I'm part of a game set in Montreal (not the same one as Taran). It's an alternate reality from the main Dresden-verse. In this game, Montreal is a gateway to the Supernatural world where passage to the Never Never is a little easier. It's also a "front line" in the battle between the Winter and Summer Courts, as exhibited by its extreme shifts from very hot summers to very cold winters.
The Winter Court is very powerful in Montreal: the Levesque family, cousins to the Raithes with Emotion control over Lust, have put their stamp on the city for over a century, making it the sin city of the North, littered with strip clubs, a loose alcohol and drug culture and corrupt businesses/government and institutions.
Robert Levesque, the patriarch has kept the various signatories in line with a box of secrets that he uses to blackmail pretty much every faction of note. However his power is countered by the Brotherhood of the Silver Cross, the occult arm of the Roman Catholic Church.
The player characters are:
-Gail Armstrong, a Warden of the White Council, currently here as a punishment for insubordination. Replacing the previous warden who disappeared mysteriously;
-Francis the Gargoyle, stone by day, warrior by night, just like the cartoon. An ally to the Catholic Church where he spends his days as a statue on the roof of St Patrick's basilica.
-Pamela Isley, a Dryad and daughter to the local Summer Duchess. She has powerful pheromones as well as Sponsored Magic from Summer over plants. She's also a biologist. Inspired by the Batman villain Poison Ivy.
-Carey Stafford- A super, natural coroner. A Pure Mortal who is a CSI as well as a Superb forensic doctor. He's very willing to go in the field to learn the truths about the corpses he keeps learning about.
-William "Tango" Downey- (my character) A SWAT cop, recently come into the know. He's tech savvy (computer hacking, demolitions), and unbelievably irreverent at times. Stafford and Downey are part of a very small police unit in the know.
Players who guest star or have retired are:
-Mathieu Darque, a Dwarven blacksmith from Norse mythology with a checkered past who can craft magical items with Thaumaturgy
-Aldric Van Helsing, grandson of the original vampire hunter
-Thomas Mánagarmr, an Einhenjar warrior who wields Esperacchus (again, this is an alternate reality)
-Dubois, a hellfire using sorcerer who is hiding out from the White Council in the employ of the White Court and managing a strip club for them.
The main antagonists, in addition to Robert Levesque are:
-his daughter Rachelle,
-some Red Court lackeys that mostly lick the boots of the White Court,
-a Black Court Nosferatu who hates all the other Black Court vampires and has declared Montreal a "no Black Court" zone (aside from him),
-a Winter Court Baron called the Ganconer who seduces women before killing them,
-a Summer Duchess who's the mother to one of the PCs (not a villan, but certainly a complication),
-a motorcycle gang run by ghouls,
-a Haitian mortal crime boss in the know with a lawbreaking voodoo priest on his staff
-a White Court Wild Card based on the Joker who has lust, rage and fear control (and is the bastard son of Levesque)
-a Jade Court family based on Pennanggalan and/or Manananggal mythology, where the vampires can detach their head and organs from their bodies and feast on human organs
-and a mirror demon that wants to destroy reality as we know it.
Overall it's a lot of fun.
