The BAI's jurisdiction spans most of the world, and has a branch in essentially every first world country. Its influence wanes and some places known for their...problematic relations with the rest of the world have refused to allow the BAI to step in and deal with any problems within their borders. For the rest of the world though? The BAI are a constant watchful eye. They handle processing and regulating magical creatures that live in human society. Generally speaking no species is considered so far gone that individuals can't try to peacefully integrate. Vampires, dwarves, kitsune, all manner of beasts from myths of old. Generally speaking the distribution is largely based on original region. Lamia, sirens, and harpies are most often found in Europe, spreading out slowly from Greece. Wendigo and Chupacabra are in North America, and Japan itself, oh Japan is just a hotspot all those Yokai pose constant problems. The Japanese branch easily has the most work of any other region.
The BAI have a few simple rules, but the primary rule is that any agent, operative or branch has to obey the laws of whatever country they're stationed in, or are moving through. The BAI are strictly forbidden from superceding the laws of any country or nation. This is critical to keeping a world wide organization from having more power than the countries that fund and support it, and keeping one nation's larger support from leading the BAI to enforce that country's law on others. As for its actual structure, while naturally there is a lot of infrastructure with many support roles in maintenance, office work, management, and supply, the primary face of BAI is its agents. Also called Operatives in some countries, agents come in two flavors. Special Agents, and Elite Agents.
Special agents are standard investigators and detectives. There job is to go into crime scenes, various incidents, scope out locations, deal with perps, standard things. They're usually fairly normal folk without anything too strange about them. They might have some specialized equipment, or maybe a bit of magic under their belt. They are the standard investigators of the BAI and are a bit different from the Elite Agents. Now Elite Agents, these are the best of the best. Not just well trained sleuths, but each one needs to have something particularly special. Usually this is some kind of intense knowledge and grasp of the Arcane. Powerful magic artifacts or spells that they can cast or use. Something that levels the playing field and allows them to compete with the truly dangerous creatures and magical forces. Elite Agents are rare, highly prized, and often find themselves being shuffled around the world as major incidents or particularly dangerous mythical creatures rear their ugly heads.
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Viktoria Rozencruz | Human | Soul Arts | A bit of a...problematic Elite in all truth and honesty, Viktoria was originally a vigilante waging a one woman war on gangs and mafia with magical inclinations. She was captured and a deal was brokered to put her abilities to better use. Viktoria's primary combat method is an old magic called Soul Burning. A dangerous method that involves sacrificing a piece of one's own soul to grant a large boost to other abilities, physical or magical. Naturally sacrificing a part of the soul has...consequences. which is why Viktoria recovers her soul regularly by siphoning off the souls of those she fights and takes down. Never the entire soul...not usually at least, but enough to keep herself going. |
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Gabriela Leoz | Human | Wind Magic: Pressure Specialization | Gabriela looks more disturbing than she actually is. The white eyes, with the constrast of white hair to dark skin can lead to a somewhat...creepy appearance. Her usual gear doesn't exactly assuage this, but she is one of the most dependable Agents in the entire organization. A skilled veteran for sure, she takes an advanced firearm oddly modified to be styled after a revolver. This is because of how she pairs it with her keen grasp of how to affect Air pressure, creating unbelievably dense air zones at the front of her barrel and releasing them outwards, creating a high speed wind tunnel that accelerates even advanced rounds to insane speeds. It's no exagerration to say that this trick turns a simple revolver into an anti-tank weapon. |
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Ajit Agarkar | Vampire | Necromancy | Most people have no idea that Ajit is a vampire, she's not pale, she doesn't have red eyes, she doesn't do any of the usual things. At best she's just a fairly playful girl...until she breaks out the necromancy. Now don't worry, she doesn't enslave spirits to her will, at least not human spirits. Besides, the modern day definition really blurs the lines between Necromancy and Demonology, most of her bound spirits are demons and stuff anyways, so no worries right? |
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Elena Annabella | Pixie | Enchantment | Yes, the figure that wears that giant suit of fuck off power armor is in fact a pixie. A surprise to pretty much everyone who actually gets to see her take it off. The armor itself is nearly seven feet tall, armed to the teeth with powerful firearms supplemented with magics woven into every inch of them, and even specialized ammunition with further enchantments worked on the rounds. She probably has the most overall damage output of all the Elite Agents. Although...curious what she looks like under the armor? Well...go ahead and spoil yourself if you reallllly want: http://i.imgur.com/uxH5YnL.jpg |
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Kirilla Razell | Dragon | Soul Projection | Behold, the BAI's single most powerful agent! Don't worry, normally she's in a full suit of proper armor meant to evoke her normal form. A full fledged, very large golden dragon naturally doesn't actually fit in a lot of places they might not need to fight in, so normally Kirilla maintains a 'human'(ish) form for day to day activities, like moving through the BAI offices. There's no reason to force them to build buildings to accomodate her when she can simply change form. Her magical ability is essentially second to none, her physical abilities off the charts even when not in her full form and she uses a specialized form of magic in her 'human' form that only works because she's in a body much smaller than normal. Letting her 'project' a spiritual replica of her original body to attack and hammer her foes with. |