heartlander
Nobody knows where they come from, and not many people really care. But weather he likes it or not one young man from rural america will find the origin of magic and her races of people.
this young man resides in the, quite frankly, uninteresting town of Bellring Wisconsin, which is located about an hour and a half away from anything noteworthy. Though to be fair, what it lacks in events it more than makes up for in scenery. In the far more interesting areas of the world, however, there is all sorts of magical creatures and peoples. Elves and Jotunn in Europe and Russia, Djinn in the middle east, and Oni in Asia. not to say you wont find these folks in Bellring but its not a terribly "diverse" place.
Now, to be fair, Bellring is not completely uninteresting. Do to its secluded nature its become a hiding spot of sorts for the ocassional "anomalous" character, but the same is true for cities all over the American heartland/midwest. (the rest of the world is not a stranger to this either.) But that is where things finaly get interesting for out little town, and her young resident.