Nationstatelandsville wrote:"Before Chapter One -
The Society was founded as the New England Paranormal Society in 1801 as a recreational group by three founders, Benjamin Hart, David Herring (?), and Kurt Gorbachev, a Russian immigrant. Together, Hart and Gorbachev discovered the Fountain of Youth using Cortez's instructions. Hart, realizing that Gorbachev planned to cleanse the world of all monsters, tried to drown him in the fountain. Herring heard of this and feigned his own death, killing Hart when he discovered the truth. Jefferson Hart, Benjamin's son, became the first President of the Society and had Herring and Gorbachev struck from the historical records to memorialize his father's death. He never spoke of the two founders again. Meanwhile, Herring found the fountain and drank from it, before discovering that not only had Gorbachev been rendered immortal by Hart's attempts to kill him, but that the Russian has also gained magical hydrokinetic powers as well. The two ex-founders joined forces, but were sealed away by Jefferson in a tomb underneath the Sphinx, seemingly forever. By the time Lincoln joined, all had forgotten about the other founders and had become what the New England Paranormal Society was all about.
By 1850 though, it had set up branches all around the country, adopting it's current moniker. In 1949, each of the branches were attacked and destroyed by the Soviet equivalent, the Оккультные Investifastions агентства (Okkulʹtnye Investifastions agent•stva), Occult Investigation Agency in English, leading to a series of repercussions that left the country vulnerable to attacks from Soviet-owned monsters. The Society reformed in 1975 with the tasks of protecting both humans and monsters, as well as keeping these creatures hidden from the public view. In the Cold War, it also had the goal of defeating the OIA at every turn. It's USSR counterpart was disbanded in 1988, leaving the Society to focus on it's priorities of supernatural management. The modern APS is a recognized agency of the federal government, though it mainly works of it's own agenda."
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