In a story I am writing a boy's father commits suicide, I was wondering if there was any online resource for what the police would do with the boy and his younger brother.

I was thinking it happened in a small town in Kansas, the boy is 13 years old with a 7 year old brother, only living relative is 19 year old sister in another state.

Is there anywhere I could find information about what would be done?

Only the first day or so matters for the story as acts of plot make it moot afterward.

Simple enough.

A young wizard is gathering to much power and influence, he is streching the councel to thin in constant raids, something needs to be done about him or we could lose the war.

The PCs are a group of agents of the White Councel who have the mission of stopping this guy.

That will be the first adventure to show that you can't just do what you want without consaquences.

Looks like it may have promise, I joined up.

Thank you all for your many detailed and well thought out answers.

The Satanic sorcery idea had never dawned upon me and answers a lot of the reason I asked about this and something I forgot to talk about in the OP. a big part of the problem was thinking of a way for each to be different and have a part in the setting.

In answer to the question of what the story is about, it is an idea I have been kicking around for awhile.

A story where there is an end of the world scenario and it is like flipping over a stone for the supernatural, it had been hiding for centuries, weak and failing for millennia unable to fight humanities numbers and innovation until humanity blew itself up
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Both the Dark and the Light are present in the world and both rise again with the Dark believing that it is its last chance to destroy humanity and the Light doing the right thing and defending it.

The story will (or would as I have yet to even plot it out) be about the human race’s gathering together to destroy the supernatural once and for all. The Light to will die for reasons that would spoil the plot if I ever where to write this.

The Werewolves as evil magicians is very good as they could represent the humans who valued life over good and turned to the only ways they could survive in the new world, much like SM Stirling’s Dies the Fire series with the cannibal Eaters.

The Elves and Vampires I am completely satisfied with now and your answers give my all the information I need to make them Evil and not tragic.
Thank you all very much.

Ah, found it in SF (I really need to read the early books more, I tend to re-read the "save the world several years in a row" books more)

So if you can only use thirteen in a circle, does that mean there are only 13 members of Cowl's "Circle"?  That would be encouraging, from a perspective of simple enemy manpower.  And I think we can safely assume that Cowl is pretty close to the top of their power food chain, otherwise he wouldn't have been to one chosen to go after Godhood in DB.


Brings up another point though:
Do you think members of the BC would be able to muster that kind of trust? 

But what if the reason he went after power was because he needed more of it, he could have been the weekest of them who they sent on a mission with a low chance of success.

I see the Outsiders as either aliens or animal versions of Nevernever being as I outlined here.

The Animalistic Theory: they are from the Nevernever of animals whose thoughts and dreams give them shape as ours do the Fay and the rest of the Nevernever.

And The Alienist Theory: that they are from the Nevernever of an alien race, this is not impossible as Jim Butcher has already involved true aliens in the Codex Alera books.