of The World At Night, the following will have to be outlined:

City Statistics

With a population of 8.76 (8,759,312) million people in 2011, the Golden Horseshoe makes up over 26% of the population of Canada and contains more than 68% of Ontario's population

This gives it a Supernatural population of approximately 875.9312

City History

Power

Probably the most trouble for me, how do you figure this sort of stuff out?

The section from Ciduad de Mexico on Luchadores and Southern Ontarios constant fantasy larp scene makes for an interesting idea where the fact that Larpers regularly interact with not one or two, but literally dozens of supernatural creatures on a monthly basis; and that most of them have 'some' sort of permanent supernaturally evil power structure (from Fantasy Alive's town of Yorik being built as an excuse to have a royal garrison over a covered up underground/barriered city of demons; to Epoch's Carreg Wynn having a Vampiress who lives in the catacombs in their backyard who they have gone on a weekend long quest through space and time to reincarnate), makes me think of having the existing larp scene be an excuse for Supernatural creatures to interact with mortals in some sort of controlled environment. The fact that monsters have rolled into town, not really interacted with the PCs, and then rolled back into the night wouldn't be counter to this.

Places to Go

See "Power".

The Greater Toronto Area/Golden Horseshoe in Horror

Ok, this is a bit easier.

T.O. has stood in for New York and Chicago (just make sure you throw down some street litter prior) in lots of films. Here is a list of them.

Interestingly enough "The Fly" was set in Toronto; or at least it was filmed there.

"I've Heard the Mermaids Singing" could be considered supernatural; or allegorical. Nonetheless, the film includes glowing white canvas panels that characters disappear through, and appear in wooded glades (possibly a tamer part of Maya).

"Blood and Donuts" is about some Vampire subtype who wakes up, and prefer to feed on animals over humans, and like any creature infused with Canadian soil, becomes a helpful character, or something.

The TV series "Forever Night" showed what Toronto would be like if a medieval European Dragon Vampire decided to give up being a Vampire, and become human again. Additionally: "Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a way to become human again".

It has also has had a sort of sherlock holmes/steampunk vibe with the 1895 set series "Murdoch Mysteries".

Other series have been set in Toronto as well. However they're not quite supernatural in flavour.

As an interesting aside, the list of "Canadian horror films" also includes in its roster such worthies as "Silent Hill".

Trying to parse through the list of Canadian Horror Films into their most relevant worlds will be a subsequent step

Maya
[Vampire - Krakens (aquatic invertebrates)]
[Lycanthrope - Claw Druids (canids, ursinse, pinnipeds]]
[Witch-Tusked Druids (ungulates, ceteceans)]
[Transmortal - Shamans]
[Animate - Golem]
[Lovecraftian - Deep Ones]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Gator_Face [Comedy Horror is a genre? Eh, why not]

[Blood Plants]
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[Giant Animals]
[Swarm]
[Behemoth]
[Chimera]
[Kaiju]

Limbo
[Vampire - Drakes (Chiroptera; i.e. Bats, out of hell)]
[Lycanthrope - Ocelotol (Felids, also Hyenas, Yeeoghnu is a demon now, and it 'works')]
[Witch - Warlock]
[Transmortal - Aesir (srsly)]
[Animate - Simulacra]
[Lovecraftian - Mi Go]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(1978_film) [Mi Go? Spread by flies?]

[Fairy Goblins]


[Sidhe Fiends]
[Yazata]
[Akuma]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Serpent
[Ifrit]

Mictlan
[Vampire - Dragons (Reptiles: inc. Dinosaurs, turtles, birds)]
[Lycanthrope - Kobalt-Gnomes (Rodents)]
[Witch - Khaibit-Lich]
[Transmortal - Reincarnated]
[Animate - Frankenstein (also Clones, Cyborgs)]
[Lovecraftian - Troglodytes (Primates)]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pit_(film)

[Ghosts]

[Zombies]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Eerie

[Edit: I'll be going through the list of "canadian horror" films and splitting and labelling them among the above lists; and having them all take place in or around the GTA/Golden Horseshoe; unless it calls for mountainous alpines, massive deserts, jungles or savannas; the southern ontario geography of the Golden Horseshoe is relatively diverse]